Nostalgic Solitude

Blade Runner (1982) dir. Ridley Scott

god, grant me the confidence and audacity of alexis rose

Don: With you or without you, I’m moving on. And I don’t know if I can do it alone. Will you help me? Peggy: What if I say no? You’ll never speak to me again. Don: No. I will spend the rest of my life trying to hire you.

After I’ve telephoned Junius, I’m going to do plenty. Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story (1940) dir. George Cukor

Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing FRIENDS (1994-2004)

FAYE WONG in CHUNGKING EXPRESS 1994, dir. Wong Kar-Wai

“I don’t go around rationalizing my emotions either. When I want something I fight for it, and I usually manage to get it.” BARBARA STANWYCK as Leona Stevenson in SORRY, WRONG NUMBER (1948) dir. Anatole Litvak

Akira / アキラ (1988), dir. Katsuhiro Otomo

Lauren Bacall circa 1943-1944

Rebecca (1940) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Audrey Hepburn photographed in her dressing room during the filming of Sabrina (1954) - by Mark Shaw

(…) ‘Naturally I was happy when a teenage girl wrote that she had been about to commit suicide but then she had seen me in Queen Christina and that changed her mind. So she wrote to me to say that it was thanks to me she was alive.’  GRETA GARBO IN QUEEN CHRISTINA (1933)

Gregory Peck in Duel in the Sun (1946)

Marlene Dietrich, 1942

Death is the road to awe. The Fountain (2006) dir. Darren Aronofsky

Sandra Milo and Federico Fellini, c.1960