Category Archives: cinema

what’s wrong with being sexy?

M Piccoli

Michel Piccoli in Le Trio infernal. Francis Girod. 1974.

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f for fields

Claude with Chester Conklin in Tillie’s Punctured Romance. A. Edward Sutherland. 1928.

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1971.

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schlesinger directs

John Schlesinger directs Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy. 1969.

catching up with the chaplins

Chas directs Sophia Loren in A Countess from Hong Kong, as Syd and Jane look on. 1967.

festival time!

Simone Silva and Robert Mitchum at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival. The world wasn’t yet ready for such immodesty in 1954 and Ms Silva was stripped of her (phony) Miss Festival title. Mitchum—like Justin Timberlake 50 years later—walked away, like he did from most things, unscathed.

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no lesbians

Films and Filming. January 1968.

the sign of the cross

Claudette Colbert and Charles Laughton in The Sign of the Cross. DeMille. 1932.

hollywood “international principality of motion picture art” or hooray for hollywood by f.w. murnau

F.W. Murnau

Published in The Motion Picture. 1927.