The Importance of Being Earnest
While at Oxford, he began “wearing his hair long… openly scorning so-called ‘manly’ sports, and… decorating his rooms with peacock feathers.”
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Ikiru
“Occasionally, I think of my death… There is, I feel, so much more for me to do. Then I become thoughtful, not sad.” - Akira Kurosawa
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Häxan
Benjamin Christensen was born in Denmark (That is what “Danish” means, right? A citizen of Denmark? Couldn’t they come up with a less confusing derivation than that? Denmarkians, perhaps? Denmarkites?) in 1879.
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Grand Illusion
“To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’ You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroix… Art is ‘making’.” - Jean Renoir
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