You loathe me, don’t you? Like the people outside. What a wicked woman I am and how brilliantly you exposed me and saved Leonard’s life. The great Sir Wilfrid Robarts did it again. Well, let me tell you something. You didn’t do it alone. You had help. MARLENE DIETRICH as Christine Vole/Christine Helm WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1957) — dir. Billy Wilder
A murderer would never parade his crime in front of an open window.
Rear Window (1954) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
I am an eye. A mechanical eye. I am the machine that reveals the world to you as only the machine can see it. — Dziga Vertov
Man with a Movie Camera 1929, directed by Dziga Vertov
💙 The Serpantine "Butterfly" Dance, originated by Loïe Fuller
"The costume for her Serpentine Dance consisted of hundreds of yards of China silk which she let billow around her while lighting effects suggested that it was catching fire and taking shapes reminiscent of flowers, clouds, birds, and butterflies."
LOS ANGELES NOIR: Sunset Boulevard (1950) dir. Billy Wilder Double Indemnity (1944) dir. Billy Wilder This Gun for Hire (1942) dir. Frank Tuttle In a Lonely Place (1950) dir. Nicholas Ray Somewhere in the Night (1946) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz The Big Sleep (1946) dir. Howard Hawks Mildred Pierce (1945) dir. Michael Curtiz Murder, My Sweet (1945) dir. Edward Dmytryk Too Late for Tears (1949) dir. Byron Haskin The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) dir. Tay Garnett
Modern Times (1936)
“Modern Times” 1936
