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04/01/2025

R.I.P. Ray Gish. 🥀 Brooklyn’s Finest

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03/01/2025

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02/01/2025

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02/01/2025

02/01/2025

Evening soundtrack for 2025 (●´ω｀●)

The Air That I BreathIf I could make a wishI think Id passCant think of anything I needNo ci******es, no sleep, no light, no soundNothing to eat, no books to...

31/12/2024

Amen

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31/12/2024

Wishing all of you a Happy New Year.

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30/12/2024

The 25th Anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's controversial, yet admired film EYES WIDE SHUT screens at Cinema Salem on Sunday, December 29th at 6:30pm and Monday, December 30th at 1pm. Tickets are available now for Kubrick's final film.

After his wife, Alice, tells him about her s*xual fantasies, William Harford sets out for a night of s*xual adventure. After several less than successful encounters, he meets an old friend, Nick Nightingale - now a musician - who tells him of strange s*x parties when he is required to play the piano blindfolded. All the men at the party are costumed and wear masks while the women are all young and beautiful. Harford manages to find an appropriate costume and heads out to the party. Once there, however, he is warned by someone who recognizes him, despite the mask, that he is in great danger. He manages to extricate himself but the threats prove to be quite real and sinister.

30/12/2024

James Mason on Alfred Hitchcock: "You can see from the way he uses actors that he sees them as animated props. He casts his films very, very carefully and he knows perfectly well in advance that all the actors that he chooses are perfectly capable of playing the parts he gives them, without any special directorial effort on his part. He gets some sort of a charge out of directing the leading ladies, I think, but that's something else."
Eleven years after being mentioned in "Rope" (1948) as making an excellent villain, Mason was finally cast by Sir Alfred Hitchcock as such in "North by Northwest" (1959).
Mason suffered a severe heart attack shortly after filming ended.
In 1952, Mason purchased a house previously owned by Buster Keaton. There he discovered reels of nitrate film of some of Keaton's work that was considered lost, including "The Boat" (1921). He arranged to have the decomposing films transferred to safety stock, saving them from oblivion.
"I'm a character actor: the public never knows what it's getting by way of a Mason performance from one film to the next. I therefore represent a thoroughly insecure investment." (IMDb/Wikipedia)
Happy Birthday, James Mason!

28/12/2024

Sissy Spacek, in only her second film, was the first actor cast in "Badlands" (1973). Director Terrence Malick found her small-town Texas roots and accent were perfect for the part of the naive impressionable high school girl Holly. The director included her in his creative process, asking questions about her life "as if he were mining for gold." When he found out she had been a majorette, he worked a twirling routine into the script.

Several up-and-coming actors were auditioned for the part of Kit Carruthers. When Martin Sheen was suggested by the casting director, Malick was hesitant, thinking he was too old for the role. Spacek wrote in her autobiography that "the chemistry was immediate. He was Kit. And with him, I was Holly."[ Sheen based his characterization of Kit on the actor James Dean. Sheen was 32 when he played 25-year-old Kit; Spacek, who played 15-year-old Holly, was 22. The casting for the part of Holly would have had to have taken height into consideration as Sheen was only 5'7." Spacek was 5'3."

"Badlands" was the closing feature film at the 1973 New York Film Festival, reportedly "overshadowing even Martin Scorsese's 'Mean Streets.'" Critic Vincent Canby, who saw the film at the festival debut, called it a "cool, sometimes brilliant, always ferociously American film." Warner Brothers purchased and distributed the film for just under $1 million, and, in their infinite wisdom, initially released the film on a double bill with the Mel Brooks comedy "Blazing Saddles" (1974), resulting in very negative audience response. The production team was forced to book the film into several other theaters, in locations such as Little Rock, Arkansas, to demonstrate that the film could make money.

Spacek later said that "Badlands" changed the whole way she thought about filmmaking. "After working with Terry Malick, I was like, 'The artist rules. Nothing else matters.' My career would have been very different if I hadn't had that experience." (Wikipedia/IMDb)

Happy Birthday, Sissy Spacek!

28/12/2024

28/12/2024

Olivia Hussey (1951-2024)

Portion by Yevonde, 1968.

28/12/2024

28/12/2024

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Magnolia (1999). Paul Thomas Anderson
Cinematography: Robert Elswit
Camera Operator: Paul C. Babin
Focus Puller: Mark Riba
Dolly Grip: Jeff Kunkel
Photo by: Peter Sorel

28/12/2024

Nathan Silver’s fantastic and hilarious BETWEEN THE TEMPLES is now streaming on Netflix 🍿

On the verge of throwing his life away, a disillusioned cantor forms an unusual friendship with his former teacher as they prepare for her bat mitzvah.

27/12/2024

Bergman Soundtrack playlist 💀

Various Artists · Compilation · 2009 · 45 songs

26/12/2024

26/12/2024

Our man Peter Lorre!

When Peter Lorre arrived in Great Britain, his first meeting with a British director was with Alfred Hitchcock. By smiling and laughing as Hitchcock talked, the director was unaware that Lorre had a limited command of the English language. "I had heard that he loved to tell stories," said Lorre, "and so I watched him like a hawk, and when I was of the opinion he had just told the punchline of a story, I broke out in such laughter that I almost fell off my chair." Hitchcock cast him in "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1934). Lorre learned much of his part phonetically.
Hitchcock was reputed to have said that one of Lorre's nicknames was "The Walking Overcoat." This moniker was given to Lorre because he used to rehearse in a floor-length overcoat, no matter what the season of the year was.
Michael Newton wrote in an article for The Guardian in September 2014 of his scenes with Leslie Banks in the film: "Lorre cannot help but steal each scene; he's a physically present actor, often, you feel, surrounded as he is by the pallid English, the only one in the room with a body."
Lorre sold Hitchcock the screen rights to "Secret Agent" (1936) in addition to co-starring in the film. The actor liked to collect valuable story properties, which were estimated to value $350,000 by 1944.
Lorre and his first wife, actress Celia Lovsky, boarded a Cunard liner in Southampton on July 18, 1934 to sail for New York a day after shooting had been completed on "The Man Who Knew Too Much," having gained visitor's visas to the United States. Lorre settled in Hollywood and was soon under contract to Columbia Pictures, which had difficulty finding parts suitable for him. After some months employed effectively for research, Lorre decided that "Crime and Punishment," the 1866 Russian novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, would be a suitable project with himself in the central role. Columbia's head Harry Cohn agreed to make the film adaptation in 1935 on the condition that he could lend Lorre to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, possibly as a means of recouping the cost of Lorre not appearing in any of his films.
For MGM's "Mad Love" (also 1935), set in Paris and directed by Karl Freund, Lorre's head was shaved for the role of Dr. Gogol, a demented surgeon. In the film, Gogol replaces the wrecked hands of a concert pianist with those of an executed knife throwing murderer. An actress who works at the nearby Grand Guignol theater, who happens to be the pianist's wife, is the subject of Gogol's unwelcome infatuation. "Lorre triumphs superbly in a characterization that is sheer horror," The Hollywood Reporter commented. "There is perhaps no one who can be so repulsive and so utterly wicked. No one who can smile so disarmingly and still sneer. His face is his fortune." (IMDb/Wikipedia)
Happy Birthday, Peter Lorre!