Louise Brooks in Pandora’s Box (1929, G.W. Pabst)

Louise Brooks in Pandora’s Box (1929, G.W. Pabst)

Letì­cia Romàin in The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963, dir. Mario Bava) 

Louise Brooks in Pandora’s Box (1929, G.W. Pabst)

“I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.”

-Orson Welles (via)

“I can whistle through my fingers, bulldog a steer, light a fire with two sticks, shoot a pistol with fair accuracy, set type, and teach school.”

-Ann Sheridan (via drmacro)

Ann Blyth & Zachary Scott in Mildred Pierce (1945, dir. Michael Curtiz)

Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter (1955, dir. Charles Laughton) (via filmforno)

“I’m out of patience children…”

Anthony Perkins in Psycho (1960, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

Carole Lombard (via amana images)

“We called her ‘The Profane Angel’ because she looked like an angel but she swore like a sailor.”

-Mitchell Leisen

The stand-off: Robert Mitchum & Lillian Gish in Night of the Hunter (1955, dir. Charles Laughton)

Greta Garbo in The Kiss (1929. dir. Jacques Feyder) (via)

Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy, when one literally lost oneself in a human image as one would in a philtre, when the face represented a kind of absolute state of the flesh, which could be neither reached nor renounced.

-Roland Barthes, “The Face of Garbo”, Mythologies (1957)

Gary Cooper & Fay Wray in Legion of the Condemned (1928, dir. William A. Wellman), which has been classified as a “lost film”.

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The Fairies, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935, dir. William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt)

The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve;

lovers to bed;

‘tis almost fairy time.