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Artworks by Michael Dudok De Wit for his animated feature film “La Tortue Rouge” (The Red Turtle) co-produced by Ghibli.

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Favorite shots: The Red Turtle/La Tortue Rogue (2016)

Written & directed by Michaël Dudok de Wit

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The Red Turtle (2016)

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Dont Look Back (1967) dir. D.A. Pennebaker

Dylan's comments on being awarded, among others, the ‘Most Promising Artist of the Year’ 

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The Salt of the Earth (2014) dir. Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders

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I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn’t even know it yet.

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“The horror… the horror…”

Apocalypse Now (1979) dir. Francis Ford Coppola

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Everybody wanted me to do it. Him most of all. I felt like he was up there, waiting for me to take the pain away.

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FRODO: I can’t do this, Sam. SAM: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened. But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something. FRODO: What are we holding on to, Sam? SAM: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

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Father, why are all the children weeping? Oh, they are merely crying son Oh, are they merely crying, father? Yes, true weeping is yet to come.

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Andrei Tarkovsky’s final Soviet feature is a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic postapocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic experience like no other. A hired guide—the Stalker—leads a writer and a scientist into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, a place rumored to fulfill one’s most deeply held desires. Adapting a science-fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Tarkovsky created an immersive world with a wealth of material detail and a sense of organic atmosphere. A religious allegory, a reflection of contemporaneous political anxieties, a meditation on film itself—Stalker envelops the viewer by opening up a multitude of possible meanings.

STALKER

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Come away, o human child, to the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, for the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.

Song of the Sea (2014)

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“There was madness in any direction, at any hour, you could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. 

And that, I think, was the handle. That sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense, we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. We had all the momentum, we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. “ 

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

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“The summer that had begun so long ago had ended, and another summer had taken its place, and a fall, and Boo Radley had come out.”  To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)

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Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young, In a world of magnets and miracles, Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary, The ringing of the division bell had begun.

Pink Floyd: “High Hopes” from “The Division Bell” 1994 (via dailypinkfloyd)

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Pink Floyd ~ High Hopes (Official Music Video)

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My edit of Annabel Lee narrated by Ben Whishaw