Movie of the Day: Some Like It Hot (1959)

2h | Comedy, Romance | 14 April 1959 (Japan)

Director:  Billy Wilder

Writers: Billy Wilder (screenplay), I.A.L. Diamond (screenplay)

Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon

Memorable Quotes

Jerry: Have I got things to tell you! 

Joe: What happened? 

Jerry: I'm engaged. 

Joe: Congratulations. Who's the lucky girl? 

Jerry: I am!

[at the booking office, trying to be hired] 

Joe: What kind of a band is this, anyway? 

Sig Poliakoff: You gotta be under twenty-five. 

Jerry: We could pass for that. 

Sig Poliakoff: You gotta be blonde. 

Jerry: We could dye our hair. 

Sig Poliakoff: And you gotta be girls. 

Jerry: We could... 

Joe: No, we couldn't!

Jerry: Now you've done it! Now you have done it! 

Joe: Done what? 

Jerry: You tore off one of my chests!

Joe: There's another problem. 

Jerry: Like what? 

Joe: Like, what are you gonna do on your honeymoon? 

Jerry: We've been discussing that. He wants to go to the Riviera but I kinda lean towards Niagara Falls.

Junior: Syncopators. Does that mean you play that very fast music... jazz? 

Sugar: Yeah. Real Hot. 

Junior: I guess some like it hot. I personally prefer classical music.

Junior: [Kissing] I think you're on the right track. 

Sugar: I must be. Your glasses are beginning to steam up.

Osgood: [referring to his mother] Right now, she thinks I'm out there on my yacht - deep sea fishing! 

Daphne: Well, pull in your reel, Mr. Fielding, you're barking up the wrong fish!

Sugar: Been waiting long? 

Junior: [gallantly] It's not how long you wait, it's who you're waiting for!

Junior: Look, if all you're interested in is whether I am married or not... 

Sugar: Oh, I'm not interested at all. 

Junior: Well, I'm not. 

Sugar: That's very interesting!

Sugar: If my mother could only see me now. 

Joe: I hope *my* mother never finds out.

Sugar: Story of my life. I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.

Osgood: I am Osgood Fielding the third. 

Daphne: I'm Cinderella the second.

[last lines] 

Jerry: Oh no you don't! Osgood, I'm gonna level with you. We can't get married at all. 

Osgood: Why not? 

Jerry: Well, in the first place, I'm not a natural blonde. 

Osgood: Doesn't matter. 

Jerry: I smoke! I smoke all the time! 

Osgood: I don't care. 

Jerry: Well, I have a terrible past. For three years now, I've been living with a saxophone player. 

Osgood: I forgive you. 

Jerry: [tragically] I can never have children! 

Osgood: We can adopt some. 

Jerry: But you don't understand, Osgood! Ohh... 

[Jerry finally gives up and pulls off his wig] 

Jerry: [normal voice] I'm a man! 

Osgood: [shrugs] Well, nobody's perfect!

Edvard Munch - Kiss by the Window (1892)

“Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.” 

(A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway)

Edvard Munch - Kiss by the Window (1892)

Photo of the Day: Barcelona. 1946. © Otho Lloyd

Barcelona. 1946. © Otho Lloyd

Photo of the Day: Budapest. 1950. © Robert Capa

Liberty Bridge, Budapest. 1950. © Robert Capa

Photo of the Day: London. 1937. © Wolfgang Suschitzky

London Nights. 1937. © Wolfgang Suschitzky

Photo of the Day: Grand Central Terminal. New York City. 1940. © Jerry Cooke

Grand Central Terminal. New York City. 1940. © Jerry Cooke

Photo of the Day: Little Girl and her Dog. Germany. 1926. © August Sander

Little Girl and her Dog. Germany. 1926. © August Sander

Photo of the Day: Paris. 1956. © Robert Doisneau

Monday got us like...
Paris. 1956. © Robert Doisneau

Moscow. 1968. © Elliott Erwitt

Moscow. 1968. © Elliott Erwitt

Comori ale sufletului: Mănăstirea Putna

Photo of the Day: The Child And The Dove. Paris. 1958. © Robert Doisneau

The Child And The Dove. Paris. 1958. © Robert Doisneau

Nicolae Grigorescu - Fata cu Mărgele Roșii (1897)

Pictorul Nicolae Grigorescu mărturisindu-se Frumuseţii. 
Fata cu Mărgele Roșii (1897)

"Eram de cincisprezece ani când meşterul care zugrăvea biserica de la Zamfira m-a luat cu el să-i fac sfinţii de la catapeasmă. Acolo am cunoscut o fetică tot aşa, cam de vârsta mea. Foarte frumoasă. Avea nişte ochi mari, albastri şi-n toată figura o expresie dulce, de-o cuminţenie îngerească. Şi nu ştiu cum, că ne-am pomenit prieteni. Seara, când isprăveam de lucru, ne-ntâlneam în grădina bisericii. Era vară, linişte, frumos ca în vis. Şi ne primblam alături, ţiindu-ne de mână, şi nu ne spuneam nimic. Da' eram aşa de fericiţi, cum numai la vârsta aceea poţi fi. Când ne despărţeam, ne strângeam de mână, ne şopteam încetişor: "Noapte bună" şi ne dam întâlnire pe a doua zi, tot la ceasul şi în locul acela... Ea era pentru mine tot ce făcuse Dumnezeu mai frumos pe lume. Şi nici nu mai puteam gândi altceva." (Nicolae Grigorescu)

Photo of the Day: L'Harmonica. Paris. 1944.

L'Harmonica. Paris. 1944. © Robert Doisneau

My beautiful Homeland: Mănăstirea Sucevița

My beautiful Homeland.

Bucovina, 2017: Room with a View

Room with a View

Hristos a înviat!

Hristos a înviat! Minunea Învierii să vă fie izvor de lumină!
"Au scos din cer îngerii icoanele/ Și-au aprins pe scări/ Candele și lumânări..." (Tudor Arghezi)

Piero della Francesca - Învierea Domnului (1463 - 1465)

Photo of the Day: A Llama in Times Square. New York City. 1957. © Inge Morath

A Llama in Times Square. New York City. 1957. © Inge Morath

Photo of the Day: Madrid. 1953. © Henri Cartier Bresson

Altar Boy. Madrid. 1953. © Henri Cartier Bresson

Photo of the Day: Grand Central Station. 1941.

 Grand Central Station. New York City. 1941. © John Vachon

Photo of the Day:St. Moritz. 1959. © Jakob Tuggener

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2MtEsrcTTs
St. Moritz, Switzerland. 1959. © Jakob Tuggener

Photo of the Day: The Little Gardener. Paris. 1946.

The Little Gardener:)
Paris. 1946. © Robert Doisneau

#LateNightJazz (John Coltrane - My Favorite Things)

Late night Jazz...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHVarQbNAwU&t=175s

Photo of the Day: Miles Davis during the recording sessions for Kind of Blue (1959)

Miles Davis during the recording sessions for Kind of Blue. New York. 1959. © Don Hunstein 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPfFhfSuUZ4

Photo of the Day: Constantin Brâncuși în atelierul său. Paris. 1946. © Wayne Miller

Constantin Brâncuși în atelierul său. Paris. 1946. © Wayne Miller

Movie of the Day: The Night of the Hunter (1955)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7B7A_dawI8

1h 32min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 24 November 1955 (Argentina)

Director:  Charles Laughton

Writers: James Agee (screenplay), Davis Grubb (based on the novel by)

Stars: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish

Memorable Quotes

Rev. Harry Powell: [when he notices John staring at the words "love" and "hate" tattooed across his knuckles] Ah, little lad, you're staring at my fingers. Would you like me to tell you the little story of right-hand/left-hand? The story of good and evil? H-A-T-E! It was with this left hand that old brother Cain struck the blow that laid his brother low. L-O-V-E! You see these fingers, dear hearts? These fingers has veins that run straight to the soul of man. The right hand, friends, the hand of love. Now watch, and I'll show you the story of life. Those fingers, dear hearts, is always a-warring and a-tugging, one agin t'other. Now watch 'em! Old brother left hand, left hand he's a fighting, and it looks like love's a goner. But wait a minute! Hot dog, love's a winning! Yessirree! It's love that's won, and old left hand hate is down for the count!

Rachel Cooper: I'm a strong tree with branches for many birds. I'm good for something in this world and I know it too.

Rachel Cooper: You know, when you're little, you have more endurance than God is ever to grant you again. Children are man at his strongest. They abide.

Rachel Cooper: It's a hard world for little things.

Rachel Cooper: [to Ruby, sobbing in her lap] 
Child... You were looking for love, Ruby, in the only foolish way you knew how.

Rachel Cooper: Lord save little children. The wind blows, and the rains are cold. Yet they abide.

Pearl Harper: [singing] Once upon a time there was a pretty fly, he had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.

Rachel Cooper: A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit. Neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Wherefore by their fruits, ye shall know them.

Rachel Cooper: She'll be losing her mind to a tricky mouth and a full moon, and like as not, I'll be saddled with the consequences.

[repeated line] 
Rev. Harry Powell: [singing] Leaning... leaning... safe and secure from all alarms. Leaning... leaning... leaning on the everlasting arms.

Rev. Harry Powell: Lord, you sure knew what you were doing when you brung me to this very cell at this very time. A man with ten thousand dollars hid somewhere, and a widder in the makin'.

[last lines] 
Rachel Cooper: They abide, and they endure.

Photo of the Day: Notre-Dame de Paris. 1953. © Henri Cartier-Bresson

Notre-Dame de Paris. 1953. © Henri Cartier-Bresson

Comori ale sufletului: Mănăstirea Moldovița (1532)

Mănăstirea Moldovița, o capodoperă a geniului creator uman, înscrisă în Patrimoniul UNESCO.

Photo of the Day: Remi listening to the sea (1995)

Remi listening to the sea. Paris. 1995. © Édouard Boubat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQerH4nRTUA

Photo of the Day: New York. 1965. © Joel Meyerowitz

Times Square. New York City. 1965. © Joel Meyerowitz

Slujba de duminică. Pictură de Ludovic Bassarab.

Slujba de duminică. Pictură de Ludovic Bassarab.

Photo of the Day: © Alfred Eisenstaedt. 1945.

Invitație la vals:)

© Alfred Eisenstaedt. 1945.