Category Archives: cinema

demy directs

Posted on October 7, 2011 | Leave a comment

Jacques Demy directs Jeanne Moreau in Bay of Angels. 1963.

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the clairvoyant

Posted on October 6, 2011 | Leave a comment

Claude Rains in The Clairvoyant. Maurice Elvey. 1934.

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titles

Posted on October 4, 2011 | Leave a comment

The Thing with Two Heads. Lee Frost. 1972.

The trailer did it better.

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haven’t seen it

Posted on October 3, 2011 | Leave a comment

Geneviève Waïte as Joanna in Joanna. Michael Sarne. 1968.

“Joanna emerges from a pool after having taken a dip in one of her fantasies”

“Joanna, Gordon, Beryl, followed by Dominic (Dave Scheuer), lead mourners to the graveside of a very close friend”

“Joanna is re-united with Gordon on the beach when he is on the run from the police”

“Gordon (Calvin Lockhart) embraces Joanna”

“Joanna, a girl who sleeps around in London, and finds that her partners do the same”

“Joanna meets Beryl (Glenna Forster-Jones) while she is walking her Afghan”

“Neither Cas nor Lefty (Michael Chow) wish to take the responsibility when Joanna questions them about a girl asleep in the bedroom”

Photos and captions from Films and Filming. December 1968.

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les biches

Posted on October 2, 2011 | Leave a comment

Stephane Audran, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Jacqueline Sassard in Les Biches. Chabrol. 1968.

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vertigo

Posted on September 28, 2011 | 1 comment

Hitchcock. 1958.

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le magnifique

Posted on September 27, 2011 | Leave a comment

Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jacqueline Bisset in Le Magnifique. Philippe de Broca. 1973.

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f for orson

Posted on September 26, 2011 | 2 comments

“Trapped in a fake dope raid on her wedding night”—who hasn’t been there?

Screen Stories (which must have been a movie magazines for shut-ins). March 1958.

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sarne directs

Posted on September 24, 2011 | 2 comments

Michael Sarne (right) compares groovy wardrobe with cinematographer Richard Moore while John Huston waits in the background during the filming of Myra Breckinridge. 1970.

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life or death

Posted on September 23, 2011 | Leave a comment

Holy shit! The Head of Alfredo Garcia is up for auction on eBay. Or at least someone is claiming to have the actual movie-used prop Head of Alfredo Garcia and is selling it on eBay. The seller identifies himself as an actor named Nico De Silva. I checked imdb and it says that he was in Fletch and one episode of Highway to Heaven. So everything seems to be on the up-and-up here.

Bidding begins at fifteen hundred dollars which sort of seems like a bargain, I guess. Someone should buy this and let me borrow it.

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