462 likes. “They laid up in the shade of a rock shelf until past noon, scratching out a place in the gray lava dust to sleep, and they set forth in the afternoon down the valley following the war trail and they were very small and they moved very slowly in the immensity of that landscape. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from and garbage goes, consumption or conservation. “Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never really knew where they were, and that this discovery is still taking place in our time.” “Places matter.
But there are also the landscapes we bear with us in absentia, those places that live on in memory long after they have withdrawn in actuality, and such places -- retreated to most often when we are most remote from them -- are among the most important landscapes we possess.” Neither knew about the other at all.” Photograph by Thomas Wunsch ECM 1964.
“Sometimes in the summer evenings they walked up the hill to watch the afterglow clinging to the tops of the western mountains and to feel the breeze drawn into the valley by the rising day-heated air. You know you’re alive. Since both were shy they never talked about themselves. Walking through the pines, I return to my lonely hut. “Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience.
A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. ” The memory of odors is very rich.” It was impossible to imagine these hills giving forth anything but the soft syllables of Irish, just as only certain forms of German could be spoken on the high crags of Europe; or Dutch in the muddy, guttural, phlegmish lowlands.” It is there if you just close your eyes and breathe softly through your nose; you will hear the whispered message, for all landscapes ask the same question in the same whisper. “A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.”
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This is one of the most beautiful and haunting films I have ever seen. “Who will bear witness to these small islands and oases of wildness as land is divided and sold to become strip malls, housing developments,and parking lots?
“Think of a globe, a revolving globe on a stand.
The texture of the world, its filigree and scrollwork, means that there is a possibility for beauty here, a beauty inexhaustible in its complexity, which opens to my knock, which answers in me a call I do not remember calling, and which trains me to the wild and extravagant nature of the spirit I seek.” In that regard, director/co-writer Theo Angelopoulos would appear to be something of an acquired …
A reporter stuck in a border town with an overcrowding of refugees sees a man he believes to be a long lost politician. Welcome back.
It is to be had for the feeling...you can extract the essence of a place once you know how. Where is the one thing you care about in earth, the molding of one face? “He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language.
Xander noticed that some of it had climbed the porch pillars and drifted, almost invisibly, over the shingles of the porch roof. Most travelers hurry too much...the great thing is to try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not to much factual information.
This was the only perceptible change in our surroundings. Photograph by Thanos… There are a lot of snow. Photograph by Jo Pessendorfer ECM 2057. An old communist returns to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union. 35 of 44 people found this review helpful. Famous writer Alexander is very ill and has little time left to live. To tune in, without reverence, idly -- but with real inward attention. “A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. Please subscribe to my channel for more movies.
Think of a contour globe, whose mountain ranges cast shadows, whose continents rise in bas-relief above the oceans. The mist clouding the landscape around Pip 's village symbolizes psychological uncertainty. Costas Ghoussis, an emigrant recently returned to ...
All lines are time-based contextualized Lens: Hasselblad XCD 30mm Camera: Hasselblad X1D II ISO: 100 Shutter Speed: Above 6s Aperture: F11 . The relief globe couldn’t begin to show trees, between whose overlapping boughs birds raise broods, or the furrows in bark, where whole creatures, creatures easily visible, live our their lives and call it world enough. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.” In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity -- culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth.” Quotes.
This is the first film of Theo Angelopoulos' trilogy. A former drug trafficker and police informer, Sofianos, is in prison because of the assassination of a trade unionist during ...
Certificate: Tous publics [4] Orestis and his traveling theater troupe are a reference to Angelopoulos' earlier film The Travelling Players (1975). “Life is not always perfect. The story starts in 1919 with some greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Their obsession for this father figure will take them to the boundaries between childhood and adolescence. “Tendrils of mist slithered over the forest floor, around the base of trees.