Category Archives: cinema

five more pictures of bowie

Posted on June 4, 2010 | Leave a comment

Part five: Thomas Jerome Newton in the desert. The Man Who Fell to Earth. 1976.

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festival time!

Posted on June 2, 2010 | Leave a comment

Michael Jackson turns up late for the premiere of his film Ghosts at the Cannes Film Festival. 1997.

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an enemy of decency

Posted on June 1, 2010 | 2 comments

From Sight and Sound’s Seventh Art column. March 1951.

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naming names

Posted on May 31, 2010 | 1 comment

Sterling Hayden testifying before the Un-American Activities Committee. Joining the Communist Party, he said, “was the stupidest, most ignorant thing I’ve ever done in my life.”

Jack L. Warner, executive producer of Warner Brothers, giving evidence at the 1947 hearings.

Nine of the “Hollywood Ten”, photographed at the time of their surrender to the court. Left to right: Adrian Scott, Edward Dmytryk, Samuel Ornitz, Lester Cole, Herbert Biberman, Albert Maltz, Alvah Bessie, John Howard Lawson, Ring Lardner Jr.

1950: Dalton Trumbo and John Howard Lawson, two of the Hollywood Ten, leaving a New York station.

Hollywood delegation arriving in Washington to observe the 1947 hearings of the House Committee. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall lead the marchers; behind them (left to right): Larry Adler, Richard Conte, Paul Henreid, June Havoc, Danny Kaye.

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garbo, keaton

Posted on May 30, 2010 | 5 comments

Back row: King Vidor (wearing tennis visor), Beatrice Lillie.

Standing: in the centre, Mrs. Talmadge, Greta Garbo and Nicholas Schenck, and, on the right, Norma Shearer.

Seated: Hal Roach, Natalie Talmadge, Eddie Mannix, Constance Talmadge, Buster Keaton, Paul Bern, Irving Thalberg.

Reclining: John Gilbert.

At San Simeon. Circa 1927.

(Side note: the last 10 or so posts were intentionally more minimalist than usual—an exercise in palate cleansing. Thanks for your patience and after today its back to your regularly scheduled programming. Please enjoy.)

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