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"If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on." —Alfred Hitchcock Cinyma is a blog about all kinds of film, we post everything from gifs, to screen captures, and edits, we try to post as much original content as possible.  This blog was created by Amna & Colleen.

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Elizabeth Taylor in ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’, 1958.

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Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman in ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’, 1958.

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Audrey Hepburn on the set of ‘Sabrina’ photographed by Mark Shaw, 1953.

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The Square (2017) dir. Ruben Östlund

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Parallels

IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000), Wong Kar Wai 

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The Virgin Suicides (1999) // Marie Antoinette (2006) // The Beguiled (2017), dir. Sofia Coppola

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The Scent of Green Papaya (1993), Tran Anh Hung

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Natalie Ng talks about how good costume design can add more layers to a film’s storytelling and refers to the specific use of gloves in Park Chan-wook’s THE HANDMAIDEN.

Read her original review at Filmed in Ether

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Pretending there’s something there when there isn’t… it’s petty. I don’t like that. Pretending there’s nothing there, when there is something… that’s called ‘style’. 

Sakuran/ さくらん (2007), Mika Ninagawa

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From Hiromasa Yonebayashi, director of Studio Ghibli’s ARRIETTY and WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE comes the first film from Studio Ponoc, MARY AND THE WITCH’S FLOWER. See the first full-length trailer here.

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Gloves in THE HANDMAIDEN (2016), dir Park Chan Wook In The Handmaiden, gloves are worn by the character of Lady Hideko (Kim Min Hee) in almost every situation, even when she is in a state of déshabillé. Notice the colors and different types of gloves she wears in different situations. As her relationship with Sookhee (Kim Tae Ri) progresses, the audience will notice that her gloves quite literally come off. Her gloves are symbolic of her performance of demure, submissive womanhood and when they come off they symbolize the physical and emotional intimacy she shares with Sookhee, and the freedom to be who she truly is.

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faceless + spaces in 5 Centimeters Per Second/ 秒速5センチメートル (2007), dir. Makoto Shinkai

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The Childhood of a Leader (2015), Brady Corbet, Cinematography by Lol Crawley

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Only Yesterday, (1991)

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GIRL ASLEEP (2015), Rosemary Myers 

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First look at MARY AND THE WITCH’S FLOWER (x)

This is the first feature film from Studio Ponoc, and by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, director of Studio Ghibli’s ARRIETTY and WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE, screenplay by Riko Sakaguchi (THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA) and Hiromasa Yonebayashi. Production includes many, many of the staff of Studio Ghibli

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Sofia Coppola & Scarlett Johansson behind of the scenes of Lost in Translation, directed by Sofia Coppola (2003)