futurejournalismproject:

Not Your Ordinary Bookstore

Argentina’s El Ataneo Grand Splendid opened as a theater in 1919, later became a cinema and is now a bookstore.

Images: El Ataneo Grand Splendid, via Atlas Obscura.

(via bookshelves)

Day-Lewis spoke about his concerns of how Freasier would react to the more serious scenes: “I started to worry a little bit because we were very close, and I thought, ‘Man, how’s he going to feel when I start treating him harshly?’ So I kind of sat him down. I created this sort of atmosphere… portentous atmosphere. ‘Dillon, you know how I feel about you and there are going to be moments… I’m not going to treat you nicely. I want you to understand that I love you.’ He looked at me like I was insane.”

(via filmtrivia)

laughingsquid:

Biosphere 2 Team Members Describe Living in a Closed System for Two Years

nobpm:

Daft Punk - Horizon (Japan Bonus Track)

After Kagemusha won the [Palme d’Or at the 1980] Cannes International Film Festival, until 1982, Kurosawa traveled extensively in Europe and the United States, meeting filmmakers everywhere he went and being warmly welcomed. While he was staying in New York’s Plaza Hotel, he received many surprise visitors, including film greats Jean-Luc Godard, John Milius, Werner Herzog, and Martin Scorsese.

The combination of Godard and Kurosawa was unusual. Probably he was invited along by Milius and went out of curiosity. Producer Tom Luddy might have come with them as well.

We had heard that Milius was a Kurosawa fan, and Kurosawa also had good things to say about his The Wind and the Lion. Milius asked Kurosawa to teach him the martial art of kendo, or Japanese fencing, and did Mifune impersonations, but Godard only sat looking on, smiling, and never spoke to Kurosawa.

Another unusual visitor was the German director Werner Herzog, whose name was then unfamiliar to Kurosawa. There was a book he wanted to give Kurosawa, said Herzog, but he hadn’t been able to find it in the book store and he had a plane to catch, so he had just dropped by to pay his respects. Then the next day, I think it was, he made a special trip to hand-deliver the book—having gone to the trouble of altering his flight reservations to do so. I believe it was a book of drawings. In any case, Kurosawa found this gesture deeply moving.

Later, in Japan, Kurosawa took the first opportunity to go see Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo and was overwhelmed by its tenacious energy.

— Teruyo Nogami, Waiting on the Weather: Making Movies with Akira Kurosawa

(via criterioncollection)

rappcats:

Now playing: Quasimoto “Yessir Whatever” test press LP

wfmu:

Gorgeous Black & White Photo Portraits of Native Americans circa 1905, by Edward S. Curtis

Incredible

laughingsquid:

SkyArt, Fun Doodles Drawn Into Photographs of the Sky

(via theatlantic)

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:

Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and Francis Ford Coppola