badex:

The great truth that is rarely told by artists, according to Austin Kleon, is that they borrow their ideas from other sources. That, along with 9 other topics, was the subject of a talk he gave at Broome Community College and is now posted up on his blog.

allthingseurope:

Abruzzo, Italy (by Giovanni Di Gregorio)

taste of tea, a film by Katsuhito Ishii

allthingseurope:

Lake Bled, Slovenia

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Turtles Can Fly

Directed by Bahaman Ghobadi

Set in Ghobadi’s native Kurdistan, close to the Turkey-Iran border. Soran is a 13-year-old boy who orders other children around as he installs an antenna for villagers keen to hear of Saddam’s fall. Eventually, he falls for Agrin but is disturbed by her brother Henkov, who was left armless after he stepped on a landmine and who can now seemingly predict the future.

Language: Kurdish

Songs from the Second Floor 

Directed by Roy Andersson

A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. A story about our need for love, our confusion, greatness and smallness and, most of all, our vulnerability. It is a story with many characters, among them a father and his mistress, his youngest son and his girlfriend. It is a film about big lies, abandonment and the eternal longing for companionship and confirmation.

Language: Swedish 

Pushpak (1988)

Country - India

Directed by Singeetham Srinivasa Rao

An unemployed youth (Kamal) dreams of living well. One evening, he finds a drunken industrialist (Sameer Khakkar) passed out in a gutter, and takes the opportunity to switch places with him. He finds love, intrigue, and the good life in his new home, Pushpak, a hotel where the industrialist was booked in. A silent masterpiece

Landscape in the Mist (1988) 

Directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos

Road movie about two children (Voula and Alexandre) searching for their father who is supposed to live in Germany. Their obsession for this father figure will take them to the boundaries between childhood and adolescence.

Language: Greek

In the mood for love, a film by Wong Kar Wai. 

A man and a woman move in to neighboring Hong Kong apartments and form a bond when they both suspect their spouses of extra-marital activities.

Language : Cantonese 

Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) (1955) is a Bengali feature film directed by Satyajit Ray. 

An Exceptional Japanese film The Taste of Tea by Katsuhito Ishii,
is one of the best art films made. ITS A MUST WATCH FOR ART FILM LOVERS.
I Loved it and don’t mind watching it over 100 times.

A spell of time in the life of a family living in rural Tochigi prefecture, north of Tokyo. Though her husband is busy working at an office, Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project at home. Uncle Ayano has recently arrived, looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo for several years. Meanwhile, Yoshiko’s daughter Sachiko is mainly concerned with why she seems to be followed around everywhere by a giant version of herself.

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