Dr Sabina Stent
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Freelance arts writer on women surrealists & film. Words: Vinegar Syndrome/OCN, Radiance, Magnum. Cinema intros: MAC B’ham. Cat lover.
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Thrilled to be welcoming
@alicelowe
to
@mac_birmingham
on Monday 28 Oct for a post film-Q&A of “Timestalker.” Tickets available now!
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A reminder that Ursula Le Guin's writing schedule was the best writing schedule.
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“This is specifically for the back of your neck.”
Frida Kahlo’s love letter to the photographer Nickolas Muray, 31 May 1931.
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Replace all racist statues with Leonora Carrington’s sculptures.
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On this day in 1953, Shirley Jackson responded to a disappointed reader.
(via
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Marlene Dietrich wearing the jacket from Schiaparelli’s divine 1938 Zodiac Collection 💫
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“Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.”
Happy Birthday, Maya Deren - avant-garde filmmaker, dancer, writer, and cat-lover.
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RIP Agnès Varda; legendary filmmaker, force of nature, and cat lover.
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R.I.P. to the beautiful Luigia "Gina" Lollobrigida (4 July 1927 – 16 January 2023). Actress, photojournalist, sex symbol, politician, star ❤️
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“Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.”
Happy Birthday, Maya Deren. Avant-garde filmmaker, dancer, writer, and cat-lover 🐈⬛
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Now that Brendan Fraser is back on top of the world, who is another actor you would like to see make another glorious comeback?
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"but she killed people!" have you considered that she's beautiful
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I saw Sam Rockwell was trending and I panicked. Anyway, here he is dancing in Iron Man 2.
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Jean-Luc Godard (1930 - 2022) photographed in 1960 by William Klein (1928 - 2022). Two giants gone days apart.
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“I have a lot of regrets, but I’m not going to think of them as regrets.”
Happy Birthday, Debbie Harry ✨
Debbie Harry in her New York apartment featuring her very own Warhol portrait. Photo by Brian Aris, 1988.
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Forever grateful for Jack Cardiff’s cinematography. His photographer’s eye knew how a capture a perfect image, & the spellbinding Technicolor palettes and every-frame-is-perfect works of art he created 3x for Powell & Pressburger remain unparalleled. Happy Birthday, Jack.
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When William Powell (off-script) kisses Myrna Loy in The Thin Man (1934) & she giggles with glee.
Give me a tiny detail in a film that you absolutely love, that you're pretty sure no one else notices.
#filmtwitter
#movietwitter
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“If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.”
Happy Birthday, eternal Hollywood legend Gloria Swanson.
Photographed in the ruins of the Roxy Theatre, 14 October 1960. Photo by Eliot Elisofon for Life Magazine.
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“I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.”
Happy Birthday, Josephine Baker.
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The magical Tilda Swinton’s Birthday is the perfect excuse to re-up this incredible Leonora Carrington inspired photoshoot ✨
📷: Tim Walker, 2017.
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"I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.”
Happy Birthday to the magnificent Gene Tierney
#Noirvember
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The best anyone has ever looked at Glastonbury ✨
PJ Harvey, Glastonbury 1995.
Photo by Gie Knaeps.
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Do you remember when Once Upon a Time In Hollywood came out last year and we were all so happy?
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Goodbye, my darling little Minnie. You will always be my tiny, sweet, most magical little angel. Thank you for so much joy. I love you so, so much. My heart is broken 🖤
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Susan ‘Suse’ Dannenburg’s ‘Jezebel’ sweater (‘a red bleeding heart pierced by jeweled dagger’) and matching skirt/dress, 1947.
Photos by Nina Leen, for LIFE.
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‘Only a couple of weeks ago she said to us from her bed, “I want Daddy to have girlfriends, lots of them, you must all love again, love isn’t possessive, but you know, Damian, try at least to get though the funeral without snogging someone.”’
♥️
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Georgia O'Keeffe // "I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do."
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“Life, is a farce if the person does not serve truth.”
Happy Birthday to artist and occult spiritualist Hilma af Klint 🔮💫
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“Movies don’t really provide a career for a freak like I am.”
Happy Birthday to the divine Elsa Lanchester 🖤
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Feminist Surrealist Easter c/o -
Leonora Carrington, Ab Eo Quod (1956).
Leonor Fini, The Guardian of the Black Egg (1955).
Kaye Sage, My Room Has Two Doors (1948).
Ithell Colquhoun, Sardine and Eggs (c. 1941).
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“Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand".
Happy Birthday, Mae!!!!
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Jayne Mansfield in her heart-shaped pool surrounded by mini-Jayne hot water bottles. Photographs by Allan Grant for the cover of LIFE magazine (June 1958).
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It’s Keanu’s Birthday, and I’m mostly thinking about this moment:
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BRIE BROUGHT HER CAPTAIN MARVEL STUNT DOUBLES UP ON STAGE TO ACCEPT THE AWARD FOR BEST FIGHT!
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Happy Feminist-Surrealist Easter ✨
🥚Leonor Fini, La Guardienne à l'oeuf rouge (The Guardian With the Red Egg) (1955)
🥚Leonora Carrington, The Giantess (The Guardian of the Egg) (c.1947)
🥚Ithell Colquhoun, Sardine and Eggs (c.1941)
🥚Kaye Sage, My Room Has Two Doors (1948)
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Some favourite photos of Debbie Harry by the late great Mick Rock.
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“I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare.”
Happy Birthday to the extraordinary Camille Claudel. Such a a tragic life, such a powerful sculptor.
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“I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.”
Happy Birthday to the American-born French entertainer, Resistance Agent, and Civil Rights activist Josephine Baker ✨
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”I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.”
Happy Birthday to the iconic Eartha Kitt, Catwoman on-screen and off 🐈💫🖤
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For those who need it today: the Goddess Eartha Kitt on love and compromise:
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.
@neilhimself
: “I’d wanted to write a story for my daughters that told them something I wished I’d known when I was a boy: being brave means you are scared, and you do the right thing anyway.”
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It’s Monday morning & we deserve nice things: James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Giant.
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Penelope by Leonora Carrington and staged by Alejandro Jodorowsky in 1957! All set designs and costumes were by Carrington.
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“I'm not going to talk about Picasso. I have done my duty to those memories. I have had a great career as an artist myself, you know. I'm not here just because I've spent time with Picasso.”
RIP the divine Françoise Gilot.
Photo by Lee Miller, Côte d'Azur, 1949.
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“Movies don’t really provide a career for a freak like I am.”
Happy Birthday to the divine Elsa Lanchester 🖤
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"I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.”
Happy Birthday, Frida Kahlo 🖤
Photo by Nickolas Muray, 1946.
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"I'm a marvellous housekeeper—every time I leave a man, I keep his house."
Happy Birthday to the fabulous Zsa Zsa Gábor.
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Good morning to Chris Evans perched on Daniel Craig’s lap and Chris Evans perched on Daniel Craig’s lap only.
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“My life is uneventful, but I sometimes have an interesting dream.”
Happy Birthday to the magical British artist, writer, occultist & Surrealist Ithell Colquhoun 💫
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“My life is uneventful, but I sometimes have an interesting dream.”
Happy Birthday to the magical British artist, writer, occultist & reluctant surrealist Ithell Colquhoun 💫
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Jayne Mansfield decorating her Christmas tree (c. 1960).
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”I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.”
Happy Birthday to the iconic Eartha Kitt, Catwoman on-screen and off 🐈💫🖤
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“Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.”
Maya Deren, 29 April 1917 - 13 October 1961.
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It’s all-day Lana Turner for today’s
@tcm
#SummerUnderTheStars
. Here she is poolside at the Coral Casino, Santa Barbara. Photo by Earl Thiesen for Look Magazine, 1951.
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The Women (Dir: George Cukor, 1939).
A Matter of Life and Death (Dirs: Powell and Pressburger, 1946).
Rene Magritte, Le Coup au Coeur (The Blow to the Heart) (1952).
Rene Magritte, Untitled (Woman's Face covered by a Rose) (1965)
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“I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.”
Happy Birthday, Bette Davis ✨
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Do you remember when people blamed Marilyn Manson after Columbine? Yet he respectfully cancelled his concerts while the NRA held their annual meeting as planned. That was twenty fucking years ago. Nothing has changed.
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“The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.”
Happy Birthday to the powerful photographer Diane Arbus.
Diane Arbus, Self-Portrait in Mirror, 1945.
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Happy 20th to David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive. I love you 💙
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“I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.”
Happy Birthday, Joan.
(Joan Crawford wearing Schiaparelli, photos by Edward Steichen, 1932).
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When your pitch gets accepted vs. when you realize you actually have to write the piece.
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Nan Goldin, Heart-Shaped Bruise (1980), from The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.
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One of Jenny Holzer’s “Truisms” featured on a Spectacolor light board in Times Square as part of the Public Art Fund’s “Messages to the Public” exhibition (1982).
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Farewell, Eve Babitz 💔 LA Woman, genius, chronicler of Hollywood, there will never be another like her.
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“I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.”
Happy Birthday to the iconic Eartha Kitt, Catwoman on-screen and off 🖤🐈⬛💫🐈
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Goodbye my Keanu, my darling angel boy. You will forever be my sweet, smooshy, most handsome and affectionate precious. I love you beyond words and will miss you always. Thank you for everything, boo-boo. I am devastated and in pieces 💔
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