oldfilmsflicker:

- But you’re all wet.
- You better start getting used to me fresh out of the shower.

Macao, 1952 (dir. Josef von Sternberg)

The triumphant return of Trivia Tuesday!

It’s Tuesday. It’s 2012. Let’s do this thing! 

The rules are simple: 1) answer all five movie trivia questions correctly, 2) submit your answers, 3) if you are the winner, I’ll message you, 4) message me with your choice of prize [movie poster or movie postcard!] and mailing address, 5) that shit’ll be at your house before you know it!

*Unfortunately I can’t ship outside the U.S. because I’m not, y’know, a millionaire.

Wow, that sounds simple and fun. Here are this week’s questions!!!!!

1. What movie does E.T. watch on TV (and Elliot imitate during science class) in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)?

2. Where do we first meet Steve McQueen’s character in Bullitt (1968)?

3. Which continental crooner do all four Marx Brothers impersonate in Monkey Business (1931)?

4. Which of his own films did Alfred Hitchcock consider ‘the first Hitchcock picture’?

5. In Midnight in Paris (2011), Owen Wilson’s character Gil meets a young Luis Bunuel, who describes an idea for a film about party guests who are unable to leave the room at the end of the night. Name this film.

The Cameraman (1928)

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Harlow

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Films in 2012 —#043 Albert Nobbs (Rodrigo Garcia, 2011)

Films in 2012 —#042 We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay, 2011)

Films in 2012 —#041 A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (Dito Montiel, 2006)

Films in 2012 —#040 Bombshell (Victor Fleming, 1933)

Films in 2012 —#039 The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick, 1928)

wehadfacesthen:

House on Haunted Hill (William Castle, 1959)

oldfilmsflicker:

I mean really

handsome sharks

god herself

tilda swinton is a weird, gorgeous alien delivered on a holy, glowing cloud from some far-flung galaxy where ethereal bone structure and preternatural acting ability is as abundant as running water to school slack-jawed mortals in the beauty and agony of our wretched, talentless existence