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Musings of an Empress
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I am an EMPRESS! I write scripts. I direct films. I teach the youths.
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rempress · 3 years ago
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THANK HEAVEN FOR LITTLE GIRLS | 1947
African American girls walking the streets of Harlem, NYC, 1947. Photo by Morris Engel.
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rempress · 4 years ago
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If you are silent about your pain, they will kill you and say you enjoyed it.
Zora Neale Hurston (via rempress)
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rempress · 4 years ago
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Photographs taken in various cities across Florida by Alex Webb (1980s-1990s) via Magnum Photos
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rempress · 4 years ago
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A place to sit.
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rempress · 4 years ago
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John Coltrane
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rempress · 4 years ago
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A baptism being held at Moon Lake, Mississippi, 1994. Photography by Norman, Mauskopf
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rempress · 4 years ago
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Bette Davis as Margo Channing in All About Eve (1950) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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rempress · 4 years ago
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Films watched in 2021.
18: Residue (Merawi Gerima, 2020)
★★★★★★☆☆☆☆
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rempress · 4 years ago
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Coffy, Jack Hill
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rempress · 4 years ago
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Hyenas (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1992)
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rempress · 4 years ago
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Abbas Kiarostami, 1990s
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rempress · 4 years ago
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Camila SimÔes by Lufre for L'Officiel Brasil Magazine - Feb 2021  
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rempress · 4 years ago
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Jean-Michel Basquiat with his sister Jeanine Basquiat at the opening of his exhibition at Mary Boone Gallery in New York City, May 1984.
Photos by Andy Warhol
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rempress · 4 years ago
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“Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music”
-Nina Simone
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rempress · 4 years ago
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“Film buffs who don’t live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it’s like to be a director. Movies and the people who make movies have such glamor associated with them. But the truth is, it’s not like that. It’s very different. It’s hard work. If you were suddenly catapulted into that situation—without any training—you would say after it was over: ‘Oh, God! You’re kidding! You mean, this is what it’s like? This is what they put you through?’ Yes, as a matter of fact, it is like this—and it’s often worse. People have tried to describe the film business, but it’s impossible to describe because it’s so crazy. You must know your craft inside out and then pick up the rules as you go along.” John Carpenter (pictured on the set of Big Trouble in Little China)
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rempress · 4 years ago
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Films watched in 2021.
83: Samba Traoré (Idrissa Ouedraogo, 1992)
★★★★★★★☆☆☆
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rempress · 4 years ago
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Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
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