....Time doesn’t exist, but clocks do....

[cinemabreak]

Rashômon (1950)

Directed by Akira Kurosawa Cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa

“It’s human to lie. Most of the time we can’t even be honest with ourselves.”

[emmyrussum]

A Place in the Sun (1951) dir. George Stevens

[wongkarwaii-deactivated20201121]

[thefabulousforties]

Fred Astaire and George Murphy in ‘Broadway Melody of 1940’, 1940.

[olivethomas]

Esther Williams, 1947

[jeanne-crains]

[connerys]

Please, God, don’t ever let anything happen to Veda!

Mildred Pierce (1945) dir. Michael Curtiz

[rhera]

The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) | Vincente Minnelli

↳“Some of the best movies are made by people working together who hate each other’s guts.”

[trainstationgoodbye]

“There’s nothing like a love song to give you a good laugh.”

Notorious (1946) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

[clarulitas]

Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

[trainstationgoodbye]

Footlight Parade (1933) dir. Lloyd Bacon

[marciabrady]

[altmode]

Dracula (1931) 

[black-0rpheus]

[brookheimers]

The Thin Man (1934)

[historical-nonfiction]

Japanese Tobacco Box, circa 18th Century

What makes this box particularly ironic is that at the time, no one knew tobacco’s connection with cancer and ill-health. It was just an interesting box that happened to be for holding tobacco!

[qoodbyedean]

The Big Sleep (1946) dir. Howard Hawks

[noelbadgespugh]