Monthly Archives: January 2010

rohmer’s dead

Posted on January 11, 2010 | Leave a comment

Eric Rohmer dead at 89.

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Posted in cinema, context, we are the dead

a book by its cover

Posted on January 11, 2010 | Leave a comment

The great American Choose-Your-Own-Adventure novel. 1998.

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Posted in book by its cover, cinema

on your sleeve

Posted on January 10, 2010 | 2 comments

Don’t think I’m going all VH-1 on you, but as promised, it’s 90’s Week.

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Posted in context, music, on your sleeve

girl’s thin hosiery is barred by judge

Posted on January 9, 2010 | 3 comments

Newspaper item from June 2, 1911.

New feature: Hundred-Year-Old Headlines.

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Posted in context, hundred-year-old headlines

elvis porn

Posted on January 8, 2010 | 2 comments

Back cover of first pressing of Elvis’s Christmas Album, a promotional still from Jailhouse Rock.

Paper inner sleeve from an awful circa 1963 stereo repress of 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can’t Be Wrong: Elvis’ Gold Records – Volume 2. The sleeve depicts all of the Elvis LPs available from RCA up until that point. Above, in the second row, we see a great run of Elvis’s pre-army heyday, before the movie soundtrack rot set in. Now that is Elvis (LP) porn.

From Films and Filming. March 1969. “Elvis Presley, after participating in a prison riot, suffers the severe punishment dealt out by a guard (Bill Hickman) in Richard Thorpe’s Jailhouse Rock .”

Elvis at seventy-five.

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festival time!

Posted on January 7, 2010 | 1 comment

Ana Torrent, Geraldine Chaplin and Carlos Saura. Cannes 1976. (Bonus Chaplin! I think that’s another of Chas’s daughters, Jane, between Geraldine and Saura.)

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Posted in catching up with the chaplins, cinema, context, festival time!

the coronation of edward vii

Posted on January 6, 2010 | Leave a comment

The Coronation of Edward VII. Méliès. Urban. 1902.

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racist garbage

Posted on January 5, 2010 | Leave a comment

Mickey’s Mellerdrammer. Wilfred Jackson. 1933.

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cover art

Posted on January 4, 2010 | Leave a comment

Sophia Loren in A Breath of Scandal. Curtiz. 1960.

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nosferatu

Posted on January 3, 2010 | 1 comment

Isabelle Adjani in Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht. Herzog. 1979.

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Posted in cinema, context, decorative sex