Adventures In Movieland

a-bittersweet-life:

I think the enemy of [film] is of course reality, and films are best when they manage poetry by reducing the element of reality and introducing something which is the invention of the filmmaker.
Orson Welles

I think the enemy of [film] is of course reality, and films are best when they manage poetry by reducing the element of reality and introducing something which is the invention of the filmmaker.

Orson Welles

suicideblonde:

Jessica Chastain (in Givenchy) at the Cannes Film Festival premiere of All is Lost, May 22nd

morrisltibbs:

Cannes 1960, Marcello Mastroianni

suicideblonde:

Nicole Kidman (in Valentino) at the Cannes Film Festival premiere of Nebraska, May 23rd

Apparently this Valentino gown was supposed to be Anne Hathaway’s Oscar dress that she had to switch at the last minute because it was too similar to Amanda Seyfried’s. This BREAKS MY HEART!

Paul Newman, 1959.

theniftyfifties:

Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rear Window’ - 1965 film poster

Original caption: French actress Jeanne Moreau stands on a table during a meal at the Cannes Film Festival, 6th May 1958.

Original caption: French actress Jeanne Moreau stands on a table during a meal at the Cannes Film Festival, 6th May 1958.

To Catch a Thief (1955)

(Source: deniros)

8th July 1932: Jean Harlow applying make-up to her face in her dressing room. One of her famous superstitions was to not leave her dressing room without first looking at her ‘lucky mirror’, photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull.

8th July 1932: Jean Harlow applying make-up to her face in her dressing room. One of her famous superstitions was to not leave her dressing room without first looking at her ‘lucky mirror’, photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull.