Category Archives: cinema

hundred-year-old headlines

Posted on October 20, 2011 | Leave a comment

May 23, 1922.

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dig the critics

Posted on October 19, 2011 | Leave a comment

Films and Filming reporter Allen Eyles musters about as much of an endorsement of The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend as one could.

April 1973.

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godard directs

Posted on October 18, 2011 | Leave a comment

Jean-Luc Godard directs Fritz Lang, Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli and Jack Palance in Le Mépris. 1963.

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promoting fiend

Posted on October 16, 2011 | Leave a comment

A horrific display outside a Manhattan cinema (across the street from a Walgreens) entices passersby to check out screenings of Fiend Without a Face. 1958.

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sensation of sensations

Posted on October 15, 2011 | Leave a comment

The bullshit brigade is out in London promoting The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. Circa 1953.

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we dare you

Posted on October 14, 2011 | Leave a comment

Aggressive advertising for I Was a Teenage Werewolf. Those people lining up were bound to leave disappointed. 1957.

Photo and original caption: Sight and Sound. Spring 1958.

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paris shop window

Posted on October 12, 2011 | 2 comments

Louise Brooks on display. 1930.

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cover art

Posted on October 11, 2011 | Leave a comment

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catching up with the chaplins

Posted on October 10, 2011 | Leave a comment

Sight and Sound. July-September 1952.

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la passion de jeanne d’arc

Posted on October 8, 2011 | Leave a comment

Maria Falconetti in The Passion of Joan of Arc. Carl Dreyer. 1928.

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