Monthly Archives: April 2011

pen to paper

Posted on April 21, 2011 | Leave a comment

Films and Filming. February 1967.

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unknown chaplin

Posted on April 20, 2011 | 2 comments

unknown chaplin

Unknown Chaplin. Kevin Brownlow and David Gill. 1983.

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life or death

Posted on April 19, 2011 | Leave a comment

Life mask of Charles Laughton. Circa 1939.

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f for fields

Posted on April 18, 2011 | 4 comments

W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty in Alice in Wonderland. McLeod. 1933.

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record labels

Posted on April 17, 2011 | Leave a comment

Je t’aime. Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg. Fontana Records. 1969.

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don’t look now

Posted on April 14, 2011 | Leave a comment

Julie Christie, Hilary Mason and Clelia Matania in Don’t Look Now. Nicolas Roeg. 1973.

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antonioni directs

Posted on April 13, 2011 | Leave a comment

Michelangelo Antonioni and Marcello Mastroianni filming La Notte. 1961.

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the scarlet empress

Posted on April 12, 2011 | Leave a comment

Sam Jaffe in The Scarlet Empress. Josef von Sternberg. 1934.

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what’s wrong with being sexy?

Posted on April 11, 2011 | 3 comments

Just wow. The Rolling Stones promoting their Black and Blue LP. 1976.

Thanks to my friend Jeff for the loan of 50 or so 1970s issues of National Lampoon. This should prove to be as major a windfall for this site as when I got all of those back issues of Playboy at that flea market a few years ago. Please enjoy.

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dog day afternoon

Posted on April 10, 2011 | Leave a comment

Al Pacino and John Cazale in Dog Day Afternoon. Sidney Lumet. 1975.

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