New Year's Resolution: Utilize A Wider Variety Of James Cagney-esque Insults In My Vocabulary. You Smackoff.

New York overwhelmed me. For the first few weeks I only strayed a couple of blocks from my hotel off Times Square. I would see three movies a day in an attempt to escape my loneliness and depression. I spent $150 of my limited funds just on seeing movies. - James Dean

Portrait of a beloved loaf. Ca. 1865 - 1880. Source.

— Godard films

maybe life is just about going to the cinema

Pre-Code Hollywood refers to the era in the American film industry between the introduction of sound in the late 1920s and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code (usually labeled, albeit inaccurately after 1934, as the “Hays Code”) censorship guidelines. Although the Code was adopted in 1930, oversight was poor and it did not become rigorously enforced until July 1, 1934. Before that date, movie content was restricted more by local laws, negotiations between the Studio Relations Committee (SRC) and the major studios, and popular opinion than strict adherence to the Hays Code, which was often ignored by Hollywood filmmakers. As a result, films in the late 1920s and early 1930s included sexual innuendo, miscegenation, profanity, illegal drug use, promiscuity, prostitution, infidelity, abortion, intense violence and homosexuality.

Barbara Stanwyck and Joan Blondell in Night Nurse (1931)

Ann Dvorak in Love is a Racket, I love leg fetishism in old movies so much! It feels so quaint!

BETTE DAVIS as Julie Marsden in JEZEBEL — dir. William Wyler (1938)

Baby Face (1933) dir. Alfred E. Green

Buster Keaton ❥

you’ve never even heard of the wikipedia pages i’ve been on