Category Archives: context

dig the critics

Ken Russell, who died on Sunday, reviews The Citizen Kane book for Films and Filming. May 1972.

wanda hits the road

October 1971.

the decorative sex

Deborah Kerr in From Here to Eternity. Fred Zinnemann. 1953

record labels

Stupid Stupid Stupid. Black Grape. 1997.

watching the wheels

A handwritten to-do list up for auction on this site gives us a glimpse into John Lennon‘s Howard Hughes years. It seems as though Lennon had trouble understanding the technological mumbo jumbo coming out of the mouth of the “HBO guy” during his last encounter with him and has decided to delegate interacting with him to some underling (possibly Fred).

Also we see that items on his reading list include this book about the Hope Diamond and possibly this book written by Margaret Trudeau. And while you’re at it can you ask Sam Green about returning that Thor Heyerdahl book? We also see that weighing on his mind was the status of his hair dryer and learn that the hook on the bathroom door was kicking Lennon’s ass. Rock and Roll.

cover art

melville directs

Jean-Pierre Melville directs Alain Delon in Le Cercle rouge. 1970.

on your (inner) sleeve

Inner sleeve of The Cost of Living EP. The Clash. 1979.

martin produces

George Martin referees the fabs. Circa white album.

genius steals

Joe Dallesandro and Louis Waldon in Flesh. 1968.

Alain Delon in L’Insoumis. Alain Cavalier. 1964.

Advertisement in the Winter 1969/70 issue of Sight and Sound for a screening of In the Year of the Pig. Emile de Antonio. 1968.

(Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jacqueline Bisset and) François Truffaut with hearing aid (in La Nuit Américaine. Truffaut. 1973.)

Morrissey with hearing aid.