max(ine)

mostly films

[matt-mercer-deactivated20231105]

Maggie Cheung wears a different cheongsam dress in each scene. There were 46 dresses in total, though not all made it to the final cut.

In the Mood for Love I 花樣年華 (2000), dir. Wong Kar-wai

– costume design by William Chang

[soracities]

on touch, trust, and fear

Anne Carson, “Dirt and Desire - Essay on the Phenomenology of Female Pollution in Antiquity”  |  In the Mood for Love, dir. Wong Kar-wai  |  May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude  |  Louise Glück, “Epithalamium”  |  photographer unknown (via @birsiyahhikayesi  ) |  Mary Ruefle, “The Cart”

[trainstationgoodbye]

He remembers those vanished years. In the Mood for Love (2000) dir. Wong Kar-wai

[timotaychalamet]

“There’s no hope now.”

Rocco and His Brothers (1960) dir. Luchino Visconti

[filmaticbby]

Rocco and His Brothers (1960) dir. Luchino Visconti

[gyllenhey]

Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960) dir. Luchino Visconti

[jakeledgers]

Alain Delon in Rocco and His Brothers (Rocco e i suoi Fratelli, 1960) 

Dir. Luchino Visconti.

[neckkiss]

The Lover (1992)

[neckkiss]

Time Square in 70′s

[neckkiss]

Trainspotting (1996)

[cinyma]

Audrey Hepburn on the set of ‘Sabrina’ photographed by Mark Shaw, 1953.

[weirdlandtv]

Audrey Hepburn photographed by Dennis Stock in 1954.

(I’ve slightly doctored the second image.)

[kyloren]

Audrey Hepburn as Jo Stockton in Funny Face (1957) dir. Stanley Donen

[maudelynn]

Hedy Lamarr by Clarence Sinclair Bull 

[the-fucked-up-club]

American Psycho (2000)

by Mary Harron

“Hey Paul !”

[picturacinematographica]

True Grit ( il Grinta ), 2010

Western 

Directed by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen

Director of Photography: Roger Deakins

[cinematographymagic]

True Grit (2010)

Directors: The Coen Brothers

Cinematographers: Roger Deakins