Antartica
Antartica
“If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it” (Andrew Denton)
Dino Risi – “Easy Life”
De la euforia tinereţii la cinismul pragmatic
“The Easy Life” nu este doar o descriere atentă a realităţilor Italiei, ci şi o tranziţie a lui Risi de la euforia tinereţii la cinismul pragmatic. (Paolo D’Agostini )
Interviu cu Corneliu Porumboiu
Filmul este o părere despre lume
“Dacă aş incepe să-mi scriu istoria personală, aş exagera ca personajele mele din „A fost sau n-a fost”. Fiecare personaj important din filmele mele are ceva din mine.” ( Corneliu Porumboiu)
Proverbs and Gallows
Proverbs and Gallows
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
“As Eunapius says in his commentary on Iamblichus, painters who paint pretty young people and wish to add some charm and grace of their own completely destroy the image presented to them, and stray both from the exemplar set before them and from true form. From this fault our Bruegel was free.”
“Tribute to Bruegel” by Abraham Ortelius
from Album Amicorum
Crete
Crete
“We have seen the highest circle of spiraling powers. We have named this circle God. We might have given it any other name we wished: Abyss, Mystery, Absolute Darkness, Absolute Light, Matter, Spirit, Ultimate Hope, Ultimate Despair, Silence.”
Nikos Kazantzakis (1883 – 1957)
Bakhchisaray
Bakhchisaray
The Khan Palace
The Bakhchisaray palace of the khans, constructed 1533-1551, was destroyed by fire in 1735 and rebuilt in 1738. It was altered in 1787 for the visit of Catherine II, at which time the Fountain of Tears was moved from a garden terrace to the inner courtyard of the palace.