Faye Dunaway, via FFFFOUND!
“ I remember Truffaut saying that he had gone too far with this character he had created with Jean-Pierre Léaud because French audiences like to see masculine actors for male parts. The French audience doesn’t like to accept the fact that the man is broken, castrated, girlish, or wounded in any way. So many academics have noted that in the work of many American actors there is this feminine aspect of what it is to be a man, which is to be wounded. Therefore there is a difficulty it seems to me in France to invent good male heroes who—to my mind—are more complex like American actors. Both Mathieu [Amalric] and I share concerns about these representations. It’s difficult to grow up in France at 11 or 12 where you don’t want to become the adult men that you see in French movies. You don’t know who you will become but you know for sure you can’t relate to Jean Gabin. It’s impossible. It’s disgusting to be Jean Gabin. ”
Arnaud Desplechin
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“ Pale, nervous girls with black-rimmed glasses and blunt-cut hair lolled around on sofas, riffling Penguin Classics provocatively… But it wasn’t just intellectual experiences. They were peddling emotional ones, too. For fifty bucks, I learned, you could “relate without getting close.” For a hundred, a girl would lend you her Bartok records, have dinner, and then let you watch while she had an anxiety attack. ”
Woody Allen, “The Whore of Mensa”
Via misstugui
Malcolm McDowell and Stanley Kubrick, via If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger….
Via misstugui: Le Testament d’Orphée, Jean Cocteau.
Blackmail screen test in which a young Alfred Hitchcock makes Anny Ondra blush (surely she blushed) with his sexual innuendo. Via Bright Lights After Dark.
Fritz Lang and Brigitte Helm on the set of Metropolis, 1926. Via If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger….
Heathers: The Musical
Director Andy Fickman explains: “‘I love my dead gay son.’ If you can get that into a song, then that is just perfect.”
Yesssssss.
Until the End of the World
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Claire Tourneur: I don't know where he is. If I knew that, I would be with him; I would be making love to him! I can't believe I just said that.
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Burt: It's the sodium pentathol I put in your drink. It's a truth drug.
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Claire Tourneur: That's all right. I put sleeping pills in your drink.
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Burt: Waiter! Coffee!
Via benjaminhilts:
Be a Nose
Promo movie for Art Spiegelman’s new book, music by the Black Keys.
(via timothymcsweeney)
