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cressida-jayoungr · 7 months

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One Dress a Day Challenge

November: Oscar Winners

Moulin Rouge / Zsa Zsa Gabor as Jane Avril

Year: 1952

Designer: Marcel Vertès

So, this is the other Moulin Rouge! This one is a Toulouse-Lautrec biopic starring Jose Ferrer, and I confess that I didn't even know it existed until I started looking up the academy awards. It's quite the visual feast! I particularly liked this recreation of a dress worn by Jane Avril in one of Toulouse-Lautrec's most famous depictions of her. The poster doesn't show a lot of details of the dress, due largely to the pose and the angle; so the designer, Marcel Vertès, did a good job of interpreting it.

Her bonnet is particularly interesting. The high crown would have been very old-fashioned for the 1890s, and the sort of wooly texture of it is very unusual (which is to say, probably a Hollywood invention). The orange and black feathers, as well as the black tie under the chin, are very true to the original art.

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adamwatchesmovies · 6 months

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Ikiru (1952)

Few works of art have the power to single-handedly change those who see them. Most only contribute to a lesson learned over time. Ikiru is the kind of reality-shattering story that should be mandatory viewing, particularly if you work in an office or are in a position to say “yes” or “no” to proposals. It’s a masterpiece that hasn’t aged a day since its release in 1952.

Kanji Watanabe (Takashi Shimura) has worked in the same monotonous office position for nearly thirty years when he learns he has stomach cancer and less than twelve months to live. Suddenly confronted with his mortality, he attempts to make up for the time he wasted.

Ikiru does what you expect it to and then goes deeper. After learning they have less than a year left, most people would probably find (or try to find) comfort in family and friends - or more likely indulge in fleeting pleasures like food, drink, drugs, or sex. Ikiru isn’t about checking items off your bucket list. Watanabe was not a fan of drinking or fleshy pleasures until he received the bad news. Why would that suddenly change? He meets a novelist (Y��nosuke Itō). They briefly paint the town red and then they part ways. Watanabe then connects with a young woman from his office who hates her job (Miki Odagiri). You think the movie will be about her showing him how to live (that’s what Ikiriu means) but you’re wrong again. Watanabe tries to find happiness in them but discovers his expiry date makes it impossible. It’s a dire thought but it’s probably true that when you only have 365 days left, it doesn’t feel like enough for anything. He could try to reconnect with his son (Nobuo Nakamura) but the time for that has passed. If he did, it would only be because he’s found out he’s dying. The same for falling in love or trying to do the things he never had time for.

That all makes Ikiru sound very depressing. In some ways, it is… but the film is also unusually uplifting. It’s a call to arms, an invitation to wake up and live. Even if living means going back to what you were doing before but doing it with passion. Sitting at a desk and stamping papers all day could easily be a soul-crushing experience but isn’t it also an opportunity? If you got rid of the bad habits that form at the office, the kind that make you pass responsibilities to someone else who’ll care about them as little as you do; if you started caring about your job, took chances and aimed to make a difference, you could do a lot of good. You could leave feeling fulfilled and make the world a better place. A cynical person might say that no individual can make that much of a difference but isn’t that attitude a way to validate giving up?

Akira Kurosawa has crafted a wonderful film with many powerful messages. Among them the indictment of bureaucracy and the inefficiencies that so often accompany it, the decay of family, what it really means to live, the impact an individual can have if they are determined enough and what sort of legacy we should be proud to leave behind. It’s the kind of story that shakes you out of a stupor you didn’t even know you were walking through. Then, it ends on a note so powerful it's unforgettable. There isn’t anyone who shouldn’t see Ikiru. (Original Japanese with English Subtitles, on DVD, August 2, 2021)

#Ikiru #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #Akira Kurosawa #Takashi Shimura #Miki Odagiri #1952 movies #1952 films

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chaptertwo-thepacnw · 3 months

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macao |1952|

#gif #macao #film noir #jane russell #robert mitchum #1952 #josef von sternberg #nicholas ray #film #1950s

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gameraboy2 · 1 year

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Marilyn Monroe in Don't Bother to Knock (1952)

#my gif #marilyn monroe #cheesecake #don't bother to knock #1952 #1950s #vintage #film #movie

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captofthelaney · 5 months

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SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952)

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vittacorle · 4 months

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JOSEPH COTTEN and TERESA WRIGHT in 'The Steel Trap' (1952), directed by Andrew L. Stone

– We've never been separated. That's the way we planned it before we married. And I still feel the same way about it. Even more so, I guess. – Do you? – I want you with me always.

for janeaustenlover

#oldhollywoodedit #classicfilmedit #classicfilmsource #cinemapast #the steel trap #the steel trap 1952 #joseph cotten #teresa wright #do i care about the plot??? hahhahahahaha #it's soad fanfic to me just like it is to all of us!#no bitchin tho we won a film with them being blissfully married with their hands all over each other!#and we deserved no less #hey ali i hope you like it :))))#mine

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adventurelandia · 8 months

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Trick or Treat (1952)

#Trick or Treat #1952 #1950s #vintage #film #movie #poster #movie poster #poster art #halloween #donald duck #ghost #animation #cartoons

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thecinamonroe · 1 year

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Marilyn Monroe on the set of ‘Clash By Night’ (1952).

#marilyn monroe #clash by night #1950s #50s #1952 #vintage #retro #Old Hollywood glamour #old hollywood #film #cinema

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zegalba · 1 year

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The Witch (1952)

#the witch #film #black and white #body #gif #1952

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shihlun · 1 year

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Mikio Naruse

- Lightning

1952

#cat #成瀬巳喜男 #mikio naruse #hideko takamine #高峰秀子 #lightning #稲妻 #inazuma #1952 #japanese film

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cressida-jayoungr · 5 months

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One Dress a Day Challenge

Anything Goes December

The Belle of New York / Vera-Ellen as Angela Bonfils

Actually, it's a little tricky to say whether Vera-Ellen is supposed to be Angela Bonfils in this scene or not, as it's a sort of fantasy sequence based on Currier and Ives prints. Maybe it's Angela's self-insert past fantasy? (Also, props to Vera-Ellen and Fred Astaire for doing their own skating.)

Anyway, the ermine-trimmed coat and hat are very cute. Raising the skirt for purposes of skating makes the dress look more like the 1950s, which is also when the movie was made. Helen Rose was responsible for the women's costumes in this film.