Le Genou de Claire 1970, directed by Éric Rohmer
Claire's Knee

La Strada (1954)
Directed by Federico Fellini
Anthony Quinn & Giulietta Masina

Gothic 19th-century daguerreotype metal plate photograph of a young lady dubbed “Mona Lisa of the Deep”.

Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Seberg & Jean-Paul Belmondo on Breathless movie set 1959

Gothic 19th-century daguerreotype metal plate photograph of a young lady dubbed “Mona Lisa of the Deep”.

“It isn’t necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.”

Franz Kafka

Boris Lipnitzki
Edith Piaf, Paris 1936

You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
Fred Astaire

Nathalie Baye
6 July 1948 – 18 April 2026 RIP

“It isn’t necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.”

Franz Kafka

Audrey Hepburn on a bicycle - for LIFE Magazine. 1953 - by Mark Shaw BOTD

Serge Gainsbourg, April 2, 1928 – March 2, 1991.
With Jane Birkin.

Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Seberg & Jean-Paul Belmondo on Breathless movie set 1959

You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
Fred Astaire

Boris Lipnitzki
Edith Piaf, Paris 1936

“Is that a smiling winter snake-heart-dove at my frosty window? I’m in no mood to get up to answer.”
Anna Akhmatova

"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea".

Isak Dinesen,
April 17, 1885 – September 7, 1962

Here are Bill Holden & Audrey Holden in the same car, in a photo by Bud Fraker.

William Holden on ''Sabrina''set 1954 with the 1953 Nash-Healey roadster

Nathalie Baye
6 July 1948 – 18 April 2026 RIP

Lioness Posing, Rosa Bonheur, 1874

William Holden on ''Sabrina''set 1954 with the 1953 Nash-Healey roadster

Lioness Posing, Rosa Bonheur, 1874

"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea".

Isak Dinesen,
April 17, 1885 – September 7, 1962

“Is that a smiling winter snake-heart-dove at my frosty window? I’m in no mood to get up to answer.”
Anna Akhmatova

Barry Lyndon (1975)

Barry Lyndon (1975)

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
Charles Baudelaire BOTD