So the cover of my book journal has me feeling like uncultured swine again, because all the book titles on it are famous couples/duos in literature, tv shows and movies etc and at least half of them have me like: ?????
I'm enough of a nerd to want to know where they're all from, and it's been bugging me for years. But Googling them feels somehow unsporting to me. lol (Plus I think some of the spellings are French?)
So...see a pair you recognize? Let me know. 🙏
~ Couples Listed ~
Fanfan & Alexandre = ???
Lana & Clark = Superman
Paul & Joanne = ???
Andromacue & Hector = The Iliad/Greek Mythology
Leonard & Salaì = ???
Orpheus and Eurydice = Greek Mythology
Lisbeth & Miriam = ???
Mathilde & Manech = ???
Chimène & Rodrigue = ???
Emma & Dexter = ???
Yves & Pierre = Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Bergé
Arlequin & Columbine = ???
Julien & Mme de Rênal = The Scarlet and the Black
Edward & Vivian = ???
Edith and Marcel = ???
Marty & Jennifer = Back to the Future
Franck & Ava = ???
Jack & Rose = Titantic
Elisabeth & Richard = ???
Chouchou & Loulou = ??? (The hell kind of names are those? lol)
Roger & Jessica = ??? (Idk the first thing that jumped to mind was Roger & Jessica Rabbit lol)
Figaro & Rosine = The Marriage of Figaro
Christian & Anastasia = 50 Shades of Grey
Leeloo & Korhen = ???
Abelard & Héloïse = medieval historical romance, unsure of details
Valmont & Cecile = Dangerous Liaisons
Sam & Molly = ???
Gaston & Melle Jeanne = ???
Drazic & Anita = ???
Don Juan & Charlotte = Don Juan/Don Giovanni
Mike & Susan = Desperate Housewives
Helen & Paris = The Iliad/Greek Mythology
Quasimodo & Esmeralda = The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Rachel & Ross = Friends
Marilyn & John = Marilyn Munroe and John F. Kennedy?
Satine & Christian = Moulin Rouge
Dorian & Henri = The Portrait of Dorian Gray
Tarzan & Jane = Tarzan
Edward & Bella = Twilight
Nino & Amélie = Amélie
Mulder & Scully = The X-Files
Arthur & Paul = Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine
Harry & Sally = When Harry Met Sally
Sandy & Danny = Grease
Benny & Joon = Benny & Joon
Toi & Moi = ???
Maverick & Charlie = Top Gun
Candy & Anthony = ???
Odysseus & Penelope = The Odyssey/The Iliad/Greek Mythology
Thelma & Louise = Thelma & Louise
Titus & Berenice = Titus and Berenice is a 1676 tragedy by Thomas Otway.
Ariane & Solal = ???
Paul & Virginie = Paul and Virginie by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1788).
Johnny & BB = ???
Cyrano & Roxane = Cyrano de Bergerac
Marius & Fanny = ???
Chloe & Colin = ???
Adam & Eve = The Bible
Tristan & Iseult = Tristan and Isolde
Bonnie & Clyde = the historical Bonnie & Clyde
Popeye & Olive = Popeye the Sailor Man
Simone & Yves = ???
Buffy & Angel = Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Lauren & Humphrey = Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart?
Carrie and Mr Big = Sex in the City
Harry & Ginny = Harry Potter series
Clarence & Alabama = ???
Alceste & Célimène = ???
Lancelot & Guinevere = Arthurian legend
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Edit:
From @theduchessofboredom
#arthur & paul could be art (arthur) garfunkel and paul simon #paul & virginie is the title of a famous 18th century novel #nino and amélie is definitely Amélie :) #yves & pierre are yves saint-laurent and pierre bergé
From @that-laj
Marty & Jennifer are from Back to the Future, if they’re the Marty and Jennifer I think they are.
@didoscity
Mike and susan are from desperate housewives (embarassed to know this). Also arthur and paul are definitely, to me, arthur rimbaud and paul verlaine. sorry for simon and garfunkel 😂
oh and titus and berenice is the name of a tragedy by corneille!
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an absolute list of films i’d like to watch (so far)
thanks to the Letterboxd community for always recommending the most unhinged pieces ever
Gummo, Harmony Korine (1997)
Hard Candy, David Slade (2005)
House, Nobuhiko Obayashi (1977)
Ichi the Killer, Takashi Miike (2001)
Kids, Larry Clark (1995)
Léon: The Professional, Luc Besson (1994)
Oldboy, Park Chan-wook (2003)
Once Upon a Time in America, Sergio Leone, (1984)
Fantastic Planet, René Laloux (1973)
Punch Drunk-Love, Paul Thomas Anderson (2002)
[REC], Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza (2007)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Jim Sharman (1975)
Shock Treatment, Jim Sharman (1981)
Sleepaway Camp, Robert Hiltzik (1983)
The Warriors, Walter Hill (1979)
Videodrome, David Cronenberg (1983)
Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese (1976)
The Ninth Configuration, William Peter Blatty (1980)
Flowers for Algernon, Jeff Bleckner (2000)
Mona Lisa, Neil Jordan (1986)
The Machinist, Brad Anderson (2004)
Miller’s Crossing, Joel Coen (1990)
Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
The Farewell, Lulu Wang (2019)
Trash Humpers, Harmony Korine (2009)
Pixote, Héctor Babenco (1980)
Julien Donkey-Boy, Harmony Korine (1999)
Last Night, Don McKellar (1998)
Duck Butter, Miguel Arteta (2018)
Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky (1979)
The Pianist, Roman Polanski (2002)
Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino (1992)
Blue Velvet, David Lynch (1986)
At Eternity’s Gate, Julian Schnabel (2018)
Birdman, Alejandro González Iñárritu (2014)
Climax, Gaspar Noé (2018)
Shirkers, Sandi Tan (2018)
A Ghost Story, David Lowery (2017)
Carol, Todd Haynes (2015)
Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro, Hayao Miyazaki (1979)
Baby Driver, Edgar Wright (2017)
The Revenant, Alejandro González Iñárritu (2015)
She’s Gotta Have It, Spike Lee (1986)
I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore, Macon Blair (2017)
It Comes at Night, Trey Edward Shults (2017)
Buster’s Mal Heart, Sarah Adina Smith (2016)
Cam, Daniel Goldhaber (2018)
Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski, Irek Dobrowolski (2018)
I Think We’re Alone Now, Reed Morano (2018)
Skins, Eduardo Casanova (2017)
The Fundamentals of Caring, Rob Burnett (2016)
About Time, Richard Curtis (2013)
The Bad Batch, Ana Lily Amirpour (2016)
The Highwaymen, John Lee Hancock (2019)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonagh (2017)
Natural Born Killers, Oliver Stone (1994)
XX, Karyn Kusama & Jovanka Vuckovic & Roxanne Benjamin & St. Vincent (2017)
Cargo, Ben Howling & Yolanda Ramke (2017)
Residue, Alex Garcia Lopez (2015)
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, Griffin Dunne (2017)
Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower, Joe Piscatella (2017)
Chasing Trane, John Scheinfeld (2016)
Tallulah, Siân Heder (2016)
Expedition Happiness, Felix Starck & Selima Taibi (2017)
Bottom of the World, Richard Sears (2017)
Super Dark Times, Kevin Phillips (2017)
Notes on Blindness, Pete Middleton & James Spinney (2016)
Newness, Drake Doremus (2017)
ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke, Kelly Duane de la Vega (2019)
Paddleton, Alexandre Lehmann (2019)
Juanita, Clark Johnson (2019)
Temple, Michael Barrett (2017)
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, Bob Hercules & Rita Coburn Whack (2016)
P, Paul Spurrier (2005)
I Am Happiness on Earth, Julián Hernández (2014)
Carrie Pilby, Susan Johnson (2016)
Belief: The Possession of Janet Moses, David Stubbs (2015)
I Called Him Morgan, Kasper Collin (2016)
A Family Affair, Tom Fassaert (2015)
Q, Sanjeev Gupta (2017)
Boyhood, Richard Linklater (2014)
Thelma & Louise, Ridley Scott (1991)
Brick, Rian Johnson (2005)
The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson (2001)
Moonlight, Barry Jenkins (2016)
Mulholland Drive, David Lynch (2001)
Solaris, Andrei Tarkovsky (1972)
Lake Mungo, Joel Anderson (2008)
War of the Worlds, Steven Spielberg (2005)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Shinya Tsukamoto (1989)
Mady, Panos Cosmatos (2018)
Raw, Julia Ducournau (2016)
The Neon Demon, Nicolas Winding Refn (2016)
The Love Witch, Anna Biller (2016)
Tusk, Kevin Smith (2014)
Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky (2010)
A Serbian Film, Srđan Spasojević (2010)
Antichrist, Lars von Trier (2009)
Paprika, Satoshi Kon (2006)
Audition, Takashi Miike (1999)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Terry Gilliam (1998)
Perfect Blue, Satoshi Kon (1997)
Suspiria, Dario Argento (1977)
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1975)
Irreversible, Gaspar Noé (2002)
Teeth, Mitchell Lichtenstein (2007)
Guinea Pig 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood, Hideshi Hino (1985)
I Stand Alone, Gaspar Noé (1998)
Begotten, E. Elias Merhige (1989)
Dekalog, Krzysztof Kieślowski (1989)
Dancer in the Dark, Lars von Trier (2000)
Shoplifters, Hirokazu Kore-eda (2018)
Honey Boy, Alma Har’el (2019)
The Inner Scar, Philippe Garrel (1972)
The Handmaiden, Park Chan-wook (2016)
Funny Games, Michael Haneke (1997)
$9.99, Tatia Rosenthal (2008)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Ana Lily Amirpour (2014)
In The Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai (2000)
Stranger Than Paradise, Jim Jarmusch (1984)
Quadrophenia, Franc Roddam (1979)
Blow-Up, Michaelangelo Antonioni (1966)
Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee (1989)
Christiane F., Uli Edel (1981)
Grey Gardens, Albert Maysles & David Maysles & Muffie Meyer & Ellen Hovde (1975)
The Tribe, Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi (2014)
Uncut Gems, Josh Safdie & Benny Safdie (2019)
Persona, Ingmar Bergman (1966)
Wild Strawberries, Ingmar Bergman (1957)
The Silence, Ingmar Bergman (1963)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Céline Sciamma (2019)
The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers (2019)
Promising Young Woman, Emerald Fennell (2020)
The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer, Masaki Kobayashi (1961)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, Jonas Mekas (2000)
X, Ti West (2022)
Everything Everywhere All at Once, Daniel Scheinert & Daniel Kwan (2022)
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Tom Gormican (2022)
The Conversation, Francis Ford Coppola (1974)
Sufjan Stevens: Carrie & Lowell Live, Aaron Craig & Alex Craig (2017)
La Haine, Mathieu Kassovitz (1995)
My Life as a Zucchini, Claude Barras (2016)
The Wolf House, Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña (2018)
Come and See, Elem Klimov (1985)
Noisy Requiem, Yoshihiko Matsui (1988)
Eyes Without a Face, Georges Franju (1960)
Angel’s Egg, Mamoru Oshii (1985)
Dogville, Lars von Trier (2003)
Pink Flamingos, John Waters (1972)
Are you lost in the world like me?, Steve Cutts (2016)
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