#SILENT Paris

[diana-andraste]

Alberto Cavalcanti, Rien que les heures, 1926

[littlehorrorshop]

A Woman of Paris (1923)

[friendlessghoul]

Buster Keaton visiting the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, France 1962

[poppingmary]

“SCANTIES” - That’s what they called lingerie in the 1920’s. Before that the names were less sexy. “Drawers” “Bloomers”. The movies made deals with Paris fashion designers. Their creations were seen in films and film credits - increasing sales. In the 1920’s the “modern woman” was born. She wanted to look sexy “like naughty french girls do…”. Actresses like Clara Bow wore daring sleepwear in silent movies . By the 1930’s sound era? “Scanties” filled pre-code films.

Oh la la! Lingerie rules!

(Source - Facebook)

[widevibratobitch]

Edouard de Max as Cardinal Richelieu playing with a kitten <333 Les Trois Mousquetaires (1921) dir. Henri Diamant Berger

[ailichi]

not dreading the winter for the first time, because there was actually a summer, and enough of it. cannot wait to get pale and skinny and sweetly melancholy. yay 🖤

[sealrock]

I had a dream. In my dream, I opened a door. but was that really me? I had a different name.

[rrrauschen]

Louis Feuillade, {1916} Judex - Episode 6: Le Môme Réglisse (The Licorice Kid)

[cantsayidont]

SO THIS IS PARIS (1926): Delightfully silly Ernst Lubitsch silent comedy about a Parisian doctor, Paul Giraud (Monte Blue), whose wife Suzanne's crush on their handsome next-door neighbor, dancer Maurice Lallé (André Beranger), leads to no end of trouble, especially when Maurice's wife Georgette (Lilyan Tashman) turns out to be Paul's old flame, who is keen to give it another shot even though they're both married. The rest of the script can't live up to the champagne sparkle of the first 20 minutes, where Maurice's habit of doing his exercises shirtless in front of the window drives both Paul and Suzanne to distraction (Suzanne keeps becoming so overcome by lust that she has to lie down on the settee, and Paul has much the same reaction), and the finale loses all contact with reality, but it's very amusing, and a real eye-opener if you think of old movies as straight and sexless. CONTAINS LESBIANS? No, although that would have been a natural segue. VERDICT: When people talk about "the Lubitsch Touch," this is what they mean.

Above: Suzanne Giraud (Patsy Ruth Miller) takes one of several brief horniness-induced time-outs after seeing her neighbor Maurice Lallé (André Beranger) shirtless.

Above: Confronted with the object of his wife's lust (André Beranger, center), Paul Giraud (Monte Blue, left) can only grin stupidly and declare "After seeing how wonderful you looked at the window--I came over to tell you how wonderful you looked at the window!" as Maurice's wife Georgette (Lilyan Tashman, right) looks on.

[littlehorrorshop]

A Woman of Paris (1923)

[friendlessghoul]

Buster Keaton visiting the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, France 1962

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

Paris, Texas (1984) - released 40 years ago today

Director: Wim Wenders

[artzychic27]

I got a little inspired by @weaverofink’s post from a while back along with some people with asks about Monarch being a fashion critic/designer

[cyberdank]

[for-the-love-of-javert]

Valjean (Gabriel Gabrio) carries severely wounded Marius (Francois Rozet) through the Parisian sewers - Les Mis 1925

[sentientsky]

wish u could send songs to ppl you no longer talk to. like yeah, i can’t stand to hear her voice again without wanting to puke, but i need my ex-bsf to listen to “my mind (now)” by paris paloma. for reasons.