Category Archives: cinema

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godard directs

Jean-Luc Godard directs Anna Karina and Jean-Claude Brialy in Une Femme est une femme. 1961.

freak out

Films and Filming. January 1971.

virgin suicides

Kirsten Dunst in The Virgin Suicides. Sofia Coppola. 1999.

way back

Thomas L Talley‘s phonograph and picture parlor in Los Angeles, 1897-8— At left the Edison peep-show Kinetoscopes, in the center Mutoscopes, at the extreme rear, center, are the eyeholes through which patrons, timid of the darkness of the projection room, could view a picture thrown on a screen, eartube phonograph customers at right.

f for fields

Claude and Susan Miller (as a young woman who has never seen a man before) in Never Give a Sucker an Even Break. Edward F. Cline. 1941.

the decorative sex

Ann-Margret and Tuesday Weld in The Cincinnati Kid. Norman Jewison. 1965.

who’s a man that we admire

Director, performer, genius, childhood hero and life-long smoker, Buster Keaton

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double feature

The Aristocats. Wolfgang Reitherman. 1970.

Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar. Rex Allen, Winston Hibler. 1967.

I love how the ad people had so little faith in this Aristocats thing that they used a character from The Jungle Book to promote it.

skidoo

Carol Channing in Skidoo. Otto Preminger. 1968.