Mark of the Vampire (1935, dir. Tod Browning) (via)

Udo Kier in Blood For Dracula (1974, dir. Paul Morrissey) (via)

Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933, dir. Mervyn LeRoy, choreography by Busby Berkeley) (via)

Buster Keaton in Go West (1925, dir. Buster Keaton) (via)

Shura (1971, dir. Toshio Matsumoto) (via)

Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Cleopatra (1963, dir. Joseph Mankiewicz) (via)

Catherine Deneuve in Repulsion (1965, dir. Roman Polanski) (via)

“My aim was to show Carole’s hallucinations through the eye of the camera, augmenting their impact by using wide-angle lenses of progressively increasing scope. But in itself, that wasn’t sufficient for my purpose. I also wanted to alter the actual dimensions of the apartment — to expand the rooms and passages and push back the walls so that audiences could experience the full effect of Carole’s distorted vision.  

Accordingly we designed the walls of the set so they could be moved outward and elongated by the insertion of extra panels. When ‘stretched’ in this way, for example, the narrow passage leading to the bathroom assumed nightmarish proportions.”

-Polanski, quoted in Roman (1984)

“This sickness, to express oneself. What is it?”

-Jean Cocteau (The Paris Review, 1964)

Photo by Philippe Halsman (via)

Fantômas (1913, dir. Louis Feuillade) (via)

Akira Kurosawa on the set of Yojimbo (1961) (via)