Happy birthday to the late, beloved Catherine Scorsese, who gave us the single greatest moment in cinematic history ...

Had to happen.

In an essay to accompany our edition of PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK ('75), Megan Abbott explores how Peter Weir’s sun-dappled, sexually charged nightmare about a disappearance in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australia remains unnerving work of poetic horror. criterion.com/current/posts/…

Every hotel is a haunted hotel.

Today’s inspo:

A deeply uncanny moment from Kubrick’s original treatment for THE SHINING:

On our release:
•An interview with Weir
•A program on the making of the film, featuring interviews with cast and crew
•An introduction by film scholar David Thomson
•An on-set documentary
•HOMESDALE, a 1971 black comedy by Weir
•An essay by Megan Abbott
•Cover by…

my Ripley

“There’s no damn business like show business. You have to smile to keep from throwing up.”

Happy belated birthday, the goddess Billie Holiday …
📸Charles Hewitt, 1953

It's Wenders best movie and my favorite Highsmith adaptation. Hopper is amazing , so is Bruno Ganz

“Always make your work personal. And you never have to lie...”

Happy birthday, the true artist, Francis Ford Coppola …
📸Douglas Kirkland, 1985

YUP.

“Even when I was carrying a gun, Bette scared the bejesus out of me.”

— Humphrey Bogart on birthday queen, Bette Davis ….

In honor of his birthday, the incandescent magic of cinematographer Robby Müller ....

(PARIS TEXAS, BARFLY, AMERICAN FRIEND, REPO MAN, TO LIVE & DIE IN LA, etc.)

This one's a beaut.

“The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs. Never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel too much.”

Happy 100th, the one and only Marlon Brando …
📸George Heyer, 1947

Effective immediately, “Woke Up This Morning” (the Sopranos theme song) by A3 will follow the Pledge of Allegiance in all New Jersey public schools.

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Today’s Gen X inspo:

Janeane Garofalo
📸Judson Baker, New York, 1996

Today’s dreary-weather inspo:

Debbie Harry, cozy melancholy
📸Chris Stein, Gramercy Park Hotel, 1978

“I’ve given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can’t divorce a book.”

Happy birthday, the glorious Gloria Swanson ...
📸Joe Scherschel, 1949