“I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.”
#FrankCapra 1897-1991

“The Bauhaus fights imitation inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism.” Walter Gropius

18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969

was a German-American architect founder of the Bauhaus School
and design in 1919 in Weimar, Germany he went on to chair Harvard’s Department of Architecture

Jean Gabin
May 17, 1904 – November 15, 1976

Richard Avedon
May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004

Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller, New York, Photo by Richard Avedon, 1957

Study After Velazquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X 1953 by Francis Bacon

“Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.”

Remembering actor, filmmaker, photographer,artist Dennis Lee Hopper, born on May 17, 1936, in Dodge City, Kansas – he died on May 29, 2010.

He attended the Actors Studio, appeared in two films with James Dean.

#FrancisFordCoppola

Remembering the great Django Reinhardt 23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953

circa 1940s.

Minor Swing
Le Quintette Hot Club de France - 1937

youtu.be/gcE1avXFJb4?si…

Erik Satie
May 17, 1866 – July 1, 1925.

Pianist: Klára Körmendi
Album: Piano Works (Selection) 1989

Gnossiennes 1-6

youtu.be/y7kvGqiJC4g?si…

#DennisHopper #BOTD
May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010

Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, and some friends kick up their heels in Cannes during the 1969 International Film Festival. Their film, 'Easy Rider,' won the Prix de Premiere Oeuvre for Hopper, who also directed.

Remembering actor, filmmaker, photographer,artist Dennis Lee Hopper, born on May 17, 1936, in Dodge City, Kansas – he died on May 29, 2010.

He attended the Actors Studio, appeared in two films with James Dean.

#FrancisFordCoppola

Despite rampant drug use on the set of Easy Rider, Hopper managed to complete the film in seven weeks. Easy Rider turned out to be a critical and financial success. It won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Dennis Hopper #BOTD

May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010

Erik Satie
May 17, 1866 – July 1, 1925.

Pianist: Klára Körmendi
Album: Piano Works (Selection) 1989

Gnossiennes 1-6

youtu.be/y7kvGqiJC4g?si…

Jean Gabin
May 17, 1904 – November 15, 1976

Remembering the great Django Reinhardt 23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953

circa 1940s.

Minor Swing
Le Quintette Hot Club de France - 1937

youtu.be/gcE1avXFJb4?si…

Jack Nicholson Breaks Down in Tears Paying Tribute to Roger Corman

Roger Corman passed away on May 11, at the age of 98. As the director of around 50 movies and producer of up to 500,

Bay of Angels

'La Baie des Anges' directed by Jacques Demy, 1963.

Jeanne Moreau stars as Jackie, a compulsive gambler who falls in love with a bank clerk Claude Mann on holiday in Nice

Music Michel Legrand
Edited by lecinema.francais IG

Jack Nicholson Breaks Down in Tears Paying Tribute to Roger Corman

Roger Corman passed away on May 11, at the age of 98. As the director of around 50 movies and producer of up to 500,

Anne Wiazemsky
May 14, 1947 - October 5, 2017

Robert Bresson directing Anne Wiazemsky on the set of “Au hasard Balthazar”

“How do I wish to be remembered, if at all? I think perhaps just as a fairly desirable sort of character actor.”

#JamesMason

15 May 1909 – 27 July 1984

#JamesMason #BOTD
15 May 1909 – 27 July 1984
#SueLyon
#Lolita Premiere 1962 #StanleyKubrick