Category Archives: Movies

Juxtaposin’: Stair Singing

Posted on January 2, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes:

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Movie Posters of the French New Wave (Other Countries Edition)

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: I’ve already posted galleries devoted to French and Italian posters of the French New Wave. This entry is the last in the series: it focuses on New Wave posters released in countries other than France and Italy. … Continue reading →

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Different From You and Me

Posted on December 30, 2013 by Fenster

Fenster writes: Are the rich different from you and me.  Maybe. Are magicians?  You bet. Ricky Jay’s movie, Deceptive Practices is on Netflix Streaming. He seemed a little dorky as a young performer.  Seemed wild and hip in the seventies. … Continue reading →

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Notes on “Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me”

Posted on December 28, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: “Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me” is ostensibly a documentary about ’70s cult band Big Star, and it’s good at being that, but its stealth subjects are the state of rock ‘n’ roll in the ’70s … Continue reading →

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Movie Still Du Jour

Posted on December 27, 2013 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: Click on the image to enlarge. FOOTLIGHT PARADE, 1933. Choreography by Busby Berkeley, natch.

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Betty Boop Shorts

Posted on December 26, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: And to think folks in the ’60s thought they were being wild and trippy . . . Related Now available on DVD from Olive Films. See here and here. I wrote a bit about popular surrealism … Continue reading →

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Fagen o’ th’ Day

Posted on December 25, 2013 by Fenster

Fenster writes: From Donald Fagen’s Eminent Hipsters, his crankypants but still quite witty semi-memoir. On film nowadays: The movies are so bad now that I usually pass out just after catching the first glimpse of the flesh-eating death-mist (or whatever), … Continue reading →

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Memo to Gittes

Posted on December 24, 2013 by Fenster

Fenster (as Duffy) writes: To: Gittes From: Duffy Re: Claus Date: December 24 Target Claus was spotted at workshop but gave me the slip.  Picked up trail and located him again in Brooklyn at apartment of Mrs. Ida Sessions.  Have … Continue reading →

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Publicity Archives

Posted on December 22, 2013 by Sherbrooke

Sherbrooke writes: Peter O’Toole and Audrey Hepburn, posing for “How to Steal a Million” (1966). On the face of it, it seems like strange casting, but to me, they are magic in this film. Ethereal male and ethereal female, both … Continue reading →

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Three Erotic Tarzans

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912): To Jane the strange apparition of this god-like man was as wine to sick nerves. From the description which Clayton and her father and Mr. Philander had given her, she knew that … Continue reading →

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