12 April 2012

great moments in cinema

i still enjoy the randomness of tcm, which has had a run of good ones lately:

If I had managed sons for him instead of all those little girls, I'd still be stuck with being queen of France, and we should not have known each other. Such, my angels, is the role of sex in history.

eleanor of aquitane to her sons by henry ii, the lion in winter (1968) 
  
and surely the greatest sets of all time and their lighting must be those for castle frankenstein in son of frankenstein (1939) --- the stair hall and breakfast room are beyond words




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