The Swipe File

Inspire me.

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It’s easy to have inspiration and a vision, but if you don’t have the execution it doesn’t matter.

Rick Owens (via thetalks)

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Myrna Loy and William Powell smooching it up in The Thin Man (1934)

[brightwalldarkroom]

From the new issue: Matt Brennan on The Hours (2002)

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“To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe.“ 

– Ingmar Bergman

A reminder: The Criterion Collection, including THE SEVENTH SEAL and all of Bergman’s other works, is on sale at Amazon for one more week!

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Sunday with Rohmer.  From LA COLLECTIONNEUSE (1967).

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How Jacques Rivette’s first films helped launch the French New Wave.

Click here to read and watch clips from our supplements on PARIS BELONGS TO US.

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Day for Night | François Truffaut | 1973

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Where it all began for the lovely Courtney Cox ((( <3 ))) #dancinginthedark

[thetalks]

Introducing the World Guide, an interactive new feature that lets you discover the best public spaces across the globe, recommended to us by the personalities featured on The Talks. Explore the world and get inspired.

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“What is important is the point where the film no longer has an auteur, where it has no more actors, no more story even, no more subject, nothing left but the film itself speaking and saying something that can’t be translated.”

– Jacques Rivette, 1928-2016

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Powell & Pressburger’s THE RED SHOES (1948), our repertory pick of the week.

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Michelangelo Antonioni’s LA NOTTE (1961).

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A masterwork of silent cinema and simply one of the sweetest films ever made, Charlie Chaplin’s THE KID is out now on Criterion Blu-ray and DVD!

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Mastroianni, Fellini, Aimée, and Pasolini – all together on the set of LA DOLCE VITA. 

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From Ingmar Bergman’s SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE (1973).

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20 years ago today, BOTTLE ROCKET debuted in theaters and some kids from Texas changed American cinema.

[blakebev]

Penny & The Quarters are a “lost” soul band which came to prominence in 2010 after an unreleased demo of their song “You And Me” was used in the film Blue Valentine.

Presumably teenagers at the time, Penny & The Quarters were invited to audition by Harmonic Sounds Studio in Columbus, Ohio, recording three demo songs in all.

The songs were recorded some time between 1970 and 1975 at either Harmonic Sounds Studio or at the home of studio co-owner Clem Price in Columbus. Relegated to storage, the songs were discovered after Price’s death in 2006 when a collection of tapes and acetate records was purchased at his estate sale. They were subsequently given to an archival record company, The Numero Group, after a Columbus, Ohio, musicologist came into possession of the recordings.

One of the songs they recorded, “You And Me” was released by the Numero Group and was later heard by actor Ryan Gosling, who recommended it to the director Derek Cianfrance as the song meant to bring the two lead characters together in Blue Valentine.

The Numero Group announced in 2011 that they were actively seeking members of Penny & The Quarters or their surviving relatives in order to share the growing record royalties from “You And Me”.

The members have since been identified as Nannie “Penny” Sharpe and her brothers Preston, Johnny and Donald Coulter.