#classicfilmsource

[hirokazukoreeda]

Los Olvidados 1950 | dir. Luis Buñuel

[isabelleadjani]

THE RED SHOES dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1948

[princessnamora]

Gene Tierney as Ellen Berent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven (1945)

[limeshade]

In the grim comedy of life, it has been wisely said that the last laugh is the best . . .

HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (1924) Directed by Victor Sjöström Shot by Milton Moore

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High Society (1956) dir. Charles Walters

[fashioninmedia]

"You know what I think? I think that we're all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever get out. We scratch and claw, but only at the air, only at each other. And for all of it, we never budge an inch."

PSYCHO (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

[wulfhalls]

There's nothing further here for a warrior. We drive bargains. Old men's work. Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men. Courage and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace. And the vices of peace are the vices of old men. Mistrust and caution. It must be so.

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) dir. David Lean

[normasshearer]

I saw us traveling far away together. All the places I've always longed to go. I saw us leaning on the rail of a ship, looking at the sea and stars... standing on a tropical beach, in the moonlight, with the palm trees sighing above us. Then the palm trees changed into those pollarded willows by the canal, just before the level crossing. And all the silly dreams disappeared.

BRIEF ENCOUNTER 1945, dir. David Lean

[richieshepard]

GREGORY PECK DAYS OF GLORY, 1944

[cineper]

"Lord, you sure knew what you were doing when you brung me to this very cell at this very time. A man with ten thousand dollars his somewhere, and a widder in the makin´ ."

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

Director. Charles Laughton.

[richardcameron]

DOLORES COSTELLO as isabel amberson

the magnificent ambersons (1942)

[elieandrews]

THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) dir. Robert Wise

[filmgifs]

Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier The Defiant Ones (1958) dir. Stanley Kramer

[princessnamora]

Claudia Cardinale as Mara Castellucci in La Ragazza di Bube (1964)

[limeshade]

In 2017, American film researchers recovered “Something Good – Negro Kiss,” a short film depicting a playful kiss between a Black couple which had not seen the light of day for more than a century. A long-forgotten artifact from the earliest years of American film, the sweet, humanizing vignette, produced by the Selig Polyscope Company, makes a startling contrast to the overwhelmingly racist and blackface-ridden contempory portrayals of African Americans. Four years later in 2021, archivists in Norway, halfway across the world, identified a sister short in their collections—an extended alternate cut which reveals more of Chicago stage performers Gertie Brown and Saint Suttle’s vaudeville-like routine, a theatrical, hot-and-cold romantic dynamic between two lovers which parodies the popular and controversial short “The Kiss” (1896). Both films, which had previously been lost, were known from entries in old motion picture catalogs but had been assumed to be era-typical, anti-Black “race films” until their rediscovery in the 21st century. Together with its more famous sibling, which has since been inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, this alternate version of “Something Good” represents the first-known instance of Black intimacy ever captured on-screen.

SOMETHING GOOD [Alternate Version] (1898) Directed by William Selig

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Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder