mimbeau:

Paris

1935

Gaston Jacquin

urhajos:

‘A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.’ - Alfred Hitchcock

Stewart Stern had originally ended the film with the death of Jim Stark, but the final script was changed. “I wanted Jim to be killed at the end when he ran out with the bullets. He was supposed to be gunned down too,” said Stewart. “It just exploded into gunfire; nothing was making sense anymore. And his father ran over to him to see if he was alright and started talking to him and said, ‘Listen… you know… it was just, God, I didn’t know what was happening. There was no hint. I didn’t know how you really felt.’ And Jim said, ‘I don’t want to talk.’ But the father said, ‘We have to talk. My God, all this time we hadn’t talked. Now don’t turn me away.’ And Jim said, ‘But I’m busy, I’m busy. I can’t talk.’ The father said, ‘What are you busy about?’ And Jim was going to say, ‘I’m busy dying,’ and drop dead. I thought what could be more enigmatic than that, to die on your parents and not tell them why.”

_{Grand Hotel, director: Edmund Goulding, photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1932.}

gibisoma:

Neo Egyptian Bust of Antinoo

Anonymus, ca. 1920

Milan (private collection)

antonostlundphoto:

Photography by Anton Östlund.