[kafkaesqueer]

The Curse of The Cat People (1944) // Marnie (1964)

[marlenchen]

What's important is that we're together. And as long as we're together, nothing bad can really happen. Right, Norman?

[borderepisteme-deactivated20260]

"Anyone who has ever tried to recount a dream to someone else is in a position to measure the immense gap, the qualitative incommensurability, between the vivid memory of the dream and the dull, impoverished words which are all we can find to convey it: yet this incommensurability, between the particular and the universal, between the vecu and language itself, is one in which we dwell all our lives, and it is from it that all works of literature and culture necessarily emerge."

Fredric Jameson, Imaginary and Symbolic in Lacan

[gatabella]

Claudette Colbert, Tonight Is Ours, 1933

[hiamabbass]

Lady, don’t you know we love ya? Dear Mama. 

Sweet lady, place no one above ya. You are appreciated.

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

La caduta degli Dei (Luchino Visconti, 1969)

[kennethbrangh]

The Damned (1969) dir. Luchino Visconti

[antimanifesto1973]

“The truth is that sexuality is everywhere: the way a bureaucrat fondles his records, a judge administers justice, a businessman causes money to circulate; the way the bourgeoisie fucks the proletariat; and so on. And there is no need to resort to metaphors, any more than for the libido to go by way of metamorphoses. Hitler got the fascists sexually aroused. Flags, nations, armies, banks get a lot of people aroused”

— Deleuze & Guattari, Anti-Oedipus

[title]

Oh, Maggie, that wifely tone. Do you count his cigarettes, too?

Bette Davis & Mary Astor The Great Lie (1941), directed by Edmund Goulding

[hecatesbroom]

Katharine Hepburn and Helen Chandler in Christopher Strong (1933)

[hecatesbroom]

Christopher Strong (1933) dir. dorothy arzner

[unwirtlich-deactivated20201122]

The world was on fire and no one could save me but you.

[marlenchen]

Ingrid Thulin & Helmut Berger in THE DAMNED 1969, dir. Luchino Visconti "You're the worst. So it's you I hate! Ah, you can't imagine the evil I wish you. I will destroy you, Mother."

[randalkirkland]

SIX FEET UNDER (2001-2005) S01E12 ♱ A Private Life

[lifeinpoetry]

“When I’d first loved him, I wanted to take him apart, as a child dismembers a clockwork toy, to comprehend the inscrutable mechanics of its interior. I wanted to see him far more naked than he was with his clothes off.”

— Angela Carter, from “Flesh and the Mirror,” Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories

[outkidman]

Marlene Dietrich and her daughter Maria Riva.

[syringavulgaris]

“Saints love to be whipped and I’ve seen pictures galore of their ecstatic scars and longing glances. Watching an ordinary person being whipped couldn’t have the same effect. Saintly flesh is soft and white and always hidden from the day. When the whip finds it out, that is the moment of pleasure, the moment when what was hidden is revealed.”

— Jeanette Winterson, The Passion