Category Archives: cinema

vadim directs

Posted on November 3, 2010 | Leave a comment

Roger Vadim directs Jeanne Moreau in Les liaisons dangereuses. 1959.

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haven’t seen it

Posted on November 1, 2010 | Leave a comment

La Luna. Bertolucci. 1979.

Sight and Sound. Summer 1979.

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sellers as lugosi

Posted on October 31, 2010 | Leave a comment

Peter Sellers as Bela Lugosi in Dracula. Playboy. April 1964.

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dig the critics

Posted on October 28, 2010 | Leave a comment

Sight and Sound. Spring 1979.

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james whale

Posted on October 27, 2010 | Leave a comment

Circa 1955.

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arbuckle’s arraignment

Posted on October 26, 2010 | Leave a comment

Roscoe Arbuckle charged with rape and murder. San Francisco. September 17, 1921.

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coppola directs

Posted on October 24, 2010 | Leave a comment

Francis Ford Coppola directs Nastassja Kinski and Frederic Forrest in One from the Heart. 1982.

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accident: on location at syon house

Posted on October 21, 2010 | 1 comment

Break in the action during the shooting at Syon House.

Joseph Losey on the set.

Losey and cameraman Gerry Fisher.

Baroness Moura Budberg as one of the party guests.

Master shot of the film camera shooting upwards from somewhere in the rugger scrum.

Sight and Sound went on location with Losey on Accident. Autumn 1966.

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advertising

Posted on October 20, 2010 | Leave a comment

Garbo: A Portrait. Alexander Walker. 1980.

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isadora

Posted on October 18, 2010 | Leave a comment

Vanessa Redgrave in Isadora. Karel Reisz. 1968.

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