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20 Oct, 8 tweets, 3 min read
Remembering Jean-Pierre Melville on his birthday 🎂
📷 A. Abbas
"In Melville country, all slopes are slippery, some of them fatally so."
- Anthony Lane
Jean-Pierre Melville by Sam Lévin
"Transposition is more or less a reflex with me: I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing."
Jean-Pierre Melville gives us a wave from his 1956 Plymouth Belvedere
📷 Gaston Paris, 1956
Jean Cocteau with Jean-Pierre Melville
📷 Georges Dambier
Coffee with Jean-Pierre Melville ☕️
📷 Jean Pierre Loth
"Melville’s great gift was to emphasize both the radical isolation of individuals and the sticky webs of social obligation in which they nonetheless exist."
- @aoscott
Jean-Pierre Melville by A. Abbas, 1972
"A movie director should be constantly open, constantly traumatizable."
Today we're celebrating Melville's birthday 🎂
#PhoneCallFromPaul @Holdengraber
Jean-Pierre Melville & a friend by Gaston Paris, 1950
On June 1967, Melville’s studio & apartment burned down. He had been woken up by one of his three cats, and smelled smoke.
Jean-Pierre Melville lost his entire archive in the fire. "Too busy to give himself over to suffering," according to his wife, he went back to work on Le Samouraï.
Good job, little guy!
📷 A. Abbas, 1972

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📷 Eugene Smith, 1945
"His music ineluctably anticipates the future because it originates from a perspective that sees time as laid out, simultaneously not successively, in space."
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Happy birthday Sir Michael Gambon
This 2019 portrait by Richard Learoyd @NPGLondon is special: it was made using a camera obscura & the Ilfochrome dye destruction positive-to-positive photographic process. A unique photo of a unique actor.
In Richard Learoyd's camera obscura photographs, light falling on the subject is directly focused onto the photographic paper without an interposing film negative.
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Remembering Vinicius de Moraes on his birthday 🎂
With Tom Jobim at the Bar Veloso
📷 Paulo Scheuenstuhl, 1960
With their great song "Garota de Ipanema"
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Remembering John Le Carré on his birthday 🎂
📷 Dudley Reed
"One of the fascinations of the intelligence world is that it’s such a reflection of the society it serves. If you really want to examine the national psychology, it’s locked in the secret world."
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Gina Lollobrigida by Raymond Voinquel, 1956
This was taken on the set of Carol Reed's Trapeze
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Raymond Voinquel also took a series of photos of Gina Lollobrigida on the set of Jean Delannoy's Notre Dame de Paris, also from 1956.
The goat is trying hard to upstage Gina Lollobrigida in this shot by Raymond Voinquel. She was playing Esmeralda in Jean Delannoy's Notre Dame de Paris, 1956.
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