filmhistories
film; history.
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filmhistories · 9 months ago
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LESLIE CHEUNG (12 September 1956 – 1 April 2003)
A Better Tomorrow (1986), dir. John Woo Farewell My Concubine (1993), dir. Chen Kaige Days of Being Wild (1991), dir. Wong Kar-wai Happy Together (1997), dir. Wong Kar-wai Once a Thief (1991), dir. John Woo
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filmhistories · 10 months ago
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JANE RUSSELL and ROBERT MITCHUM in His Kind of Woman (1951)
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filmhistories · 11 months ago
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"Moonlight... quiet... romance... champagne."
CAROLE LOMBARD and FREDRIC MARCH in The Eagle and the Hawk (1933)
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filmhistories · 2 years ago
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i’ve been pulling old names out, putting new names in. you know, you’re not the only writer in this outfit. i’ve been writing, too. jones... peterson... mccarthy... spitofsky... smith...
robert mitchum in the story of g.i. joe (1945), dir. william a. wellman
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filmhistories · 2 years ago
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tony leung in bullet in the head (1990)
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filmhistories · 3 years ago
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this is your brother! look at him! take a good look! whatever he's done in the past, he's more than paid you back! he's trying to change his life around! why can't you accept him? why?
a better tomorrow (1986) // dir. john woo
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filmhistories · 3 years ago
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if only you could have shared those moments, if only you could have recognized what was always yours, could have found what was never lost. if only...
letter from an unknown woman (1948) // dir. max ophüls
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filmhistories · 3 years ago
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those vanished years, as if through a piece of dust-laden glass, can be seen, cannot be grasped. he has always been thinking about everything in the past. if he can burst through that piece of dust-laden glass, he will walk back into those long-vanished years.
in the mood for love (2000) // dir. wong kar-wai
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filmhistories · 4 years ago
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god is just. it is man who sometimes is unjust.
les misérables (1934) // dir. raymond bernard
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filmhistories · 4 years ago
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laurence olivier in picture play magazine, march 1932, by ernest a. bachrach;
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filmhistories · 4 years ago
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carole lombard in photoplay magazine, april 1932, by otto dyar;
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filmhistories · 5 years ago
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a young cary grant in the eagle and the hawk (1933)
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filmhistories · 5 years ago
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traditions, traditions. without our traditions, our lives would be as shaky as a fiddler on the roof.
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filmhistories · 5 years ago
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foreign correspondent (1940) // dir. alfred hitchcock
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the red shoes (1948) // dir. the archers
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carole lombard in the eagle and the hawk (1933)
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filmhistories · 5 years ago
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rebecca (1940) // dir. alfred hitchcock
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