Tara Hanks

Even if he did, he'd think Mr Smith was a loser - and I don't believe he'd use the phrase 'á la', accented or not.

"Do you like girls or boys
It's confusing these days ..."

The Irving Berlin song of Remember that runs through Moontide (1942) as a theme for Ida Lupino and Jean Gabin. 🎬

Ida Lupino film still from Moontide (1942).

One of my favourite Ida Lupino films.

Post an album that was important to you when you were 11.

Black and white photo of a woman in dark clothes and a white apron sitting on a wooden porch. A shorthaired grey or black tuxedo cat sits in her lap while a very similar looking cat tries to squeeze in.

Always room for one more. Real photo postcard from my collection, no date/info.

Learning is for plebs I guess

Our weather is feline

My slumber was deep and sweet, though over far too soon.

Queen of Cameos - and with Italianamerican we get to spend the whole film with her

It's my favourite novel but I couldn't be less interested in this film. Sorry you had to endure it!

Everything’s Coming Up Lynchian: Laura and Emily on David Lynch’s Influence We’ve survived a year without David Lynch. Just barely. Though some magic is gone with no longer sharing the planet with Lynch, his influence remains–some good, some bad–as does the joy of digging …

Everything's coming up Lynchian

2025: A Year in Books I read Thomas Pynchon’s first novel, The Crying of Lot 49, for my American Literature module at university – and like most of the books I studied back then, I haven’t returned to …

At last I finished writing up my favourite books of 2025 - and it's only two months late... #BookSky📚

I didn’t say I was at THE St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. I said I was at A St. Valentine’s Day massacre.

Nope

Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.

While I don’t like a lot of the recent marketing ventures around Marilyn's legacy from her estate and other brands, as a one-off charitable endeavour I think this is OK.

Marilyn Brings Potato Sack Chic to New York Fashion Week One of Marilyn’s cheekiest publicity stunts has inspired a haute couture collection, as Diane Bradley reports for PR Week. “Fashion, history and carbohydrates collided at Grand Central …

One of Marilyn Monroe’s cheekiest publicity stunts has inspired a haute couture collection... #MarilynMonroe

Joseph has entered the chat

It's been over 10 years since I watched Andrea Arnold's version so I don't remember it in detail but I rated it quite highly at the time. But I don't care for Fennell as a filmmaker and don't like the looks of what she's done with WH, so I'm out.

1997

Why the shame?

Andrea Arnold’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ Wuthering Heights – the classic novel by Emily Brontё, published in 1848 – was first filmed by William Wyler in the sunny hills of California nearly a century later. The French-born actress, Juliet…

Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights is on Channel 4 in the UK (on catchup.) Here's my review from 2011 tarahanks.com/2011/11/20/a...

If we could only push that tragic event forward to this weekend, around the time he rocks up on the golf course.

In political terms, 'nice' and 'decent' means he's finished.

Delacroix’s painting of Mary Magdalene in the Delacroix Museum in Paris

Eugène Delacroix, Mary Magdalene in the Desert, 1845

“Nothing is as rich as the simplicity of the human face, intrepid, unadorned, more awash with light than loss. With head cocked, she gazes up to her crucified Master. Her face imparts hope & despair.”
- Patti Smith, from Bread of Angels, a memoir

A black and white still showing the film’s star, Madhabi Mukherjee, reading a book while lying on the floor in her home. She is dressed in a traditional sari.

CHARULATA (Satyajit Ray, 1964). Loved this portrait of a lonely, creatively talented young woman trapped in an unfulfilling marriage with a workaholic journalist. >> (1/3) #FilmSky