Released in the same year as The Seventh Seal (1957), Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries stars Victor Sjöström as Dr Isak Borg and Bibi Andersson in two roles, as Sara, the hitchhiker and as Sara, the doctor’s childhood sweetheart.
The film is a hauntingly beautiful meditation on life and death and follows a lonely and elderly professor [...]
In a post on Spend Me To School, there is a list of people who have solved problems by dreaming.
Mary Shelly, apparently, dreamed up Frankenstein:
“When I placed my head upon my pillow, I did not sleep, nor could I be said to think… I saw — with shut eyes, but acute mental vision — I [...]
You’ll know when it’s time to write your first novel because the thing will spring into your mind fully formed. It might happen at any time of day or night, but it will probably be at night, if not the middle of the night when you are in bed asleep. Now wide awake.
You may back [...]
Every crime has something of the dream about it. Crimes determined to take place engender all they need: victims, circumstances, pretexts, opportunities. Paul Valéry
The Page Turner - (La Tourneuse de Pages) - is a French film (2006) written and directed by Denis Dercourt.
This is a revenge and psychological thriller of the kind that has been [...]
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