Category Archives: cinema

she’s coming down fast

Winter 69-70

I don’t know how I managed to forget to post this earlier but…Forty years ago today, blah, blah, blah.

Anyway, a few days ago, in preparation for this post, I went through all of the 1969 back numbers of Sight and Sound and Films and Filming that I have—I have the complete year of both magazines—and I could find absolutely no mention of the murders whatsoever until this small item in the 1969 obituaries in the Winter 1969/70 issue of Sight and Sound. Sort of classy of them I suppose but expect no such displays of decorum from this shithole site as I offer this dramatic reenactment of the events of the early hours of August 9, 1969.

Comin' down

knives out

dig the critics

Sight and Sound. Summer 1970.

two or three things

Marina Vlady in 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle. Godard. 1967.

tabloid tuesday

This is the first, and hopefully the last, of this series. I’ve been meaning to post at least some of these pics for a while now. I would have sat on them for a bit more–perhaps forever—but while reading yesterday’s “news” it occurred to me that these photos would serve as great set of images to accompany this mess. Until yesterday, I had forgotten for a minute what a slimeball Ryan O’Neal is. Above, O’Neal in What’s Up Doc.

Griffin with the old man on the set of Nickelodeon preparing for Griffin’s cameo.

Tatum in Nickelodeon.

Farrah in Logan’s Run.

playtime

Hulot encounters some sort of door locking demon. Playtime. 1967.

losey directs

Joe Losey directs Jacqueline Sassard and Carole Caplin in Accident. 1967.

cover art

f for fields

W. C. Fields trying to relax at home circa 1935. Above, Claude, dressed better than I think I’ve ever seen him, flexes his specs. Below, he runs his daily letters by his dictaphone.

f for festival time!

Welles and Rey

Orson Welles and Fernando Rey at the 1973 San Sebastian Film Festival.

made in usa

Made in USA. Godard. 1966.