August 2011
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BONUS: Zabriskie Point (1970)
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Books: Superstar The Karen Carpenter Story by Glyn...
Superstar The Karen Carpenter Story is in my opinion, one of the best and most unique examples of the musical biopic. Shortly after it’s release in ‘87, it was taken out of distribution due to legal action taken by Karen’s cranky brother Richard. It has survived through underground screenings, VHS and DVD bootlegs: the copying and recopying of which only added to the grainy...
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Found Stills: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
This is Precious and her owner is a very very bad man. Warning: possibly NSFW.
Take it away Q Lazzarus! Oooooooohhh hoooo hoooooo….
“Would you fuck me? I’d fuck me. I’d fuck me hard.” - Jame “Buffalo Bill” Gumb
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Soundtracks: Over the Edge (1979)
This is a good one! Featuring Surrender by Cheap Trick, a few from The Cars, Hendrix, The Ramones and Van Halen. Also one of my favorite teen angst films. Read my review here.
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BONUS: 3 Women (1977)
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Type: Vampyr (1932)
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Found Stills: Vincent D'Onofrio in Full Metal...
Still one of the most unsettling images and scenes in cinema. D’nofrio is also one of the best detectives on Law and Order ever. Sorry Detective Fin Tutuola.
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Pretty in Pink (1986): That's the Way Boys Are.
I finally saw Pretty in Pink for the first time in early ‘96 during my personal boycott of the movie Dunston Checks In. It was also during a time when my day job consisted of answering phones and taking reservations at a Rhythm and Blues Club. I spent most shifts alone with 63 sticky menus, a small stage, and a few concert DVD’s. One was an Earth Wind & Fire show from 1981...
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If memory serves me right Khalym and I first bonded over both being children’s wear designers, black hair products, a shared girl crush on Anna Karina, and one two many tequila gimlets. I probably complimented her on something she was wearing as Khalym has this well curated yet seemingly effortless style and an undeniable presence that just draws you in. She’s parlayed her sharp eye and...
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Hubba Hubba: Claudia Cardinale
I think I’m in love. Here are eighteen reasons why…
Those ears, the ever present eye liner, that smile: hubba hubba.
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Film Tees: Phenomena (1985)
Um, I don’t know about you but this is is one of the greatest t-shirts that I have ever seen.
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Meet The Feebles (1989): The Show Must Go On.
If the Muppets live on the sunny side of Sesame Street than the Feebles would probably live somewhere on Skid Row. They’re a far cry from the cheerful felt creatures of Jim Henson’s world, representing every vice imaginable and being cunning, crude, and the opposite of friendly. Meet the Feebles is a different side of director Peter Jackson made long before he helmed that zillion...
Title Sequence: Not with My Wife, You Don't!...
Titles from Not with My Wife, You Don’t! by Saul Bass (via annyas).
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Tommy Wiseau's The Room (2003): The Female of the...
I don’t even know where to start, so I’ll take it from the top and start with the man himself: Tommy Wiseau. He made The Room riding a wave of pure determination and bat-shit insanity, raising a reported six million himself and then stepping in front of the camera to be it’s star: Johnny. Wiseau is one of the creepiest characters I have ever seen on or offscreen. He has this...
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Type: The Two of Us (1967)
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Art Direction and Costumes: Marie Antoinette...
My feelings for Sofia Coppola’s work can best be described as lukewarm with a pinch of salt. I’m one of three people in the entire world that didn’t leave the theater drooling when Bill Murray whispered sweet nothings into Scar-Jo’s ear in Tokyo. We meet twice a year to commiserate and we even have laminated membership cards. But put that knife down crazy, there are things I love and...
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Found Stills: Raging Bull (1980)
Am I alone is saying that this picture perfectly describes how I feel every Monday morning when my alarm goes off? I doubt it.
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BONUS: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Various amazing posters from the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
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So This Happened: Solarbabies (1986)
This is a publicity still for a film called Solarbabies and the inspiration for my next holiday family portrait. I may have to watch this out of sheer curiosity and as an exercise in torture.
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Francesca Gavin is one of those people that makes me think that the day secretly consists of more than twenty four hours. She juggles writing for numerous publications, curating art, authoring books, and globe trotting with an air of ease, superior humbleness, and this huge infectious smile. She’s always got an interesting movie for me to check out, and assures me that Will Smith plays a...
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Type: Bobby Deerfield (1977)
“He never gave a damn. Until her.” This looks so terrible.
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“Well, fuck me gently with a chainsaw. Do I look like Mother Theresa?”
– Heather Chandler in Heathers (1988)
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Heathers (1988): I don't give a damn 'bout my bad...
This movie is pretty effing awesome, but in the words of Donell Jones “U Know What’s Up”.
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Hello It’s Me: An ode to the telephone in film…...
Added a few new stills to the series of telephones in film. Check it out here!
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Hubba Hubba: Maria Schneider in Last Tango in...
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Best of Netflix Watch Instantly: The Eyes of Tammy...
The Eyes of Tammy Faye sets the tone in the first five minutes of the film. We learn that this roller coaster ride of a story will be narrated by Miss Rupaul Charles with the assistance of two shabby dog hand puppets to introduce each chapter of Tammy’s tale. Hold onto your Travolta hairpeice and strap yourself in cause it’s gonna be a bumpy ride. It’s the perfect storm of tabloid...
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BONUS: The Rain People (1969)
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Quicksilver (1986): I Want to Ride My Bicycle.
I wonder if bike messengers watch this film and think “Kevin Bacon is the only guy who understands us!” Nah, they probably hate it. In the opening scene Jack Casey (Kevin Bacon) pays a cab driver to race a bike messenger through the streets of San Francisco. It’s no surprise that the messenger wins, leaving behind only a maroon beret that flies off...
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BONUS: Putney Swope (1969)
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Books: Surf Movie Tonite! (2005)
Surf Movie Tonite! is a retrospective of nearly fifty years of surf film posters. From well known features such as The Endless Summer and Point Break to earlier features and some missteps (I’m looking a you Blue Crush). Here are twenty five of my favorite posters from the book.
Surf, 1958
Surf Mania, 1960
Surf Mania, 1960
Out of Control, 1961
Standing Room Only, 1962
Hot...
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Film in Art: Michael Bell-Smith's Chapters 1-12 of...
R. Kelly comfortably straddles the line between genius and madman with every new interview and dramatically ad-libbed verse. Does he have questionable taste in his romantic partners? Yes. Is his music equal parts preposterous and amazing? Definitely (See: The Zoo, Real Talk, Sex Planet, I’m A Flirt, etc). For me this paradox reached fever pitch in the summer of 2005 when he began the...
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Why New Movies Suck: Friends with Benefits (2011)
Now I know what you’re thinking. Why would you see a romantic comedy anywhere other than an airplane? And why would you see a romantic comedy starring Justin Timberlake? Believe me, I’m asking myself these questions and many more after seeing Friends with Benefits. More than anything it just reminds me of why I never see these type of films. Sorry, I’m just not that kind of...
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Type: The Depraved (1971)
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Film Tees: Season Hubley in Hardcore (1979)
When it comes to graphic tees less is more.
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Hubba Hubba: Raquel Welch by Terry O'Neill (1970)
Assless chaps, always a good idea.
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BONUS: Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
Polish poster for Soderbergh’s Sex, Lies, and Videotape.
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Type: The Virgin Suicides (1999)
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001): Doll Parts.
Hansel Schmidt is a child of the Berlin Wall. He lives alone with his mother in an apartment so small he finds solace listening to Lou Reed with his head in the oven. He escapes the commies by landing in the mid west via a a passport switch, a quickie wedding to an American G.I., and a botched sex change that leaves him with an “angry inch”. The marriage is short lived and Hedwig (née...
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Hubba Hubba: John Travolta by Douglas Kirkland...