#NowPlaying Soundtrack of the week

In a sense, Red Dust is about stars and their particular appeals. You’re Mary Astor, married to wan Gene Raymond, but what do you do when a Clark Gable comes your way? You’re Gable, destined to pair with Jean Harlow, but wouldn’t you like to step out of your lane and get together with a posh Astor?

Much chat, little cat in Catman of Paris, which makes for a languid hour of cheapo belle epoque monstering. There are just 3 scenes of pouncing, allowing room for a spot of can can. You have to hand it to the old catman for keeping his topper on when leaping out of trees or charging around gardens.

Buster Keaton. Photo by George Hurrell, 1931.

Brilliant, forensic piece.

#botd Gail Patrick by George Hoyningen-Huene, c1940.

Theda Bara (1885-1955) in “Salome” directed by J.Gordon Edwards, 1918. One of the most popular actresses of the silent era #photography #movie #silentera #actress #crystalball #ThedaBara

On a hot-hot-hot day, one might be advised to drink peppermint - either with water, diluted, gulpable, or 'dry', as a liqueur, sliding into your mouth and throat like a slither of frost. Heat reduction practically guaranteed.

As there is now a film out about his life, let’s celebrate the 151st anniversary of the birth of Henry Cyril Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey, who bankrupted his vastly wealthy family estate in under six years 🧵

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Big Ben rain wear 🎨 Fiep Westendorp

Neal Adams #BOTD drew the very first Marvel comic I ever bought, so in a sense he’s responsible for a a lifelong obsession.

[Puts foot in pearly gate to stop it closing] “Why won’t you answer my questions, Saint Peter?”

Rétro station service ⛽️ Oliva ⛽️ à Valence 1964, conçue par l'architecte espagnol Juan Haro Piñar en 1960, constitue un exemple significatif d'architecture moderniste dans l'Espagne d'après-guerre avec son toit en paraboloïde hyperbolique remarquable.

I 🩷 this David Hockney collage of Billy Wilder.

Alain Delon playing an assassin suggests Le Samourai, the plot an ur-John Wick, but the film Tony Arzenta most calls to mind is Get Carter. It tracks a path of mournful revenge in a grimy 70s setting (I’ve never seen Milan and Copenhagen look so grotty). Smashing soundtrack.

Leonor Fini, 1944. “Portrait of Princess Francesca Ruspoli” #painting #1940s #LeinorFini #PeggyGuggenheimCollection

Pleased to see a Jack Kirby homage on the cover of @sightsoundmag.bsky.social’s sci-fi special issue.

Anna May Wong by E. O. Hoppé, 1926.

A trillion dollars, and he spends his life on Twitter, ketted to the eyeballs. What an incurious, unimaginative wreckage of a human being.

Robert Ayton, 1965. From the Ladybird Book, “The Night Sky” #illustration #1960s #LadybirdBooks #RobertAyton

Jacques Rozier’s Adieu Philippine is not so much a narrative as a mood piece, a feel film, a collage in two parts: the first in thronged, commercial Paris and the second in a Corsica that starts Bacchanalian and unfurls into sparse, woozy languor.

Name the greatest double bill ever. #GreatestDoubleBillEver

Crossed another long-stander off my must-see list at the Albert Hall this evening. Kraftwerk were unglaublich.

Viernes.

Sauve qui peut ! Jean-Louis Swiners

Frolic Room Hollywood Boulevard

Kinetic curves, Lora Lamm, 1959

Status update

The Shadow magazine, dated June 1, 1940. Cover by Graves Gladney.

‘It’s pronounced “asshole”.’

Madam Satan, 1930, Kay Johnson, playing now.

The Brown Derby, Los Angeles, 1954

© William Eggleston Untitled

#Goals 😎❤️ #Giallo

Delphine Seyrig par Agnès Varda, 1961.

I've never seen this cover for Chandler's The Big Sleep before, but I'm kind of into it

Probably Pierre Cardin.

'Camden Head, Camden Walk'( 1961) by Geoffrey Scowcroft Fletcher (Islington Local History Centre and Museum)

New York Movie - 1939 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3103840

Thelma Todd in Call Her Savage by John Francis Dillon (1932)

For #FerryFriday, here’s an absolutely titanic version at Glastonbury in 2014 of the final Roxy Music studio single, Take a Chance with Me. youtu.be/VfQb-gpNDYg?...

Remembering Martha Vickers, born on this day, 1925. Pictured here with Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep, 1946.

Chabrol and Godard at the Cahiers du Cinéma...