Category Archives: cinema

cover art

Posted on May 20, 2009 | Leave a comment

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lubitsch directs

Posted on May 19, 2009 | Leave a comment

Ernst Lubitsch, Mary Pickford and cameraman Charles Rosher on the set of Rosita (1923).

Pickford: “Oh, I detested that picture! I disliked the director, Ernst Lubitsch, as much as he disliked me…it was a very unhappy and very costly experience.”

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sunset blvd

Posted on May 17, 2009 | 1 comment

Sight and Sound. March 1950.

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f for fields

Posted on May 16, 2009 | Leave a comment

Fields the tourist. Paris, circa 1909-11.

Rue Lafayette.

Horse-drawn double-decker trolley on the Boulevard des Italiens, passing the Folies Bergère where Fields was starring.

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advertising

Posted on May 14, 2009 | Leave a comment

Bing Crosby records. 1962.

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cute couple alert

Posted on May 13, 2009 | Leave a comment

Lotte Eisner with the Robot Maria at the museum of the Cinémathèque Française. Circa 1979.

The only other picture of Eisner that I could find is this bonus couple: Lotte Eisner and Werner Herzog.

Eisner Herzog

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dig the critics

Posted on May 12, 2009 | Leave a comment

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the conformist

Posted on May 10, 2009 | Leave a comment

Jean-Louis Trintignant in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Il conformista. 1970.

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coogan “directs”

Posted on May 9, 2009 | 1 comment

Jackie Coogan and cameraman Frank B Good, possibly on the set of Old Clothes, peer through panes of blue glass, this technique gives them some idea of how things will look in black and white. 1925.

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cover art

Posted on May 7, 2009 | 2 comments

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