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American film director John Waters makes his selection from the MoMA collection.

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Today the Paris Catacombs are illuminated by electric lights and friendly guides. But when Félix Nadar descended into this “empire of death” in the 1860s artificial lighting was still in its infancy: the pioneering photographer had to face the quandary of how to take photographs in the subterranean dark. Allison C. Meier explores Nadar’s determined efforts (which involved Bunsen batteries, mannequins, and a good deal of patience) to document the beauty and terror of this realm of the dead.

#felix nadar #history #paris #photography #1860s

#samuel beckett #humor #video

#gif #nuclear weapons

The sheep go to the abbatoir. They say nothing, they hope for nothing. But at least they don’t vote for the butcher who will kill them or the bourgeois who will eat them. Dumber than dumb animals, more sheep-like than sheep, the voter names his butcher and chooses his bourgeois. He has staged revolutions to attain this right.

Octave Mirbeau

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The Screaming Skull (1958)

#1950s #movies #movie posters #horror #alex nicol

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Behind the scenes of Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989). [x]

#1980s #movies #gif #on set #monsters #godzilla #kazuki ohmori

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Evangeline Lilly

#evangeline lilly #bikini babes #movie stars

I suppose this is as good a time as any to state that I am a movie fan. I *like* movies, all kinds of movies. The big ones, the little ones, the westerns, love stories, tragedies, spectacles, all of them. I like movies in Cinemascope, Todd-AO, 16mm, 8mm, and in 3-D. I like the successes, the stinkers, and the in-betweens. Of course, I am unhappy when a movie is lousy, and I am glad when a movie is good. But I like movies.

Charles Willeford: The Woman Chaser [via]

#charles willeford #movies #quote

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Barbara Bach, Richard Kiel / publicity photo for Lewis Gilbert’s The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

#1970s #barbara bach #richard kiel #movies #movie stars #swimsuit

“Too expensive!” “Too complicated!” “Unrealistic!” – This is the sort of criticism US President Donald Trump is currently facing over plans to build a wall along the border with Mexico. An offer from home furnishings brand, IKEA, could solve all of these problems with a single blow.