Category Archives: cinema

on the set of

Posted on April 7, 2013 | Leave a comment

Alan Bates and Harold Pinter on the set of The Go-Between. Losey. 1970.

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roger ebert is dead

Posted on April 4, 2013 | 1 comment

roger ebert

Movie lover Roger Ebert died today at age 70. I give him a big thumbs up and cancer a big thumbs down.

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festival time!

Posted on April 3, 2013 | Leave a comment

Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin on the beach at Cannes Film Festival. 1969.

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léaud “directs”

Posted on April 1, 2013 | Leave a comment

Jean-Pierre Léaud playing a film director in Last Tango in Paris. Bertolucci. 1972.

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epics

Posted on March 31, 2013 | 2 comments

Epics

Films and Filming. January 1968.

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haven’t seen it

Posted on March 30, 2013 | 1 comment

The Way of All Flesh

Emil Jannings in the lost film The Way of All Flesh. Victor Fleming. 1927.

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boom!

Posted on March 28, 2013 | Leave a comment

Boom!

Elizabeth Taylor in Boom! Joe Losey. 1968.

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books on film

Posted on March 27, 2013 | Leave a comment

The Brat

Sally O’Neil in The Brat. John Ford. 1931.

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fahrenheit 451

Posted on March 26, 2013 | 4 comments

Julie Christie and Oskar Werner in Fahrenheit 451. Truffaut. 1966.

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way back

Posted on March 25, 2013 | Leave a comment

“Mabel Normand, with John Bunny, at left, and Jimmy Morrison, in one of her first screen appearances, “Trouble and Secretary” at Vitagraph — after that came Biograph, Keystone, Sennett and fame.”

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