Vintage Liz: International Film Posters

Cleopatra
1963 (Hungary)

A Place in the Sun
1951 (Germany)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958 (Sweden)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966 (Czechoslovakia)

Giant, 1956

The Sandpiper
1965 ( Japan)

BUtterfield 8
1960 (France)

National Velvet
1944 (Sweden)

The V.I.P.s
1963 (France)


SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER 1959France
Italy
Germany
This poster has the film title in French and Dutch. A reader suggests that it is from Belgium.
NOTES: Links are to IMDb film information. Date is year of the movie, not the poster.
Poster Sources: Movie Goods, Listal

Happy Dysfunctional Xmas

Had enough of It's a Wonderful Life? Here's tonight’s movie lineup on Turner Classic Movies. I’m not kidding.

8:00pm THE LION IN WINTER (1968)
Christmas 1183--an aging and conniving King Henry II plans a reunion where he hopes to name his successor. He summons the following people for the holiday: his scheming but imprisoned wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine; his mistress, Princess Alais, whom he wishes to marry; his three sons (Richard, Geoffrey, and John), all of whom desire the throne; and the young but crafty King Philip of France (who is also Alais' brother). With the fate of Henry's empire at stake, everybody engages in their own brand of deception and treachery to stake their claim.


10:30pm WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966)
A bitter aging couple with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.


1:00am CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (1958)Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.


3:00am ORDINARY PEOPLE (1980)The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.

Nosferatu

Some shots off the TV of a restored version of F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu. The 1922 German film, featuring stage actor Max Schreck, was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. When Stoker’s widow won a copyright infringement suit in 1925, it was ordered that all prints of the Expressionist film be destroyed. But as vampire-movie expert Tim Kane notes, “the undead film continued to rise from the grave throughout the years.”











Happy Halloween!

teamuncoolfashion likes: Yves Saint Laurent's and Ari Marcopoulos' film “No Way Back”

Books on Fire: Fahrenheit 451

I caught some of Fahrenheit 451 on Turner Classic Movies the other night. Over 125 books appear or are mentioned in Truffaut’s 1966 film adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel. Here are a handful in flames. Go here for a complete list.

How To Lose Your Virginity

Disney starlets flaunt purity rings while writhing on stripper poles, brothels hold million-dollar virginity auctions, and artificial hymens can be had for $30 on Chinese websites.

What’s behind this strange moment in our culture—what’s the deal with virginity?

How To Lose Your Virginity, a new documentary by Therese Schecter, digs beneath the damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t double-speak of a society that cynically encourages both virginity and promiscuity. With the same intelligence, diligence and wit she employed in the award-winning I Was a Teenage Feminist, the filmmaker allows the desperately-needed conversation about real-world sexuality to finally take place.

And, how do you lose your virginity? Well, for one thing, you don’t do it alone. The same goes for financing a film. As Schecter so aptly puts it, “We’re on our way to third base—help us go all the way!”

So how about putting out for Therese. Take the “Virginity” pledge, and visit the film’s Kickstarter page to watch a trailer of the film and contribute to the cause.

Also, visit the film’s blog, The American Virgin, for all manner of fascinating, enraging, and comical stuff about virginity and our attitudes towards female sexuality.


Some visuals from The American Virgin blog:

Unfunny T-shirt from Urban Outfiters.

Fashion tips from the Abstinence Clearinghouse

"Virgin with Butterflies" is one of a series of
re-issues of old Harlequin titles.