Category Archives: cinema

bay of angels

Posted on April 30, 2013 | Leave a comment

Jeanne Moreau and Claude Mann in La baie des anges. Jacques Demy. 1963.

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advertising

Posted on April 29, 2013 | 2 comments

ned kelly

1970.

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titles

Posted on April 28, 2013 | Leave a comment

Bob Fosse. 1979.

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catching up with the chaplins

Posted on April 27, 2013 | Leave a comment

Chas in the editing room.

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museum piece

Posted on April 25, 2013 | Leave a comment

Carmencita

Piece: Carmencita. Oil on canvas. William Merritt Chase. 1890.

Where: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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way back

Posted on April 24, 2013 | Leave a comment

Carmencita

Carmencita, First “Vamp” of the motion picture, a music hall favorite of the Naughty-Nineties, in the most daring pose that the press agent for Koster & Bial’s could imagine then.

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wadleigh directs

Posted on April 23, 2013 | Leave a comment

Far out movie-making headband in place, Michael Wadleigh is prepared to direct a cast of thousands. Woodstock. 1970.

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richie havens is dead

Posted on April 22, 2013 | 2 comments

Richie Havens

Woodstock opener and showstopper Richie Havens died today at age 72.

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f for fields

Posted on April 22, 2013 | Leave a comment

It's the Old Army Game

Claude and Louise Brooks in It’s the Old Army Game. Eddie Sutherland. 1926.

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the decorative sex

Posted on April 19, 2013 | Leave a comment

Jean Seberg, looking good in Paint Your Wagon. Joshua Logan. 1969.

And in Lilith. Robert Rossen. 1964.

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