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This must have taken AGES to do, but what an amazing result.

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I only act like I know everything.

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Euzhan Palcy: Trailblazing black female filmmaker

After French West Indian filmmaker Euzhan Palcy’s debut film, Sugar Cane Alley, earned her France’s distinguished César Award for best first work in 1984, an impressed Robert Redford personally invited her to attend the 1985 Sundance Institute Filmmakers Lab (depicted in the above photos). There she workshopped her adaptation of the novel A Dry White Season, about South Africa’s then still-prevalent apartheid. A few years later MGM would produce the movie, making Palcy the first black female director to helm a major Hollywood studio title. Her dedication to an unrelentingly accurate portrayal of apartheid in the film drew Marlon Brando out of his self-imposed, years-long retirement to accept a role that earned him an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor, and made Palcy the first black director—male or female—to direct him to an Oscar-nominated performance.

Photos: © 1985 Roger Christiansen | Courtesy of the Sundance Institute Archives

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“[Beth] did not rebuke Jo with saintly speeches, only loved her better for her passionate affection, and clung more closely to the dear human love. […] She could not say, “I’m glad to go,” for life was very sweet to her; she could only sob out, “I try to be willing,” while she held fast to Jo, as the first bitter wave of this great sorrow broke over them together.” – Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

Little Women (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig

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“Some of them say that we’re sick, we’re crazy, and some of them think that we are the most gorgeous, special things on earth.” Paris Is Burning (1990) dir. Jennie Livingston

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Agdgsgsgsg I’m LIVING for this Reef2Reef thread. This guy was worried about his urchins getting sunburnt so he made them little hats

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She was fifty years old when she made this movie.  FIFTY.

Jennifer Lopez as Ramona HUSTLERS (2019)

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I feel like any problem in the world in my opinion, is probably rooted in a lack of compassion - just a sense of compassion for other people. It’s a general lack of compassion for other people’s struggles. So, if I could somehow infuse that, that would be the superpower I would choose.

Happy 39th Birthday Chris Evans, (June 13, 1981)

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I’ll take three, please

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thinking about how there’s an entire subcategory of actor titled “my parent was an icon of screen and stage who went on to play a Hogwarts professor, and I am their red headed son with an underrated acting career in world class dramas” and we don’t even talk about it

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The Aeroplane by Alfred Stieglitz, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Photography

Gift of J. B. Neumann, 1958 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Photogravure

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/270054

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Bill & Ted Face the Music Official Trailer #1 (2020) dir. Dean Parisot

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42nd Street, New York, Neil Libbert, 1960

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So what if we’re not just in the universe but the universe is within all of us?

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Ava DuVernay with her star, Storm Reid. “A Wrinkle in Time” was not easy to adapt. “That’s why I frigging did it, because it was hard,” the director said. Credit: Ryan Pfluger for The New York Times

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Happy Mother’s Day, from the mother of all mothers.