Carmen Amaya 1913-1963
was considered "the greatest Flamenco dancer ever" and was the first woman to master the intricate footwork that was often reserved for the best male dancers. Here she is dancing in 1944.
#Flamenco
💃 La Capitana
Source:
The Floor Scrapers 1875, The Parquet Planers
Gustave Caillebotte
It was rejected by France's most prestigious art exhibition, the Salon, in 1875. The depiction of working-class people in their trade, not fully clothed, shocked the jurors and was deemed a "vulgar subject matter".
When Peggy Guggenheims' father passed on the Titanic, she inherited his fortune. With nothing but society holding her back, she set out to become an absolute force in the art world, and a style icon.
Peggy Guggenheim
August 26, 1898 – December 23, 1979.
Picasso Painting 1968
Alice in Wonderland is a 1915 silent film considered the best film adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic novel.
Directed and written by W. W. Young and starring Viola Savoy as Alice — an early silent film masterpiece.
Alice in Wonderland (1915)
Elena Osipova, the survivor of the siege of St Petersburg, first arrested for demonstrating against the war, is back. The octogenarian is called the “conscience of Saint Petersburg”.
#StandWithUkraine
️ 🇺🇦
#NoWar
“Milena, if a million loved you, I am one of them, and if one loved you, it was me, if no one loved you then know that I am dead”.
Franz Kafka, letters to Milena
On arrachait des petits enfants juifs à leurs parents et ce sont des gendarmes et miliciens Français qui s'en sont chargés (...) C'était ça la collaboration, un crime abominable..."
Pierre Henri Teitgen 1976
#veldhiv
Rafle
16 and 17 July 1942.
“All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and evil. And also the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. That's what my films are about.”
Behind the scenes
The Exorcist William Friedkin, 1973
Elevator To The Gallows 1958 score was composed and performed by Miles Davis
#BOTD
in a one session recording while he watched a screening of the film. He took notes while watching the rough cut .
Thanks
@coenesqued2
🙏🏻
#LouisMalle
#JeanneMoreau
“I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all. I like watching people, but I don’t like talking to them, dealing with them, pleasing them, or offending them. I am tired.”
#SusanSontag
, I, etcetera
Sad news Astrud Gilberto
the bossa nova pioneer most famous for her recording of "Girl From Ipanema," the unofficial cultural anthem of Brazil, has died at age 83.
Thanks to
@dusttodigital
“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag
Himmel über Berlin/
#WingsofDesire
1987,
#WimWenders
Two angels, Damiel
#BrunoGanz
and Cassiel
#OttoSander
glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed...
Vivian Maier 1926 - 2009
was a truly masterful street photographer who, over the course of five decades, silently amassed over 100,000 images, almost none of which she revealed to the world.
A nanny by day she captured images in both black & white and color.
“We never thought it would be any good. The script was never ready and we had to feel our way along. And yet it became a classic.”
Ingrid Bergman
Casablanca (1942) With Humphrey Bogart.
“Play it again Sam “
Dooley Wilson
Moshe Ridler, 91, is the only one in his family to survive the German Nazis during the Holocaust.
On October 7, 2023, he was violently assassinated by Islamist Nazis from
#Hamas
during the massacre on his kibbutz…
May he now rest in peace with all his family 🕯️
Filmakers as children
Luis Buñuel, Ingmar Bergman, Yasujiro Ozu, Satyajit Ray, Akira Kurosawa, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jacques Tati, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Stanley Kubrick.
“What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want.”
Sylvia Plath The Unabridged Journals
“When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite.”
#SergioLeone
3 January 1929 – 30 April 1989
“Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.”
Dorothy Parker
August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967.
Richard Avedon: Dorothy Parker & her Poodle (1958)
Magnificent image, what courage, what solidarity! During the funeral of
#MahsaAmini
RIP murdered by the morality police, the women of her town take off their
#voile
and shout: “death to the dictator”!
#Iran
Filmakers as children
Luis Buñuel, Ingmar Bergman, Yasujiro Ozu, Satyajit Ray, Akira Kurosawa, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jacques Tati, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Stanley Kubrick.
People grew sick of
#socialdistancing
measures as they dragged on into the summer of 1918.
When
#WW1
finally ended in late November, people took to the streets to celebrate.
In the coming weeks, a
#SecondWave
of the pandemic killed more people than the war.
#pandemic2020
“I photograph to preserve the ephemeral, fix chance, to keep in an image what will disappear: gestures, attitudes, objects which are testimonies of our passing.”
Sabine Weiss 1924-2021 RIP
Happy 82nd, Barbra Streisand.
COFFEE TALK WITH LINDA RICHMAN
Linda welcomes a Barbra Streisand impersonator (host) John Travolta
Mike Myers
October 15, 1994
A lost scene from the famed unfinished film 'Inferno’ 1964
#RomySchneider
was asked to repeat the same, languorous gestures during months of screen tests before the project was abandoned.
#HenriGeorgesClouzot
#BOTD
80 years ago today The Great Dictator premiered in NYC,
#charlesChaplin
's first film with dialogue, and what dialogue it is! This speech is phenomenal.
Final speech Screenplayed from
#Thegreatdictator
1940
#CharlesChaplin
Adolf Hitler banned the film in Germany and in all countries occupied by the Nazis ban stayed after the end of WWII until 1958.
"I've been cursed since the day I was born" Bicycle Thieves 1948
It follows the story of a poor father searching in post-World War II Rome for his stolen bicycle, without which he will lose the job
Vittorio De Sica
7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974
Neorealism