May 2013
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5 Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton Movies To Watch →
With Cannes screening Cleopatra (marking its 50th anniversary) two nights ago and yesterday’s re-release screenings at 75 theaters countrywide, we’re feeling the Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton love. The twice-divorced, Vatican-condemned couple continues to capture the public’s imagination and interest. In the past three years, we’ve seen Sam Kashner’s Furious Love and Richard Burton’s diaries...
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“The large room was full of people. One of the girls in yellow was playing the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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“Her screwed-up black glove dropped to the floor. When Jacob gave it her, she...”
– Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room
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“It seems then that men and women are equally at fault. It seems that a profound,...”
– Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room
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““No, no, no,” she sighed, standing at the greenhouse door,...”
– Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room
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“He had masses of fascinating women everywhere, wanting at first to be either...”
– The Salad Days, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. writing about friend & co-star Leslie Howard (via interrmezzo)
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“If somebody goes out to make a movie that isn’t designed primarily to entertain...”
– Joel Coen (via imcastortroy)
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“To be flung into the sea, to be washed hither and thither, and driven about the...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (via light-essence)
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“Raquel Welch is the rudest, most unprofessional actress I’ve ever had the...”
– James Mason
January 2013
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“As we are a doomed race, chained to a sinking ship, as the whole thing is a bad...”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (via eulum)
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Ten Relationship Words That Aren't Translatable...
Mamihlapinatapei (Yagan, an indigenous language of Tierra del Fuego): The wordless yet meaningful look shared by two people who desire to initiate something, but are both reluctant to start.
Yuanfen (Chinese): A relationship by fate or destiny. This is a complex concept. It draws on principles of predetermination in Chinese culture, which dictate relationships, encounters and affinities, mostly among lovers and friends.
Cafuné (Brazilian Portuguese): The act of tenderly running your fingers through someone's hair.
Retrouvailles (French): The happiness of meeting again after a long time.
Ilunga (Bantu): A person who is willing to forgive abuse the first time; tolerate it the second time, but never a third time.
La Douleur Exquise (French): The heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can’t have.
Koi No Yokan (Japanese): The sense upon first meeting a person that the two of you are going to fall into love.
Ya’aburnee (Arabic): “You bury me.” It’s a declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person, because of how difficult it would be to live without them.
Forelsket: (Norwegian): The euphoria you experience when you’re first falling in love.
Saudade (Portuguese): The feeling of longing for someone that you love and is lost. Another linguist describes it as a "vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist."
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“The trouble is that my heart is loath to be without love even for a single...”
– Catherine the Great in a letter to Grigori Potemkin
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