Hossein Sharif

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Ex-BBC. Used to talk about movies in front of the camera, now having fun behind the camera building broadcast chains in the cloud and setting up automated TV studios around the world. Gobbling up movies, sci-fi novels and narrative-heavy games on the side...
WebsiteAsifpictures.com
#ozu might be famous for his clever use of static shots but it's not because he doesn't understand how to use motion... It's just that he is very restrained and picky about when to use it. Look at this shot.. when during a quarrel the characters enters the room... His uneven stance and the little curtain flailing behind him .. just marvelous. #film #cinema
#Ozu s use of color is so masterfully calculated, watching his colour films ruins other colour films for you... I particularly like his colour arrangements in #goodmorning
I mean yes the world might be slowly inching toward annihilation... but why don't you just look at these shots from #ozu s #floatingweeds and forget all that...

The melancholy in this para gets me everytime:

“I would prefer to dedicate it to one familiar person, male or female, widely known to have done evil while saying to himself, “A very good me, the real me, a me made in heaven, is hidden deep inside.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

#fiction #booktwt