Category Archives: cinema

sexploitation and underground

sexploitation
underground

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

polanski had a pretty rotten sunday

I say we let him go.

the decorative sex

Stefania Sandrelli in Seduced and Abandoned. Germi. 1964.

Stefania Sandrelli in Il conformista. Bertolucci. 1970.

cute couple alert

Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake. Sullivan’s Travels. Sturges. 1941.

two-lane blacktop

James Taylor, Dennis Wilson, Laurie Bird.

Two-Lane Blacktop. Hellman. 1971.

cover art

casino royale

f for falstaff

Falstaff

Chimes at Midnight. Welles. 1965.

the servant

James Fox. The Servant. Losey. 1963.

peckinpah directs

Peckinpah directs

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

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

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.

dig the critics

Yellow Submarine

Hard Day's Night

Sight and Sound. Autumn 1964.

Help!

Sight and Sound. Autumn 1965.

Yellow Submarine

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.