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A short gif that’s a lovely homage to surrealist cinema from The Vanished World of Gloves (1982) by Jirí Barta via frenchtwist via gifmovie:

Using an array of gloves in different styles and from different historical periods, the film is a short history of the cinema - from silent movies via pastiches of Buñuel and Fellini and Close Encounters of the Third Kind to a futurist junkyard where tin cans become animated police cars in a city of urban decay.

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‘The Blob’ - 1958 film poster via theniftyfifties

Isabelle Adjani at age 15, 1970. Photo by André Perlstein. Her portrayal of the sculptor Camille Claudel will always be a reference point for me on art, madness, and beauty.

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Marlon Brando in rehearsals for Guys and Dolls, 1955. Via terrysmalloy

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Second post today of ‘dancing lying down’: Cyd Charisse splits and Fred Astaire enjoys the view. via mudwerks

Apropos of that last post. How on earth could they not include this in the final cut of High Fidelity? I just now watched this clip for the first time, and it may be my favorite scene ever!

Kim Novak, James Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Vertigo, 1958. via wehadfacesthen

Poster for “Un Chien Andalou” (“An Andalusian Dog”) the classic 1929 silent film by the Spanish surrealists Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí.^[1] It was Buñuel’s first film and is still as striking and disorienting as ever today. And eight years later.

The one to many faces of Maya Deren. You know her? Know her! Via inneroptics.

laughingsquid:

Ridley Scott’s Boy and Bicycle (1965) Starring Tony Scott (1944-2012)

My latest post for LaughingSquid… Tony Scott R.I.P. The film debut of the Scott brothers back in 1965.

mudwerks:

(via Poster for Sharon (1977, USA) | Wrong Side of the Art)

oh. wow. WIRED: Recovered 1927 Metropolis Film Program Goes Behind the Scenes of a Sci-Fi Masterpiece via salesonfilm

Now, a remarkable 32-page theater program from Metropolis’ 1927 debut has surfaced at a well-known rare book shop in London, which scanned it and shared some pages with Wired. The program was created for the premiere of Metropolis at London’s Marble Arch Pavilion, and it’s packed with firsthand anecdotes from the making of the movie, and some stunning photographs. Only three surviving copies of this program are known to exist, according to the Peter Harrington rare book shop, which has its copy on sale for 2,750 pounds ($4,244). (All 32 pages are available for viewing.)

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