Dominique Revue
@dominiquerevue.bsky.social
Art and Film Creative + Fashion/Costume Designer: http://bit.ly/3yI3GOJ Full-time Gemini ... on the Orinoco Flow • CINEMA COFFEE • BETTYE: The Miniseries: http://shorturl.at/SwDT1 • Passion project: Dominique's THE SOCIETY: shorturl.at/rHJU5
Pinned
As I'm living for all the OutKast love that has overtaken my timeline . . . I repeat . . . all of this:
Not enough attention is given to IDLEWILD (2006).
The cast. The costumes. The music.
🎶Fashions well designed (Bowties)🎶 . . . That's all. kluvuthnxbye
Not enough attention is given to IDLEWILD (2006).
The cast. The costumes. The music.
🎶Fashions well designed (Bowties)🎶 . . . That's all. kluvuthnxbye
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 AM
As I'm living for all the OutKast love that has overtaken my timeline . . . I repeat . . . all of this:
Not enough attention is given to IDLEWILD (2006).
The cast. The costumes. The music.
🎶Fashions well designed (Bowties)🎶 . . . That's all. kluvuthnxbye
Not enough attention is given to IDLEWILD (2006).
The cast. The costumes. The music.
🎶Fashions well designed (Bowties)🎶 . . . That's all. kluvuthnxbye
A little Gene Tierney to add some sparkle to Monday's shine. ✨
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
A little Gene Tierney to add some sparkle to Monday's shine. ✨
“One writes out of one thing only—one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art."
—Baldwin
—Baldwin
November 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“One writes out of one thing only—one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art."
—Baldwin
—Baldwin
Always rent free.
📷: James Baldwin and Doris Jean Castle
📸: Steve Schapiro
1963
New Orleans
📷: James Baldwin and Doris Jean Castle
📸: Steve Schapiro
1963
New Orleans
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Always rent free.
📷: James Baldwin and Doris Jean Castle
📸: Steve Schapiro
1963
New Orleans
📷: James Baldwin and Doris Jean Castle
📸: Steve Schapiro
1963
New Orleans
Dorothy Dandridge performs her “Oh-Ah-Oh” number, as referenced in JET magazine (December 15, 1955 issue), during her opening night performance at The Riviera in Las Vegas, November 1955.
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Dorothy Dandridge performs her “Oh-Ah-Oh” number, as referenced in JET magazine (December 15, 1955 issue), during her opening night performance at The Riviera in Las Vegas, November 1955.
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#Noirvember holds many flavors!
Western noir Blanche Fury has quite a fancy-brutal use of POV during this ambush scene.
We break it down further at shotzero.substack.com/p/blanche-fu..., but the effect is simply unmissable.
Western noir Blanche Fury has quite a fancy-brutal use of POV during this ambush scene.
We break it down further at shotzero.substack.com/p/blanche-fu..., but the effect is simply unmissable.
BLANCHE FURY's Shock Effect Through Editing
To kick off #Noirvember 2023, let's talk effective murder! Specifically this sequence from technicolour noir Blanche Fury (1948), which never show the bullet’s impact nor a drop of blood, but use a fe...
shotzero.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
#Noirvember holds many flavors!
Western noir Blanche Fury has quite a fancy-brutal use of POV during this ambush scene.
We break it down further at shotzero.substack.com/p/blanche-fu..., but the effect is simply unmissable.
Western noir Blanche Fury has quite a fancy-brutal use of POV during this ambush scene.
We break it down further at shotzero.substack.com/p/blanche-fu..., but the effect is simply unmissable.
“We Negroes finally convinced the entertainment world not to stereotype us as just maids, porters and so on. But now too many producers are afraid to call us at all. Rather than do wrong, they do nothing.”
—Dorothy Dandridge
#BOTD
📷: Publicity portrait for CARMEN JONES (1954)
—Dorothy Dandridge
#BOTD
📷: Publicity portrait for CARMEN JONES (1954)
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
“We Negroes finally convinced the entertainment world not to stereotype us as just maids, porters and so on. But now too many producers are afraid to call us at all. Rather than do wrong, they do nothing.”
—Dorothy Dandridge
#BOTD
📷: Publicity portrait for CARMEN JONES (1954)
—Dorothy Dandridge
#BOTD
📷: Publicity portrait for CARMEN JONES (1954)
Evansville, Indiana's vintage COOK'S GOLDBLUME BEER advertisement featuring . . . #DorothyDandridge.
November 10, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Evansville, Indiana's vintage COOK'S GOLDBLUME BEER advertisement featuring . . . #DorothyDandridge.
Born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria-Hungary #OnThisDate 1914(-2000) ... Remembering:
"Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid."
You know, 👑. #HedyLamarr on her Birthday Anniversary!
"Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid."
You know, 👑. #HedyLamarr on her Birthday Anniversary!
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria-Hungary #OnThisDate 1914(-2000) ... Remembering:
"Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid."
You know, 👑. #HedyLamarr on her Birthday Anniversary!
"Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid."
You know, 👑. #HedyLamarr on her Birthday Anniversary!
Been back on my Nancy Kwan FLOWER DRUM SONG (1961) bun and bow (okay, clip) shift. ✨🎀✨
🎶I enjoy being a girl🎶
🎶I enjoy being a girl🎶
November 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Been back on my Nancy Kwan FLOWER DRUM SONG (1961) bun and bow (okay, clip) shift. ✨🎀✨
🎶I enjoy being a girl🎶
🎶I enjoy being a girl🎶
"Dorothy Dandridge is a picture of loveliness[...]The gracious Dandridge stole the show at New York's[...]Academy Award ceremonies[...]She literally wowed cafe society in her debut last week[...]hailed as one of the most beautiful and talented women..."
—Associated Press, 1955
—Associated Press, 1955
November 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"Dorothy Dandridge is a picture of loveliness[...]The gracious Dandridge stole the show at New York's[...]Academy Award ceremonies[...]She literally wowed cafe society in her debut last week[...]hailed as one of the most beautiful and talented women..."
—Associated Press, 1955
—Associated Press, 1955
November 9th. Aka: The day I crowd the timeline with . . . #DorothyDandridge
📸 by Vera Jackson (pioneer Black female photographer, "hired as a staff photographer for the California Eagle in 1945[...]capturing both the glamour of Black celebrities and[...]Civil Rights movement after World War II")
📸 by Vera Jackson (pioneer Black female photographer, "hired as a staff photographer for the California Eagle in 1945[...]capturing both the glamour of Black celebrities and[...]Civil Rights movement after World War II")
November 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
November 9th. Aka: The day I crowd the timeline with . . . #DorothyDandridge
📸 by Vera Jackson (pioneer Black female photographer, "hired as a staff photographer for the California Eagle in 1945[...]capturing both the glamour of Black celebrities and[...]Civil Rights movement after World War II")
📸 by Vera Jackson (pioneer Black female photographer, "hired as a staff photographer for the California Eagle in 1945[...]capturing both the glamour of Black celebrities and[...]Civil Rights movement after World War II")
"The range between the two parts [BRIGHT ROAD and CARMEN JONES] suggests that she is one of the outstanding dramatic actresses of the screen."
—Newsweek, about:
Born Dorothy Jean Dandridge in Cleveland #OTD 1922 ... Remembering #DorothyDandridge on her Birthday Anniversary!
—Newsweek, about:
Born Dorothy Jean Dandridge in Cleveland #OTD 1922 ... Remembering #DorothyDandridge on her Birthday Anniversary!
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"The range between the two parts [BRIGHT ROAD and CARMEN JONES] suggests that she is one of the outstanding dramatic actresses of the screen."
—Newsweek, about:
Born Dorothy Jean Dandridge in Cleveland #OTD 1922 ... Remembering #DorothyDandridge on her Birthday Anniversary!
—Newsweek, about:
Born Dorothy Jean Dandridge in Cleveland #OTD 1922 ... Remembering #DorothyDandridge on her Birthday Anniversary!
November 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A collection of Classic Film Noir is currently available on @kanopy.com
If BLANCHE FURY (1948) (or CORRIDOR OF MIRRORS (1948)) are films that still haven't made their rounds through your film-watch journey, I highly recommend them.
The Technicolor in BLANCHE FURY alone is gorgeous!
If BLANCHE FURY (1948) (or CORRIDOR OF MIRRORS (1948)) are films that still haven't made their rounds through your film-watch journey, I highly recommend them.
The Technicolor in BLANCHE FURY alone is gorgeous!
November 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
A collection of Classic Film Noir is currently available on @kanopy.com
If BLANCHE FURY (1948) (or CORRIDOR OF MIRRORS (1948)) are films that still haven't made their rounds through your film-watch journey, I highly recommend them.
The Technicolor in BLANCHE FURY alone is gorgeous!
If BLANCHE FURY (1948) (or CORRIDOR OF MIRRORS (1948)) are films that still haven't made their rounds through your film-watch journey, I highly recommend them.
The Technicolor in BLANCHE FURY alone is gorgeous!
This. Is beautiful.
Was walking along my merry way when the Sugar Plum Fairy caught my eye and led my attention to . . . 💖
🩰
Was walking along my merry way when the Sugar Plum Fairy caught my eye and led my attention to . . . 💖
🩰
November 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This. Is beautiful.
Was walking along my merry way when the Sugar Plum Fairy caught my eye and led my attention to . . . 💖
🩰
Was walking along my merry way when the Sugar Plum Fairy caught my eye and led my attention to . . . 💖
🩰
Same, Jenna. Same.
November 8, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Same, Jenna. Same.
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Finally watched the Italian adaptation of the novel, THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, by James M. Cain, over the summer after having it on my watchlist radar for years, director Luchino Visconti's OSSESSIONE (1943), starring Clara Calamai and Massimo Girotti. Personally, enjoyed it. Highly recommend.
November 7, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Finally watched the Italian adaptation of the novel, THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, by James M. Cain, over the summer after having it on my watchlist radar for years, director Luchino Visconti's OSSESSIONE (1943), starring Clara Calamai and Massimo Girotti. Personally, enjoyed it. Highly recommend.
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"The Wizard of Oz keeps coming back every year because it's such a beautiful film. I don't think any of us knew how lovely it was at first. But, after a while, we all began to feel it coming together—and knew we had something."
—Margaret Hamilton
(via THE MOVIE BUFF'S BOOK, 1975)
—Margaret Hamilton
(via THE MOVIE BUFF'S BOOK, 1975)
November 7, 2025 at 3:28 AM
"The Wizard of Oz keeps coming back every year because it's such a beautiful film. I don't think any of us knew how lovely it was at first. But, after a while, we all began to feel it coming together—and knew we had something."
—Margaret Hamilton
(via THE MOVIE BUFF'S BOOK, 1975)
—Margaret Hamilton
(via THE MOVIE BUFF'S BOOK, 1975)
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"I hope when you go [to research other cultures], you don’t just stop at the offices of the men in the cities, but that you go to the women in the country."
—Etta Moten-Barnett, 1980
For other recommended reading, including her advocacy for women's rights: searchablemuseum.com/etta-moten-b...
—Etta Moten-Barnett, 1980
For other recommended reading, including her advocacy for women's rights: searchablemuseum.com/etta-moten-b...
November 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"I hope when you go [to research other cultures], you don’t just stop at the offices of the men in the cities, but that you go to the women in the country."
—Etta Moten-Barnett, 1980
For other recommended reading, including her advocacy for women's rights: searchablemuseum.com/etta-moten-b...
—Etta Moten-Barnett, 1980
For other recommended reading, including her advocacy for women's rights: searchablemuseum.com/etta-moten-b...
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I proudly included Ms. Etta in my "101: Classic Black Female Artists" piece—that has recently been nominated in the Best Classic Movie Series category for the CMBA Awards (my first nomination as a member!)
🔗: dominiquerevue.weebly.com/womens-histo...
🔗: dominiquerevue.weebly.com/womens-histo...
November 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I proudly included Ms. Etta in my "101: Classic Black Female Artists" piece—that has recently been nominated in the Best Classic Movie Series category for the CMBA Awards (my first nomination as a member!)
🔗: dominiquerevue.weebly.com/womens-histo...
🔗: dominiquerevue.weebly.com/womens-histo...
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"...the most beautiful woman I had ever seen in my life. The most incredible, amazing, voluptuous, dignified, and sensual actress to grace the Broadway stage in my lifetime - the incomparable Etta Moten Barnett."
—Sidney Poitier to Ms. Etta Moten-Barnett for her 100th birthday, 2001
(see ALT)
—Sidney Poitier to Ms. Etta Moten-Barnett for her 100th birthday, 2001
(see ALT)
November 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"...the most beautiful woman I had ever seen in my life. The most incredible, amazing, voluptuous, dignified, and sensual actress to grace the Broadway stage in my lifetime - the incomparable Etta Moten Barnett."
—Sidney Poitier to Ms. Etta Moten-Barnett for her 100th birthday, 2001
(see ALT)
—Sidney Poitier to Ms. Etta Moten-Barnett for her 100th birthday, 2001
(see ALT)
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“All I ever wanted to do was make people happy. And I wanted to show them that no matter what their dreams can come true.”
—Etta Moten-Barnett
(Photo credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture)
—Etta Moten-Barnett
(Photo credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture)
November 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“All I ever wanted to do was make people happy. And I wanted to show them that no matter what their dreams can come true.”
—Etta Moten-Barnett
(Photo credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture)
—Etta Moten-Barnett
(Photo credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture)
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Dubbed "the first Negro woman to play a dignified role in pictures," by the Black newspaper, THE PITTSBURGH COURIER (est. 1907), vocalist/actress/community leader and pioneer, Etta Moten-Barnett, would pass away in 2004 at the age of 102.
📸 Carl Van Vechten
March 16, 1934
📸 Carl Van Vechten
March 16, 1934
November 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Dubbed "the first Negro woman to play a dignified role in pictures," by the Black newspaper, THE PITTSBURGH COURIER (est. 1907), vocalist/actress/community leader and pioneer, Etta Moten-Barnett, would pass away in 2004 at the age of 102.
📸 Carl Van Vechten
March 16, 1934
📸 Carl Van Vechten
March 16, 1934
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“[Etta Moten-Barnett] gave Black people an opportunity to look at themselves on a big screen as something beautiful when all that was there before spoke to our degradation. In her, we found another dimension to being black in our time[...]a true shining star.”
—Harry Belafonte
—Harry Belafonte
November 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“[Etta Moten-Barnett] gave Black people an opportunity to look at themselves on a big screen as something beautiful when all that was there before spoke to our degradation. In her, we found another dimension to being black in our time[...]a true shining star.”
—Harry Belafonte
—Harry Belafonte