La Femme Merveilleuse Invisible

Beautiful poster designed by my son @midmarauder.bsky.social

for "The Blood Countess",directed by Ulrike Ottinger — starring Isabelle Huppert as the legendary 16th-century Hungarian serial killer Elizabeth Báthory — which will have its world premiere this month at the Berlin Film Festival.

Roman Holiday (1953).

Audrey Hepburn,Gregory Peck
Roman Holiday 1953

Beautiful poster designed by my son @midmarauder.bsky.social

for "The Blood Countess",directed by Ulrike Ottinger — starring Isabelle Huppert as the legendary 16th-century Hungarian serial killer Elizabeth Báthory — which will have its world premiere this month at the Berlin Film Festival.

Roman Holiday (1953).

Audrey Hepburn,Gregory Peck
Roman Holiday 1953

"You know I used to live like Robinson Crusoe. I mean, shipwrecked among eight million people. And one day I saw a footprint in the sand, and there you were."

Jack Lemmon, February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001.
Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine on Billy Wilder’s The Apartment movie set

"You know I used to live like Robinson Crusoe. I mean, shipwrecked among eight million people. And one day I saw a footprint in the sand, and there you were."

Jack Lemmon, February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001.
Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine on Billy Wilder’s The Apartment movie set

Juliette Gréco, February 7, 1927 – September 23, 2020.

Miles Davis fell in love with the French chanteuse while in Paris, but stopped her from following him back to the U.S., where he feared their interracial relationship—this was back in the fifties, mind you—could hinder her reputation.

Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater, 2025)
Francois Truffaut BOTD

Witness premiered in Lancaster, PA on 7 February 1985.

Witness was a commercial and critical success. It was nominated for 8 Academy Awards It received Oscars for Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing (Thom Noble).

François Truffaut - The Story of Adele H. (1975)
Isabelle Adjani

Witness premiered in Lancaster, PA on 7 February 1985.

Witness was a commercial and critical success. It was nominated for 8 Academy Awards It received Oscars for Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing (Thom Noble).

Juliette Gréco, February 7, 1927 – September 23, 2020.

Miles Davis fell in love with the French chanteuse while in Paris, but stopped her from following him back to the U.S., where he feared their interracial relationship—this was back in the fifties, mind you—could hinder her reputation.

Get up, stand up: Don't give up the fight!

Bob Marley February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981

François Truffaut - The Story of Adele H. (1975)
Isabelle Adjani

Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater, 2025)
Francois Truffaut BOTD

Get up, stand up: Don't give up the fight!

Bob Marley February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981

"My relationship with cats has saved me from a deadly and pervasive ignorance. I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it."

William S. Burroughs BOTD
with one of his many cats circa 1996

Happy 80th, Charlotte Rampling.

Happy 80th, Charlotte Rampling.

"My relationship with cats has saved me from a deadly and pervasive ignorance. I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it."

William S. Burroughs BOTD
with one of his many cats circa 1996

Paris at night
Three matches one by one struck in the night
The first to see the whole of your face
The second to see your eyes
The last to see your mouth
And the complete and utter darkness to remember them all
While holding you in my arms.
Jacques Prevert BOTD
1900 – 1977

Paris at night
Three matches one by one struck in the night
The first to see the whole of your face
The second to see your eyes
The last to see your mouth
And the complete and utter darkness to remember them all
While holding you in my arms.
Jacques Prevert BOTD
1900 – 1977

Happy Groundhog Day! February 2nd

Happy Groundhog Day! February 2nd

John Ford, February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973 is one of the most respected directors in American cinema.In a career of more than 50 years, he directed over 130 films between 1917 and 1970. He won six Oscars, counting the two that he won for his WWII documentary work.

Vivian Maier New York City, 1953.

Vivian Maier (1926 – 2009) was an American street photographer whose massive, unseen body of work came to light when it was purchased from an auction in Chicago in 2007.

Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable on the set of “The Misfits”, 1960.

Happy Heavenly Birthday to Clark Gable who was born on February 1st in 1901.

Vivian Maier February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009), Chicago, 1956.

Self portrait, Vivian Maier, American, location and date unknown c. 50s-70s.