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Cult Cinema Enthusiast 📽🎞😃 Favorite genres include: Eurocult French New Wave New Hollywood Film-Noir Commedia all'italiana Fleischer studios cartoons Can also be found at: https://letterboxd.com/Lukecinemawest https://www.instagram.com/lukecinemawest

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Luke West @lukecinemawest.bsky.social · 2d

share a black and white HORROR film or show GIF/vid 📺😱🖤

Black Sunday (Mario Bava, 1960)

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Luke West @lukecinemawest.bsky.social · 3d

La Marge (1976)

Directed by #WalerianBorowczyk
Starring: #SylviaKristel #JoeDallesandro #AndréFalcon

Cinematography by #BernardDaillencourt
Costume Design by #MarieFrançoisePerochon
Production Design by #JacquesDOvidio

#LaMarge #1970s #drama #romance #frenchcinema #Cinémafrançais

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Luke West @lukecinemawest.bsky.social · 3d

Raise the Red Lantern (1991)

Directed by #YimouZhang
Starring #GongLi #MaJingwu #HeSaifei #CaoCuifen #JinShuyuan

Cinematography by #LunYang #FeiZhao
Music by #NaokiTachikawa #JipingZhao

#RaisetheRedLantern #1990s #Drama #Dramafilm #periodmovie #periodfilm #asianfilm #asiancinema

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Luke West @lukecinemawest.bsky.social · 3d

La ragazza con la valigia (1961)

Directed by #ValerioZurlini
Starring: #ClaudiaCardinale #JacquesPerrin #CorradoPani

Cinematography #TinoSantoni
Music by #MarioNascimbene

#Laragazzaconlavaligia #GirlwithaSuitcase #1960s #romance #drama #ItalianCinema #Cinemaitaliano

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Luke West @lukecinemawest.bsky.social · 3d

Little Murders (1971)

Directed by #AlanArkin
Starring:
#ElliottGould #MarciaRodd #VincentGardenia #ElizabethWilson #JonKorkes #JohnRandolph #DorisRoberts #DonaldSutherland #LouJacobi

Cinematography by #GordonWillis
Music by #FredKaz

#Littlemurders #1970s #Cultfilm #comedyfilm #Comedy #Blackcomedy

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Luke West @lukecinemawest.bsky.social · 3d

Ulisse (1954)

Directed by #MarioCamerini
Starring
#SilvanaMangano #KirkDouglas #AnthonyQuinn #RossanaPodestà #JacquesDumesnil #DanielIvernel #Sylvie

Cinematography by #HaroldRosson #MarioBava
Music by #AlessandroCicognini

#Ulisse #Ulysses #1950s #fantasy #ItalianCinema #Cinemaitaliano

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Giornata Nera @giornatanera.bsky.social · 19d

If you cut all the sex scenes from OBSCENE DESIRE, you're basically left with a confused plot, some awkward stares, and the fastest exorcism in cinematic history.
#italiangenrecinema
( Image of the car is for @eroina.bsky.social 's diorama 😉)

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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 2d

Helen Scott's friendship with François Truffaut is a tale of cinema. Their correspondence spans the early sixties, when she was working in the French Film Office in New York, where she promoted films by Truffaut and his French New Wave cohorts including Godard and Agnès Varda...

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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 2d

"The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them..."

Remembering François Truffaut
February 6, 1932 – October 21, 1984

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Rachel Merrill is at Thought Bubble Table A-9 @ohhhaeee.bsky.social · 12d

Penultimate day of NYCC! Ive sold out a couple of prints, and one comic but PLENTY OF GOODIES LEFT! Stop by and say hi to @henrybarajas.bsky.social and me at H-6!!

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Rachel Merrill is at Thought Bubble Table A-9 @ohhhaeee.bsky.social · 3d

Artists, QRP with you favorite portrait ✍️
-The many PERFECT heads of Anna Karina

Illustrated collage of Anna Karina Portraits with her signature at the bottom

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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 12d

Paulette Goddard in Movie Mirror, Dec. 1935

“From a bit player in Eddie Cantor's ‘The Kid from Spain’ to leading woman for Charlie Chaplin's new ‘Modern Times’—that's the cinema history of Paulette, Hollywood's mystery lady, since she arrived in an Hispano-Suiza from out of nowhere.”

Goddard in costume for Modern Times, ragged simple dark ‘dress,’ sitting on a barrel with a mischievous look on her face.

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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 11d

The photo of Lupino at her songwriting is from this 1943 magazine article, “Louis Gets the Lowdown on Lupino.”

Lupino: “All I care about is that we win this war. As long as I’ve got Louis and my health, and can have a good laugh occasionally, I’ll do all right .”

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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 11d

Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester celebrate their new American citizenship, 1950

Laughton and Lanchester hold up papers, smiling, arms around each other, American flag on wall behind them.

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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 9d

William Powell and Ginger Rogers for “Star of Midnight” (RKO, 1935)

Closeup of Powell with Rogers close behind him with her cheek resting on his.

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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 9d

Director Ida Lupino working with actor Robert Clarke on “Hard, Fast and Beautiful” (1951)

#IdaLupinoDirecting

Clarke and Lupino facing each other on an indoor set, with other cast and crew visible in background. Clarke is listening intently to Lupino who is talking and holding her arms up towards him.

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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 7d

Ida Lupino and Jean Gabin in “Moontide” (1942)

Lupino and Gabin, in unglamorous clothing, looking intently at each other.

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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 5d

Ida Lupino, 1942

“In real life Ida reminds me somewhat of a breeze. Sometimes moving one way, at other times the other. Never quite predictable nor even easy to locate. She has, too, the moods which change velocity; at times quiet, almost depressed, then suddenly, for no accountable reason, gusty.”

Page from the British movie magazine Picturegoer, Oct. 3, 1942, with a color glamour portrait of Lupino taking over half the page. Article title: “Because Ida cannot help herself,” by W. H. Mooring.

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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 4d

Glenda Farrell in “Scandal for Sale” (1932)

Farrell seated in an office chair facing directly at the camera, grasping a large hammer with both hands, solemn look on her face.

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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 2d

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in costume for “The Gay Divorcée” (1934)

Astaire and Rogers seated on a log in bright sunlight.

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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 3d

Ida Lupino with the the hair stylist at Pickford-Lasky studio in 1936, where she starred in two movies that year: “One Rainy Afternoon” and “The Gay Desperado.”

Lupino seated next to a woman standing, who is taking a brush to a portion of Lupino’s hair, which is long, slightly wavy but otherwise I styled as yet.

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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 2d

Ida Lupino and husband Louis Hayward “write, direct and enact radio scripts for their own amusement. Here they are shown recording one on a home machine. Louis will shortly be seen in Edward Small's ‘Son of Monte Cristo,’ Ida in a new Warner Brothers picture.” — 1940