nyc / santiago
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Sam Brodsky retweeted
🇨🇱 Rest well Patricio Guzmán (1941-2026), the great documentary filmmaker whose films included THE BATTLE OF CHILE trilogy and NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT.
Read @SamBrod's interview with the filmmaker in @FilmComment from 2023: filmcomment.com/interview-pa…
Sam Brodsky retweeted
The #Oscars left the great Silvia Pinal (1931-2024) out of their In Memoriam section. A pioneering figure in Mexican cinema, Pinal’s remarkable career spanned decades, and she became an icon for her roles in classic films and her influence on the Mexican film industry.
Sam Brodsky retweeted
"The whole idea of the Oscars is to resell things that have already been sold a second time. Again, it’s all about advertising."
Jonathan Rosenbaum talks with @SamBrod about selling his DVD collection for $20K, championing Raúl Ruiz, and the role of a critic: thefilmstage.com/jonathan-ro…
Sam Brodsky retweeted
Today you have a director talking about how they spent 8 years working out every meticulous detail of their passion project. Meanwhile I'll see a movie from the 50/60s with the most insane blocking/compositions and it's from a director who made 2-3 films a year without stopping.
Sam Brodsky retweeted
incredible description of Gena Rowlands & John Cassavetes first date from Marshall Fine's Accidental Genius: How John Cassavetes Invented the American Independent Film
Sam Brodsky retweeted
accept it like a discipline, build it up like a church, follow it like a medical regime, vanquish it like an obstacle, win it like a friendship, cosset it like a little child, create it like a new world
Sam Brodsky retweeted
“Our job is to believe in the possibility that each film reinvents not only its fictional universe & its internal logic, but also its own way of being produced, of being thought of & ultimately getting made.”
Laura Citarella on the ethos of @ElPamperoCine.filmmakermagazine.com/120978…
Sam Brodsky retweeted
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🎟: filmlinc.org/trenquelauquen
1. Read this wonderful @FilmmakerMag history of the collective
2. See the TRENQUE LAUQUEN tonight or Sunday at @FilmLinc.
3. Tell friends to see it in other cities, starting Saturday in LA at @am_cinematheque.
Sam Brodsky retweeted
Eat properly for dinner! And be calm! Do not cry! Do not despair!
Franz Kafka, 1913.
Sam Brodsky retweeted
On October 30, 2001, the iconic Diego Armando Maradona decided to dress up as Bin Laden to celebrate his 62nd birthday and Halloween.
Sam Brodsky retweeted
the telephone, a supernatural instrument before whose miracles we used to stand amazed, and which we now employ without giving it a thought, to summon our tailor or to order an ice cream
