Not too long ago, I read an inspiring
compilation '16 Brilliant Movie Quotes from 16
Great Directors' on a blog.
Although every single declaration for cinema
there is nothing short of a Lothario expressing crushing love for his beloved,
this one quotation by Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky resonated last
Saturday afternoon when I attended a session of Cinema 100, a 3-day event to
commemorate India cinema centenary at Subhash Ghai's Whistling Woods
International.
Tarkovsky says, 'Unlike all the other art forms,
film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess
it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.'
I cannot explain the sense of awe and admiration
I experience strolling through this 'sculpting' in a lingering corridor of
posters, prints, facts and legends revealing carefully collected motifs of
Hindi cinema's history.
Image: A scene from Sholay
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