Category Archives: cinema

sturges directs

Posted on February 13, 2010 | 4 comments

Preston Sturges directs Harold Lloyd and Frances Ramsden in The Sin of Harold Diddlebock. 1945.

4 Comments

Posted in cinema, context, Sturges

a book by its cover

Posted on February 11, 2010 | Leave a comment

Maltese Falcon. Avon Books. 1974.

Leave a comment

Posted in book by its cover, cinema, context

festival time!

Posted on February 8, 2010 | Leave a comment

Jacques Tati presents his donkey abuse awareness film, Parade, at the Cannes Film Festival. 1974.

Leave a comment

Posted in cinema, context, festival time!

simon of the desert

Posted on February 6, 2010 | Leave a comment

Buñuel. 1965.

Leave a comment

Posted in cinema, context

f for fields

Posted on February 5, 2010 | Leave a comment

W.C. Fields with Elise Cavanna in The Dentist. Leslie Pearce. 1932.

Leave a comment

Posted in cinema, context, f for fields

pen to paper

Posted on February 4, 2010 | Leave a comment

Oh, man, I bet Gillett’s face was red. A silly error indeed. Sight and Sound. Spring 1974.

Leave a comment

Posted in cinema, context, mail bag

please be silent behind camera

Posted on February 2, 2010 | Leave a comment

Josef Von Sternberg (seated) with cameraman Maximilian Fabian and (standing from left to right) Conrad Nagel, Matthew Betz and Renée Adorée on the set of Exquisite Sinner. 1926.

Leave a comment

Posted in cinema, context

parking for kirk douglas

Posted on February 1, 2010 | 2 comments

The Stones rehearse in Los Angeles. June 1972.

2 Comments

Posted in cinema, context, Jagger, music

cute couple alert

Posted on January 31, 2010 | 8 comments

Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Fabienne Tabard (Delphine Seyrig) in Baisers volés. Truffaut. 1968.

8 Comments

Posted in cinema, context, cute couple alert, truffaut

advertising

Posted on January 29, 2010 | 1 comment

The Servant. Losey. 1963.

1 Comment

Posted in advertising, cinema, context, Losey