The Yakuza/Pollack/1974
Annie Hall/Allen/1977

Annie Hall/Allen/1977

Cool Hand Luke/Rosenberg/1967

artofthewire:

Happy Halloween from Ziggy Sobotka Stardust.

artofthewire:

Happy Halloween from Ziggy Sobotka Stardust.

Suspiria/Argento/1977

Suspiria/Argento/1977

(Source: wrongsideoftheart.com)

The Phantom Carriage/Sjöström/1921

The Phantom Carriage/Sjöström/1921

(Source: horrordvds.com)

Dersu Uzala/Kurosawa/1975

Dersu Uzala/Kurosawa/1975

(Source: cf2.imgobject.com)

What do gangsters represent for you?
JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE: Nothing at all. I think they’re pathetic losers. But it so happens that the gangster story… is a very suitable vehicle for the particular form of modern tragedy called film noir, which was born from American detective novels. It’s a flexible genre. You can put whatever you want into it, good or bad. And it’s a fairly easy vehicle to use to tell stories that matter to you about individual freedom, friendship, or rather human relationships, because they’re not always friendly. Or betrayal, one of the driving forces in American crime novels.

Do you know any gangsters?
MELVILLE: Yes, I knew quite a few. But they’re nothing like the ones in my films.

Boardwalk Empire/S03E04/Blue Bell Boy

Boardwalk Empire/S03E04/Blue Bell Boy

Buster Keaton (04/10/1895-01/02/1966)

(The Cameraman/College/Steamboat Bill, Jr./The Navigator/and promo stills)

Scarface/Hawks/1932
Scarface/De Palma/1983