Category Archives: context

the stickers on records

Posted on March 27, 2010 | Leave a comment

Radio. LL Cool J. 1985.

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cover art

Posted on March 26, 2010 | 1 comment

Adam West and Burt Ward in Batman. Leslie H. Martinson. 1966.

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the sisters dorléac

Posted on March 25, 2010 | 2 comments

Catherine Deneuve & Françoise Dorléac. Circa 1965.

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advertising

Posted on March 24, 2010 | 3 comments

1952.

I have no idea why but for the past seven days I have limited myself to four issues of Sight and Sound from 1952 as the source of my posts. That’s behind us now. Beginning tomorrow, it’s back to regular scheduled programming.

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dig the critics

Posted on March 23, 2010 | Leave a comment

Sight and Sound. April-June 1952.

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huston directs

Posted on March 22, 2010 | Leave a comment

John Huston and Humphrey Bogart in Africa filming The African Queen. 1951.

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caruso as caruso

Posted on March 21, 2010 | Leave a comment

Mario Lanza as Enrico Caruso in The Great Caruso. Richard Thorpe. 1951.

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vampyr

Posted on March 20, 2010 | Leave a comment

Vampyr. Dreyer. 1932.

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les enfants terribles

Posted on March 19, 2010 | 1 comment

Jean-Pierre Melville. 1950.

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festival time!

Posted on March 18, 2010 | Leave a comment

Renato Castellani.

Orson Welles and Mack Sennett!

William Holden during his press conference.

Dolores del Rio and Anatole Litvak.

“Gene and Mrs. Kelly (Betsy Blair) making a rather ‘Singing in the Rain’ entrance to the ‘American in Paris’ show.”

Cannes 1952 as reported in the July-September 1952 issue of Sight and Sound. Photos by Robert Hawkins.

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