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Crisping Lover
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Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, 1964 Robert Aldrich

"Often at night, she sits up dressed as if she were still young and expectin' a beau."

#filmsky #moviesky
Film poster. Lurid green noir type illustration of Bette Davis, Oliva de Havilland, Agnes Moorhead and Joseph cotton. Still image. Exterior of large Southern mansion with colonnades. Still image. Ariel image of grand curved staircase with Bette Davis and Agnes Moorhead at bottom. Still image. Bette Davis flaps out her arms next to a large stuffed bird.
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🖼️ Candlesticks on Table
🎨 William Eggleston
🏛️ + info: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/51697
Candlesticks on Table
January 15, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951 Elia Kazan

"Wasn't it all okay till she showed here? And wasn't we happy together? Wasn't it all OK? Till she showed here. Hoity-toity, describin' me like an ape."

#filmsky #moviesky
Spanish film poster. Illustration of Marlon Brando, a staircase and a series of different facial expressions made by Vivien Leigh. Still image. Vivien Leigh clutches a dress coyly while Marlon Brando's physical presence looms. Still image. Tensions rise at Elysian Fields between irs inhabitants. Still image. Marlon Brando kneels at the bottom of a wrought iron staircase as Kim Hunter descends to comfort him.
November 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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A 1963 shot of the filming of 'Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte' (1964) at Houmas House. Bette Davis as Charlotte, center, stands on the balcony.
September 28, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, 1964 Robert Aldrich

"Often at night, she sits up dressed as if she were still young and expectin' a beau."

#filmsky #moviesky
Film poster. Lurid green noir type illustration of Bette Davis, Oliva de Havilland, Agnes Moorhead and Joseph cotton. Still image. Exterior of large Southern mansion with colonnades. Still image. Ariel image of grand curved staircase with Bette Davis and Agnes Moorhead at bottom. Still image. Bette Davis flaps out her arms next to a large stuffed bird.
November 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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I had no idea the great John Piper had painted Ettington Park, the house where they shot the 1963 'The Haunting' (still the best film on a #supernatural theme in my opinion). Now a hotel - but way too pricey to stay there (on my budget!)
#LandscapePainting #ghost #horror #classichorror #horrorfilm
April 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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The Haunting, 1963 Robert Wise

"It's was an evil house from the beginning, a house that was born bad."

#filmsky #moviesky
Film poster. Black and white painting of a creepy old house. Still image. Julie Harris looks intense standing under a gateway in a tweed jacket where the words 'Hill House' are carved into some masonry. Still image. The gang (Claire Bloom, Julie Harris, Richard Johnson and Russ Tamblyn) go up an ornate wooden staircase. Still image. The gang take time to appreciate a statue of St Francis in the conservatory.
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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JMW Turner.

The Rising Squall,
Hot Wells.

1792.
June 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Rebecca, 1940 Alfred Hitchcock

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again..."

#filmsky #moviesky
Criterion cover. Judith Anderson/Mrs Danvers opens some curtains. Still image. Manderley. Still image. Joan Fontaine walks past a very large window. Still image. Judith Fontaine looks up while a lot of flames occur behind her.
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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John Constable, 6. A Single Object or Cluster of Objects [or More than One Object (erased)] [...(illegible) near the Eye (erased)] at a Distance, 1823
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1129684
Purchased as part of the Oppé Collection with assistance from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund 1996
November 22, 2024 at 2:48 AM
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Saltburn, 2023 Emerald Fennell

"Lots of people get lost in Saltburn."

#filmsky #moviesky
Film poster. Barry Keoghan smokes a cigarette in the sky above a folly by a lake. Still image. Barry Keoghan stands against a metal railing in a maroon silk bathrobe above a cluttered lawn. Still image. Barry Keoghan looks around in a white library with a rose window at one end. Still image. Barry Keoghan and reflection at an opulent dining table.
November 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Gustave Doré, The Mouth of Hell (1870)
Engraving for John Milton’s Paradise Lost

Doré’s dramatic compositions and masterful engraving techniques brought to life the epic worlds of Milton and Dante, cementing his place as one of the great illustrators of the 19th century.
October 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Barton Fink, 1991 Joel & Ethan Coen

"You think you know pain? You think I made your life Hell? Look around this dump. You're just a tourist with a typewriter, I LIVE here...and you come into my home, and you complain that I'm making too much noise!"

#filmsky #moviesky
Criterion cover. John Turturro looks nervously into a corridor. Still image. A corner of some wallpaper peels away from a wall. Still image John Turturro listens against a hotel room wall. Still image. John Goodman stands in a hotel corridor next to the elevator where flames are appearing.
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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paradise, canto xiv // gustave doré
January 23, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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Mother!, 2017 Darren Aronofsky

"I want to make a paradise."

#filmsky #moviesky
Promo image. Jennifer Lawrence wearing a white dress and minimal make-up holds her heart in her hands surrounded by floral wallpaper. Still image. Jennifer Lawrence in t-shirt and cargo pants stands on the porch of a large white house. Still image. Jennifer Lawrence touches a plastered wall with her eyes closed. Still image. An illuminated light bulb with blood on it in front of a red brick wall.
November 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Hotel Lobby 1943.
Edward Hopper
September 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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The Shining, 1980 Stanley Kubrik

"...you know some places are like people. Some shine and some don't. It's just that the Overlook Hotel has something like 'shining'."

#filmsky #moviesky
Criterion cover. The Shining written on a white distressed door in red crayon. Still image. Barry Dennen, Barry Nelson, Jack Nicolson and Shelley Duvall take a tour of the Overlook Hotel. Still image. Danny Lloyd watches TV. Still image. Jack Nicolson props up the art deco bar.
November 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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The Grand Canal, Venice, 1908 by Claude Monet
September 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Death in Venice, 1971 Luchino Visconti

"In all the world, there is no impurity so impure as old age."

#filmsky #moviesky
Film poster. Dirk Bogarde looks out at Bjorn Adressen on the beach from inside a cabana. Still image. The Grand Hotel Des Bains. Still image. Dirk Bogarde walks the hotel corridor. Still image. Dirk Bogarde in a white suit walks onto the beach near to Bjorn Andresen in a red swimsuit and straw hat.
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Donald Judd, Untitled, 1967
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136468
Helen Acheson Bequest (by exchange) and gift of Joseph Helman
November 16, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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A Cure for Wellness, 2016 Gore Verbinski

"Who the hell takes the waters in the 21st century anyway?"

#filmsky #moviesky
Film poster. A female figure lists inside a blue glass bottle with a stopper. Still image. Dane DeHaan stands on crutches and checks out some guests swimming through a glass widow in a concrete wall. Still image. Mia Goth in a concrete bathtub in a white tiled room. Still image. A goldfish floats at the top of a goldfish bowl in a brown retro office room.
November 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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5 x 20 Altstadt Rectangle by Carl Andre https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/213
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Panza Collection, 1991 Art © Carl Andre/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
August 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Crimes of the Future, 1970 David Cronenberg

"The house of skin began its existence as a residential clinic for wealthy patients who were treated for severely pathological skin conditions..."

#filmsky #moviesky
Film poster. Surreal/minimal style artwork of person holding their face. Still image. Donald Mlodzik enters a lift in a brutatist lobby. Still image. Ronald Mlodzik walks along a large mininal corridor. Still image. Ronald Mlodzik walks down a concrete walkway.
November 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Brusand V (2023) by Vibeke Slyngstad.
Oil on canvas.
February 28, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Dogtooth, 2009 Yorgos Lanthimos

"The new words of the day are: 'Sea', 'Highway', 'Road trip' and 'Shotgun'."

#filmsky #moviesky
Film poster. Simple curved line graphic design in blue, red and yellow. Still image. Angeliki Papoulia and Christos Passalis play with a toy plane in a garden. Still image. Thevlegs of Christos Sterhioglou (seated) and Angelkki Papoulia (standing) on a patio, next to a pool. Still image. Christos Passalis stands facing a bush.
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Apple Tree in the Garden (1932-42)
by Edvard Munch
October 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM