thunderstorms

dir. pedro almodóvar

Charlotte Salomon died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz while pregnant at 26. Before she left on the train, she handed her portfolio titled Life? Or Theatre? to her doctor and told them to be careful with it because it contained her whole life. This is a remarkable series of a young Jewish woman’s short life and the phases she went through-from falling in love-to her mothers death-to living in fascist Natzi Germany. (April 16, 1917 – October 10, 1943, Auschwitz-Birkenau)  

The American Friend (1977)

Wim Wenders did the first Ripley’s Game adaptation; the second, and perhaps superior Malkovich version is more true to the novel, this one taking place in Hamburg instead of France - but it’s a wonderful early Wenders, showing his visual flair that developed so sublimely over his career. The late great Robby Muller photographed Dennis Hopper better than anybody else ever has. The cinematography here is just gorgeous, and timeless. 

Amarcord by  Federico Fellini

stuart murdoch sometime in the 90s

this hug

MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (1985) dir. Stephen Frears

Paris, Texas, 1984, directed by Wim Wenders.

Faces — John Cassavetes, 1968

the Wong Kar-wai aesthetic

- La Haine, dir. Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995.

La haine (1995, Mathieu Kassovitz) Photography: Pierre Aim

le monde est à nous

Orazio Gentileschi, The Lute Player (detail), c. 1612–1615. Oil on canvas, 100 × 74 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C