Category Archives: context

the return of the thin white duke

bowie

Until I heard yesterday’s announcement that David Bowie is planning to release an new album, I had been half-thinking that he had secretly died sometime during his last decade of relative silence. Thank goodness this isn’t the case and here’s hoping that the new material will be at least up to snuff with where he left off 10 years ago because if I recall correctly he was on something of a tear. The new single seems like a good start.

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Nic Roeg. 1971.

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1977.

cute couple alert

Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate.

days of heaven

Richard Gere in Days of Heaven. Malick. 1978.

a book by its cover

Hollywood Babylon

1975.

way back

Mary Pickford‘s first real part, playing opposite David Miles, in ‘The Violin Maker of Cremona,’ a one-reel drama released by Biograph July 7, 1909.”

“‘The Lonely Villa,’ a Griffith one-reel melodrama produced at Biograph in 1909, with Marion Leonard, at the telephone, and Mary Pickford at her right.”

Mary Pickford, pictured in 1916 when the fate of half a dozen motion picture corporations hung in the balance as the producers battled to get her name on a contract.”

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old lubitsch

young lubitsch

A young Ernst Lubitsch in Schuhpalast Pinkus. Lubitsch. 1916.

Happy New Year everyone!

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