The story of cinema, here on this page, is an intimate gathering of images, thoughts, feelings, and most of all, the layering of memories, – some of which are only gossamer thin and difficult to recognise – not unlike those ephemeral images that flicker on illuminated screens, but that lingers with you, haunting and repeating itself.
What we will read here is of a history that has informed me and informs me still – that of cinema – a me-history that is borne in these half forgotten memories. A palimpsest of lived lives that both is and isn’t mine: until I am no longer this person, or, a me that is made more real by these images. It is a story that asks to be told, however ineffable and evolving…
Here lies:-
Anna Karina, Jean-Luc Godard, Bela Tarr, Chris Marker, Werner Herzog, Marguerite Duras, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Wong Kar-wai, Christophe Honore, Tsai Ming-Liang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Andrei Tarkovsky, Michael Haneke, Agnes Varda, Abbas Kiarostami, Martin Scorsese, Gaspar Noe, Eric Rohmer, Gus Van Sant, Francois Ozon, Michael Winterbottom, Jeremy Irons, Samantha Morton, Daniel Craig, Richard Linklater, David Lynch, Claude LeLouch, Jack Nicholson (for The Passenger, Five Easy Pieces), Travis Bickle, Odile, Michael Snow, Claude Sautet, Robert Lepage, Mouchette, Catherine Deneuve, Olivier Assayas, Maggie Cheung Man-yuk, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Leslie Cheung, Akira Kurosawa, Woody Allen, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando (for the Last Tango in Paris), Mick Jagger, Catherine Breillat, Theodoros Angelopoulos, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, László Krasznahorkai, Alexandra Stewart (the voice behind Sans Soleil), Maria Schneider, Larry Clark, Harmony Korine, Chloë Sevigny, Christian Bale, Lisa Cholodenko, Ang Lee, Rahda Mitchell with Ally Sheedy and Patricia Clarkson (in High Art), Keanu Reeves, Neo, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Patricia Kass (in And Now Ladies and Gentlemen), River Phoenix, Johnny Depp, Julie Delpy, Jude Law, Vincent Gallo, Christine Ricci (for The Ice Storm), Lucile Hadzihalilovic (Noé’s partner – she made the enigmatic film Innocence), Isild Le Besco, Benoît Jacquot (for À tout de suite and Sade), Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, Hirokazu Koreeda (for his film, Nobody Knows and the weird but wonderful Afterlife), Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Audrey Tautou, Roger Michell (for Enduring Love and The Mother), Chris Carter (for The X-files), David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson (for Bleak House), Eric Stolz (for The Rules of Attraction and of course, Pulp Fiction), Roger Avary, Jimmy ‘Popeye’ Doyle, Ben Stiller, Winona Ryder, Reneé Zellweger (for Cold Mountain and Bridget Jones), Colin Firth (for one scene in Bridget Jones), Nicole Kidman, Jude Law (for Gattaca and Alfie), Tobey Maguire, Ang Lee, Michael Douglas (for Wonder Boys), Katie Holmes, Sarah Polley….to be continued…
