and miles to go before i sleep

Much Ado About Nothing (dir. Josie Rourke, 2011)

The simple joy of her hand in mine.

Michel Fokine and Vera Fokina as Harlequin and Columbine in a ballet Le Carnaval (more photos here)

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (1961) dir. Claude Autant-Lara

Nosferatu (1922) | The Turn of the Screw (1982) | Svengali (1931)

XXII, XXIX | Where have you just chosen to go?

cred

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT | 3.04 "The Devil's road"

LA RELIGIEUSE (1966) dir. Jacques Rivette France, 1760. In exchange for a boarding fee, the spiteful aristocratic mother of the unwilling 16-year-old nun-to-be, Marie-Suzanne Simonin, shuts her up in a convent. As a result, forced into taking her vows, innocent Marie-Suzanne resigns herself to her fate and promises poverty, chastity, and obedience to God. Three mothers superior (Madame de Moni, Sister Sainte-Christine, and Madame de Chelles) treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire. Suzanne’s virtue brings disaster to everyone in this faithful adaptation of a bitter attack on religious abuses by the Enlightenment philosopher Denis Diderot. (link in title)

and none of these people wanted to walk away from a guaranteed job, so very few of them ever quit. they just kept doing the same show eight nights a week... for twenty or thirty years... and by the time it finally closed last year most of these musicians (who had been working together for DECADES) hated each other and really really fucking loathed phantom. I can't stop thinking about it. it's indescribably hellish to imagine but also the funniest thing I've ever heard in my life.

can you imagine.

and then everybody clapped

princesses

AMADEUS 1984, dir. Miloš Forman