Nacho: Ok. Orphans! Listen to Ignacio. I know it is fun to wrestle. A nice piledrive to the face… or a punch to the face… but you cannot do it. Because, it is in the Bible not to wrestle your neighbour. Chancho: So you’ve never wrestled? Nacho: Me? No. Come on. Don’t be crazy. I […]
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Katharine Hepburn, Queen of Scots
Dance Class
This is the dancing class scene from the 1960 British film Tunes of Glory with Alec Guinness and John Mills. The entire film can be found on YouTube.
Renée Jeanne Falconetti
Here is a still from Carl Theodor Dreyer’s masterpiece La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc. Renée Jeanne Falconetti (July 21, 1892 – December 12, 1946) was 35 years old when she played the role of 19-year-old Joan of Arc in La Passion. Her portrayal is widely considered one of the most astonishing performances ever committed to film, and it would remain […]
The Clansman
“It is like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.” — President Woodrow Wilson. Despite its controversial historical and ideological perspectives, D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1915) is technically one of the greatest motion pictures of all time. It was the first movie screened […]