Francesca de Rochefort 💄

now there's a name i haven't heard in a long time.....

Francesca's Top 250 Films List (2025, VII) It's the most wonderful time of the year... After years of getting more and more difficult I've actually found it easier to compile my 250 this year, I think because I'm beginning to burrow down into ...

i am more or less off social media now but to anyone still around following me, i did make a fav movies list again since it's an annual tradition letterboxd.com/lalangue/lis...

the quaaludes scene in The Wolf of Wall Street got the most laughter I've ever heard in an audience when I saw it in Glasgow

on the other end of the scale, when I saw The White Ribbon recently there was a murmur of horror at That Reveal

Most important June rewatches

The Three Caballeros (1944)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Ran (1985)
The Shrouds (2024)

Penda's Fen (1974, Clarke)

Excalibur (Boorman, 1981)

Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989, Omori)

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004, Oshii)

June favourite first watches

Hatari! (1962)
Penda's Fen (1974)
Excalibur (1981)
Angel's Egg (1985)
Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)

Landscapes in Alan Clarke’s PENDA'S FEN (1974):
DoP Michael Williams, camera operation Ken Morgan

#folkhorror #filmsky #PlayForToday #PendasFen #DavidRudkin #AlanClarke #filmphotography #landscapephotography #horrorsky

Hidden gems of LGBTQ+ cinema: celebrating the wonderful slippery queerness of Penda’s Fen Rector’s son Stephen must come to terms with the complexity of his desires while grappling with societal pressure and religious guilt.

"Everyone who has ever felt the constituent parts of their own sexuality refusing to align should watch [Penda's Fen] and fall in love with their own strangeness." A good piece by Benedict Morrison, just up, and marking Pride. theconversation.com/hidden-gems-...

Peter Ibbetson (Hathaway, 1935) // Amor de Perdição (Oliveira, 1978)

Stroheim is so brutally underrated outside of that film generally (understandably tho), Foolish Wives & The Wedding March are top tier silents imho

possible controversial opinion but The Honeymoon might be higher on my holy grail lost films than the fabled uncut version of Greed

I thought the destruction and the hatred began when Starmer decided he hates Palestinians, trans people and seemingly anyone who wants him to keep to any of the many broken promises he made in 2020 and since, personally

Hand Jive (2023 Remaster) YouTube video by Miles Davis - Topic

Recorded this day, 1967: Miles and the Second Great Quintet holds the third of five sessions for their next album, 𝙉𝙚𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙞 (Columbia CS 9594). The only piece recorded that day was Tony Williams' composition 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗝𝗶𝘃𝗲. Take 11 was the master.
#jazz #jazzsky #milesdavis

You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen · You Want It Darker · Song · 2016

open.spotify.com/track/5zb7np... it's one of those days again

Deep Red (1975)

Inferno (1980)

Tenebrae (1982)

Phenomena (1985)

Images of Daria Nicolodi in the films of Dario Argento

Nicolodi was BOTD in 1950

Deep Red (1975)
Inferno (1980)
Tenebrae (1982)
Phenomena (1985)

Trump bombs a country that poses no immediate threat to the US without Congress approval or reference to the UN and all Starmer does is whine about who is on at Glastonbury. We deserve much, much better than this.

british centrists SHOCKED to discover the EU is in fact a warmongering imperialist club and not an angelic harbinger of peace and common good just because deform uk also happen to dislike it

i can hate both equally

The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)👯‍♀️

might go back to a five point system on letterboxd ten is too much of a headache

deepfake ahh movie

only just found out the How To Train Your Dragon in cinemas isn't a re-release but apparently another "live-action" remake?????

wow somebody really took The Shrouds as an instruction manual huh

Experiment in Terror (1962) Directed by Blake Edwards stars Lee Remick, Glenn Ford, Ross Martin and Stefanie Powers.

creating a conspiracy theory that Megalopolis is an allegory for the Cuban revolution.

Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St. Paul
I've seen the future, brother
It is murder.
- Leonard Cohen
(Huron County, November 17, 2024)

Chantal Akerman

“I think you can do your article by thinking about the film for yourself. I’m not the writer. I have already done the film—so now it’s your work.”

I love this comment from Chantal Akerman #BOTD in response to a critic asking her about her work.

Jazz legend Miles Davis was #BOTD in 1926. The innovative and influential trumpeter composed the beautiful soundtrack to “Elevator to the Gallows” (1958) directed by Louis Malle. Lovers Jeanne Moreau and Maurice Ronet plan a murder but things get complicated. Nouvelles Éditions de Films. #FilmNoir

Directed by John Cassavettes “The Killing of a Chinese Bookie” (1976) is the story of Cosmo (Ben Gazzara) a burlesque club owner in deep for a lot of money. Mobsters tell him to take out a bookmaker to settle scores. But he just wants to give the audience a good show. Faces Distribution. #neonoir

Desert Hearts (1985)

Directed by #DonnaDeitch
Starring: #HelenShaver #PatriciaCharbonneau #AudraLindley #AndraAkers #GwenWelles #DeanButler

Cinematography by #RobertElswit
Production Designer by #JeannineOppewall

#DesertHearts #1980s #romance #romanticfilm #western

writing this in 1956 has the same energy as me reading my high school diary from when i was 13 and how hard i thought life was then