Monthly Archives: March 2010

caruso as caruso

Posted on March 21, 2010 | Leave a comment

Mario Lanza as Enrico Caruso in The Great Caruso. Richard Thorpe. 1951.

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vampyr

Posted on March 20, 2010 | Leave a comment

Vampyr. Dreyer. 1932.

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les enfants terribles

Posted on March 19, 2010 | 1 comment

Jean-Pierre Melville. 1950.

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festival time!

Posted on March 18, 2010 | Leave a comment

Renato Castellani.

Orson Welles and Mack Sennett!

William Holden during his press conference.

Dolores del Rio and Anatole Litvak.

“Gene and Mrs. Kelly (Betsy Blair) making a rather ‘Singing in the Rain’ entrance to the ‘American in Paris’ show.”

Cannes 1952 as reported in the July-September 1952 issue of Sight and Sound. Photos by Robert Hawkins.

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sullivan’s travels: deleted dialogue

Posted on March 17, 2010 | Leave a comment

Here are two pages from Preston Sturges’s screenplay for Sullivan’s Travels, it includes several bits of dialogue that don’t appear in the finished film including mentions of Josef von Sternberg, Frank Capra, Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles.

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night porter

Posted on March 16, 2010 | Leave a comment

Charlotte Rampling and Dirk Bogarde in Il portiere di notte. Liliana Cavani. 1974.

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thunderball

Posted on March 15, 2010 | Leave a comment

Sean Connery promotes Thunderball. Terence Young. 1965.

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apples and oranges

Posted on March 14, 2010 | Leave a comment

I came across these stills from an “experimental” animated short by Saul Bass entitled Apples and Oranges. I had no idea this or any of the other five animated films he made existed and I can’t find much about them online.

Films and Filming. March 1964.

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record labels

Posted on March 13, 2010 | Leave a comment

Elton John’s Greatest Hits. 1974.

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advertising

Posted on March 12, 2010 | Leave a comment

Shell International Petroleum Company Limited. 1960-61.

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