That 1963 disappearance was a scandal. She had been the most beloved of film stars, her handsome face, accepting smile, known to all. And then, suddenly, rudely, without a word of apology, she was going to disappear—to retire.
Here, where the stars hang on, voluntary retirement is unknown, particularly for one the caliber of Setsuko Hara. She had become an ideal: men wanted to marry someone like her; women wanted to be someone like her.
This was because on the screen she reconciled her life as real people cannot. Whatever her role in films—daughter, wife, or mother—she played a woman who at the same time, somehow, was herself. Her social roles did not eclipse that individual self, our Setsuko.
— Donald Richie, Japanese Portraits
Setsuko Hara
Born June 17, 1920
Posted on Monday, June 17th 2013
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Une Femme est Une Femme (Jean-Luc Godarad, 1961)
1517 - WhitestBoyAlive
Posted on Wednesday, May 15th 2013
Paris, Texas (1984)
Posted on Monday, May 13th 2013
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Chaser: A scene from the actual film.
Posted on Sunday, May 5th 2013
Shot: 20C.Fox’s Trailer for Weir’s ‘Master And Commander’
Posted on Sunday, May 5th 2013
The entire April 1913 issue of National Geographic magazine was devoted to Machu Picchu and the National Geographic Society-funded expedition of the Inca site which had taken place during the previous year. American academic Hiram Bingham, III claimed to have “discovered” the centuries-old site on this date in 1911. The original article is up at the magazine’s website.
Posted on Saturday, May 4th 2013
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On the birthday of Frederick Law Olmsted — the father of American landscape architecture — we celebrate Olmsted’s and his partner Calvert Vaux’s best-loved creation: Central Park.
Here, photos of Central Park from the summer of ‘61.
(Leonard McCombe—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Posted on Saturday, April 27th 2013
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Continuity Polaroid of actor Danny Lloyd on the Guest Room Hallway set of The Shining.
(photo courtesy Filippo Ulivieri, who has written an Italian biography of Kubrick’s longtime personal assistant Emilio D’Alessandro)
Posted on Saturday, April 20th 2013
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The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973)
Favorite.
Posted on Sunday, April 14th 2013
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Learning to ride sequence from The Black Stallion (1979)
Posted on Sunday, April 14th 2013
Willie Mays, “The Catch.” Game 1, 1954 World Series. New York Giants vs. Cleveland Indians at Polo Grounds.
Posted on Saturday, April 13th 2013
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Posted on Thursday, April 11th 2013


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