Notes and scribblings: August 2026

Roundhay Garden Scene (Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, 1888)

Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, 1888)

https://hpph.co.uk/journal/leeds-films-we-love-from-1888-to-2023

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“MOVIES RESURRECT THE BEAUTIFUL DEAD…” - SUSAN SONTAG/"Shadows by the film folk, masses by the good people." - James Joyce, Finnegans Wake/“The task I'm trying to achieve, above all, is to make you see.” - D. W. Griffith/“The cinema will gradually break free from the tyranny of what is visual, from the image for its own sake, from the immediate and concrete demands of the narrative, to become a means of writing just as flexible and subtle as written language.” - Alexandre Astruc/"GOOD CINEMA IS WHAT WE CAN BELIEVE AND BAD CINEMA IS WHAT WE CAN'T BELIEVE." - ABBAS KIAROSTAMI/“FILM LOVERS ARE SICK PEOPLE” – FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT/"CINEMA IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FRAUD IN THE WORLD.” – JEAN-LUC GODARD/“FILM SHOULD BE LOOKED AT STRAIGHT ON, IT IS NOT THE ART OF SCHOLARS BUT OF ILLITERATES.” – WERNER HERZOG/“FILM AS DREAM, FILM AS MUSIC. NO ART PASSES OUR CONSCIENCE IN THE WAY FILM DOES, AND GOES DIRECTLY TO OUR FEELINGS, DEEP DOWN INTO THE DARK ROOMS OF OUR SOULS.”- INGMAR BERGMAN/"Cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream." - Federico Fellini/"RELATING A PERSON TO THE WHOLE WORLD: THAT IS THE MEANING OF CINEMA." - ANDREI TARKOVSKY./"Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper." - Jean Cocteau/"THE CINEMA IS AN INVENTION WITHOUT ANY FUTURE" - AUGUSTE AND LOUIS LUMIÈRE/"FILM AS AN ART IS FINISHED. IT’S DEAD. . . . LET’S JUST READ. IN SUCH A ROTTEN WORLD, ONLY BOOKS WILL SAVE US. ONLY BOOKS." - OKI’S MOVIE (2010)/"THERE IS NO CRISIS IN CINEMA. THERE ARE NEGATIVE PERIODS. THERE ARE TIMES WHEN SOME FILMS ARE RECEIVED WELL AND OTHERS AREN'T. THE PAST TEACHES US THAT SOME FILMS WERE RECEIVED BADLY, WHILE OTHERS GO SAILING ON." - VITTORIO DE SICA/"FOR ME, THE CINEMA IS NOT A SLICE OF LIFE, BUT A PIECE OF CAKE." - ALFRED HITCHCOCK/“CINEMA IS FREUD PLUS LUMIÈRE.” - PHILIPPE GARREL/“Art has nothing to do with morality, convention, or moralizing.” - Patricia Highsmith/"Films can illustrate our existence... they can distress, disturb and provoke people into thinking about themselves and certain problems. But NOT give the answers." - Joseph Losey/“A love story, three scenes of suggested horror and one of actual violence. Fadeout. It's all over in less than 70 minutes.” - Jacques Tourneur/"Cinematographic action should not contend itself with the personal, but stretch beyond the human to the domain of nature and dream." - Germaine Dulac/“CINEMA CONTAINS EVERYTHING. IT JOINS WRITING, PAINTING, MUSIC. IT IS THE MOST COMPLETE ART.” - Juliet Berto, Ciné-Bulles, 1986/"I estimate the final disappearance of cinemas as taking place around the year 2020, so in fifty years time there will be nothing but television." -Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970/“I hope I wasn’t too pessimistic. But film is really a fragile art.” - Lotte Eisner

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