Category Archives: cinema

a hard day’s night

Posted on December 26, 2012 | 1 comment

Wilfrid Brambell and Ringo in A Hard Day’s Night. Richard Lester. 1964.

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advertising

Posted on December 21, 2012 | Leave a comment

Circa 1958.

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f for fields

Posted on December 20, 2012 | 1 comment

Claude with Freddie Bartholomew as the young David in David Copperfield. George Cukor. 1935.

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nickelodeon

Posted on December 19, 2012 | Leave a comment

Burt Reynolds in Nickelodeon. Peter Bogdanovich. 1976.

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the decorative sex

Posted on December 18, 2012 | Leave a comment

Chili Bouchier in You Know What Sailors Are. Maurice Elvey. 1928.

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f for orson

Posted on December 17, 2012 | Leave a comment

Orson and Marlene Dietrich in Touch of Evil. 1958.

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Image

cover art

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Posted on December 16, 2012 in cinema, context, cover art

festival time!

Posted on December 13, 2012 | Leave a comment

Holden Fedora

William Holden at the Cannes screening of Billy Wilder‘s Fedora. 1978.

And that’s Jacques Tati that Holden is staring at, right?

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Posted in cinema, circus, festival time!

advertising

Posted on December 12, 2012 | Leave a comment

Spoiler alert: Newspaper advertisement. 1971.

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movie-slang arouses wide interest

Posted on December 11, 2012 | Leave a comment

Movie Slang

The Motion Picture. February 1, 1929.

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Posted in cinema, context, old magazines, that pile of stuff from the 20s