You mean in the context of:
“I believe that you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.”?
He means watch alot of movies. Not only watch, examine. Appreciate.
. . . and carry it all with you when you go to make a film.
when melville was once asked by a journalist to name his favorite films he produced a list of literally hundreds,mostly genre films
That’s one of my favorite quotes on Mubi, aside from Akira Kurosawa and Quentin Tarentino’s.
I was just a TAD unsure about “cinematic bagage” though…How would you even word that in french? Anyway this cleared it up, I had the right idea all along.
Mastroianni
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