Maurice (1987). Two English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec.
Can anyone direct sensuality like James Ivory? God, this is so, so good, just breathless with its own sprawling passion and it's alternating need to repress and experience and sometimes, eventually, to share too. Ivory's firing on all cylinders here, both as a director and a writer, and he brings out the best in a pretty stellar cast. This might just be my favourite Hugh Grant role? Just - - yes! Cinema! 9/10.
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Richard Avedon - Jean Shrimpton Wearing a Dress by Oscar de la Renta (Vogue 1968)
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Robocop (1987). In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.
This is a) so much better than I was expecting, and also b) so much better than it has any right to be? Sure, it's partly copaganda, but it's also a pretty scathing indictment of corruption in the police force and how capitalistic interests inherently treat people as disposable. Plus! It's a fun sci-fi movie! Plus the VFX are pretty darn sick. 7/10.
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Arnaud de Rosnay - Marisa Berenson Wearing a Dress by Oscar de la Renta (Vogue 1968)
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One Dress a Day Challenge
November: Oscar Winners
La Dolce Vita / Anita Ekberg as Sylvia
Year: 1961
Designer: Piero Gherardi
It was hard to choose a costume from this movie, well known for its fashion. There's Sylvia's famous strapless black dress, for example, or I also considered highlighting one of Marcello Mastroianni's suits. But I went with this lacy outfit because it's the one I remembered, however hazily, from the one time I saw this movie. I watched it when I went on an art film kick in college or shortly after. I was probably too young to appreciate it properly at the time; I wouldn't mind watching it again, but it doesn't seem to be available for streaming anywhere. Anyway, when I thought back on the look of it, I had a vague image of a woman sitting on a sofa and wearing something really cool in high-contrast black and white.
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Quick Colourless drawing of Cillian Murphy from the 60 minutes show trailer which dropped today...
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Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra (1963)
dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Barbra Streisand photographed at the 1969 Academy Awards, after receiving the award for Best Actress for her role in the film ‘Funny Girl’ (1968).
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