#Leo Marks

[soracities]

"A Code Poem for the French Resistance" by Leo Marks [transcript in ALT]

#there's a trinity of poems this belongs to i think which is graves' 'counting the beats' and poulin's 'cave dwellers' #q #quotes #poems #leo marks #forever favourite #the lovers #fr #x #m

[dabiconcordia]

"The life that I have is all that I have, and the life that I have is yours. The love that I have of the life that I have Is yours and yours and yours." ― Leo Marks

#quote #leo marks #playbuzz #via pinterest.com #love

[sesiondemadrugada]

Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960).

#peeping tom #michael powell #leo marks #Karlheinz Böhm #moira shearer #Otto Heller #Noreen Ackland #Arthur Lawson

[poems-from-around-the-world]

The Life That I Have - Leo Marks - UK

The life that I have Is all that I have And the life that I have Is yours

The love that I have Of the life that I have Is yours and yours and yours.

A sleep I shall have A rest I shall have Yet death will be but a pause For the peace of my years In the long green grass Will be yours and yours and yours.

Editor's Note: This was a code poem used for encryption by the British in WW2

#The Life That I Have #Leo Marks #UK #poem #poetry #poems from around the world

[adamwatchesmovies]

Peeping Tom (1960)

I’ve seen Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom on several lists of “the best slasher movies ever made”. I don’t know if it belongs among the likes of Halloween or The Burning. Not because it isn’t good. Quite the opposite; this is an excellent film. I’m saying it doesn’t belong because this isn’t really a slasher film. This psychological horror-thriller doesn’t have the masked killed, the character “in the know” or many of the other tropes you’d expect to see. Instead, it has the transitional elements that would someday become them. Semantics aside, this film stands confidently as a piece of horror history or on its own.

In London, Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm) is a photographer and aspiring filmmaker obsessed with capturing images of fear. Alone in his loft, he watches videos of the murders he's committed. As the investigators on his tail begin getting closer, he befriends Helen Stephens (Anna Massey).

It would be interesting to see Peeping Tom remade because so many aspects of it would be different if shot today. In 1960, cameras weren’t rare but they weren’t everpresent the way they are today and you could argue that we’ve become as obsessed with photography and videos as Mark. He isn’t merely shooting the last moments of his victim’s lives; he goes back to the scene of the crime the next morning to capture the looks on people’s faces when they wheel out the prostitute he murdered (Brenda Bruce). He wants to see how people react when they find the bodies. He wants to see the moment when his victims realize their lives are over again and again. Whenever he meets a woman and shows the slightest bit of interest in her, you wonder what he sees. Another victim? A kindred spirit? To a man this unhinged, is there a difference?

The thing is that Mark isn’t completely loony. Most of the time, he seems like a perfectly normal person. Perhaps a bit shy, but he has a normal job, the scenes with him and Helen are even a bit sweet - though they can make the middle feel a tad slow. You’d never guess just how disturbed he is under that facade, which makes him much scarier than someone like Jason Voorhees. This is the kind of character any psychologist would have a field day evaluating because each scene unveils a new layer of psychological complexity.

For the titular peeping tom alone, this is a great film but there are other elements to appreciate. The very first shot is from Mark’s point of view. It’s not because we’re going to have a twist reveal of his identity later; it’s so we can feel what it’s like to be him. We never see the actual murders - the camera always cuts away. This means we eagerly anticipate the scenes where Mark sits down to watch his snuff films - even if the scene just happened. Like him, we’re hoping to catch something we didn’t the first time. Every time, his reels fail to deliver what we want. It makes us look forward to the next crime. “This time, for sure” the film seems to say. For 101 minutes, we're addicts and that ending? It’s quite a shocker. You should’ve seen coming but didn’t, which makes it that much more unsettling.

Like so many horror classics before it, Peeping Tom was practically burned at the stake upon its initial release. In a way, you can sort of understand why. Even today, Mark Lewis makes your skin crawl and the idea that a “good movie” has to be “good for you” still prevails. The outrage made everyone miss the excellent storytelling and characterization at the core of Peeping Tom. This is a picture I see myself returning to, and appreciating more with every subsequent watch. (May 13, 2022)

#Peeping Tom #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #Michael Powell #Leo Marks #Carl Boehm #Moira Shearer #Anna Massey #Maxine Audley #1960 movies #1960 films

[abs0luteb4stard]

W A ✝ C H I N G

Controversial movie based off the book by Nikos Kazantzakis.

It enraged Christian zealots enough that they fire bombed a movie theater in France. Other theaters refused to show it. The church bitched and moaned. The old nutty nun from EWTN called it "the most blasphemous ridicule of the Eucharist that's ever been perpetrated in this world" and "a holocaust movie that has the power to destroy souls eternally." 😂😂

And Martin Scorsese head to have bodyguards for several years after.

#THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (1988) #MARTIN SCORSESE #WILLEM DAFOE #Harvey Keitel #Barbara Hershey #Harry Dean Stanton #David Bowie #Steve Shill #Verna Bloom #Gary Basaraba #Irvin Kershner #Victor Argo #Paul Herman #John Lurie #Michael Been #Leo Burmester #Leo Marks #MARY MAGDALENE #JESUS CHRIST #RELIGIOUS FILM #CONTROVERSIAL FILM #drama film #Watching

[ukdamo]

The Life That I Have

Leo Marks

The life that I have Is all that I have And the life that I have Is yours.

The love that I have Of the life that I have Is yours and yours and yours. A sleep I shall have A rest I shall have Yet death will be but a pause. For the peace of my years In the long green grass Will be yours and yours and yours

The poem was composed on Christmas Eve 1943, in memory of Marks' girlfriend Ruth, who had just died in a plane crash in Canada. On 24 March 1944, the poem was issued by Marks to Violette Szabo, a British agent of Special Operations Executive who was eventually captured, tortured and killed by the Nazis.

#poetry #love #WWII #cryptography #leo marks #violet szabo #SOE #spy

[spectaculardistractions]

The film's plethora of in-jokes out-Cahiers Cahiers. Mark's father is played by Michael Powell. The director of the feature film is played by Esmond Knight. The hero is called Mark Lewis, presumable after the film's script writer, whose name is Leo Marks. Pamela Green was made famous by a photographer called Harrison Marks. The Esmond Knight character is called Arthur Baden. Baden-Powell also looked after little boys and trained their characters. Mark gets involved with red-haired women only (like most Powell heroines). He describes himself as a correspondent from the Observer and father tells him to 'Look at the sea', 'Look at the see' being what his victims do in the mirror which replaces the reflector. The black-and-white flashbacks to clinical child-torture relate to the coloured present in a way reminiscent of Resnais's Nuit et brouillard. This film is built on refusing to allow the audience to hate the torturer, on a cold hysteria of frustrated indignation, stoked up by the sacrilegious idea of casting Moira Shearer as a bit of a bitch, fit fodder for a sensitive sex murderer. Suicidally impaled on his own machine, Mark, in dying hallucination, is reconciled with his long-dead father. Here art reveals, again, its diabolical root.

Raymond Durgnat, A Mirror for England

#raymond durgnat #a mirror for england: british movies from austerity to affluence #peeping tom #michael powell #leo marks #harrison marks #robert baden-powell #alain resnais

[randomrichards]

PEEPING TOM:

A timid killer

Films his victims’ reactions

Obsessed with fear

#peeping tom #random richards #poem #haiku #poetry #haiku poem #poets on tumblr #haiku poetry #haiku form #poetic #criterion collection #criterion channel #karlheinz böhm #anna massey #moira shearer #Maxine audley #michael powell #leo marks #Brenda Bruce #horror #Youtube

[florriescreamlagoon]

The life that I have

Is all that I have

And the life that I have

Is yours.

The love that I have

Of the life that I have

Is yours and yours and yours.

A sleep I shall have

A rest I shall have

Yet death will be but a pause.

For the peace of my years

In the long green grass

Will be yours and yours and yours.

Leo Marks

#Leo marks

[milomilesmib]

Imagine if Heroes of Olympus gets a live adaptation and when Hazel is yelling at Jason for wanting to leave Nico behind, Percy starts slow clapping, and at first everyone's like "wtf" then he and Annabeth start singing "oh golly, the road is gettin bumpy. Cause I got me some friends that just can't get along"

Everyone else staring at them in complete confusion

Annabeth and Percy just chilling and singing the song

Tell me that wouldn't be hysterical

#pjo #percy jackson #nico di angelo #heroes of olympus #trials of apollo #toa #hoo #riordanverse #annabeth chase #mark of athena #jason grace #hazel levesque #leo valdez #piper mclean #frank zhang #disney+ #pjo show #Percy Jackson show

[cultfaction]

Preview- Peeping Tom (Bluray)

A piercing new 4K restoration of Michael Powell’s iconic serial killer classic PEEPING TOM, restored by The Film Foundation and BFI National Archive. An influential cinematic masterpiece written by Leo Marks (Twisted Nerve) and starring Carl Boehm (Sissi), Anna Massey (Frenzy), Moira Shearer (The Red Shoes) and Maxine Audley (A King in New York). Now regarded as a ground-breaking masterpiece of…

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#Anna Massey #Carl Boehm #Leo Marks #Maxine Audley #Michael Powell #Moira Shearer #Peeping Tom

[peaceofheartt]

The Life That I Have, Leo Marks

#leo marks #q #op #poetry #poems #writing

[yendts]

the seven are not-so-battle ready…

thinking about that scene in mark of athena where they're woken up on the argo II and are all ready to fight in their pajamas and wanted to do my own take on their pjs lol

#i was giggling the whole time specifically drawing annabeth and jasons shirts and leos boxers lol #the choice of who wears socks to bed and who doesn’t was very thought out ngl #and honestly jason probably wouldn’t but i was just tired of drawing feet😭 #percy jackson #annabeth chase #percabeth #piper mclean #leo valdez #jason grace #hazel levesque #frank zhang #heroes of olympus #hoo #mark of athena #moa #pjo #the seven #rick riordan #riordan universe #riordanverse #valgrace #frazel

[tizeline]

Oh? What's that? Ya'll want the next part of TSAU's story? Well fuck you you're getting this fucking thing instead.

#i should be making propaganda for the next round of the au competition cuz the gods know i'm gonna need it #but i wanted to draw this instead so here ya go eat up #i fORGOT DONNIE'S MARKINGS #.... do ya'll think anyone will notice?? #well you're certainly gonna notice now that i pointed it out #i'll edit them in.... later.... i'm too tired rn #tizel art #my art #digital art #tmnt #rottmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #raphael #leonardo #michelangelo #donatello #raph #leo #mikey #donnie #rottmnt raph #rottmnt leo #rottmnt mikey #rottmnt donnie

[mallowsweetmiri]

Annabeth: *kisses percy*

Percy: *explodes an entire volcano*

Annabeth: *getting pulled into hell by a spider*

Percy: *willingly jumps into Tartarus*

Annabeth: *says she’s going somewhere slightly dangerous*

Percy: *explodes all the toilets*

This boy is psycho for Annabeth.

#percabeth #percy jackson #annabeth chase #pjo hoo toa #piper mclean #percy x annabeth #percy jackson oneshot #percy jackson headcanon #percy jackson fic #jason grace #leo valdez #hereos of olympus #heroes of olympus #mark of athena #house of hades