Category Archives: cinema

dinner at eight

Posted on March 24, 2015 | Leave a comment

Dinner at Eight

Wallace Berry and Jean Harlow in Dinner at Eight. George Cukor. 1933.

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cover art

Posted on March 23, 2015 | Leave a comment

Spring 1959

Alec Guinness and Bette Davis in The Scapegoat. 1959.

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advertising

Posted on March 22, 2015 | Leave a comment

Last Tango Around the Turntable

Odd Last Tango in Paris-inspired ad for Empire turntables. 1973.

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fellini directs

Posted on March 21, 2015 | Leave a comment

La Dolce Vita

Fellini directs Anita Ekberg in La Dolce Vita. 1960.

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festival time!

Posted on March 20, 2015 | Leave a comment

Cannes 52

1952.

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way back

Posted on March 19, 2015 | Leave a comment

John D Isaacs

John D. Isaacs, former chief engineer of the Southern Pacific railway, who devised the chronophotographic machines which made Muybridge famous.

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dial m for murder

Posted on March 17, 2015 | Leave a comment

Dial M

Anthony Dawson and Grace Kelly in Dial M for Murder. Hitchcock. 1954.

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dig the critics

Posted on March 16, 2015 | Leave a comment

Sleeping Beauty

Sight and Sound. Summer – Autumn 1959.

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titles

Posted on March 15, 2015 | Leave a comment

Trouble In Paradise

Lubitsch. 1932.

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catching up with the chaplins

Posted on March 14, 2015 | Leave a comment

fingerprints

Chas is fingerprinted by George Rossini of the U.S. Marshal’s office as his attorney Jerry Giesler looms behind. A Federal grand jury indictment charged him with violating the Mann Act and of conspiring to defraud Joan Barry of her civil rights. Chas’ life was nothing if not messy. February 14, 1944.

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