Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts

May 24, 2011

Lee Marvin


Terry O'Neill (b.1938), Lee Marvin,'Pocket Money',Tucson, Arizona,1971.

Vintage Photo: Lee Marvin
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March 5, 2011

Title Sequences: Saul Bass' Hitchcock Titles


The three title sequences Saul Bass created for Alfred Hitchcock:
Vertigo (1958), North By Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960).

Via MrJ

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October 29, 2010

October 2, 2010

Music: Tio små vikingar



Povel Ramel and Brita Borg sings "Tio små vikingar" (Ten Little Vikings) by Ramel from the movie "Den store amatören" (The Big Amateur) from 1958. The movie starred comic actor Martin Ljung (the man dressed as a monk) who passed away at 93 on Thursday.
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August 24, 2010

Movies: The Italian Job


I don't know if you are interested but I've uploaded a bunch of movie stills from The Italian Job from 1969. You can see the stills over here. But beware - if you haven't seen the movie yet they might spoil it for you.

Anyway. Google street view (and similar services) are neat things. In the movie there is an outdoor scene shot at the corner of Portobello Road and Denbigh Close. I'm definitely (I wish I could say I was) no London connoisseur but it's always interesting to see how cities change or how they sometimes don't.

Below the London images is a still from the same movie but this time in Turin. It is the Torino Palavela arena, formerly known as Palazzo delle Mostre and Palazzo a Vela. Except for the mis-coloring of the roof I think it looked better in the movie.







Related link: Derelict London
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April 8, 2010

Soundtracks: Cotton comes to Harlem


Cotton comes to Harlem #1970 INTRO
Uploaded by TroubleMan00.

My Flickr friend David @ The Klockarp Institute informed me that the soundtrack of the blaxploitation movie Cotton Comes to Harlem was composed by the Hair composer Galt MacDermot. You can definitely hear it, can't you?



Poster painting by Robert McGinnis and book cover by Harry Bennett

Dans l’Enfer du genre: Brotha and Sista, da black spirit is in da place ! - a great blaxploitation poster collection
Pop Sensation: Paperback 202: Cotton Comes to Harlem / Chester Himes (Dell 1513)
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