Monthly Archives: January 2012

dig the critics

Posted on January 31, 2012 | Leave a comment

Sight and Sound. May 1950. (If you can’t read that tiny, tiny print click to enlarge.)

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festival time!

Posted on January 30, 2012 | Leave a comment

Jean-Luc Godard and Richard Roud at the New York Film Festival. 1963.

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titles

Posted on January 29, 2012 | 2 comments

Frederick Wiseman. 1967.

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record labels

Posted on January 28, 2012 | Leave a comment

1962.

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fassbinder directs

Posted on January 27, 2012 | Leave a comment

Rainer Werner Fassbinder directs Bernhard Wicki and Dirk Bogarde in Despair. 1978.

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advertising

Posted on January 26, 2012 | 4 comments

1978.

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guinness as hitler

Posted on January 25, 2012 | Leave a comment

Alec Guinness as Hitler.

Guinness with director Ennio De Concini, while filming Hitler: The Last Ten Days. 1973.

Adolf Hitler as Hitler.

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brando and james dean

Posted on January 24, 2012 | Leave a comment

Brando and his last year’s talent wearing his last year’s wardrobe on the set of East of Eden. Elia Kazan. 1955.

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brando and his double

Posted on January 23, 2012 | Leave a comment

Brando poses on location in St. George, Utah with his stunt double, Paul Baxley, after Baxley was dragged through mud for a scene in The Appaloosa (aka Southwest to Sonora). Sidney J. Furie. 1966.

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ray and kurosawa

Posted on January 22, 2012 | 2 comments

Satyajit Ray and Akira Kurosawa (with Michelangelo Antonioni off in
the distance there on the right-hand side) visit the Taj Mahal. Circa 1977.

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