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High ResolutionGot a Girl Crush On: Hey Girlfriend!: Girls’ Lena Dunham Curates BAM Film Series
BAMcinématek presents Hey Girlfriend! Lena Dunham Selects, an eight-film series centered on the theme of female friendships. Coming to BAM between April 2-8, the series is curated byDunham, the creator and star of Tiny Furniture as well asHBO’s forthcoming series Girls (and an occasional PAPERcontributor). Both of Dunham’s projects, which examine post-college life in New York through the lens of the director and her cohorts, draw from female relationship movies like The Last Days of Disco (1998), Girlfriends (1978) and This is My Life (1992), which will all be screened throughout the week.
(via bbook)
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High ResolutionGot a Girl Crush On: Bérénice Bejo as Peppy Miller in The Artist
When was the last time you came out of a movie theater smiling ear-to-ear and wanting to click your heels as you walked down the sidewalk? The Artist was pure unadulterated magic and Bérénice Bejo is its grinning, tap-dancing magician.
If this doesn’t win a basket of Oscars I will boycott the film industry indefinitely!!
(Source: nedhepburn, via thebrookelynway)
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High ResolutionGot a Girl Crush On: Julie Delpy
Before Sunrise and Before Sunset are some magical magical pieces of film (and, as luck should have it—a third is in the works!). So is 2 Days in Paris (which she wrote, directed, and starred in). She cut her proverbial acting teeth in a freakin’ Godard film to boot!
J.D. is sassy, feisty, sultry, has amazing comedic timing, and as Meighan from My Love For You properly surmised, “totally bonkers at all the right moments”.
And, what do you know, girl can also sing too.
Can’t wait for more Delpy on Hawke action!
(via thebrookelynway)
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Got a Girl Crush On: Jean Seberg in Breathless
Her french is totally Américain flecked (but, hey—I can only speak bare bones French and Spanish, so I am not one to make-fun), but she’s just so DAMNED CUTE!
Ohhh my kingdom for a non-misshapen noggin to be able to rock that pixie cut!
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High ResolutionGot a Girl Crush On: Ali Macgraw
One of my favorite movies as a pre-teen was Love Story (heavy shit for a kid, right?). Ali Macgraw was a bookish, nerdy, tomboyish BABE and I adored her owning it.
P.S. If you’ve never seen Love Story and are due for a good cry—I can guarantee a proper sobfest with this 1970 Arthur Miller classic.
(via tomboystyle)
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Welcome to guest-blogga Wednesdays! 1st-up: Brooke of thebrookelynway.tumblr.com
Got A Girl Crush On: Melina Mercouri
(Photographed by Henry Groskinsky for Life Magazine, 1965)I first caught wind of Ms. Mercouri when I was taking film classes in college. I had taken a liking to director, Jules Dassin (whom she would later marry) and long story short… I eventually stumbled on to Never On Sunday (1960).
Although, I’m not one to easily fall for the quintessential “hooker with a heart of gold” character and premise, I found that with her character, Illya, it was difficult not to (I wasn’t the only one. She immediately received international fame, picking up ‘Best Actress’ at both Cannes and the Academy Awards). Her multi-dimensional character is so genuinely light-hearted and joyful that it’s hard to think of the off screen Melina being any different. This hunch is just further confirmed by what’s portrayed in her various films, interviews and photos.
While today’s leading ladies are barely old enough to be considered ladies, Melina Mercouri began her acting career in her mid-thirties and had become a world-famous sex symbol at 40 — being dubbed “The Last Greek Goddess”.
Oh yeah… In addition to film, she performed on broadway, pursued a music career, and was later elected into Greek Parliament where she became the first woman to hold a senior cabinet post as Minister of Culture.
If all that doesn’t impress you, I don’t know what will. Her infectious smile, alone, reflects a woman that I can only hope to become. Hence, the girl crush.
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High ResolutionGot a Girl Crush On: this dream-team photo of Stacey Dash, Amy Heckerling and Alicia Silverstone on-set of Clueless (1995)
Can I swoon a little about Ms. Herckerling for a minute?
She’s one of the few female directors to have produced multiple box-office hits: (i.e. Fast Times at Ridgemont High, National Lampoon’s European Vacation, Look Who’s Talking, and—of course—Clueless). She’s also directed a few episodes of the American version of The Office.
Gotta love a woman with a sense of humor.
(via bbook)
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Got a Girl Crush On: Ghost World
Both the comic and the movie are the epitome of post-high-school blasé. Plus Scarjo and Thora Birch are babes anyway—a veritable girl crush movie twofer.
Bonus points for an extra girl crush in the 60s Bollywood movie shakin’ and shimmyin’ (and seemingly losing her effing mind) in gold lamé glory at that Enid (Thora) watches at the beginning of the flick:
Seriously, I could watch this for hours…you’re welcome.
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Got a Girl Crush On: Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken (1991)
Do you REMEMBER this movie?!
I remember begging my mom to rent and re-rent the VHS copy of this from our local video store (or it might’ve been the library—whichever I’m sure I wore their copy out!). Running away from home! Horses! The Circus! Pugnacity and determination! Overcoming adversity! This was every little girl’s fantasy. Sonora was a certified badass.
Based on the real-life story of Sonora Webster Carver, the first female to ride diving horses at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City (in 1924 she made history when she dove 40 feet on horseback into a tank of water) In 1931 she went blind from detached retinas after one of her horses hit the water off-balance, yet she she still continued to ride the high-diving horses until World War II.
Once released, she listened to the movie but had this to say about it:
The movie made a big deal about having the courage to go on riding after she lost her sight. But, the truth was riding the horse was the most fun you could have and we just loved it so.
P.S. it’s streaming for free here!
(top 2: movie stills; bottom 3: real life Sonora)
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