K as in Knife

Unknown quantities, resonant frequencies, moving parts, and everything in between -- an ongoing mixtape of great music, comedy, film, photography, and design, chosen and obsessively annotated by C. Mason Wells.

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“The true cinema is in John Wayne’s rolling gait, Emil Jannings’s massive back, James Stewart’s hand movements, Jean-Francois Lapalus’s awkwardness, Rod Steiger’s greasy oafishness, Isabelle Prim’s lanky slenderness, Cary Grant’s oblique postures, Groucho Marx’s elongated walk, Tati walking on his tiptoes.”

—the great, underrated French New Wave director and Cahiers du Cinema critic Luc Moullet, speaking on his Politique des Acteurs