dig the critics

Jerusalem FileJerusalem File review

That other Daria Halprin-starring movie reviewed in Playboy. May 1972.

the decorative sex

Julie Christie

Julie Christie in Fahrenheit 451. Truffaut. 1966.

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Swedish Wedding Night

1964.

zabriskie point

Zabriskie Point

Spoiler alert: Daria, with her back to the camera, witnesses the film’s climax. Antonioni. 1970.

cute couple alert

Son of The Sheik

Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky in The Son of The Sheik. George Fitzmaurice. 1926.

heh, heh, a Sheik-quel.

louise brooks arrives

Louise Brooks in Berlin

Louise Brooks, greeted by G.W. Pabst, arrives in Berlin. 1928.

festival time!

Kurosawa Richard Gere

Kurosawa and Richard Gere at the The New York Film Festival. 1985.

way back

First Broadway Screen Booking

This is The Letter which started the screen career of the motion picture on Broadway, at the famous Koster & Bial’s Music Hall, where the Vitascope had its premiere a month later.

casino royale

“Armed forces orgy takes a militant turn of the moment when the generals discover that Le Chiffre has been making five-star stag films of their fun…Animosities built up during the frantic bidding for the blackmail shots — in which the Oriental gentleman in bathtub bids 30,000,000 Chinese — are further aggravated when Mata Bond substitutes real war films for blue material. ‘I was technical director for the whole sequence,’ Woody notes, ‘calling on my vast experience as idea man in a French brothel. I contained myself magnificently during the shooting, although I must admit I still have a fair amount of Max Factor on my hands'”

the stickers on records

Lee Hazlewood seal

Weird seal sticker on Requiem For An Almost Lady. Lee Hazlewood. 1971.