What's Cookin'?

Allow me to be completely shallow for (at least) one post. I'm hopped up on cold medication, can't sleep, and have been listening to too much Vincent Gallo - so I decided to dedicate a post to twenty-five cinema-type people that tickle my fancy. I've browsed endlessly for suitable photos and hope that you can find out that - hey - we have a crush or two in common. Naturally, I didn't include people who are just simply easy on the eyes as that would be boring. I have varying degrees of admiration for these people and not just aesthetically. So enjoy my first blog where I finally just shut up (or, shut up more than usual).

Melvil Poupaud

(Time to Leave, Time Regained, Le divorce)

Chloë Sevigny
(The Brown Bunny, Boys Don't Cry, Dogville)

Rossy de Palma
(Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, The Loss of Sexual Innocence, Kika)

Maggie Cheung
(In the Mood for Love, Irma Vep, Clean)

Lior Ashkenazi
(Walk on Water, Late Marriage)

Liv Ullmann
(Persona, Scenes from a Marriage, The Passion of Anna)

Takeshi Kaneshiro
(Chungking Express, House of Flying Daggers, Returner)

Eduardo Noriega
(Open Your Eyes, Novo, Burnt Money)

Eloy Azorín
(All About My Mother, Warriors, Juana la loca)

Michelle Reis
(Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls, Flowers of Shanghai)

Sook-yin Lee
(Shortbus, Hedwig and the Angry Inch)


Justin Theroux
(Mulholland Drive, The Baxter, Six Feet Under)

Bryce Dallas Howard
(Manderlay, The Village, Lady in the Water)

Alain Delon
(Purple Noon, L'eclisse, Le samouraï)

Jennifer Connelly
(Little Children, Dark City, House of Sand and Fog)

Samantha Morton
(Morvern Callar, Sweet and Lowdown, In America)

Tilda Swinton
(Orlando, Teknolust, Female Perversions)

Jason Statham

(The Transporter, The Transporter 2, The Italian Job)

Monica Vitti
(L'avventura, Red Desert, L'eclisse)

Nicolas Duvauchelle
(Trouble Every Day, À tout de suite, Eager Bodies)

Asia Argento
(The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, Scarlet Diva, Queen Margot)

Isabelle Huppert
(The Piano Teacher, Time of the Wolf, Madame Bovary)

Romain Duris
(The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Exiles, The Crazy Stranger)

Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
(Cote d'Azur, Time to Leave, It's Easier for a Camel)

Béatrice Dalle
(Betty Blue, Clean, Trouble Every Day)