Category Archives: context

cute couple alert

Posted on October 28, 2011 | Leave a comment

Bette Davis and Richard Barthelmess in The Cabin in the Cotton. Michael Curtiz. 1932.

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titles

Posted on October 27, 2011 | Leave a comment

Jennie Livingston. 1990.

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years after the event: fan clubs

Posted on October 26, 2011 | 2 comments

April 30, 1973

May 30, 1973

Detail of the back of Red Rose Speedway. The Braille says “We love ya baby” and it’s for Stevie Wonder.

Detail of the back of Living in the Material World.

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jagger

Posted on October 25, 2011 | Leave a comment

1966.

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f for fields

Posted on October 24, 2011 | Leave a comment

Fields season. 1967.

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cover art

Posted on October 23, 2011 | Leave a comment

Top row: David Bradley in Kes. Clint Eastwood in Paint Your Wagon. Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Center row: Hiram Keller in Satyricon. Richard Harris in A Man Called Horse. Joe Cocker in Woodstock.
Bottom row: Helmut Berger in The Damned. Mark Freschette in Zabriskie Point. Alain Delon in Borsalino.

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les demoiselles de rochefort

Posted on October 22, 2011 | 4 comments

The Young Girls of Rochefort. Jacques Demy. 1967.

Françoise Dorléac and Gene Kelly.

Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac.

Grover Dale and George Chakiris.

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st. clair directs

Posted on October 21, 2011 | Leave a comment

Mal St. Clair (, seated behind cameraman Walter Lundin,) directs Barbara Kent—who died last week at age 103!—in Welcome Danger. 1929.

Also pictured from left, Gaylord Lloyd (just visible), Wallace Howe, Jimmy Anderson, Harold Lloyd, head electrician “Bard” Bardwell and Harold’s double Jake Jacoby.

St. Clair’s contributions as director went uncredited.

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hundred-year-old headlines

Posted on October 20, 2011 | Leave a comment

May 23, 1922.

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dig the critics

Posted on October 19, 2011 | Leave a comment

Films and Filming reporter Allen Eyles musters about as much of an endorsement of The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend as one could.

April 1973.

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Posted in cinema, context, dig the critics, Sturges