Miss Ilano

no one knowing me knows me. blog runs on queue.

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“I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it.”

― Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road

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84 CHARING CROSS ROAD 1987, dir. David Jones

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This is one costume that people still talk about, 10 years later, as one of their absolute favorites and most memorable. Why do you think that is?

It has unbelievably resonated. When we started making the movie, we all knew it was a pivotal moment and it had to be a memorable dress. Joe said that to me, right at the beginning, which was obviously a lot of pressure on me to try and make this memorable dress. But we didn’t know, really. It was a complete surprise how much it did resonate with people and how much it was picked out as a single look from the movie. Most of the other costumes that Keira wore are not talked about at all. It has surprised me, and it’s surprised me that people still remember it.

Atonement 10th anniversary: The inside story on that iconic green dress (x)

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Daniel Day Lewis in Age of Innocence

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Smell the rain 🌧

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Entrance to the Archangel Michael Monastery in Prilep.

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Virginia Woolf, from The Complete & Collected Works of Virginia Woolf; "22 Hyde Park Gate,"

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Pierrot le Fou (1965) dir. Jean-Luc Godard

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Anyone who ever said the key to life is always having something to look forward to is so right . The days are so much brighter when there’s always something to look forward to

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Sherlock Holmes (2009) dir. Guy Ritchie

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Arguably the best month of the year is here!

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French Fairy Treasures

Around the World Treasures: Famous French Fairy Tales by the father of the French fairy tale Charles Perrault (1628-1703) and collected and adapted from the original Perrault by David Stone, was published in New York by Frankin Watts Inc., a division of Grolier, in 1959. The book includes The Picture Story of Perrault's Famous French Fairy Tales, illustrated by British artist and teacher Charles Mozley (1914-1991), a book illustrator and designer of posters, book covers, and print. Along with these striking color drawings are black-and-white illustrations depicting key moments within each story. Noel Streatfeild (1895-1986), an English children's book author, provides an introduction to the book. In it, she details the essential moments in Perrault's life that led him to write these stories. According to Streatfeild, before Perrault's Contes, nobody had ever read a fairy tale! Before that, these stories were passed down and enjoyed through oral tradition.

Perrault played a significant role in the literary controversy called the "Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns." At 23, he became a lawyer, following in his father's footsteps, before embarking on a political career, which led him into the court of the Sun King, Louis XIV of France. Spending time in his court is where Perrault garnered inspiration to write his stories. His simple, unaffected style breathed new life into half-forgotten folk tales. Interestingly, some of his versions influenced the German tales collected by the Brothers Grimm more than a century later.

So, whether you find yourself wondering in the woods like Little Red Riding Hood or dreaming of glass slippers like Cinderella, Perrault's timeless tales remain a delightful part of our childhood imagination, capturing the magic and wonder of storytelling for generations to come!

-Melissa, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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“𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥. 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦. 𝘛𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘙𝘰𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘺 '𝘐 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶', 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, 𝘐 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘪𝘵. 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦.”

Alain Delon & Romy Schneider, Paris, 1960.