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Christina Ricci in Buffalo ‘66 (1998)

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Mifune had a kind of talent I had never encountered before in the Japanese film world. It was, above all, the speed with which he expressed himself that was astounding. The ordinary Japanese actor might need ten feet of film to get across an impression; Mifune needed only three feet. The speed of his movements was such that he said in a single action what took ordinary actors three separate movements to express. He put forth everything directly and boldly, and his sense of timing was the keenest I had ever seen in a Japanese actor. And yet with all his quickness he also had surprisingly fine sensibilities. I know it sounds as if I am overpraising Mifune, but everything I am saying is true. […] Anyway, I’m a person who is rarely impressed by actors, but in the case of Mifune, I was completely overwhelmed.

— Akira Kurosawa on Toshirō Mifune, Something Like an Autobiography (trans. Audie E. Bock).

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Party Girl 1995 Daisy von Scherier Mayer

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Mike Kuchar

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Kurt Russell in ‘Silkwood’ (1983)

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Little Shop of Horrors by Ian Permana

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Anna Karina breaking the fourth wall

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Odysseus on Circe's island. By Friedrich Preller the Elder.

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Justine Frischmann • Elastica

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Valentin Braun Goldfrapp Everything is Never Enough

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“Hollywood’s most representative “Great Movie Star” and the screen’s finest personification of no-holds-barred ambition, Joan Crawford created her own screen persona early, doubtless basing it on her own desperate climb from the bottom of society and pushed this screen image to the very peak of stardom. The outward manifestations changed, but the core of the image never altered: she was a tough, shrewd, determined woman who wanted the best things in life and would do anything to get them – even murder. “I love to play bitches,” she once said, and in the end, she came to symbolize the bitch-goddess success, the dark side of the American dream. She looked like a star, she behaved like a star, she was a star.”

/ From The Illustrated Encyclopedia of The World’s Great Movie Stars (1979) by Ken Wlaschin /

Born on this day: the fierce and regal Miss Joan Crawford (née Lucille LeSueur on 23 March somewhere between 1904 and 1908. The precise year of Crawford’s birth is contested although 1906 seems to be generally accepted). Pictured: the diva photographed by Richard Avedon and flourishing a Blackglama mink coat in the ad campaign “What Becomes a Legend Most” for Vogue magazine, 1 October 1969.

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"COOL WORLD" by Si Heard

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Sala dell'Iliade in the Pitti Palace in Florence, Santi Corsi

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THE EURYTHMICS / MISSIONARY MAN