[i-should-be-so-lucky]

Kylie Minogue for her seventh studio album Impossible Princess , released on October 22nd , 1997

[theavengers]

Jon Bernthal for The New York Times (2022, ph. Pat Martin)

[lousolversons]

James Marsden and Jack Black in The D Train (2015).

[gypsyastronaut]

[thelastmovie]

Getting Straight (1970), dir. Richard Rush.

[twixnmix]

Barbra Streisand and Elliott Gould during their honeymoon at the Beverly Hills Hotel, September 1963.

Photos by Bob Willoughby

[exercicedestyle]

Alisa Mezhenska

[nightofthecreeps]

They’ve been smiling at each other all night.

Elliott Gould & George Segal asCharlie Waters & Bill Denny CALIFORNIA SPLIT (1974) dir. Robert Altman

[lincolnmax]

Кин-дза-дза!  (Kin-Dza-Dza!) (1986) directed by  Georgiy Daneliya

[lincolnmax]

Кин-дза-дза! (Kin-Dza-Dza!) (1986) directed by Georgiy Daneliya

[wehadfacesthen]

Randolph Scott and Cary Grant, c.1933-34

[papillon-de-mai]

”Jeder Engel ist schrecklich.  Und dennoch, weh mir, ansing ich euch, fast tödliche Vögel der Seele, wissend um euch.“

“Every angel is terrible. And yet, alas, I welcome you, almost fatal birds of the soul, knowing about you.” 

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Duineser Elegien: Die zweite Elegie (1923)

“I really don’t know what gave me the idea of angels. One day I wrote “angels” in my notebook, and the next day “the unemployed.” Maybe it was because I was reading Rilke at the time—nothing to do with films—and realizing as I read how much of his writing is inhabited by angels. Reading Rilke every night, perhaps I got used to the idea of angels being around.”

— Wim Wenders, essay written in October 1987, after the release of Wings of Desire.

[wesandresons]

Mandy Patinkin as Avigdor in Yentl (1983) dir. Barbra Streisand

[heavenlyyshecomes]

Re-imagining Masculinity, Ocean Vuong

[lincolnmax]

Maurice (1987)

[wehadfacesthen]

Anton Walbrook as Boris Lermontov in The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1948)

[deforest]

WILLIAM POWELL and MYRNA LOY in THE THIN MAN (1934) dir. W.S. Van Dyke