Marine Scene, Constantin Alexandrovich Westchiloff

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Old Hollywood Asks

12 Angry Men- What’s your favorite movie? 

2001: A Space Odyssey- What’s your least favorite movie? 

A Streetcar Named Desire- What’s your favorite movie genre? 

All About Eve- Do you like to watch movies with subtitles? 

Apocalypse Now- What are your thoughts on children? Do you want any?

Ben-Hur- What’s the story/meaning behind your name?

Breakfast at Tiffany’s- What’s one of your favorite memories? 

Breathless- What’s one of your least favorite memories? 

Casablanca- Do you want to get married? 

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof- What was your childhood like? 

Citizen Kane- Do you prefer to read books or watch movies? 

Dinner at Eight- What’s your favorite book? 

Double Indemnity- Who is someone you look up to? 

From Here to Eternity- Describe your perfect/ideal life. 

Funny Face- What’s something that can always make you smile? 

Gone With the Wind- How many relationships have you been in? 

High Noon- What’s your ideal way to get warm? 

It’s a Wonderful Life- What makes life better for you? 

Jaws- What’s something from your past that you wish hadn’t happened? 

Key Largo- What’s your favorite ice cream/cake/cookie flavor? 

La Dolce Vita- What’s a talent of yours that you try to keep hidden from other people? 

Lawrence of Arabia- What was your first job? Did you enjoy it? 

My Fair Lady- What’s one of your favorite memories from when you were younger?

North by Northwest- What’s one of your least favorite memories from when you were younger? 

Notorious- What’s one thing you like about yourself? 

Psycho- What’s one thing you want to happen in the future (preferably within the next year)?

Rear Window- What’s one animal that you want to get? 

Rebel Without a Cause- If you were to have kids, what would you want to name them/how would you choose a name? 

Repulsion- What’s something you like to do in your free time? 

Roman Holiday- If you could know the honest answer to any question, what question would it be? 

Sabrina- If you could be with anyone right now, who would it be? 

Shane- Honestly, how are you doing right now? 

Singin’ in the Rain- Are you currently reading anything? If so, what is it? 

Some Like It Hot- What would you tell your teenage self, if you could?

Sunset Boulevard- Who is someone that you can’t help but be happy around? 

Taxi Driver- If you could change one thing that has happened to either yourself or someone you care about, what would you change? 

The 400 Blows- What is one place you want to go to? 

The Apartment- What is something that has impacted who you are today? 

The Godfather- What is something that calms you? 

The Graduate- Are you religious/spiritual? 

The Maltese Falcon- What’s your favorite holiday? How do you like to spend it? 

The Man Who Knew Too Much- How do you show affection and love? 

The Philadelphia Story- What would you do if your parents didn’t like your partner(s)?

The Third Man- Have you ever lost someone that you were close to? 

The Wizard of Oz- What’s something that helps you relax? 

Titanic- Have you ever been forced into doing something that you didn’t want to do?

To Have and Have Not- What’s something that not a lot of people know about you? 

Tokyo Story- How was your last relationship? Why did it end, and who ended it? 

Touch of Evil- Have you ever done drugs/drank alcohol? 

Vertigo- Have you ever been in love? 

Witness for the Prosecution- Give a random fact about yourself

Wuthering Heights- Do you like cards/card games? Which is your favorite? 

1970s

“Justice does not require that men must stand idly by while others destroy the basis of their existence.” - John Rawls, A Theory of Justice

Mahmoud Darwish, from Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi)

Patrick Syme, Charts for Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours: Adapted to Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Anatomy, and the Arts, 1821

Via brainpickings

“No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse the memories of joy” - Dante Alighieri

Love Jones (Theodore Witcher, 1997)