May 2011
15 posts
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Type: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
Love this lettering. Just look at those dotted I’s! Swoon.
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Best of Netflix Watch Instantly: Fear (1996)
Fear is like the best movie that Lifetime never made. Honestly they should just buy the rights, change the working title to something like A Father’s Torment and add it to their lineup. I’m thinkin’ somewhere between Mother, May I Sleep With Danger and My Stepson, My Lover. Your welcome! Nicole (Reese Witherspoon) is your standard moody high school girl who wears short skirts...
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Freaks (1932): Now I ain't sayin' she a gold...
If curiosity killed the cat then sometimes I wonder what the hell is going to happen to me. I watched Freaks out of innocent curious voyeurism and ended up feeling really weird. Director Tod Browning made a bold choice of casting real carnival folk and people with disabilities in his soap opera morality tale. And you kinda wonder did this story need to be told using these people? The jurys...
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Spike Lee: Do The Right Thing by Spike Lee & Jason...
Have you ever been in the middle of one those sweltering New York City summer days? The ones where the air is as thick as a slice of Junior’s cheesecake. Where the smells of the city defy all logic and where a nudge on a packed subway car can quickly turn into a heated dispute. It seems that nothing can help cool you down and that everyone is close to their breaking point. This is the kind...
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Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studio Logo (1928-1956)
The studio’s second logo featuring Jackie the lion used from 1928-1956.
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People: Drew Barrymore by Greg Gorman.
One of my favorite photographs of Drew Barrymore, ever.
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I Love Hot Dogs
Paris Is Burning is one of my favorite films. Mainly because it asks one simple question: What if there was place you could go for night and be a star? Something like the drag(ier) version of the Oscars. A Ball with trophies stacked glimmering in the stage lights with engravings like Upcoming Pretty Girl or High Fashion Sportswear. It’s your night and you can be whoever you want....
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Hubba Hubba: Mia Farrow.
(via)
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BONUS: The Wild Bunch (1969)
I need to step up my western game. ASAP.
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Shorts: Sean (1970)
If you’ve seen even one thirty second clip of Toddlers and Tiaras then you know that precocious children can be a truly frightening thing. But Sean Farrell is not your average precocious four (“and a half!”) year old. He’s an insightful little sponge, and a true product of the freewheeling 60s and his upbringing in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. We...
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BONUS: Harold and Maude (1971)
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Best of Netflix Watch Instantly: Harold and Maude...
While some fear or shy away from death, Harold Chasen embraces it. He lives a quiet life and has one very peculiar hobby: staging elaborate faux-suicides to agitate his overbearing mother. But after a handful of these she grows immune to the sight of Harold covered in fake blood and just begins sending him to specialists, none of which can explain his love of the macabre. Everything changes for...
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People: Juan Antonio Maldonado
My love of film comes from my dad. This is a small chunk of his estimated 250+ collection of VHS tapes. He’s always been really into cinema and let me start watching horror movies when I was really really young. I think Puppet Master was the first, and The Exorcist and Candy Man were especially traumatizing. Over the years though some of his choices have been spotty, and with the...
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The Stuff (1985): Eat It.
The Stuff is not worth the effort it would take to lift your hand and press play on your DVD player. But one thing it has going for it is the logo for “The Stuff ” (an evil mutant form of Marshmallow Fluff) which looks even better as a hot pink neon. The film is meant to be a satire but is really the unfunny edible bootleg version of The Blob, with a few amusing moments coming from...
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Shorts: Ksubi presents Kolors (2011)
Australian denim label Ksubi recently released Kolors, a campaign video for their new range of colored skinnies just in time for summer. The moody slow-mo clip directed by Daniel Askill features babes, pretty smoke bombs, and cars. And I ask, what else do you really need? Ok. Maybe some ice cold beers but not much else. Read about it here. (via Dazed Digital)