Retired cinephile

Gaby - 26 - former cinema student (but working to do better) - 1/2 of 2 salles, 2 ambiances - mixed - TERFs DNI

[mvlderfox]

teenage sex and death at camp miasma (full trailer)

[mndvx]

Before going into harm’s way, check your armor. THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU (2026)

[hotvintagepoll]

I feel like it’s time for another tournament but I’m out of ideas. what kind of polls would you like to see that are just so so sexy

[therondoudou]

Ok ideas off the top of my head depending on what you are interesting in doing:

Sexiest scene

Sexiest dance scene

Sexiest director (gender neutral)

Sexiest costume (separated by gender or everything together)

Sexiest line of dialogue (either the text itself or as in sexiest line reading)

Sexiest movie title (idk what I think this means but I'm suggesting it anyway)

[hotvintagepoll]

OK WAIT

We are talking about princess bride so I need to share my favorite fun fact about the movie because it has been rotating in my brain since I found this out like 7 years ago:

Did you know that famous French New Wave director François Truffaut tried to adapt Princess Bride before Rob Reiner finally tried and succeeded?

Like can you imagine Princess Bride but by the guy who made Les 400 Coups ????????

One of my friends and I have been trying to think up who would be in François Truffaut's Princess Bride for years but we keep changing our minds between our personal choice, best choice, most likely choice and most unhinged but still possible choice

I may or may not have once met one of Truffaut's grandchildren but it was in a professional setting so I never asked them if they had any insider info about who FT was planning on casting and I have lived in regret ever since

paragraphs that read like dodging ten different bullets

[silvermarmoset]

it is genuinely so disappointing to me how so many journalists have fallen for the hype talk around AI to the point where they're writing articles about AI "resurrecting" Val Kilmer or saying "the late actor will play the character." their fucking job is to explain concepts to people and for some reason SO many writers, from up and down every section of the new york times to the guardian to everywhere else, continue to parrot the cheap phrases of the AI tech bro developers, implying to their readers the AI will legitimately do exactly as the dead original would. "resurrect." "will play." they're gonna upload some scans of a dead actor's face and an algorithm will figure out roughly how to string the pixels together. then the director and producers will tweak that however they see fit to get the performance they want. all they're doing is making a new CGI character that's copied off the look of a dead man. this is basic stuff made possible by a bot that's great with patterns and yet again and again I read articles—not ads! articles!—that frame this as a machine capturing the soul of a person, that imply this thing THINKS. journalists do your fucking jobs you're doing the hype work for the ai conmen

[therondoudou]

It's so so dire!! Acting (or any art, really) is not and never has been about only "technique", an actor is not just using their face and voice to a certain measurement to perform a certain emotion. Purely mechanical actors are bad actors, and even then, at least they're still actors. Acting comes from trial and error, from experience, from emotions, from how that unique actor is feeling in that unique way that unique day, basically from being human, all things that an environment-killing machine doesn't and can't do. So when you do that for a real person who is now dead???? Puppeteering their face in a completely gross way just because you can ?????? Even if you don't believe in the concept of soul you have to understand that everything about an AI acting performance is lacking in the basic humanity that makes art what it is.

If you want to see a machine do crazy work, go stare at a calculator and leave art alone

[avadaniels]

Rich is a good person. All of these people are good people. They're my people.

Vic Michaelis in Dandelion (2025) dir. Fiona Obertinca ➝ watch free on yt 🌻

[dcminions]

DIAHANN  CARROLL ‘  paris  blues  ’  (  1961  )

[hotvintagepoll]

by the way in case this blog wasn’t clear fuck ICE fuck the murderers + kidnappers calling themselves ICE agents. this blog loves immigrants and anyone who thinks otherwise fuck off. Just want to be real clear since this is an old Hollywood blog and I don’t want anyone thinking ooooh she loves old movies and traditionalism FUCK THAT I stand with everyone hiding terrified right now and the people on the streets

[celluloidrainbow]

CHRISTABEL (2018) dir. Alex Levy-Heller The only daughter of a rural worker, Christabel finds Geraldine, a mysterious woman, who says she's been attacked by men and needs help. Pure and innocent Christabel gives shelter to Geraldine at home. From then on, the two women relate to each other in a way that Geraldine has a great influence over Christabel, destabilizing her convictions and promoting tradition rupture, but that sparks a feeling of passion and freedom never experienced by the young girl before. Based on the 1816 poem Christabel, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (link in title)

[celluloidrainbow]

LAS MIL Y UNA (2020) dir. Clarisa Navas Iris has been expelled from school and spends her days with her cousins in a community of project houses. When she meets Renata, she's fascinated, and they soon start flirting in spite of the growing rumors about Renata's past. (link in title)

[hotvintagepoll]

Hello hvp mod!!

I have a question, do you and your followers know the names of some allegedly or openly queer women from old Hollywood (directors, writers and actresses)?

I have a friend not on Tumblr who is interested in queer cinema history and I'm trying to find more names to add to their list of research

It's not for an academic or pro paper or anything so it's fine if they're a little disputed, it's just a place to start !!

Thanks

off the top of my head:

dorothy arzner (editor, writer, and director, out lesbian in early Hollywood, first woman to join the DGA)

esther eng (Chinese-American producer and director, and the first female director to direct Chinese-language films in Hollywood)

alla nazimova (Russian-born actress, rumored to have coined the term "sewing circle" as a euphemism for the sapphic/bisexual Hollywood community)

marlene dietrich (German-American actress and cabaret singer who frequently cross-dressed as part of her act)

patsy kelly (comedienne, self described "big dyke")

ethel waters (Black singer and actress, self-identified bisexual)

claudette colbert (actress known for screwball comedies)

candy darling (trans actress who appeared in andy warhol shorts)

I am certainly forgetting several icons.

there are a lot of rumors surrounding other actresses and creatives of this period (katharine hepburn, jean arthur, edith head, anna may wong), but we can't confirm for sure because so many of them kept their personal lives deeply private. Coming out could have had enormous consequences on their careers so for many old Hollywood creatives, we don't know for sure.

for more info, I enjoy queer.cinema.archive on instagram for some hidden gems, and I've heard good things about the celluloid closet as well.

[hotvintagepoll]

#greta garbo was my first thought not on this list #tallulah bankhead (via @buddysorrell)

oh damn you're right. greta garbo in particular I feel might have transitioned or come out as nonbinary if living today

[therondoudou]

Barbara Stanwyck was also maybe queer, I just read her chapter from a book called Hollywood Lesbians where the interviewer presents her with an article including her as a "bisexual actress" and she doesn't deny the claim, despite the fact that she's very much not afraid to speak her mind in this interview (she accuses the interviewer of being a communist when he asks her if she still supports her ex husband Robert Taylor testifying to the HUAC about former colleagues he thought were communists and getting them blacklisted--and also gets extremely offended and ends the interview when the interviewer alludes to Robert Taylor possibly not being straight) so I feel like that's probably as close we'll ever get to a confession on her part !

So basically: queer? Maybe! Extremely bad political opinions? Definitely!

[hotvintagepoll]

i have to do the dishes a day early because i'm too nice (switched days with my youngest sister).........may i please have a picture of sidney poitier to boost my morale................

maybe a mid pic but i really like how he towers above everyone else in this photo

[filmreel]

SHIVA BABY (2020) dir. Emma Seligman

[quitonly]

THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT 1972, dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder

[bugsongs]

lgbt film meme [6/30: favorite movie with a sad ending]

mosquita y mari (2012, dir. aurora guerrero)

[lezkissgifs]

Ordinary Girl in a Tiara (2025) dir. Meeshelle Neal

[celluloidrainbow]

PASAJES (1996) dir. Daniel Calparsoro Lesbian gang member Gabi and her lover burst into another woman’s apartment, tie her up and begin robbing her. The police show up and during a shoot-out, one of the robbers is killed. After she escapes, Gabi returns to her friends and begins dreaming of a soul mate. All Gabi knows is that the right woman will be a pair of green high heels. Carmina owns such a pair, and though she is both straight far from Gabi’s physical ideal, a soulmate is a soulmate and so she begins her persistent courtship. (link in title)