Monthly Archives: April 2014

museum piece

Posted on April 10, 2014 | Leave a comment

Look Mickey

Piece: Look Mickey. Oil on canvas. Roy Lichtenstein. 1961.

Where: National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C.

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cute band alert

Posted on April 9, 2014 | Leave a comment

The Temptations

The Temptations.

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cover art

Posted on April 8, 2014 | Leave a comment

Winter 72-3

Jeff Bridges in Bad Company. Robert Benton. 1972.

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the decorative sex

Posted on April 7, 2014 | Leave a comment

Florence L. Afuma in somethimg called Du soleil plein les yeux (Eyes Full of Sun aka I Want You Now). Michel Boisrond. 1970.

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catching up with the chaplins

Posted on April 6, 2014 | Leave a comment

Pay Day

Chas catches up on his reading in between takes of Pay Day. 1922.

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way back

Posted on April 5, 2014 | Leave a comment

The First Still

The First “STILL” — one of a series of photographs made at Edison’s little New York studio in the Chelsea district about 1901, to illustrate a German newspaper correspondent’s feature story about the “new American art.” The production appears to have been a comedy.

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project one

Posted on April 4, 2014 | Leave a comment

Project One

Films and Filming. September 1965.

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advertising

Posted on April 3, 2014 | Leave a comment

Blueprint 2

2002.

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a book by its cover

Posted on April 2, 2014 | 4 comments

A History of Narrative Film

A History of Narrative Film. David A. Cook. 1979.

An important artifact: This is the book that I found in my parents’ attic as a kid that led me to get interested in old movies.

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fat city

Posted on April 1, 2014 | 2 comments

Fat City

Jeff Bridges and Stacy Keach in Fat City. John Huston. 1972.

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