“This is the story of a man marked by an image from his childhood.”

opening of La jetée

“Transcending mere reflections of personal anxiety, however, Kafka’s expressionism is more properly ‘sociological’, focusing on the confounding structures of post-bureaucratic life.

“The help becomes more impertinent each day.”

Julio Mayordomo, steward

Jack Andrus: Hello, Lew... I said hello, Lew.

« Au bout de quelques minutes, au moment où Ransom Stoddard est vrai­ment arrivé dans l’Ouest, la projec­tion de The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance nous frappe d’euphorie et nous avons quinze ans, cet âge heu­reux où l’on est connaisseur en wes­terns sans le savoir.

I am a force of the Past.
My love lies only in tradition.
I come from the ruins, the churches
the altarpieces, the villages
abandoned in the Apennines or foothills
of the Alps where my brothers once lived.
I wander like a madman down the Tuscolana,