ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): Marlene Dietrich

Showing posts with label Marlene Dietrich. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Marlene Dietrich. Show all posts

Saturday, July 27, 2024

Currently Watching

MARTIN ROUMAGNAC
[American Title: THE ROOM UPSTAIRS]
Georges Lacombe
France, 1946

Sunday, November 26, 2023

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KISMET
William Dieterle
USA, 1944

Monday, November 20, 2023

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A FOREIGN AFFAIR

Billy Wilder

USA, 1948

Saturday, November 18, 2023

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THE GARDEN OF ALLAH
Richard Boleslawski
USA, 1936

Thursday, November 9, 2023

MARLENE DIETRICH

How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet – it’s gone.

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

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MOROCCO
Josef von Sternberg
USA, 1930

MARLENE DIETRICH

Grumbling is the death of love.

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

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THE SCARLET EMPRESS
Josef von Sternberg
USA, 1934

MARLENE DIETRICH

I believe it to be far from harmless—the Desire to be beautiful. This is a universal instinct, and it is easy to see how this desire, properly goaded, has every chance of getting out of hand. Once out of hand, it becomes the cause of much unhappiness. The young girl of today is the unhappy victim. I wish I could say the innocent victim—she is almost innocent. But let us take her side; she deserves it.

Monday, November 6, 2023

Currently Watching

BLONDE VENUS
Josef von Sternberg
USA, 1932

MARLENE DIETRICH

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

Sunday, November 5, 2023

Currently Watching

SHANGHAI EXPRESS
Josef von Sternberg
USA, 1932

Currently Watching

DISHONORED
[aka X 27]
Josef von Sternberg
USA, 1931

MARLENE DIETRICH

If there is a supreme being, he’s crazy.

Saturday, November 4, 2023

MARLENE DIETRICH

I’m not an actress. I’m a personality.

Friday, November 3, 2023

Currently Watching

RANCHO NOTORIOUS
Fritz Lang
USA, 1951

Sunday, June 25, 2023

Currently Playing

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THE STORY OF MY LIFE

60 Original Pop and Soul Anthems

Buch Bacharach

Featuring Dionne Warwick, Gene Pitney, Gene Vincent, Del Shannon, The Shirelles, The Drifters, Marty Robbins, Perry Como, Johnny Mathis, Etta James, Sophia Loren, Marlene Dietrich, Jack Jones, Mel Tormé, Cathy Carr

Thursday, April 16, 2020

DESTRY RIDES AGAIN

George Marshall
USA, 1939

Friday, November 22, 2019

Marlene Dietrich in Billy Wilder’s A FOREIGN AFFAIR (1948)

Sunday, March 19, 2017

MARLENE DIETRICH as Frenchy in Destry Rides Again

And when I die, don’t pay the preacher, for speaking of my glory and my fame; just see what the boys in the back room will have, and tell them I sigh, tell them I cry, and tell them I died of the same.

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SOME QUOTES

MARGARET ATWOOD

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

DOROTHY ALLISON

If it’s true, I have the absolute right to terrify you with it.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I am absolutely convinced that the main source of hate in the world is religion and organized religion. Absolutely convinced of that. And I think it should be - religion - treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt.

So when I say that I think religion poisons everything, I’m not just doing what publishers like and coming up with a provocative subtitle. I mean to say it infects us in our most basic integrity.

It says we can’t be moral without “Big Brother,” without a totalitarian permission. It means we can’t be good to one another without this. It means we must be afraid.

We must also be forced to love someone whom we fear - the essence of sado-masochism, the essence of abjection, the essence of the Master/Slave relationship. And that it knows death is coming, and can’t wait to bring it on.

I say that is Evil.

And though I do, some nights, stay home, I enjoy more the nights when I go out and fight against this ultimate wickedness and this ultimate stupidity.

JACK LONDON

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time living.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

STEPHEN BATCHELOR

It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored. How extraordinary it is to be here at all!

DOROTHY PARKER

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

There’s no right answer to the wrong question. Now what do we do?

CARL SAGAN

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues.

When the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites - now down to 10 seconds or less - lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

MARGARET MEAD

It seems to me very important to continue to distinguish between two evils. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.