{"id":17086,"date":"2014-05-10T22:43:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T22:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/strangewood-andrei-tarkovsky-and-is\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T19:20:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T02:20:04","slug":"strangewood-andrei-tarkovsky-and-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/strangewood-andrei-tarkovsky-and-is\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-17086 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/strangewood-andrei-tarkovsky-and-is\/attachment\/17087\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n43sywUxbL1qf7r5lo1_r1_500-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/strangewood.tumblr.com\/post\/82935524223\">strangewood<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=u-HRWkL6vnAC\"><strong>Andrei Tarkovsky<\/strong><\/a><br \/>&ldquo;And is Chaplin\u2014comedy? No: he is Chaplin, pure and simple; a unique phenomenon, never to be repeated. He is unadulterated hyperbole; but above all he stuns us at every moment of his screen existence with the truth of his hero\u2019s behavior. In the most absurd situation Chaplin is completely natural; and that is why he is funny.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=tG-P-shNoXoC\"><strong>Buster Keaton<\/strong><\/a><br \/>&ldquo;At his best, and Chaplin remained at his best for a long time, he was the greatest comedian that ever lived.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=InkO-cNtBGsC\"><strong>Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut<\/strong><\/a><br \/>&ldquo;My religion is cinema. I believe in Charlie Chaplin\u2026&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=gtd3lAtcz28C\"><strong>Jean-Luc Godard<\/strong><\/a><br \/>&ldquo;He is beyond praise because he is the greatest of all. What else can one say? The only filmmaker, anyway, to whom one can apply without misunderstanding that very misleading adjective, \u2018humane\u2019\u2026 Today one says Chaplin as one says Da Vinci\u2014or rather Charlie, like Leonardo.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=UwbG4zenZocC\"><strong>Jean Renoir<\/strong><\/a><br \/>&ldquo;The master of masters, the filmmaker of filmmakers, for me is still Charlie Chaplin. He has done everything in his films\u2014script, direction, setting, production, performance and even the music\u2026 His films are not only examples of perfect unity, but all his work is one. One may say indeed of Chaplin that he has made only one film and that every facet of that film is a different enactment of the same profession of faith.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/explore.bfi.org.uk\/sightandsoundpolls\/2012\/voter\/994\"><strong>Jiri Menzel<\/strong><\/a><br \/>&ldquo;All Chaplin\u2019s early films assured me that the comedy can say in a grotesque way much more about people\u2019s characters than serious films, which after a certain time fade away and became ridiculous. Good comedy is immortal.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=8Gg-bTQTcAMC\"><strong>Luis Bu\u00f1uel<\/strong><\/a><br \/>&ldquo;When I was young, the idea of an orgy was tremendously exciting. Charlie Chaplin once organized one in Hollywood for me and two Spanish friends, but when the three ravishing young women arrived from Pasadena, they immediately got into a tremendous argument over which one was going to get Chaplin, and in the end all three left in a huff.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=j_VzQgAACAAJ\"><strong>Masaki Kobayashi<\/strong><\/a><br \/>&ldquo;Last year I went to the Cannes Film Festival and met Charles Chaplin. They showed his works. I was deeply impressed by his greatness. His films, his methods and content, are modern and so contemporary; he is a great genius.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=cRGFSuCDDWwC\"><strong>Ousmane Semb\u00e8ne<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>&ldquo;[Did other filmmakers teach you anything?]<\/em> There was one, an old man whom I had the fortune to meet very old, Charlie Chaplin; he told me that everyone could do this job, but that it is very demanding\u2026 He was the only guy who you couldn\u2019t see in bars, nightclubs, or at receptions. He told me one had to stay at home and work\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=at-MPwAACAAJ\"><strong>Pier Paolo Pasolini<\/strong><\/a><br \/>&quot;You can always feel underneath my love for Dreyer, Mizoguchi and Chaplin\u2026 I feel this mythic epicness in both Dreyer and Mizoguchi and Chaplin: all three see things from a point of view which is absolute, essential and in a certain way holy, reverential.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=cgeaM-Zl6ykC\"><strong>Satyajit Ray<\/strong><\/a><br \/>&ldquo;If there is any name which can be said to symbolize cinema\u2014it is Charlie Chaplin\u2026 I am sure Chaplin\u2019s name will survive even if the cinema ceases to exist as a medium of artistic expression. Chaplin is truly immortal.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=iOU9bIlnPHIC\"><strong>Stanley Kubrick<\/strong><\/a><br \/>&ldquo;If something is really happening on the screen, it isn\u2019t crucial how it\u2019s shot. Chaplin had such a simple cinematic style that it was almost like <em>I Love Lucy<\/em>, but you were always hypnotized by what was going on, unaware of the essentially non-cinematic style. He frequently used cheap sets, routine lighting and so forth, but he made great films. His films will probably last longer than anyone else\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=VGOGnpw-cGgC\"><strong>Vittorio De Sica<\/strong><\/a><br \/>&quot;Truly good films\u2014like Chaplin\u2019s\u2014should stimulate as well as soothe, should appeal to the mind as well as to the senses, should kindle thought as well as the emotions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>strangewood: Andrei Tarkovsky&ldquo;And is Chaplin\u2014comedy? No: he is Chaplin, pure and simple; a unique phenomenon, never to be repeated. He is unadulterated hyperbole; but above all he stuns us at every moment of his screen existence with the truth of his hero\u2019s behavior. In the most absurd situation Chaplin is completely natural; and that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4rA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17088,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17086\/revisions\/17088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}