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Clark Gable mask, Venice Beach, 1937.

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R.I.P. Les Blank, one of the world’s foremost documentarians. One time, he filmed Werner Herzog eating his own shoe: http://bit.ly/KAJa0T. — SBP

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strangeapparition:

Robert Altman on the set of 3 Women

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newyorker:

“I am at war with the obvious,” the photographer William Eggleston said in a conversation with the author Mark Holborn, which became the afterward in Eggleston’s 1989 book, “The Democratic Forest.”

In the introduction to the book, Eudora Welty writes that Eggleston’s photographs “focus on the mundane world. But no subject is fuller of implications than the mundane world! When you see what the mundane world so openly and multitudinously affirms, there is everything left to say.”

“At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston” is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through July 28th. The exhibition displays thirty-six prints newly acquired by the museum’s permanent collection. Each work is a dye-transfer print, a process that Eggleston perfected as one of the pioneer color photographers in the late nineteen-sixties and seventies.

—Erica Dye. Here’s a selection from the show: http://nyr.kr/12hYXeA

BTW, Cinephilia and Beyond is the best Tumblr around.

cinephilearchive:

Roger Ebert with Russ Meyer (circa 1970)

“Thank you for being the best readers any film critic could ask for.” Roger Ebert has announced that he has had a recurrence of cancer and will be taking a partial hiatus from reviewing while he undergoes treatment. Ebert, who lost the ability to speak and eat to cancer in 2006, filed a career-record 306 reviews in 2012. The news comes as Ebert plans to revamp his website and is considering a Kickstarter campaign to bring back his iconic show At the Movies. A documentary about Ebert directed by Steve James and executive produced by Martin Scorsese is currently in production.

Ebert wrote the first film review that Martin Scorsese ever received—for 1967’s I Call First, later renamed Who’s That Knocking at My Door. Director Werner Herzog dedicated his documentary Encounters at the End of the World to Roger Ebert. In part of the commentary track he calls Mr. Ebert “a warrior of the cinema.” Ebert repaid the compliment in a letter to Werner Herzog.

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u-vula:

untitled by seisky on Flickr.

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thewets:

the wets - worse things (demo)

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waltdisneywithblood:

Arthur C. Clarke first became aware of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, dir. Stanley Kubrick) when the following cable from Roger Caras at MGM landed on his desk in 1963:

“STANLEY KUBRICK DR STRANGELOVE PATHS OF GLORY ETC INTERESTED IN DOING FILM ON ETS STOP ARE YOU INTERESTED QUERY THOUGHT YOU WERE RECLUSE STOP”

Clarke replied with the following cable:

“FRIGHTFULLY INTERESTED IN WORKING WITH ENFANT TERRIBLE STOP CONTACT MY AGENT STOP WHAT MAKES KUBRICK THINK I’M A RECLUSE QUERY”

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