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reblogging films

[clarksgables]

Gary Cooper and Clara Bow CHILDREN OF DIVORCE (1927)

[dinindourden]

Ivor Novello in

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

[roserosette]

Secrets of a Soul, 1926, Georg Wilhelm Pabst

[pinqui]

WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939) Dir. William Wyler

[summertimenoir]

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

[lbelongiiu]

DESIGN FOR LIVING (1933) dir. Ernst Lubitsch

[rosieandthemoon]

Fantaghirò, 1991

[marypickfords]

Nightbirds (Andy Milligan, 1970)

[yeongwha]

“And no dream is ever just a dream.”

Eyes Wide Shut (1999) dir. Stanley Kubrick

[chungmuros]

Are you going to protest? You think you can change the world?

1987: WHEN THE DAY COMES (2017, Jang Joon-hwan)

[kindwhispers]

Farewell, My Concubine (1993) dir. Chen Kaige

[thingsfromthedirt]

Fantasia (1940)

[limeshade]

THE VAMPIRE DANCER (1912) "Vampyrdanserinden" Directed by August Blom

[isabelladjanis]

RUSLAN AND LUDMILA Aleksandr Ptushko, 1972

[limeshade]

In 2017, American film researchers recovered “Something Good – Negro Kiss,” a short film depicting a playful kiss between a Black couple which had not seen the light of day for more than a century. A long-forgotten artifact from the earliest years of American film, the sweet, humanizing vignette, produced by the Selig Polyscope Company, makes a startling contrast to the overwhelmingly racist and blackface-ridden contempory portrayals of African Americans. Four years later in 2021, archivists in Norway, halfway across the world, identified a sister short in their collections—an extended alternate cut which reveals more of Chicago stage performers Gertie Brown and Saint Suttle’s vaudeville-like routine, a theatrical, hot-and-cold romantic dynamic between two lovers which parodies the popular and controversial short “The Kiss” (1896). Both films, which had previously been lost, were known from entries in old motion picture catalogs but had been assumed to be era-typical, anti-Black “race films” until their rediscovery in the 21st century. Together with its more famous sibling, which has since been inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, this alternate version of “Something Good” represents the first-known instance of Black intimacy ever captured on-screen.

SOMETHING GOOD [Alternate Version] (1898) Directed by William Selig

[rhera]

Loretta Young as Mary Martin in Midnight Mary (1933, dir. William A. Wellman)

— costume design by Adrian

[littlehorrorshop]

Glorifying the American Girl (1929)