🎥 'Le Mépris' (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963).

“Don't look for meaning in the words.
Listen to the silences...”

Samuel Beckett #botd

A distinctive presence in French cinema for more than twenty years, Maurice Ronet #botd is remembered for his work with Louis Malle, René Clément, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Deray, and other leading directors...

'I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center...'

Kurt Vonnegut
November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007

Today, the Official Selection for the Festival de Cannes 2024 was unveiled at the traditional annual meeting with the French and international press...

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'Trans-Europ-Express' (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1966).

Julie Christie behind the scenes of Doctor Zhivago, 1965

Inside every story, there is a beautiful journey.

Francis Ford Coppola & Sofia Coppola by Annie Leibovitz for Louis Vuitton. (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2008)

L’ Eclisse

Antonioni
1962

Michelangelo Antonioni & Daria Halprin during the filming of 'Zabriskie Point' (1970).

(📸- Bruce Davidson)

Lee Miller. Cottages by River Tolka, Dublin, Ireland, 1946.

Françoise Hardy

📷©️ Victor Blackman
Grand Prix
1966

Thank you, Edward!

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Howard A. Rodman 🦆 Yes! Under the Volcano.

Some days I need some Lowry, thanks.

“It's amazing when you come to think of it how the human spirit seems to blossom in the shadow of the abattoir!”

One of the most celebrated civil engineers of the 19th century, Brunel's greatest fame came as the designer of three giant steamships that transformed ocean travel - the Great Western, the Great Britain and the Great Eastern.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel
#botd April 9, 1806

'The most important factor in my career was my time with Ingmar Bergman, with whom I worked in many films and stage productions — it was a continuous working relationship, and a friendship, that lasted for so many years...'

Max von Sydow #botd

NY Post is mocking Gene Hackman for wearing same outfit he wore a week earlier, yet the NY Post has literally tossed the salad of Donald Trump for 8 years who has worn the same outfit for almost all 8 of them.

Monica Vitti with a cigarette- A thread:

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Peter Weir Confirms He’s Retired from Directing: ‘I Have No More Energy’

“Why did I stop cinema? Because, quite simply, I have no more energy.”

This is cinema's loss. Thank you for everything, Peter Weir. 🙏

#TCMParty

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Remembering Jean Paul Belmondo on his birthday!

Breathless 1960 JL Godard

The film was Godard's first feature-length work and represented Belmondo's breakthrough as an actor.