Friday, August 29, 2008

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from Charlie Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

Thursday, August 28, 2008

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from John Ford's Donovan's Reef (1963), which includes one of my favorite lines in any movie: "The fact of the matter is that neither of you remember what started this ridiculous annual birthday brawl."

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

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from Vincente Minnelli's The Band Wagon (1953)

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

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from Noel Black's Pretty Poison (1968)

Monday, August 25, 2008

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from David Cronenberg's Scanners (1981)

Friday, August 22, 2008

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Carpenter/teacher/critic/painter Manny Farber died this week at the age of 91. Here are five stills from movies he admired and one of his paintings. From the top:
Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep (1946)
Werner Herzog's Fata Morgana (1971)
Samuel Fuller's Pickup on South Street (1953)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Farber's My Budd (1978)






Thursday, August 21, 2008

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from Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely (2007)

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

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from David Gordon Green's Snow Angels (2007)

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

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from Luis Bunuel's The Phantom of Liberty (1974)

Monday, August 18, 2008

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from Elaine May's A New Leaf (1971)

Friday, August 15, 2008

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Joan Crawford and a "half-man, half-ape with the strength of twenty demons" play with a doll in Crawford's final film, Freddie Francis' Trog (1970)

Thursday, August 14, 2008

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from Tsai Ming-Liang's Goodbye Dragon Inn (2003)

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

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from Rainer Werner Fassbinder's In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

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from Robert Altman's California Split (1974)

Monday, August 11, 2008

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from Jacques Tourneur's I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

Thursday, August 07, 2008

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Two meals, from Ulu Grosbard's Straight Time (1978)



Wednesday, August 06, 2008

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from Alan Rudolph's Trouble in Mind (1985)

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from Richard Quine's My Sister Eileen (1955)

Monday, August 04, 2008

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From the top, Jean-Louis Barrault as:
Himself
Baptiste in Marcel Carne's Children of Paradise (1945)
Dr. Cordelier in Jean Renoir's The Testament of Dr. Cordelier (1959)
Opale in Renoir's The Testament of Dr. Cordelier
Opale in action #1, #2, #3




















































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