Bubble gum in public places

Wish I was there...

Bubble Gum is an outdoor art piece of Merijn Hos and Renée Reijnders in the Netherlands.

10 List: Directors' favorites

Lists from Film Junk

Woody Allen

Bicycle Thieves (1948, Vittorio de Sica)

The Seventh Seal (1957, Ingmar Bergman)

Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)

Amarcord (1973, Federico Fellini)

8 1/2 (1963, Federico Fellini)

The 400 Blows (1959, Francois Truffaut)

Rashoman (1950, Akira Kurosawa)

La Grande Illusion (1937, Jean Renoir)

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972, Luis Bunuel)

Paths of Glory (1957, Stanley Kubrick)

Bong Joon-Ho

A City of Sadness (1989, Hou Hsiao-hsien)

Cure (1997, Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

The Housemaid (1960, Kim Ki-young)

Fargo (1996, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)

Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)

Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)

Touch of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)

Vengeance is Mine (1973 Shohei Imamura)

The Wages of Fear (1953, Henri-Georges Clouzot)

Zodiac (2007, David Fincher)

Francis Ford Coppola

Ashes and Diamonds (1958, Andrzei Wajda)

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946, William Wyler)

I Vitteloni (1953, Federico Fellini)

The Bad Sleep Well (1960, Akira Kurosawa)

Yojimbo (1961, Akira Kurosawa)

Singin' in the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly)

The King of Comedy (1983, Martin Scorsese)

Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)

The Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder)

Sunrise (1927, F.W. Murnau)

Guillermo Del Toro

Frankenstein (1931, James Whale)

Freaks (1932, Todd Browning)

Shadow of a Doubt (1943, Alfred Hitchcock)

Greed (1925, Erich Von Stroheim)

Modern Times (1936, Charlie Chaplin)

La Belle Et La Bete (1946, Jean Cocteau)

Goodfellas (1990,  Martin Scorsese)

Los Olvidados (1950, Luis Bunuel)

Nosferatu (1922,  F.W. Murnau)

8 1/2 (1963,  Federico Fellini)

Mike Leigh

American Madness (1932, Frank Capra)

Andrei Rublev (1966, Andrei Tarkovsky)

I Am Cuba (1964, Mikhai Kalatozov)

The Emigrants (1971, Jan Troell)

How a Mosquito Operates (1912,  Winsor McCay)

Jules Et Jim (1962, Francois Truffaut)

Radio Days (1987, Woody Allen)

Songs From the Second Floor (2000, Roy Andersson)

Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujiro Ozu)

Michael Mann

Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)

Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein)

Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)

Avatar (2009,  James Cameron)

Dr. Strangelove (1964, Stanley Kubrick)

Biutiful (2010,  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)

My Darling Clementine (1946, John Ford)

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Carl Theodor Dreyer)

Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)

The Wild Bunch (1969, Sam Peckinpah)

Steve McQueen (Shame)

The Battle of Algiers (1966,  Gillo Pontecorvo)

Zero de Conduite (1933, Jean Vigo)

La Regle du Jeu (1939, Jean Renoir)

Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujiro Ozu)

Couch (1964,  Andy Warhol)

Le Mepris (1963, Jean-Luc Godard)

Beau Travail (1998, Claire Denis)

Once Upon a Time in America (1984, Sergio Leone)

The Wages of Fear (1953, Henri-Georges Clouzot)

Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)

David O. Russell

It’s a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)

Chinatown (1974, Roman Polanski)

Goodfellas (1990, Martin Scorsese)

Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)

Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino)

Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)

Young Frankenstein (1974, Mel Brooks)

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972, Luis Bunuel)

The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)

Blue Velvet (1986, David Lynch)

Groundhog Day (1993, Harold Ramis)

Martin Scorsese

8 1/2 (1963, Federico Fellini)

2001: a Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)

Ashes and Diamonds (1958, Andrzej Wajda)

Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)

The Leopard (1963, Luchino Visconti)

Palsa (1946, Roberto Rossellini)

The Red Shoes (1948, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)

The River (1951, Jean Renoir)

Salvatore Giuliano (1962, Francesco Rosi)

The Searchers (1956, John Ford)

Ugetsu Monogatari (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi)

Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)

Quentin Tarantino

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone)

Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)

The Bad News Bears (1976, Michael Ritchie)

Carrie (1976, Brian DePalma)

Dazed and Confused (1993, Richard Linklater)

The Great Escape (1963, John Sturges)

His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)

Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)

Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971, Roger Vadim)

Rolling Thunder (1977, John Flynn)

Sorcerer (1977, William Friedkin)

Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)

Edgar Wright

2001: a Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)

An American Werewolf in London (1981, John Landis)

Carrie (1976, Brian DePalma)

Dames (1934, Ray Enright and Busby Berkeley)

Don’t Look Now (1973, Nicolas Roeg)

Duck Soup (1933, Leo McCarey)

Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)

Raising Arizona (1987, the Coen Brothers)

Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)

The Wild Bunch (1969, Sam Peckinpah)

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Lovely images grace these Japanese postcards from the Leonard A. Lauder collection,

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Dig for plenty

Images from the amazing treasure trove of The National Archives exhibition,

The Art of War

Shed some light

Midcentury meets laboratory, the spare and beautiful lighting

at OneFortyThree

The Big Sleep

I was wearing my powder-blue suit...I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I 

didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private 

detective ought to be.

 Philip Marlowe : hardboiled, handsome, works best alone.