vintage cinema

film meme: (1/10) movies A Clockwork Orange (1971) - “It’s funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.”

-Katharine Hepburn on Cary Grant

You’ve heard the story of Jesse James, of how he lived and died. If you’re still in need of something to read, here’s the story of Bonnie and Clyde. Now Bonnie and Clyde are the Barrow Gang. I’m sure you all have read how they rob and steal and those who squeal are usually found dying or dead. They call them cold-hearted killers. They say they are heartless and mean. But I say this with pride, that I once knew Clyde when he was honest and upright and clean. But the laws fooled around, kept taking him down and locking him up in a cell. Till he said to me, “I’ll never be free, so I’ll meet a few of them in hell.” If a policeman is killed in Dallas, and they have no clue to guide. If they can’t find a fiend, they just wipe their slate clean and hang it on Bonnie and Clyde. If they try to act like citizens and rent them a nice little flat, about the third night, they’re invited to fight by a sub gun’s rat-a-tat-tat. Someday they’ll go down together. They’ll bury them side by side. To few it’ll be grief, to the law a relief, but it’s death for Bonnie and Clyde.  

I don’t know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life - anybody’s life; my life. All he’d wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die.

Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis photographed by Richard Miller on the set of Some Like It Hot, 1959.

Funny Girl (USA, 1968)

You a Heather? No, I’m a Veronica.

film meme: (6/10) films Purple Noon (1960) - “The best. Only the best.”

The Warriors (1979)

12 Angry Men (1957) Dir, Sidney Lumet