The nouvelle vague at Cannes. 1959. Foreground (left to right): François Truffaut, Raymond Vogel, Louis Félix, Edmond Séchan. Second row: Edouard Molinaro, Jacques Baratier, Jean Valère. Third row: François Reichenbach, Robert Hossein, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Roger Vadim, Marcel Camus. Back row: Claude Chabrol, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rozier.
Posted in cinema, context, festival time!, jlg, truffaut
I watched the Rolling Stones’ Rock and Roll Circus the other night. It was pretty good with the Stones’ performance being the one I’d say I dug the most. The real treat for me was on the DVD’s extras, commentary by director Michael Lindsay-Hogg. After spending last summer listening to the dozens of hours of audio of the fabs’ Let It Be sessions, which heavily feature Lindsay-Hogg who directed the film (see “critics” post below), it was great hearing that guy’s voice again. His Rock and Roll Circus commentary had to be recorded thirty years after the event but his winning mix of pretentiousness, name dropping (often unfamiliar name dropping), charm, cluelessness and a least one instance of his habit of referring to people by their initials, remained intact. Below is a screen grab of M.L-H. taken from the Let It Be film. Below that is a Stones performance from the film.
Stay tuned for more on Brian Jones and the fabs.
Arrival in London: Erich von Stroheim and Denise Vernac. 1954.
Posted in arrivals and departures, cinema, context
I don’t know how I managed to forget to post this earlier but…Forty years ago today, blah, blah, blah.
Anyway, a few days ago, in preparation for this post, I went through all of the 1969 back numbers of Sight and Sound and Films and Filming that I have—I have the complete year of both magazines—and I could find absolutely no mention of the murders whatsoever until this small item in the 1969 obituaries in the Winter 1969/70 issue of Sight and Sound. Sort of classy of them I suppose but expect no such displays of decorum from this shithole site as I offer this dramatic reenactment of the events of the early hours of August 9, 1969.
Posted in cinema, context, lohan history
The generic Rolling Stones Records 45 sleeve really kills the competition. Circa 1972.
Posted in Jagger, music, on your sleeve, record labels
Sight and Sound. Summer 1970.
Posted in apple records, cinema, context, dig the critics, Macca, music, years after the event
This is the first, and hopefully the last, of this series. I’ve been meaning to post at least some of these pics for a while now. I would have sat on them for a bit more–perhaps forever—but while reading yesterday’s “news” it occurred to me that these photos would serve as great set of images to accompany this mess. Until yesterday, I had forgotten for a minute what a slimeball Ryan O’Neal is. Above, O’Neal in What’s Up Doc.
Griffin with the old man on the set of Nickelodeon preparing for Griffin’s cameo.
Tatum in Nickelodeon.
Farrah in Logan’s Run.
Posted in cinema, context, tabloid tuesday
chained and perfumed 