John Blanco

@johnblanco.bsky.social

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Likes movies, especially art, foreign, golden age, trash, silent, precode, noir.

James Mason and Sue Lyon in “Lolita.” Mason, playing Humbert, is in shadow, holding Lyon’s hand. Lyon, on the bed, is staring at him suggestively.
A “You’re a Big Boy Now” poster that I had in my teenage bedroom.
Photo of Carol Kane by Mary Ellen Mark.
Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth in a 1889 portrait by John Singer Sargent.
Ernie Kovacs as Percy Dovetonsils enjoying a martini.
Timothee shirtless.
Maya Deren in Meshes of the Afternoon.
Maggie Cheung in Wong Kar-wai’s “In the Mood for Love.”
Olga Baclanova in Freaks.
Shirley MacLaine in “What a Way to Go!”
Franklin Pangborn looking characteristically astonished for the camera in a publicity shot from the 1930s.