

From Films and Filming, August 1969: “A montage of advertisements for sexploitation and underground films which appear regularly in the American underground press.”


From Films and Filming, August 1969: “A montage of advertisements for sexploitation and underground films which appear regularly in the American underground press.”
Posted in advertising, cinema, context


Stefania Sandrelli in Seduced and Abandoned. Germi. 1964.


Stefania Sandrelli in Il conformista. Bertolucci. 1970.
Posted in cinema, context, decorative sex

Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake. Sullivan’s Travels. Sturges. 1941.
Posted in cinema, cute couple alert, Sturges

Sam Peckinpah and Ilesa Vega filming Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia. 1974.

Kris Kristofferson, Isela Vega and Warren Oates.
I bought a handful of 1960s and early 70s issues of Playboy from some creep at the flea fair last weekend. All expectations were surpassed: these things are a goldmine filled with mindblowing ads, a lot of reports on movies and tons of articles on Elliott Gould. And, of course, the occasional busty babe. Fear not: I’m not going soft core or anything but images from these mags are going into the mix. Here's the first post culled from the pile.


Sight and Sound. Autumn 1964.

Sight and Sound. Autumn 1965.

Sight and Sound. Autumn 1968.
Odd that they embraced Help! as much as they did. I tried to watch that again a year or so ago—I hadn’t seen it in ages—and thought it was pretty awful. Then again, this magazine embraced a lot of awful things over the years.
Posted in cinema, context, dig the critics, years after the event