deanstockwell &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:deanstockwell @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:32:27 +0200 Compulsion (Richard Fleischer, 1959) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/compulsion-1959 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Compulsion (Richard Fleischer, 1959)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 16/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Compulsion (1959)/div div class="caption" Straus (Bradford Dillman) with Steiner (Dean Stockwell) behind the wheel. They're beaming. DP: William C. Mellor./div div class="txt" "Murder's nothing. It's just a simple experience. Murder and rape? Do you know what beauty there is in evil?" ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #RichardFleischer #MeyerLevin #BradfordDillman #DeanStockwell #OrsonWelles #DianeVarsi #LionelNewman #WilliamCMellor #BookAdaptation #LGBT #crime #drama #USA #1950s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Compulsion (Richard Fleischer, 1959)

May

16

Compulsion (1959)

Straus (Bradford Dillman) with Steiner (Dean Stockwell) behind the wheel. They're beaming. DP: William C. Mellor.

“Murder's nothing. It's just a simple experience. Murder and rape? Do you know what beauty there is in evil?”

#FilmDuJour #May #RichardFleischer #MeyerLevin #BradfordDillman #DeanStockwell #OrsonWelles #DianeVarsi #LionelNewman #WilliamCMellor #BookAdaptation #LGBT #crime #drama #USA #1950s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/compulsion-1959 Fri, 16 May 2025 09:00:00 +0200 Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-q6yr <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 27/div div class="occasion" 94supth/sup Academy Awards/div div class="img" Paris, Texas (1984)/div div class="caption" Travis (Harry Dean Stanton) wandering the desert. DP: Robby Müller./div div class="txt" A film that I wish would have won the Academy Award for Best Picture in honour of the 94supth/sup Academy Awards (2022). "The Dust has come to stay. You may stay or pass on through or whatever." ### – gas station sign /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #WimWenders #HarryDeanStanton #DeanStockwell #Viva #NastassjaKinski #JohnLurie #RyCooder #RobbyMüller #drama #roadmovie #WestGermany #France #UK #1980s/div /section ]]>

Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)

Mar

27

94th Academy Awards

Paris, Texas (1984)

Travis (Harry Dean Stanton) wandering the desert. DP: Robby Müller.

A film that I wish would have won the Academy Award for Best Picture in honour of the 94th Academy Awards (2022).

“The Dust has come to stay. You may stay or pass on through or whatever.”

– gas station sign

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #WimWenders #HarryDeanStanton #DeanStockwell #Viva #NastassjaKinski #JohnLurie #RyCooder #RobbyMüller #drama #roadmovie #WestGermany #France #UK #1980s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-q6yr Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0100 Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-l3y8 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 19/div div class="occasion" lights/div div class="img" Blue Velvet (1986)/div div class="caption" Ben (Dean Stockwell) miming Roy Orbison's In Dreams with a work light for a microphone. DP: Frederick Elmes./div div class="txt" ##### Lights on the date in 1883 that #ThomasEdison first switched on overhead electric lighting. "A candy-colored clown they call the sandman Tiptoes to my room every night Just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper 'Go to sleep, everything is alright'" ### – Roy Orbison, In Dreams (1963) David Lynch at his finest Anger, and Stockwell at his peak. The work light was improvised when Lynch noticed Stockwell handling it between shoots./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #lights #DavidLynch #IsabellaRossellini #KyleMacLachlan #DennisHopper #LauraDern #HopeLange #DeanStockwell #BradDourif #JackNance #AngeloBadalamenti #FrederickElmes #mystery #drama #crime #USA #1980s/div /section ]]>

Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)

Jan

19

lights

Blue Velvet (1986)

Ben (Dean Stockwell) miming Roy Orbison's In Dreams with a work light for a microphone. DP: Frederick Elmes.

Lights on the date in 1883 that #ThomasEdison first switched on overhead electric lighting.

“A candy-colored clown they call the sandman Tiptoes to my room every night Just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper 'Go to sleep, everything is alright'”

– Roy Orbison, In Dreams (1963)

David Lynch at his finest Anger, and Stockwell at his peak. The work light was improvised when Lynch noticed Stockwell handling it between shoots.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #lights #DavidLynch #IsabellaRossellini #KyleMacLachlan #DennisHopper #LauraDern #HopeLange #DeanStockwell #BradDourif #JackNance #AngeloBadalamenti #FrederickElmes #mystery #drama #crime #USA #1980s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-l3y8 Sun, 19 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0100 Compulsion (Richard Fleischer, 1959) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/compulsion-1959-1k4n <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Compulsion (Richard Fleischer, 1959)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 29/div div class="occasion" coffee/div div class="img" Compulsion (1959)/div div class="caption" A squeaky young Stockwell and Varsi at a diner. We're looking in from the outside through an open window. The place is busy but she's all enthralled by his wit and intellect (and looks for sure). DP: William C. Mellor./div div class="txt" "Europe, a Stutz Bearcat, the best restaurants. You fellas really have a hard life, don't you?" ### – Harold Horn, DA\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #coffee #RichardFleischer #MeyerLevin #BradfordDillman #DeanStockwell #OrsonWelles #DianeVarsi #LionelNewman #WilliamCMellor #BookAdaptation #LGBT #crime #drama #USA #1950s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Compulsion (Richard Fleischer, 1959)

Jun

29

coffee

Compulsion (1959)

A squeaky young Stockwell and Varsi at a diner. We're looking in from the outside through an open window. The place is busy but she's all enthralled by his wit and intellect (and looks for sure). DP: William C. Mellor.

“Europe, a Stutz Bearcat, the best restaurants. You fellas really have a hard life, don't you?”

– Harold Horn, DA

#FilmDinner #coffee #RichardFleischer #MeyerLevin #BradfordDillman #DeanStockwell #OrsonWelles #DianeVarsi #LionelNewman #WilliamCMellor #BookAdaptation #LGBT #crime #drama #USA #1950s ★★★★½

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