the poor dancing girl she won't dance again
“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.” - Kurt Vonnegut
26. grad student, studying screenwriting. watcher of movies. taco lover extraordinaire. drinker of coffee. listener of music. I am obsessed with classic films, double features at the Castro Theatre, contribute to YAM Magazine and run this site: http://cinema-fanatic.com/
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The Third Man (1949) directed by Carol Reed
Don’t be so gloomy. After all it’s not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly.
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It made me sick to watch those businessmen applaud Welles during the 1975 AFI tribute, when you know that the next day if he asked any one of them for money, they’d say, “We’ll let you know.”—John Cassavetes
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Now reading “My Lunches With Orson” by Henry Jaglom and OMFG ORSON WELLES. Chapter titles feature such magnificent Orson quotes as “Thalberg was Satan” and “Gary Cooper Turns Me Right Into A Girl.”
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Orson Welles on the set of Macbeth, 1947
Mily: You know, you’re kind of cute in a weird sort of a way. After a person gets over being scared of you. Why’d you grow that awful beard?
Gregory Arkadin: To scare people with.
Movie Quote of the Day – Mr. Arkadin, 1955 (dir. Orson Welles) | the diary of a film history fanatic
a little birthday tribute to my favorite person
birthdays today: Sigmund Freud, Rudoplh Valentino, Max Ophüls, Orson Welles, Roma Downey, George Clooney and Gabourey Sidibe
remember the time dean made a joke and orson welles threw celery at him
OMG. I have never seen this!!!
