Vittorio Storaro on filming Apocalypse Now (1979): "At the beginning, I said to Francis Ford Coppola, “I don’t think this is my kind of movie.” What was I supposed to do with a war movie when in Italy I was used to doing films about the philosophers or political films with Bernardo Bertolucci? But Francis said: “No, Vittorio. This is not a war movie. This is a movie about civilization. Please read Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, and you will understand my concept.” And he was right. I read and understood that there was one principal idea in Conrad’s book: when one culture overpowers and superimposes itself over another culture, it creates an act of violence. And that’s what the film wants to say: the truth. When a country invades another, thinking they are bringing civilization, modernity, and so on, they commit an act of violence, because they don’t respect the other culture. This has happened throughout the history of mankind. I understood that it was something that I could make my own, because it’s a universal concept. So how to translate this concept visually? I said to myself: “Oh my God, I can have the artificial light superimpose itself over natural light, and artificial color over natural color.” And I created this kind of visualization of two different cultures: the visual conflict represents the conflict between the cultures." — "Interview: Vittorio Storaro" by Yonca Talu, Film Comment, 2017

Hommage à Michel Berger, ici en 1980 interprétant sa très belle chanson "Quelques mots d’amour" : Une chanson écrite et composée par lui-même sur le thème de sa solitude mélancolique amoureuse. Je ne sais pas pour vous, mais moi j'adore 😍

The 1979 Russian animated film Cinderella (Zolushka) explicitly shows why the glass slippers of Cinderella do not disappear at midnight: The Fairy Godmother creates them as a unique gift, not a modification of Cinderella's worn-out shoes.

The Monkey King: Havoc in Heaven (1961)