a night in open air

if my heart must break. dear love, for your sake. / inge. 20s.

[deszdemona]

“I just want to knock the audience’s eyes out.” – Adrian, costume designer. 

“Adrian knew how women liked to look, feel, and move in a beautiful dress, on screen or off. He possessed the instinct for designing for the camera and the shot, dressing his stars in the most dramatic, scene stealing silhouettes.”

[deszdemona]

I need to confess something.

I used to watch once upon a time back when it’s aired. But stopped at fifth season and didn’t bother for the seventh. I used to ship Regina and…. wait for it…

Charming.

Yes, Charming—of all people, ladies and aliens.

And I thought I’ve passed it! But damnit I saw a video of them few months ago and it still hasn’t left my mind since!

So now I’ve written a couple of chapters about this charming queen / evil charming (or whatever this weird ship name is).

Don’t ask me why I’m attracted to this insane idea for a couple. I will never find the answer. (Or maybe I do but I just deny it) but i wonder, is there anyone else out there beside me?

I need to find my tribe. Even though Jesus Himself wouldn’t approve of it.

[allgarbo]

Garbo distinguished herself from other actors in the silent era whose gesticulations gave the term “silent opera” to the craft. Unlike some of her grimacing, eye-popping colleagues on screen, Garbo was a master of deep, subtle expressions. As Arnold Genthe had, the men in Hollywood who worked with Garbo most declared that her extraordinary power on film emanated from the eyes:

Clarence Brown: “She had something behind the eyes that you couldn’t see until you photographed it in close-up. If she had to look at one person with jealousy, and another with love, she didn’t have to change her expression. You could see it in her eyes. Nobody else has been able to do that on the screen.” 

Clarence Bull: “You could read her through her eyes. That’s why we made so many big pictures of her, to see what she was thinking.”

William Daniels: “I didn’t create a ‘Garbo face,’ but I always did try to make the camera peer into her eyes, to see what was there. She has the most beautiful eyes I ever saw.”

Victor Sjöström: “She thinks above her eyes. Certain great actors possess what seems to be an uncanny ability to register thought—Lon Chaney was one, Garbo is another. They seem literally to absorb impressions… Garbo is more sensitive to emotions than film is to light, [and] you see it through her eyes.” Greta Garbo in The Painted Veil (1934) dir. by Ryszard Bolesławski

[hayscodeviolation]

GINGER ROGERS in THE BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY (1949) Costume Design by IRENE

[laurapetrie]

HEDY LAMARR selling war bonds, 1940s

[goshinoghetto]

.”Life, and Nothing More…” (Persian: زندگی و دیگر هیچ‎‎) directed by Abbas Kiarostami

[plvsmid]

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Midnight, the Stars and You playing from another room

Al Bowlly

[norashelley]

Alice Faye

[highassi]

me: it is what it is

my brain: lmao you're sooo gonna cry about it tonight

[folms]

Looking for Langston (1989, Isaac Julien)

[classicfilmblr]

Universal Classic Monsters Title Cards

[bienenkiste]

Photographed by Jacob Lillis for Simone Rocha S/S 2021

[deszdemona]

“Her appeal is not direct; it is subtle, evasive and often unexpected. She is not changeless. Most actresses have what we might call one face. Greta Garbo is a woman of a thousand faces.” 

— Greta Garbo Pyscho-Analyzed. Written by James Oppenheim for Screenland 1929.

[cosmosonic]

[thoseoldtimefilmstars]

Lauren Bacall_1940's_Photo Portrait

Photo:John Engstead

[chloesevignies]

chloe sevigny photographed by annabel mehran for the ingénue magazine issue 3

[plvsmid]

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Moonlight Serenade playing from another room

Glenn Miller