Category Archives: context

elvis porn

Back cover of first pressing of Elvis’s Christmas Album, a promotional still from Jailhouse Rock.

Paper inner sleeve from an awful circa 1963 stereo repress of 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can’t Be Wrong: Elvis’ Gold Records – Volume 2. The sleeve depicts all of the Elvis LPs available from RCA up until that point. Above, in the second row, we see a great run of Elvis’s pre-army heyday, before the movie soundtrack rot set in. Now that is Elvis (LP) porn.

From Films and Filming. March 1969. “Elvis Presley, after participating in a prison riot, suffers the severe punishment dealt out by a guard (Bill Hickman) in Richard Thorpe’s Jailhouse Rock .”

Elvis at seventy-five.

festival time!

Ana Torrent, Geraldine Chaplin and Carlos Saura. Cannes 1976. (Bonus Chaplin! I think that’s another of Chas’s daughters, Jane, between Geraldine and Saura.)

the coronation of edward vii

The Coronation of Edward VII. Méliès. Urban. 1902.

racist garbage

Mickey’s Mellerdrammer. Wilfred Jackson. 1933.

cover art

Sophia Loren in A Breath of Scandal. Curtiz. 1960.

nosferatu

Isabelle Adjani in Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht. Herzog. 1979.

2001 is the ultimate trip

happy new year. 2001 or something or other.

play it again, sam

Woody Allen surrounded by a bevy of beauties while performing his Play It Again, Sam on Broadway. April 1969.

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1969.

haven’t seen it

Jean Seberg in her husband’s The Birds Come To Die In Peru. Romain Gary. 1968.