Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.
quote by Werner Herzog
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Malani Senehelatha Fonseka
She's listed among the best 25 performing Artists in Asia
And won numeral international awards for her best perfomance
in our local cinema.
I liked her best roles in 'Nidhanaya, Bambaru Avith and Akasa Kusum.'
Many Rolled Gold film stars approached her to be prominent
and failed.
Wife & myself saw her day before yesterday at La Mirada Theater.
[Udeni Liyanage's 'Swarnamaya Rathriyak(A dazzling night) ]
She's still photogenic and I think of her recent award winning film'Akasa Kusum'.(Flowers of the sky)
The entire role gives an exemplary of uncertainty of the mysterious life.
*Sri Lankan film actress named as Queen of the sinhala cinema.
poem by Nimal Dunuhinga
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I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.
quote by Mike Figgis
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I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.
quote by Kabir Bedi
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Country Fair
We stood and watched the river flow
We were too young to really know
In the country fair
Oh, in the country fair
We laid out in the long green grass
And never thought that it would pass
In the country fair
In the country fair
On an old, on an old open day
On an old rainshine open day
In the country fair
In the cool night air
In sweet summer time
We counted pebbles in the sand
Sand like time slippin through our hand
In the country fair
In the country fair
On an old, on an old open day
On an old raintrack open day
In the country fair
In the cool night air
In sweet summer time
Hmmm mmmm
On an old open day
On an old
Pinecone open day
song performed by by Van Morrison
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And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.
quote by Jacques Rivette
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I did not make this a long film for its own sake. I wanted to make an entertaining film and offer it out there for those who want to see it. If word of mouth suggests there is an audience out there, hopefully their cinema will show it.
quote by Kenneth Branagh
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Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.
quote by Federico Fellini
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This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.
quote by Jacqueline Bisset
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If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.
Life Is A Circus
CHORUS
Life is a circus
It's not fair
Life is a hard road
When you're not there
At the fair
Friends come to see me
[and the ...](point where shall I go)
To see the show
[to help my friend and foe]
[all that ..]
When will they realize
[To laugh and drag my name on the ground]
The circus must go
[Looking at the strengths of every]
???
Papa he talks to me
Don't try your heart
Gets deep inside you
Does you real harm
Don't you care?
Life ??
[and the ...]
Stand straight and true
[to help my friend and foe]
[Why let them ](Oh let them fight)
Fight your
Christ don't tell
song performed by by David Bowie
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Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.
quote by Crispin Glover
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Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
quote by Frank Lloyd Wright
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So it is fair enough that you are paying me what I ask for, because it is my name you are using to sell the film. If the producer gives me a guarantee that he will sell the film at a lower price to the distributors, fair enough, then I will charge less!
quote by Ajay Devgan
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I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.
quote by Leslie Caron
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I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
quote by Manuel Puig
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That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
quote by Catherine Deneuve
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I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema.
quote by Guillermo del Toro
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The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.
quote by Keanu Reeves
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When I go to a film, you're taking it easy and you let things wash over you. That's what cinema's all about. You get involved in a world that's being created in front of you.
quote by Mary Hansen
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I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
quote by Francis Ford Coppola
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