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Toby Stephens as Kim Philby CAMBRIDGE SPIES Episode 1

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The Defiant Ones (1958)

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✴️Fish dreams✴️

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Ronald Colman, Cecily Byrne, Lyn Harding, and Mary Grey on stage in The Little Brother, 1918.

16 March, 1918, The Ladies' Field.

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Oh to see Ronald Colman in Damaged Goods in 1917...

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Akira Kurosawa’s original idea for the film was to make it about a day in the life of a samurai, beginning with him rising from bed, eat breakfast, go to his master’s castle and ending with him making some mistake that required him to go home and kill himself to save face. Despite a good deal of research, he did not feel he had enough solid factual information to make the movie. He then pitched the idea of a film that would cover a series of five samurai battles, based on the lives of famous Japanese swordsmen. Hashimoto went off to write that script, but Kurosawa ultimately scrapped that idea as well, worrying that a film that was just “a series of climaxes” wouldn’t work. Then, producer Sôjirô Motoki found, through historical research, that samurai in the “Warring States” period of Japanese history would often volunteer to stand guard at peasant villages overnight in exchange for food and lodging. Kurosawa then came across an anecdote about a village hiring samurai to protect them and decided to use that idea. Kurosawa wrote a complete dossier for each character with a speaking role. In it were details about what they wore, their favourite foods, their past history, their speaking habits, their reaction to battle and every other detail he could think of about them. No other Japanese director had ever done this before.

Seven Samurai | 七人の侍 (1954), dir. Akira Kurosawa

— Cinematography by Asakazu Nakai

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Long live the Queen

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KAY FRANCIS in JEWEL ROBBERY 1932 │ dir. William Dieterle

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William Morris, Wallpaper Design, 1884 

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The Fashion of Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice (1995)

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Ronald Colman in THE PRISONER OF ZENDA (1937)

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Angel sitting on a cloud - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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I Don’t Want to Be a Man (1918) dir. Ernst Lubitsch

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are there any film adaptations of books that you like more than the book?

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The Plain at Auvers (1890) by Vincent van Gogh

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Gotten so used to all the shows I watch being obscure old shit on YouTube that now I want to watch something recent I have no idea where to watch it anymore... all the sites I used to use are dead and gone