Old Hollywood
Cinema
1900-1979
Nostalgia is a seductive liar - George Wildman Ball

Ennio Morricone - Algiers, November 1954 (The Battle of Algiers: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 5

Marilyn Monroe & Montgomery Clift on the set of The Misfits (1961, dir. John Huston) (via) Photo by Eve Arnold.

Marilyn Monroe & Montgomery Clift on the set of The Misfits (1961, dir. John Huston) (via)

Photo by Eve Arnold.

Playtime (1967, dir. Jacques Tati) (via)

Playtime (1967, dir. Jacques Tati) (via)

Francis Lemarque - L’Opéra des jours heureux (Playtime: Original Soundtrack Music From the Films of Jacques Tati)

Anouk Aimée, c. 1960. Photographer: Sam Lévin (via)

Anouk Aimée, c. 1960. Photographer: Sam Lévin (via)

Marcello Mastroianni & Anouk Aimée in La Dolce Vita (1960, dir. Federico Fellini) (via)

Marcello Mastroianni & Anouk Aimée in La Dolce Vita (1960, dir. Federico Fellini) (via)

Cary Grant and James Stewart present Alfred Hitchcock with a Screen Producers Guild Milestone Award, as all three sport facial expressions worthy of any diabolical Hitchcock villain (1965) (AP)

Cary Grant and James Stewart present Alfred Hitchcock with a Screen Producers Guild Milestone Award, as all three sport facial expressions worthy of any diabolical Hitchcock villain (1965) (AP)

Michel Legrand - Theme (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Luis Enríquez Bacalov - Django Theme (instrumental) (Django: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Charles Aznavour - La Bohème

Vanessa Redgrave in Isadora (1968, dir. Karel Reisz) (via) “I give myself to my parts as to a lover. It is the only way.” -Redgrave, quoted in Time magazine (1967)

Vanessa Redgrave in Isadora (1968, dir. Karel Reisz) (via)

“I give myself to my parts as to a lover. It is the only way.”

-Redgrave, quoted in Time magazine (1967)

Blow-up (1966, dir. Michelangelo Antonioni) (via)

Blow-up (1966, dir. Michelangelo Antonioni) (via)

Herbie Hancock & the Bobby Hutcherson Quartet - Theme From “Blow Up”

“I just want [people] to remember me a hundred years from now. I don’t care that they’re not able to quote any single line that I’ve written. But just that they can say, ‘Oh, he was a writer.’ That’s sufficiently an honored position for me.” -Rod Serling (1975, via) (Syfy’s July 4th Twilight Zone marathon schedule here)

“I just want [people] to remember me a hundred years from now. I don’t care that they’re not able to quote any single line that I’ve written. But just that they can say, ‘Oh, he was a writer.’ That’s sufficiently an honored position for me.”

-Rod Serling (1975, via)

(Syfy’s July 4th Twilight Zone marathon schedule here)

“The hand belongs to Mr. Don S. Carter, male member of a honeymoon team on route across the Ohio countryside to New York City. In one moment, they will be subjected to a gift most humans never receive in a lifetime. For one penny, they will be able to look into the future. The time is now, the place is a little diner in Ridgeview, Ohio, and what this young couple doesn’t realize is that this town happens to lie on the outskirts of the Twilight Zone.” -Rod Serling, “Nick of Time”, The Twilight Zone 

“The hand belongs to Mr. Don S. Carter, male member of a honeymoon team on route across the Ohio countryside to New York City. In one moment, they will be subjected to a gift most humans never receive in a lifetime. For one penny, they will be able to look into the future.

The time is now, the place is a little diner in Ridgeview, Ohio, and what this young couple doesn’t realize is that this town happens to lie on the outskirts of the Twilight Zone.”

-Rod Serling, “Nick of Time”, The Twilight Zone