antonioni directs

Posted on April 13, 2011 | Leave a comment

Michelangelo Antonioni and Marcello Mastroianni filming La Notte. 1961.

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the scarlet empress

Posted on April 12, 2011 | Leave a comment

Sam Jaffe in The Scarlet Empress. Josef von Sternberg. 1934.

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what’s wrong with being sexy?

Posted on April 11, 2011 | 3 comments

Just wow. The Rolling Stones promoting their Black and Blue LP. 1976.

Thanks to my friend Jeff for the loan of 50 or so 1970s issues of National Lampoon. This should prove to be as major a windfall for this site as when I got all of those back issues of Playboy at that flea market a few years ago. Please enjoy.

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dog day afternoon

Posted on April 10, 2011 | Leave a comment

Al Pacino and John Cazale in Dog Day Afternoon. Sidney Lumet. 1975.

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sidney lumet is dead

Posted on April 9, 2011 | 2 comments

Sidney Lumet dead at age 86.

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coppola directs

Posted on April 9, 2011 | Leave a comment

Sofia Coppola directs The Virgin Suicides. 1999.

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coppola directs

Posted on April 8, 2011 | Leave a comment

Francis Ford Coppola directs Gene Hackman in The Conversation in San Francisco. 1974.

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rosemary’s baby

Posted on April 7, 2011 | Leave a comment

John Cassavetes, Ralph Bellamy.

Rosemary's Baby

Patsy Kelly and Ruth Gordon.

Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby. Roman Polanski. 1968.

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catching up with the chaplins

Posted on April 6, 2011 | Leave a comment

Chaplin and Brando on the set of A Countess from Hong Kong. Chaplin. 1967.

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bogart

Posted on April 5, 2011 | Leave a comment

Humphrey Bogart in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. John Huston. 1948.

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