@lukecinemawest
Cult Cinema Enthusiast 📽🎞😃 Favorite genres include: Eurocult French New Wave New Hollywood Film-Noir Commedia all'italiana Fleischer studios cartoons Can also be found at: https://letterboxd.com/Lukecinemawest https://www.instagram.com/lukecinemawest
Identikit (AKA The Driver's Seat) (1974)
Directed by #GiuseppePatroniGriffi
Starring by #ElizabethTaylor #IanBannen #GuidoMannari
#MonaWashbourne #LuigiSquarzina #MaxenceMailfort #AndyWarhol
Cinematography by #VittorioStoraro
Music by #FrancoMannino
#Identikit #TheDriversSeat #Cinemaitaliano
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Directed by #BillyWilder
Starring: #RayMilland #JaneWyman #PhillipTerry #HowarddaSilva #DorisDowling #FrankFaylen
Cinematography by #JohnFSeitz
Music by #MiklósRózsa
#TheLostWeekend #1940s #1940s #1940sfilm #classichollywood #classicfilm #drama
Mauvais Sang (1986)
Directed by #LeosCarax
Starring: #DenisLavant #JulietteBinoche #MichelPiccoli
#HansMeyer #JulieDelpy
Cinematography by #JeanYvesEscoffier
Music by #BenjaminBritten #DavidBowie #SergeiProkofiev
#MauvaisSang #1980s #crimefilm #FrenchCinema #Cinémafrançais
Klute (1971)
Directed by #AlanJPakula
Starring: #JaneFonda #DonaldSutherland #CharlesCioffi #NathanGeorge #DorothyTristan #RoyScheider #RitaGam
Cinematography by #GordonWillis
Music by #MichaelSmall
#Klute #1970s #NeoNoir #Crimefilm #Newhollywood
Teorema (1968)
Directed by #PierPaoloPasolini
Starring #SilvanaMangano #TerenceStamp #MassimoGirotti #AnneWiazemsky #LauraBetti
Cinematography by #GiuseppeRuzzolini
Music by #EnnioMorricone
#Teorema #1960s #ItalianCinema #Cinemaitaliano
The images in this post are from:
The 10th Victim (1965)
Danger: Diabolik (1968)
Check to the Queen (1969)
Camille 2000 (1969)
Post something from the 60’s! 🖤
Celine and Julie go Boating (1974)
Directed by #JacquesRivette
Starring: #DominiqueLabourier #JulietBerto #BulleOgier
#MarieFrancePisier
Cinematography by #JacquesRenard
Music by #JeanMarieSenia
#CelineandJuliegoBoating #CélineetJulievontenbateau #FrenchNewWave #NouvelleVouge #cinémafrançais
Chungking Express (1994)
Directed by #WongKarwai
Starring #BrigitteLin #TakeshiKaneshiro #TonyLeung #FayeWong
Cinematography #ChristopherDoyle
Music by #FrankieChan #RoelAGarcia
#ChungkingExpress #1990s #90sfilms #90smovies #CultFilms #CultMovies #90sfashion #asianfilm #Asiancinema #neonoir
Blue Panther (1965)
Directed by #ClaudeChabrol
Starring #MarieLaforêt #FranciscoRabal #SergeReggiani #CharlesDenner #AkimTamiroff #RogerHanin #StéphaneAudran
Cinematography by #JeanRabier
Music by #GregorioGarcíaSegura #PierreJansen
#BluePanther #1960s #comedy #action #Cinémafrançais
Black Widow (1987)
Directed by #BobRafelson
Starring #DebraWinger #TheresaRussell #SamiFrey #DennisHopper #NicolWilliamson
Cinematography by #ConradLHall
Music by #MichaelSmall
#BlackWidow #1980s #thriller
Road House (1948)
Directed by #JeanNegulesco
Starring: #IdaLupino #CornelWilde #CelesteHolm #RichardWidmark
Cinematography by #JosephLaShelle
Music by #CyrilJMockridge
#RoadHouse #1940s #40smovies #40sfilms #1940s #FilmNoir #Classicfilm #Filmnoir
Vampyros Lesbos (1971)
Directed by #JesúsFranco
Starring #SoledadMiranda #EwaStrömberg #AndreaMontchal #DennisPrice #PaulMüller
Cinematography by #ManuelMerino
Music by #JesúsFranco #ManfredHübler #SigiSchwab
#VampyrosLesbos #1970s #Vampire #Vampirefilm #Vampiremovies #CultFilms #CultMovies
Margaret Tynes performs on THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW, August 5, 1962: m.youtube.com/watch?v=H4KA...
Margaret Tynes
(September 11, 1919 – March 7, 2024)
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Margaret Tynes as “Carmen”, c. 1950s. From the Margaret Tynes Collections via North Carolina A&T Alumni
If you are familiar with VINTAGE BLACK GLAMOUR by Nichelle Gainer, you may know Ms. Tynes was Gainer's aunt, vocal about Ms. Tynes being part of the inspiration to write her book, VINTAGE BLACK GLAMOUR, posting Ms. Margaret Tynes passed on March 7, 2024: www.instagram.com/p/C4UHCiwtrAf/
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Margaret Tynes (R) with Joya Sherrill and Duke Ellington in the televised performance of Duke Ellington’s A DRUM IS A WOMAN, 1957
"Yeah, and I’m the president of the United States," was the response Margaret Tynes gave when she received a phone call from Duke Ellington after he heard her as Lady Macbeth, later recording Ellington's jazz suite A DRUM IS A WOMAN (1956) with Ellington.
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Margaret Tynes was also "the first American to perform behind the Iron Curtain when she went to Russia with Ed Sullivan for the U.S. State Department."
📷: Margaret in Magyarország, Budapest, 1963
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Some of Margaret Tynes roles included "Lady Macbeth," "Carmen," "Aida" and "Dido" (DIDO AND AENEAS), noted for gaining "international acclaim for her role as Salome at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy" (Luchino Visconti staging)
📸 Verdi's opera as "Aida," 1962
📸 Moss Photo, N.Y
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Margaret Tynes. 📸: Carl Van Vechten 1959
If you are unfamiliar with Margaret Tynes . . . Get familiar. A bachelor's degree, Masters in Music Education, and studying at Juilliard, singing actress, opera and concert soprano Margaret Tynes, appeared with lead opera companies, including the Met Opera and Vienna Staatsoper.
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Here, opera singer Margaret Tynes, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, dated September 1959.
A 7-part thread
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Madeleine Carroll in a still from The General Died at Dawn (1936). #botd
Myrna Loy hoping she’ll get better reception with her special hat. From Man-Proof (1938). Fashion Friday.
Joanne Woodward for The Three Faces of Eve (1957). #botd
Peggy Drake by Ernest Bachrach for RKO, 1941.
Louise and Gregory Kelly in a still from The Show-Off (1926).
Gwili Andre by Ernest Bachrach, 1932.
Martha Vickers by Scotty Welbourne, 1945. I’ve posted a few from this session before but this one is new to me.
Lois Moran, 1931. #botd
The Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice (1953)
by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Juliette Binoche and
Robert Doisneau