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Tag Archives: Lady From Shanghai
December 2021 Viewing Diary
Nightmare Alley (2021; d. Guillermo del Toro) I will re-post here the thoughts I jotted down on Facebook after I saw it for the first time. I absolutely loved this film. Nightmare Alley is gorgeously shot, with an ominous moody … Continue reading
Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies
Tagged animation, Anna Karina, biopic, Cate Blanchett, children's movies, comedy, Costa-Gavras, drama, Edie Sedgwick, Elia Kazan, film noir, France, Guillermo del Toro, Jane Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Paul Belmondo, John Keats, Lady From Shanghai, Orson Welles, Radu Jude, Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum, Romania, romantic drama, sci-fi, short films, The Rolling Stones, women directors
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No Smoking
Everett Sloane and Rita Hayworth, “Lady from Shanghai”
Movie Poster: The Lady From Shanghai
One of those old-school movie posters, reminiscent of pulp novel covers, that somehow transcends the pulp-iness and becomes iconic. I love this.
Mirrors #2: The Man In the Mirror
You didn’t think I’d forgotten, did you? I forget nothing. I still haven’t written the damn thing but I now have a file folder on my desktop filled with screengrabs of men looking at themselves (or at somebody else) in … Continue reading
Posted in Actors, Movies
Tagged Compulsion, Lady From Shanghai, mirrors, Paris Texas, Rocky, Saturday Night Fever, Sunset Boulevard, Taxi Driver
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