Monthly Archives: August 2014

judex

Posted on August 21, 2014 | Leave a comment

Channing Pollock

Channing Pollock (above) and Francine Bergé (below) in Judex. Georges Franju. 1963.

Francine Bergé

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way back

Posted on August 20, 2014 | Leave a comment

Mae Lucas

Mae Lucas — Now Mrs. B.L. Rhodes of Norfolk, Virginia — at left, and her dancing partner in the Gaiety Girls at Daly’s Theatre in New York in 1894, when Miss Lucas went to dance for the Edison Kinetoscope.

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f for orson

Posted on August 19, 2014 | Leave a comment

Orson in Scotland

Orson and his walking stick in Scotland. 1953.

Citizen Cane

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advertising

Posted on August 18, 2014 | Leave a comment

What one can only suspect is an unauthorized endorsement of Filmmakers Newsletter by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. 1971.

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record labels

Posted on August 17, 2014 | Leave a comment

The Slider

The Slider. T. Rex. 1972.

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cover art

Posted on August 16, 2014 | Leave a comment

January 1962

Spencer Tracy and Marlene Dietrich in Judgment at Nuremberg. Stanley Kramer. 1961.

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on the set of

Posted on August 15, 2014 | Leave a comment

Lola

Raoul Coutard and Anouk Aimée on the set of Lola. Jacques Demy. 1961.

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pen to paper

Posted on August 14, 2014 | Leave a comment

Summer 1972

A book recommendation from Joe Losey. Sight and Sound. Summer 1972.

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to have and have not

Posted on August 13, 2014 | Leave a comment

To Have and Have Not

Lauren Bacall — one of the last of the Old Hollywood crowd — who died yesterday at age 89, with Humphrey Bogart and Marcel Dalio in To Have and Have Not. Howard Hawks. 1944.

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der blaue engel

Posted on August 12, 2014 | Leave a comment

The Blue Angel

Emil Jannings in The Blue Angel. Josef von Sternberg. 1930.

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