Category Archives: Motion Pictures
in honor of the Honorable Judge Vaughn Walker
When he is not working, he travels the globe, attends the San Francisco Symphony, listens to traditional jazz, collects German Expressionist graphics and watches old movies (his favorites are “Sunset Boulevard” and “Double Indemnity”). “Distilling the same-sex marriage case,” Los Angeles Times
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Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet (1986)
California filmulacra
Paramount Studio map of California’s geographical facsimiles, from The Motion Picture Industry as a Basis for Bond Financing (1927) via & via
John Waters’ Role Models
In the 1960s, John Waters was an admirer of a lesbian stripper in Baltimore named Lady Zorro. “She just came out nude and snarled at her fans, ‘What the fuck are you looking at?’ To this day,” Waters writes in his splendid new book, “Zorro is my inspiration.” The rest of my review of his [...]
Dede Allen (1923-2010)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Robert Culp (1930-2010)
From “How to Be the Other Woman” by Lorrie Moore He emerges from nowhere, looks like Robert Culp, the fog rolling, then parting, then sort of closing up again behind him. Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice (1969)
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“the angry orca”
Charlotte Rampling in Orca (1977) Related: Does Mark Jude Poirier have special psychic powers? Here’s an excerpt from his story of February 4, weeks before the recent events at SeaWorld Orlando: We drove to Wildwood Aquarium, left Alice at her apartment, even though it had been her idea to go. The week before, a German [...]
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Patricia Neal, 1926-2010