chained and perfumed

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Posted on June 28, 2009 | Leave a comment

Bride of Frankenstein writes her memoirs. 1983.

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bertolucci directs

Posted on June 27, 2009 | Leave a comment

Bernardo Bertolucci and Robert Deniro on the set of Novencento. 1976.

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rehearsing

Posted on June 26, 2009 | Leave a comment

Not to keep dwelling on this but yesterday, death, as it must to all men, came to Michael Jackson and I happened upon this picture totally by accident today. I also have an excuse to post this gem.

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holy shit! michael jackson is dead

Posted on June 25, 2009 | 3 comments

michael jackson is dead: A pop culture Nine Eleven

I can’t say that I saw this one coming. King of Pop dead at age fifty.

gangster lean

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stanley kubrick is incommunicado

Posted on June 25, 2009 | Leave a comment

New feature either to be called Mail Bag or Pen to Paper! This letter (and its answer) appeared in the June 1972 issue of Films and Filming. Above is an illustration by Jan Parker from the Spring 1966 issue of Sight and Sound.

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une femme mariée

Posted on June 24, 2009 | Leave a comment

Macha Méril in Jean-Luc Godard’s Une femme mariée: Suite de fragments d’un film tourné en 1964.

une femme mariee

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not exactly doris day

Posted on June 23, 2009 | 2 comments

The Lennons, quite famously, for a week in 1972 took over the Mike Douglas Show acting as talent bookers and cohosts. This gave John endless opportunities to chain-smoke and not allow Yoko a word in edgeways and allowed Yoko to come off generally (from what I’ve seen) as a patient, intelligent and borderline likable individual. Here we have something special indeed: footage of Mike, John and Yoko interviewing lady-filmmaker Barbara Loden about her then recently-released masterpiece, Wanda. Of special interest to me, for obvious reasons, is the clip of Wanda that is aired about ten minutes in. I’m either an idiot (which is very, very likely) or wordpress doesn’t allow dailymotion embedding so you’ll have to click the top pic to watch the video. Taped in New York City on February 1st 1972. Aired February fifteenth 1972.

John Lennon

Mike Douglas

Loden

always bumming around, drinkin'

the Lennons approve

Plastic Loden

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cute band alert

Posted on June 22, 2009 | 1 comment

Bikini Kill.

Remember this?

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delphine seyrig is fucking amazing

Posted on June 21, 2009 | 1 comment

The other day, I re-read a fantastic interview with Delphine Seyrig in the Autumn 1969 issue of Sight and Sound. This is the only interview with or article on her that I’ve ever seen. It turns out that she had quite the life: she was in that Beat film, Pull My Daisy; she was present at part of the shooting of the last film in which Keaton starred; and she worked with many a huge name director in Europe throughout the 1960s (and usually turned in a performance that managed to knock my socks off). I figured rather than try to summarize this interview, I might as well just post the whole thing here. Please enjoy.