#Patricia Highsmith

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[sacredwhores]

Wim Wenders - The American Friend (1977)

[womansfilm]

Carol (2015) / Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks, 1941-1995

[metanoias-substack]

January was a two-faced month, jangling like jester’s bells, crackling like snow crust, pure as any beginning, grim as an old man, mysteriously familiar yet unknown, like a word one can almost but not quite define.

— Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

Image: Winter (January, Cycle of the Months), ca. 1404-07, by Master Wenceslas

[holyblanchett]

Cate speaking about Carol (2015) in 2024 and saying it's still to this day one of her favorite experiences. Happy 9 years of Carol gays!

[iwanthermidnightz]

― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

[forsapphics]

CAROL (2015)

directed by Todd Haynes

[in-love-with-movies]

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: The Great Games

JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: i'm VERY concerned about the olympicssss Clive Barker: oh you found a new interest? that's nice Stephen King: i didn't know you followed the olympics! Rowling: I do now that TRANSS WOMEN ARE INVOLVED Barker: so you didn't find a new interest King: i don't think any trans women are involved in the olympics actually joanne Rowling: then I'll just have to make sssome up! Barker: does everything have to be about the trans women Rowling: YESS Rowling: YESS IT DOESSS Rowling: i'm very concerned about thisss boxing match Rowling: SUPPOSEDLY two women were boxing Rowling: but the winner? obviously secretly a man Barker: how do you figure? Rowling: DUH, cuz she won Rowling: clearly the winner in thiss boxing match can't be a BIOLOGICAL woman Rowling: look at the factsss Rowling: a woman is weak, pathetic, feeble-minded Rowling: in all waysss, inferior to a man Rowling: there'sss no way a woman could win Rowling: sssee, a woman isn't defined by her genitalsss or her chromosssomesss Rowling: but rather by the inescapable ssstench of failure Rowling: thiss iss feminissm, by the way Mary Shelley: sup fuckers? Rowling: i was explaining how women are weak and pathetic Shelley: couldn't be me Rowling: well you just don't underssstand feminissm Shelley: yeah i fuckin do Rowling: wow, mary, you ssay that with ssuch Rowling: ssusspicioussly unladylike confidence  Rowling: hand me my sspeculum, i need to check ssomething Shelley: [flipping switchblade] back the fuck up Rowling: you all defy me? yet i am the only one who can define what a woman isss Patricia Highsmith: i can Highsmith: see, ya take a pinch of wiggles, a smidge of jiggles, and a dusting of giggles Highsmith: set the oven to HOT Highsmith: and you got yourself a real hotsy totsy Highsmith: Out she comes piping hot, a real boom boom McWow Wow! Highsmith: there ain't nothin' like a dame! Edward Lee: you said it bro! Rowling: YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND Rowling: some of these so-called lady athletes? Rowling: not very traditionally feminine! Barker: damn what a shocker Rowling: i'm not done Rowling: and ssome of them Rowling: i know we're all thinking it, i'm just gonna come out and ssay it Rowling: ssome of them Rowling: rather sswarthy King: i was definitely not thinking that Lovecraft: i was thinking that Lovecraft: i don't get this whole trans thing Lovecraft: honestly, i usually think you're talking about transnistrians Lovecraft: which i believe are a kind of slav Lovecraft: but this racism thing? i could be on board with that Rowling: Finally! Ssomeone who talkss ssensse!

[perfectquote]

And she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been more right or perfect.

Patricia Highsmith, Carol

[sesiondemadrugada]

Ripley (Steven Zaillian, 2024).

[thoughtkick]

Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.

Patricia Highsmith

[cinematic-literature]

Perfect Days (2023) by Wim Wenders

Book title: Eleven (1970) by Patricia Highsmith

[occasionallyinlovewithmovies]

Ripley (2024) dir. by Steven Zaillian

If there was any sensation he hated, it was that of being followed, by anybody. And lately he had it all the time. Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley

[operaqueen]

Alain Delon, Purple Noon.

[quotefeeling]

And she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been more right or perfect.

Patricia Highsmith, Carol