DepressedBergman

Happy 46th birthday, Jennifer Carpenter!

Demons (1971)
Director: Toshio Matsumoto

Happy 60th birthday, Jeffrey Wright!

Gloria Grahame sitting on a diving board, poolside, 1940s.

Marilyn Monroe photographed at her home, 1953.

(📸- Alfred Eisenstaedt)

Grace Kelly watching James Stewart & Wendell Corey play chess on the set of "Rear Window" (1954).

Remembering Agnes Moorehead on her 125th birthday!

Remembering Jô Shishido (宍戸 錠) on his 92nd birthday!

Cruel Gun Story (1964)
Director: Takumi Furukawa

Remembering Fritz Lang on his 135th birthday!

Metropolis (1927)
Director: Fritz Lang

Sophia Loren during the filming of 'Boy on a Dolphin', Greece, 1957,

Richard Conte, Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall during a meeting of CFA (Committee for the First Amendment) in Washington which was formed as a protest against the HUAC investigations, 1947.

"When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do."

--- Walt Disney

Remembering Walt Disney on his 124th birthday!

Remembering Emeric Pressburger on his 123rd birthday!

A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

Remembering Otto Preminger on his 120th birthday!

yes, indeed!!

David Lynch.

Remembering the great Japanese filmmaker, Keisuke Kinoshita (木下 惠介), on his 113th birthday!

Carmen Comes Home (1951)
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita

Happy 94th birthday, Kyōko Kagawa (香川 京子)!

Tokyo Story (1953)
Director: Yasujirô Ozu

Ms .45 (1981)
Director: Abel Ferrara

("‘The Piano’ Plays On the Inner Voice", Roger Ebert, 2012)

Ebert: So much of what she feels is so much better for not having to be said.

Campion: That was the next challenge. Holly manages to capture Ada’s aloofness with no sense of the handicapped person. It’s the rest of the world that’s handicapped by speaking.”

She doesn’t speak and so the piano is going to be so important to her. She must have it in order to live. That would mean she’d do a lot more – she’d do anything to get it back. Whereas if she could speak and say, ‘That dirty old man over there,’ the whole story would be over.

I thought of the film working in a kind of gothic, romantic genre – which my spirit just loves.

And when you’re trying to tell a romantic gothic story, you try to put situations in their most extreme form. So I thought, what if she doesn’t speak?

Campion: You’d have to go back to the first intention I really had, which was to find a story that would work for me in talking about love. Since I’ve never really had an easy time with narrative, I was looking for a story which would give me some devices that I could use.

Jane Campion explains why she had the character of Holly Hunter mute in 'The Piano' (1993):

"Ebert: When you were writing the screenplay, how did you hit upon the notion that the central character would never speak? And why did her muteness seem to add to the story?

Adam West & Yvonne Craig, 1968.

Sleepy Hollow (1999) Directed by Tim Burton stars Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson and Michael Gambon.

The Bedroom Window (1987)

Directed by #CurtisHansan
Starring #SteveGuttenberg #ElizabethMcGovern #IsabelleHuppert

Cinematography by #GilbertTaylor
Music by #MichaelShrieve#PatrickGleeson

#thebedroomwindow #filmstlls #1980s #80sthriller #thriller #NeoNoir #psychologicalthriller

The River (1951)

The Mystery of Picasso (1956)

Barbarella (1968)

The Unvanquished (1964)

Images from films shot by cinematographer Claude Renoir - BOTD in 1913

The River (1951)
The Mystery of Picasso (1956)
Barbarella (1968)
The Unvanquished (1964)