‘If I should die,’ said I to myself, ‘I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have lov’d the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember’d.’ - John Keats “Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.” - Kurt Vonnegut || 36. watcher of movies. taco lover extraordinaire. drinker of coffee. listener of music. I freelance writer for hire. working on a book about female directors for Rizzoli. | newsletter: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com | Letterboxd | All opinions are my own.
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SPIDER-MAN 2002, dir. Sam Raimi
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Claudette Colbert as Nicole de Loiselle
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938) - dir. Ernst Lubitsch
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Bande de filles (2014) dir. Céline Sciamma
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Slow (2023)
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Trinity taking shit from no one
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Mikey & Nicky (Elaine May, 1976)
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The Phoenician Scheme (2025) dir. Wes Anderson
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To Bette Davis, Gena Rowlands, Romy Schneider… To all actresses who have played actresses, to all women who act, to all men who act and become women, to all the people who want to be mothers. To my mother.
All About My Mother (1999) dir. Pedro Almodóvar
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The Wedding March (1928) Dir. Erich von Stroheim
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Yes, God, Yes (2019) dir. Karen Maine
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CHRISTOPHER STRONG (dir. Dorothy Arzner, 1933)
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Pola Negri by Strauss-Peyton, 1925
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Ita Rina in Waves of Passion (1930) Dir. Vladimir Gajdarov
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Francis Bacon, ‘Three Studies of the Human Head’, 1953
Twin Peaks 2.22 (1991)
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Mary Pickford by De Gaston, c. 1918
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new-to-me #447 - Torchy Runs for Mayor
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