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Jean-Luc Godard 1930
My Life to Live Vivre Sa Vie
Breathless À bout de souffle
Contempt
Pierrot le Fou
Love and Anger
Sympathy for the Devil
Alphaville
Made in U.S.A
Masculin Féminin
Weekend
Band of Outsiders
A Woman Is a Woman
https://t.co/CRnpDNjiSq

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2020-12-04

Ridley Scott (1937), a director with a stunning visual style that helped produced amazing films like the horror classic Alien, the neo-noir sci fi thriller Blade Runner, the fantasy adventure of Legend, and his great road trip adventure Thelma & Louise.

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2020-11-30

Stefan Zweig
LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN – Max Ophüls, 1948
Franz Planer
w/ Louis Jourdan & Art Smith
– 1922

“If this reaches you, you will know how I became yours…when you didn’t know who I was…or even that I existed…”

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2020-11-28



Alfred Schnittke in 1934: Requiem performed at

by Gérard DuBois (Dark was the Night)

https://t.co/khDbvAGtfI

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2020-11-25

Terrence Vance Gilliam 1940...who should've directed Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone!

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2020-11-23

Richard Pococke (1704-1765) painted by Jean-Etiènne Liotard (1740), in oriental costume. Courtesy of the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire do la Ville de Genève 🧵👇#Travel

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2020-11-20

Remembering today the late 🇬🇧English actor, director, producer & singer-songwriter
in 1941 in
seen here as the lusty revolutionary Dildano with co-star in the science fiction fantasy "Barbarella" (1968) dir. Roger Vadim

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2020-11-18


"The line does not exist, it is already form. Shadow does not exist, it is already light."

Jacqueline Lamba (1910–1993) in

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2020-11-18

Born on this day in 1877, William Hope Hodgson, author of the towering monument to cosmic horror, The House on the Borderland.

1980 Sphere edition. Cover art by Terry Oakes.

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2020-11-15

Braemar. The damp, midgy August of 1881. Robert Louis Stevenson, exhausted, spitting blood, was housebound, but, sparked by the detailed vision of a map, he began to write a new book –Treasure Island. Read my essay on this & other piratical matters. https://t.co/2Cg32FLs1Q

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2020-11-13

🍓 Wild Strawberries, French poster by Michel Landi, Bibi Andersson

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2020-11-11

Este hombre tendría hoy 86. ¡Qué menos que un retratillo!
This guy would be 86 today. The least he deserves is a little portrait!

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2020-11-10

Happy birthday, Alain Delon! Here's my painting of Jean-Paul Belmondo and in Jacques Deray's 1970 film BORSALINO to celebrate!

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2020-11-09