the Valley of Shadow

he stooped and looked in Mirrormere, and saw a crown of stars appear, as gems upon a silver thread, above the shadows of his head.

[latinasfordalecooper]

[thekingsofitall]

Director Luchino Visconti in conversation with actor Burt Lancaster on the set of the 1963 film ‘Il Gattopardo’ (The Leopard).

[leaving-no-shadow]

The Leopard, 1963 Luchino Visconti 

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The Leopard (1963)

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The Leopard (1963)

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The Leopard, 1963 Luchino Visconti 

[soundandvisionsblog]

IL GATTOPARDO (1963) • directed by Luchino Visconti

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

Il Gattopardo (1963)

[whenlovetriestoleave]

the leopard (1963) dir. luchino visconti

here, all expression, even the most violent, is a desire for oblivion. our sensuality is a longing for oblivion. our knifings and shootings are a longing for death. our laziness, the penetrating sweetness of our sherbets, a longing for voluptuous immobility, that is… death once again.

[ufonaut]

I belong to an unlucky generation, astride between two worlds and ill at ease in both.

The Leopard (1963, dir. Luchino Visconti)

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[lepistemologie]

[a-state-of-bliss]

Nicole Kidman in 'The Portrait Of A Lady' (1996)

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[the-goblin-queen]

“They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.” ― Tacitus, The Agricola and The Germania

[historicl]

Delicious Solitude (1909) Frank Bramley

[the-goblin-queen]

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho - Anne Carson