B.

Un nome come un altro.

[nino-rota]

Conversation Piece (1974) dir. Luchino Visconti

[sundaynightfilms]

Catherine Deneuve’s outfits designed by Emanuel Ungaro for Manon 70, 1968.

[filmgifs]

Which of the cities visited did Your Highness enjoy the most? Roman Holiday (1953) dir. William Wyler

[lesbianavagardner]

Filming Il gattopardo, 1962

[auteurstearoom]

“The great professional actor is cold-hearted and he doesn’t interest me. I appreciate the actor who may have a crisis, may have weaknesses and truly has a human side.”

Luchino Visconti (pictured on location in Milan during the making of Rocco and His Brothers)

[blankeaton]

Un Flic (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1972)

[blankeaton]

Audrey Tautou in Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)

[theoptia]

“We do not reveal ourselves to others, but only those we love. For then we are no longer revealing ourselves in order to seem but in order to give.”

— Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1935-1951; September 15, 1937

[polishpaintersonly]

“Portrait of a Lady”

by Tadeusz Styka (Polish;1889-1954)

oil on canvas, private collection

Skinner Auctioneers

[theowlsarenotwhattheyseeem]

Il gattopardo /  The Leopard, 1963.

dir.  Luchino Visconti.

cinematography by  Giuseppe Rotunno.

[misanthropic-drown]

[thefilmstage]

See the new 20th anniversary 4K restoration trailer for Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love.

[auteurstearoom]

“I don’t see filmmaking as a career, in that I’ve never tried to “graduate” to big commercial movies. I always just made films about what interested me at the time - for better and worse, because sometimes that really didn’t interest anybody else!”

Paweł Pawlikowski (pictured during the making of Cold War)

[blankeaton]

“Without you, today’s emotions would be the scurf of yesterday's” Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)

[blankbuster]

From my side blog

[blankbuster]

Gérard Blain in I delfini (Francesco Maselli, 1960)

[sesiondemadrugada]

In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000).

[artyeux]

Maria Callas by Cecil Beaton | 1957