film movie advertising: 2001 First Time on TV Kubrick NBC Science Fiction
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First Time on TV!
Promo for NBC’s world premiere of Kubrick’s 2001 in 1977, a film only nine years old at the time. I remember seeing this broadcast (it was an NBC “Big Event“). I also remember the Nielsen ratings for it not being so hot.
German Cinema art film movie advertising: Der Verlorene German Cinema movie advertising Peter Lorre Pressbook
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Der Verlorene
Cover of the pressbook for Peter Lorre’s first and only directing job (and return to German cinema) , Der Verlorene. The film was also based on a novel Lorre himself wrote. After the movie bombed in West Germany, Lorre was despondent and thereafter strictly did movies for the paycheck.
art film movie advertising: 1960s Czechoslovakian Cinema Ikarie XB1 Science Fiction Voyage to the End of the Universe
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Voyage to the End of the Universe
A promo still of the AIP butchered version of the Czech Ikarie XB1.
I remember the dubbed version from Saturday afternoon TV. I also remember Phillip Strick’s glowing review in Science Fiction Movies (one of my seminal texts, as it were), and likening the faces of the film to Kelly Freas artwork. Then I saw the original Czech version on the big screen and really liked it. Serious SF films of this vintage are certainly rare, although not as much as in the old Warsaw Pact.
Image via The Humanoid
Frame Grab Mexican Cinema art film: El Santo Contra Blue Demon en la Atlantida Frame Grab Mexican Cinema Silvia Pasquel
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Silvia Pasquel in El Santo Contra Blue Demon en la Atlantida
The daughter of Silvia Pinal and now an icon of Mexican television, but never lovelier than her turn as Juno in El Santo Contra Blue Demon en la Atlantida (1969).
Wiki (Silvia)
IMDB (the movie)
Frame Grab Korean Cinema art film: Frame Grab Hanyo Kim Ki-Young Korean Cinema Lee Eun-Shim The Housemaid
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Hanyo
From Kim Ki-Young’s Hanyo (The Housemaid). More on this brilliant Korean psychodrama soon… See the feature in its entirety FREE at The Auteurs.
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Frame Grab film: 1940s Batman Frame Grab Serials
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Italian Cinema film movie advertising: England Italian Cinema mondo films movie advertising Naked England
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Naked England
Now, for something completely mondo… “Legalized Drugging… The Strippers Moral Tutor… nude psychotherapy… Trepanation… Masochist’s Delight… Nazi Restaurant… Women’s Wreastling…” Only in England, backed by the cool jerk sounds of Piero Piccioni, some tunes seemingly borrowed from Fumo di Londra (great soundtrack!).
For the curious, some excerpts can be found on YouTube: here, here, here, and here (in beautiful Italian).
art film movie advertising: Australian Cinema movie trailer The Naked Bunyip
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The Naked Bunyip
From Wikipedia: The bunyip (usually translated as “devil” or “spirit”) is a mythical creature from Australian folklore.
Just based on the trailer, it looks like an Australian version of a mondo pseudo-documentary, but it’s often heralded as the first splash of the new wave of Australian cinema in the 1970s.
The Genesis of The Naked Bunyip (Senses of Cinema)
The Naked Bunyap’s censorship history (from Refused Classification, a guide to censorship in Australia)
Horror Films Italian Cinema film movie advertising: Antonio Margheriti giallo Italian Cinema movie trailer Naked You Die Nude si muore
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Naked…. You Die
Nude… si muore in Italy, The Young, the Evil & the Savage in the American fleapit and drive-in circuit. Cool tune “Nightmare”. Seems to live more in the shaggy days of 1964 rather than the hairy tumult 1968 when it was actually released.