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A STORY OF THE FOREST

By on October 25, 2012 in film stills


This Ukrainian film seems to meet most of my weird old movie requirements, at least visually. Too bad I will probably never see it! Made by Yuri Ilyenko in 1983, it popped up in the livejournal film stills community that I will follow forever, apparently called Mavka or A Story of the Forest. Searching for it online leads to a lot of dead ends, or just more screenshots from the livejournal post that have been shared on tumblr or other sites. Definitely fulfills my forest/naked girl/weird ritualistic costume needs, ha ha. I went into the woods today to go mushroom hunting but it was too early, the ground wasn’t dry enough yet. Found a few soggy lobster mushrooms that were too gross to take, and one really great looking yellow capped dude that would probably trypppp you out, or maybe just kill you. I’ll be back for the edible ones again later, hopefully!






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TRENDIEST VAMPIRES EVER

By on October 10, 2012 in fashion inspiration, film stills


Recently dalas pointed out to me that the vampire club scene at the beginning of Blade looks super trendy today with the 90′s club revival style and he was really right.*

*those horrible man shirts excluded, I HOPE

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AND SOON THE DARKNESS

By on June 10, 2012 in film stills



Film stills from a kinda boring 1970′s thriller about two girls on a cycling trip through the French countryside. Plenty of nice shots overall, but the ladies didn’t change their outfits enough to keep me interested. I wanted more rad 60′s/70′s Euro vacation style!





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SUMMER BABES // VALERIE

By on March 31, 2012 in fashion inspiration, film stills


Something unfortunate is happening in Portland: lots and lots of rain. Rain every day, with only more rain on the horizon. Anytime I see a hint of summer I feel such an intense craving for the sun and heat that I feel a little crazy. dalas played this Steve Winwood video the other night and decided it would be his new karaoke jam, and I lost it over the peach and tropical leaves and general babe-ness of VALERIEEEE. I thought I knew this song but it may just be some dance track that samples it? Whatever, either way I wanted to go back and screencap it from island-tropic-summer-dream girl to moody-jeans-in-an-80′s-mystery-alley girl. I think this video might be the reason that I now own a peachy leather mini skirt. That color!!








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FILM STILLS / SUMMER LOVERS

By on October 3, 2011 in film stills



Oh, summer. You know, that time where you go on an exotic vacation with your boyfriend, where everything is a never-ending party of wine drinking, dancing, ridiculous sunsets, cliff-jumping, hot naked people on every beach, and any romantic problems that you have are magically solved by introducing a khaki short-shorts wearing French archaeologist lady into your relationship! I watched Summer Lovers right at the end of August and it felt like the most perfect ode to summer, totally ridiculous and beachy, with the most outrageous soundtrack- one that I will absolutely buy if I ever find the record in a thrift store. How did I even get through my summer without these jams??? Daryl Hannah is a super babe in this movie and I was really jealous of every single cliff jump. Pretty sure the funniest scene is where the two ladies are literally prancing around and doing cartwheels and stuff while Peter Gallagher is just watching them, soooooo stoked on his life. Don’t worry- he always manages to stay perfectly positioned between the two ladies (like in the movie poster), because while this is a magical sexually-charged Greek island vacation land, it would obviously just be TOO scandalous for the women to be more involved in each other. This movie has a weird sense of sexual boundaries- seriously, half the time everyone is naked. Also, the mom coming to visit? Why? Made no sense. This movie is totally tacky and hilarious and stupid and I think I might have to watch it every summer.















Oh and also, this happens:

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1920′s Witches – Häxan

By on June 1, 2011 in film stills


This is totally the opposite of yesterday’s post, going from things that are colorful, bright and new to things that are old, dark and scary. dalas got this movie from Netflix and I snagged some images from the DVD’s stills & set photos gallery. Häxan is a Danish film from 1922 about witchcraft through the ages. It’s kind of corny and weird, but there are some amazing scenes and images, like that crazy dog below! I love old interior images from the early 20th century, especially when they are empty and quiet. I feel like I’m going to get sucked right into them!







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Film Stills: La Désenchantée

By on April 20, 2011 in film stills


Have I cornered the blog market on screencapping French coming-of-age themed films yet? Haha… maybe. Here are some stills from La Désenchantée (aka the Disenchanted), a Parisian movie from 1990. In it you will find: a couple cute 50′s dresses, some 90′s hairstyles, French dudes of varying ages, one kitten, one naked scene, many grumpy and disinterested stares. Sorry the image quality isn’t great, that’s what you get for streaming video!










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Film Stills: Pauline à la plage

By on April 12, 2011 in film stills


I just half-watched this French movie from the early 80′s, Pauline à la plage. It’s another one of those kinda boring summer romance coming-of-age flicks, this one isn’t amazing or anything but it does have the bonus of being so, so, soooo French. There are characters named Pauline and Pierre! “Oh Pierre, please!” is a screencap I took but am not posting, haha. They wear approximately one million striped outfits, there are scandalous 80′s swimsuits and good countryside beach scenes. I wouldn’t really recommend this movie since the plot is so predictable (unless you’re bored tonight, like me!), but please enjoy these screencaps! Clever Nettle – getting the good outfits from bad movies so that you don’t have to watch them!




I swear Pierre makes this expression for the entire film. Dude is not having a good summer!











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Dark Grunge X-Files

By on April 4, 2011 in film stills


Thanks to Netflix Instant I have been watching every single episode of the X-Files, starting with the very first season. It’s taking a while obviously, but I’m almost finished season three. When it first aired I’d see an ep here or there, but I didn’t realize the way that the main story arc is scattered around between one-off episodes, it’s funny to watch it with that context because Scully might see a ton of aliens in one episode (part of the arc) but in the next one (not part of the arc), she’s all, “Mulder, how can you believe this stuff?!” Haha, I LOVE IT. I should have been screen capping the whole time, seriously. Especially from the episode where Scully goes on a date and she wears a white lace bodysuit top? OMG Scully. I love her. Always getting hit in the head! Anyway, here are some screencaps from Syzygy, an episode in the 3rd season. My favorite ones are always about goths, witches and teenagers. This one was seriously priceless, these girls were so good at making ultimate bitch faces- gotta wonder if this came out around the same time as The Craft. Nothing better than cheerleaders turning into goths and holding uncomfortable goth birthday parties for their square friends.







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Vintage Alice

By on March 29, 2011 in film stills


These film stills are from a 1972 version of Alice in Wonderland, I really like the colors… it’s funny how many different film versions of this story exist out there!




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