Double Indemnity (1944) dir. Billy Wilder Leave Her to Heaven (1945) dir. John M. Stahl The Killers (1946) dir. Robert Siodmak Detour (1945) dir. Edward G. Ulmer The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) dir. Tay Garnett Out of the Past (1947) dir. Jacques Tourneur The Maltese Falcon (1941) dir. John Huston Scarlet Street (1945) dir. Fritz Lang Dead Reckoning (1946) dir. John Cromwell Niagara (1953) dir. Henry Hathaway Gilda (1946) dir. Charles Vidor
I came home. I enjoyed my bath. I enjoyed perfuming myself. I knew I was born for this, to do it over and over again, the ritual of the dressing, the perfuming for love, for sensuality. I enjoyed everything sensually.
Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary; 1939-1947
Obsessed with beautiful things, feelings, smells, language, sounds because that is all i have to remind me what it is to be fully alive. I can’t allow myself to miss out in what life has to offer!!! I need to be awake for it, because one day i will look back at the life that i was given and know that I loved it fully even in my grief.
