Distant voices

Silent and classic movies, landscapes, comics and graphic novels, 1920s and 1930s. And Anton Walbrook. Very much.

[peptocantfixthisone]

jonathan richman on french tv

[arianepouchkine]

My late discovery of Jonathan in the early 1980s on French TV. He added some light in my life at a period when I really needed it

[nedison]

In the early 80s singer Jonathan Richman and I were going to do a kid’s book together. It never worked out. This image is from his song Here Come the Martian Martians.

- Lane Smith

Lane and Jonathan need to get back together and finish this!

[b5ksrockhaus]

Letter in CREEM, 1974

[arianepouchkine]

Already anti-sexist at a time when male chauvinism (or here, "masculine arrogance") was usual in rock world. I want to hug this guy. I ALWAYS want to hug him each time I see or hear him anyway

[soreheadinamblemood]

Thou sing'st sweet music. Come hither and lend thine ear.

[arianepouchkine]

Pure evil.

[soreheadinamblemood]

[ann-margreto-deactivated2022110]

"The news goes on for 24 hours a day."

Citizen Kane (1941)

directed by: Orson Welles.

[soreheadinamblemood]

[arianepouchkine]

My brain is melting.

(Lars Eidinger in ‘Hamlet’)

[cinevelophile]

Just a few of my favorite Roger Livesey snogs

[idlesuperstar]

Surely THE MOST heterosexual scene in all of British cinema, in all its restored (finally!) glory - Anton Walbrook as Dr Falke dressing Michael Redgrave as Col Eisenstein in Powell & Pressburger’s Oh…Rosalinda!! [1955]

[idlesuperstar]

Anton your FAAAAAAAACE: Walzerkreig [Restored] Edition

[idlesuperstar]

your fave is problematic because he’s a nazi: ULTIMATE EDITION

Anton Walbrook in the propaganda short Information, Please! [1944] which I finally got my little paws on this year (and I didn’t even have to sell a kidney)

so to quote myself from this post from flippin 2014 I did of my TOP FIVE YFIPBHAN 

IP is a WW2 propaganda short film about a suave charming Nazi officer (guess who) getting information out of captured RAF pilots. This film does exist because I have seen it with my eyeballs on the big screen but as far as I know has never been released on vhs or dvd/streaming sites/bfi archive. WHICH IS A CRIME BECAUSE ANTON WEARS GLASSES AND IS DEVILISHLY DEBONAIR and I think I still have bruises from where Jools was gripping my arm when we watched it last year in Vienna. It also has John Mills in it, sometimes I trawl John Mills dvds on amazon looking for extras, just in case. That is how much I want this film. I would sell a kidney for this film. 

[cinevelophile]

So I finally figured out how to do screenshots from my Criterion Collection copy of IKWIG. These behind-the-scenes photos from Michael Powell’s personal collection were too good not to share. I just wish they were better resolution. Hopefully the other Roger Livesey fans here appreciate these as much as I did because KNEES and KILT!!! Also, I have no idea what’s going on with those bowler hat shots at the end, but I am here for it.

[idlesuperstar]

oh my sweet BABY CHEESES THESE ARE AMAZING!! thank you @cinevelophile!!

[tea-with-theo]

Some brand new kitteny Anton for @idlesuperstar and @cinemaocd. <3

[arianepouchkine]

Very cute gifset of kitteny Anton, just adorable <3  in “Die vertauschte Braut” (1934). Mad about the boy...

[ananula]

Anton Walbrook sexy af as Borís Lérmontov in ‘The Red Shoes’ (Powell&Pressburger, 1948).

[constantinestimelessworld]

[decadentiacoprofaga-deactivated]

Straight on Till Morning by Maggie Vandewalle.

[miss-kt]

Scarecrow (1973)

[wehadfacesthen]

Leonard Bernstein rehearsing the New York City Symphony (which offered more modern music and cheaper tickets than the Philharmonic) in New York, 1947, photo by Ruth Orkin