“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism,” --

Hannah Arendt

Juliette Greco chante Sous le ciel de Paris

Sous le ciel de Paris
Marchent des amoureux, hmm-hmm
Leur bonheur se construit
Sur un air fait pour eux…

Songwriters: Hubert Giraud / Jean Dréjac

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
Carl Sagan,
November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996

The Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989, after nearly 30 years of dividing East and West Berlin.

Lamarr co-invented frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology during WWII, which laid the groundwork for modern wireless technologies, including Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth.

Remembering Hedy Lamarr on her birthday

Put your ear down close to your soul and
listen Hard.

Anne Sexton,
November 9, 1928 – October 4, 1974

BOMBSHELL - THE HEDY LAMARR STORY 2017

four never-before-heard audio tapes of Hedy speaking on the record about her incredible life.

youtu.be/fIP-4mmzGhg?si…

Bernard Queysanne
The Man Who Sleeps (1974)

Juliette Greco chante Sous le ciel de Paris

Sous le ciel de Paris
Marchent des amoureux, hmm-hmm
Leur bonheur se construit
Sur un air fait pour eux…

Songwriters: Hubert Giraud / Jean Dréjac

The most dangerous form of blindness, is believing that your perspective is the only reality.
Friedrich Nietzsche

"I’m going to tell you something: Thoughts are never honest. Emotions are."
Notebooks: 1951–1959 (Cahiers: 1951-1959).

Albert Camus, November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960.
1959 photo by Jack Garofalo.

"In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer."

Albert Camus,
November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960

1957 photo by Loomis Dean

BOMBSHELL - THE HEDY LAMARR STORY 2017

four never-before-heard audio tapes of Hedy speaking on the record about her incredible life.

youtu.be/fIP-4mmzGhg?si…

Lamarr co-invented frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology during WWII, which laid the groundwork for modern wireless technologies, including Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth.

Remembering Hedy Lamarr on her birthday

Put your ear down close to your soul and
listen Hard.

Anne Sexton,
November 9, 1928 – October 4, 1974

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
Carl Sagan,
November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996

Charles Boyer
28 August 1899 – 26 August 1978

Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr in Algiers (1938)

L’éclipse 1962,L’eclisse .

Alain Delon Monica Vitti
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

Alain Delon,
November 8, 1935 – August 18, 2024

Rocco and His Brothers (1960) directed by Luchino Visconti

Alain Delon, November 8, 1935 – August 18, 2024.
Joseph Losey with Alain Delon on the set of Mr. Klein (1976).

Remembering Gene Tierney

French poster for Laura Otto Preminger, 1944
Premiering in Paris in July 1946
Laura, along with other dark crime films made in the US during and just after the war, made a deep impression on French filmmakers, critics, and cinéastes labeled Film Noir.