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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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sullivan’s travels: deleted dialogue

Posted on March 17, 2010 | Leave a comment

Here are two pages from Preston Sturges’s screenplay for Sullivan’s Travels, it includes several bits of dialogue that don’t appear in the finished film including mentions of Josef von Sternberg, Frank Capra, Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles.

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night porter

Posted on March 16, 2010 | Leave a comment

Charlotte Rampling and Dirk Bogarde in Il portiere di notte. Liliana Cavani. 1974.

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thunderball

Posted on March 15, 2010 | Leave a comment

Sean Connery promotes Thunderball. Terence Young. 1965.

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