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Orlando (Sally Potter, 1992)
Jan
24
Billy Zane's birthday
Orlando (Tilda Swinton) and Shelmerdine (Billy Zane) in intimate embrace. DPs: Aleksey Rodionov & Andrew Speller.
A [favourite] Billy Zane film for his birthday (1966).
“This future of yours Shelmerdine, when it's gonna begin? Today? Or, is it always tomorrow?”
– Orlando
As ordered by Queen Elizabeth I (Quentin Crisp), nobleman Orlando remains young and traverses exotic scenery, civilisations, time, and gender.
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Times Square (Allan Moyle, 1980)
Jan
10
1967
A bus on Times Square with a large (expensive) ad asking people to be on the lookout for a Pamela Pearl, born January 10, 1967. DP: James A. Contner.
“Yes, it's story time on WJAD in the heart of Times Square, New York, New York. The city so nice, they named it twice.”
– Johnny LaGuardia, on the air
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Il mare [The Sea] (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 1962)
Dec
1
The actor (Umberto Orsini) and the boy (Dino Mele) in a restaurant. It's out of season and deserted. DP: Ennio Guarnieri.
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Vergogna, schifosi!… [Dirty Angels] (Mauro Severino, 1969)
Aug
14
fruit
“Matto, caldo, soldi, morto… girotondo…”
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Simone Barbès ou la vertu (Marie-Claude Treilhou, 1980)
Jun
19
pâté
Two female porn theatre ushers (Ingrid Bourgoin and Martine Simonet) looking bored. They sit under two large eye-shaped neon lights. Between them a small table with various half-consumed items, including part of a baguette with pâté. DP: Jean-Yves Escoffier.
– Ah, regarde, c'est Tati !
– Tati qui?
– Tati, comme Mon Oncle.
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Die Konsequenz [The Consequence] (Wolfgang Petersen, 1977)
Jun
17
prison grub
Thomas (Ernst Hannawald), the warden's son, and convicted homosexual Martin (Jürgen Prochnow) sharing a mug, a meal, a cell. DP: Jörg-Michael Baldenius.
“I think it's really rotten of them to lock you up like this for making love to a boy.”
– Thomas Manzoni
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The Leather Boys (Sidney J. Furie, 1964)
Jun
12
wedding buffet
Newlyweds Dot and Reggie and friends and family about to dig into the wedding buffet. DP: Gerald Gibbs.
“I'll be eating frankfurters and onions. Plenty of tomato ketchup. Chips with lots of vinegar. Few cockles and muscles. Jellied eels, Coca-Cola, beer, the old jukebox, lollipops, all the lot.”
– Pete
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Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948)
Jun
9
A man in a dark suit has his clenched hand on top of a stack of fancy gilded dinner plates. He's holding a piece of rope, just an ordinary household article. DPs: William V. Skall & Joseph A. Valentine.
“Mr. Cadell got a bad leg in the war for his courage. And you've got your sleeve in the celery, Mr. Phillip.”
– Mrs. Wilson
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Suddenly, Last Summer (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1959)
Jun
7
Catherine (Elizabeth Taylor) and a man in white, seen from the back, eating alfresco near a beach. DP: Jack Hildyard.
“My son – Sebastian – and I constructed our days. Each day we would carve each day like a piece of sculpture, leaving behind us a trail of days like a gallery of sculpture until suddenly, last summer.”
– Mrs Vi Venable
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Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, 1951)
May
16
doubles
“I still think it would be wonderful to have a man love you so much he'd kill for you.”
