La Xirinoia

[hotdrinks]

Just saw Hokum

[quillyfied]

The thing about Damian McCarthy movies is that the female characters getting killed doesn’t feel like fridgeing, simply because the male characters who respect and listen to women are usually left alive while the men who disregard and belittle the female characters usually get killed by the monster, who is the embodiment of female rage. Also each one so far is also a fun murder mystery. That’s not a bad template to make a film career off of.

[gnossienne]

Verdi’s Don Carlo (Teatro di San Carlo, 2022)

[smsomah]

Scanned from the book Desert Eves: An Indian Paradise; Catherine Clement and photos by Hans Silvester; 2001

[k1ndasc4ry]

creepy art props in Damian McCarthy's films

drumming bunny by Lisa Zagone - caveat (2020)

clay sculpture by Paul McDonnell - oddity (2024)

diorama by Paul McDonnell - hokum (2026)

[ladybegood]

Rock Hudson and Gina Lollobrigida photographed by Leo Fuchs on the set of Strange Bedfellows (1965)

[ducissatenebrarum]

Judith with the Head of Holofernes, 1892 by Fernand Lematt

Engraving

[smsomah]

Scanned from the book Oman Adorned: A Portrait in Silver; 1997; Miranda Morris & Pauline Shelton

[nostalgicine]

Félix Thiollier (Emma Thiollier, daughter of the photographer) 1895-1905

[marypickfords]

The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996)

[massoflesh]

Martin Johnson Heade, Gremlin in the Studio I, ca. 1865-75

[nobrashfestivity]

Jacob Lawrence, This Is Harlem, 1943

© 2018 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

more

[smsomah]

Odisha. Scanned from the book L'Inde des tribus oubliées; 1993; Tiziana & Gianni Baldizzone

[theinternetarchive]

photographs of people in color by vivian maier, american c. 1970s.

[last-picture-show]

Vivian Maier, Self-Portrait, 1959

[incieo]

More than 700 years old home. Carved out from volcanic rock in Mount Sahand. Kandovan, Iran

[oldpaintings]

Diana of the Hunt, 1901 by John Liston Byam Shaw (English, 1872 –1919)