Mary Pickford in Daddy Long Legs (1919, dir. Marshall Neilan)
Cinema
1900-1979
Nostalgia is a seductive liar - George Wildman Ball
1900-1979
Nostalgia is a seductive liar - George Wildman Ball
Mary Pickford in Daddy Long Legs (1919, dir. Marshall Neilan)
Peter Fonda (with Edward G. Robinson Billboard) by Dennis Hopper, 1965
“I had no idea who Henry Fonda was. He wasn’t around the house much and didn’t communicate much. Of course you know my mother. She slit her throat with a razor.”
(via)
The Flamingos & The Complexions - I Only Have Eyes For You
Glenn Ford & Joseph Cotten in The Money Trap (1966, dir. Burt Kennedy) (via)
Miles Davis - ‘Round Midnight
Lil Dagover in The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari (1920, dir. Robert Wiene) (via)
Gena Rowlands in Faces (1968, dir. John Cassavetes)
“I could never make an unrealistic type of picture…It would be awfully somber if people made only realistic films. However, that’s the best way I can work and if there’s no market for it then I’ll pack up as it’s the only kind of film I am interested in. If I directed a picture like Return of the Jedi or even worked on one, I would faint - I’d faint and never get up again I’d be so ashamed.
I’m not interested in starting fires. I’ve never seen an exploding helicopter. I’ve never seen anybody go and blow somebody’s head off. So why should I make films about them? But I have seen people destroy themselves in the smallest way. I’ve seen people withdraw. I’ve seen people hide behind political ideas, behind dope, behind the sexual revolution, behind fascism, behind hypocrisy, and I’ve myself done all these things.
In our films what we are saying is so gentle. It’s gentleness. We have problems, terrible problems, but our problems are human problems.”
-John Cassavetes, quoted in Cassavetes on Cassavetes
Charlie Smalls - Never Felt Like This Before (via Faces: Music From The Soundtrack)
Greta Nissen in publicity still for The Unwritten Law (1932, dir. Christy Cabanne)
Photographer: Melbourne Spurr
Bela Lugosi and Helen Chandler in Dracula (1931, dir. Tod Browning)
Kronos Quartet - Dracula Enters (composed by Philip Glass)
Dracula had no musical score when it was first released, apart from a few excerpts from Swan Lake. In 1998, Philip Glass composed a score for the film, which was performed by the Kronos Quartet.
Glass:“The film is considered a classic. I felt the score needed to evoke the feeling of the world of the 19th century. For that reason I decided a string quartet would be the most evocative and effective. I wanted to stay away from the obvious effects associated with horror films. With [the Kronos Quartet], we were able to add depth to the emotional layers of the film.”
Sissy Spacek in Badlands (1973, dir. Terrence Malick)
John Barry - Romance for Guitar and Orchestra, 3rd mvt (Deadfall: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Gustav Fröhlich in Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang) (via)
Photo by Horst von Harbou.
“Love, in itself, doesn’t trouble me at all. It gives you courage, security, helps you to ignore other trifling things. It’s in great passion that I have never believed.
Give me one example of a great passion, a true one, one with Christian names, surnames, and addresses, not some legendary one, and I’ll believe it. You see? You’re silent.
Great passions, my dear, don’t exist, they’re liars’ fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while. That’s why, every time I’ve loved a man, I’ve never let it overwhelm me. I have loved him, I’ve even been jealous of the flies touching him, but I have known all along that it had to end. And when it ends…you cry a bit, but then you get over it. Two, three months later, you meet him in the street and it seems impossible you could ever have lost any sleep or shed any tears over him. Pouf!”
-Anna Magnani, quoted in 1963 interview (reprinted in Oriana Fallaci’s Gli antipatici)
Photo by Federico Patellani (1943)
