Category Archives: context

vertigo

Posted on September 28, 2011 | 1 comment

Hitchcock. 1958.

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le magnifique

Posted on September 27, 2011 | Leave a comment

Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jacqueline Bisset in Le Magnifique. Philippe de Broca. 1973.

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f for orson

Posted on September 26, 2011 | 2 comments

“Trapped in a fake dope raid on her wedding night”—who hasn’t been there?

Screen Stories (which must have been a movie magazines for shut-ins). March 1958.

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cute band alert

Posted on September 25, 2011 | Leave a comment

Public Enemy. circa 1986.

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sarne directs

Posted on September 24, 2011 | 2 comments

Michael Sarne (right) compares groovy wardrobe with cinematographer Richard Moore while John Huston waits in the background during the filming of Myra Breckinridge. 1970.

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life or death

Posted on September 23, 2011 | Leave a comment

Holy shit! The Head of Alfredo Garcia is up for auction on eBay. Or at least someone is claiming to have the actual movie-used prop Head of Alfredo Garcia and is selling it on eBay. The seller identifies himself as an actor named Nico De Silva. I checked imdb and it says that he was in Fletch and one episode of Highway to Heaven. So everything seems to be on the up-and-up here.

Bidding begins at fifteen hundred dollars which sort of seems like a bargain, I guess. Someone should buy this and let me borrow it.

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southern boys just like you and me

Posted on September 22, 2011 | Leave a comment

In light of yesterday’s announcement that R.E.M. have split up—which, sure, maybe is something they should have done at least 13 years ago by my estimation—here’s a Stephen Malkmus-penned appreciation of their killer 1984 LP Reckoning. Originally published in a Q Magazine R.E.M. Special Edition. 2001.

(click to enlarge. please enjoy.)

Top photo, R.E.M. 1988. Above, Stipe. 1988.

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the decorative sex

Posted on September 21, 2011 | Leave a comment

Claudia Cardinale in Once Upon a Time in the West. Sergio Leone. 1968.

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advertising

Posted on September 20, 2011 | Leave a comment

Velvet Goldmine soundtrack. Todd Haynes. 1998.

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queer requests

Posted on September 19, 2011 | Leave a comment

The Motion Picture. Volume IV. Number 10. October 1928.

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