underneath the lines of thought

Sun Ra Quartet, When There Is No Sun

La reina Selena singing “Que Creías” in acapella. Stunning.

“He feels like a real guy who has some weight on his shoulders, and yet you look in his eyes and see this vulnerability and this sweetness. For me that really encapsulates the vibe of so many African-American men that I know and love. But in film and television we either see the alpha or the emasculated. He represents this beautiful hybrid of all that complexity.” — Ava Duvernay on Lakeith Stanfield 

Seven Samurai (1954) Directed by Akira Kurosawa

Thief (1981; Michael Mann)

Alain Delon

Laverne Cox as Leontyne Price and Josephine Baker for Cosmopolitan, October 2016

minnie and moskowitz (1971)

To Catch a Thief (1955)

Hausu - Nobuhiko Obayashi (1977)

Milla Jovovich in Deauville, c. 1998. Credit: Sergio Gaudenti / getty images

Faces (John Cassavetes, 1968)

Andrei Tarkovski Polaroid Photograph - ( Polaroid Print )