Aysu

I love cinema

[Jo Coyne @Jopolkadot]

Nights of Cabiria

Federico Fellini
1957

[Matt @Weekend_Rebel]

The crescent moon rising into the starry skies... ✨️🌙

[Aysu @aaysu35]

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[Glòria Massana @gloriamassana]

Samedi.

[Matt @Weekend_Rebel]

Framing the sunset...

[Aysu @aaysu35]

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[X-Ray Eyes  @fearofyou]

Léa Seydoux in La Belle Personne, Christophe Honoré (2008)

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Today marks the 109th birthday of Robert Mitchum, one of the greatest actors of all time who didn't give a f**k about the movie business.

When working on Nicholas Ray’s 'The Lusty Men' (1952) Robert Mitchum complained, "This is a ridiculous and humiliating profession. I make faces for the silver screen because I just don’t have anything better to do at the moment. The silliest part is that most movie stars play it straight. They’re so serious. Why doesn’t everyone have fun working? What else is there?"

It was on this film that he added to his already formidable image as a nonconformist and rebel, singing loudly on the set, firing water pistols and deliberately chewing garlic before his love scenes with Susan Hayward. "There goes the old grey mare", he once shouted as she walked by on the way to the set, which was not quite as bad as calling Greer Garson ‘Red’ at MGM, but nearly.

He told an interviewer at the time: "I don’t know many stars socially. I think it must be a lot more fun running a country store than being a film star. I wouldn’t give a darn if I lost my acting job tomorrow. This movie business is such nonsense."

("Robert Mitchum", Derek Malcolm, 1984)

[Matt @Weekend_Rebel]

The glowing Moon sitting alongside Saturn in the August night sky...