#cinems

[davidhudson]

Happy 37th, Janelle Monáe.

[perfectlymarilynmonroe]

Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot (1959). I love seeing color photographs from films that were shot in black and white! It was shot in black and white due to Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon’s makeup appearing too distasteful and distracting. Billy Wilder refused to shoot in color, despite her contract stating all of her films would be shot in color, as she felt she looked better in color.

[thirtytwoelvismovies]

This weekend my radio column focused on the important work of film projectionist, from the arrival of purpose-built cinemas to now.

While I wasn’t thrilled with the overrall productions I put together, I drew from my archives and found a few projection cue sheets from the old Shea’s Hippodrome, which was demolished in the late ‘50s to make room for the new City Hall.

These sheets were in the projection booth to advise the show’s order. They still exist today — I create info sheets every Friday — but I find these absolutely fascinating.

This screening of Love Me Tender was one of its final presentations before the cinema closed down. It was a palace that could sit thousands. Its pipe organ was saved from the wrecking ball and currently resides at Casa Loma.

[words-pics-flicks]

You have to liberate people from [film theory], not give them a corset in which they have to fit their story, their life, their emotions, the way they feel about the world.

Guillermo del Toro (quoted in ‘Into the Woods’ by John Yorke)

[thepostermovement]

Big Hero 6 by Kurt

[davidhudson]

Happy 83rd, Godfrey Reggio.

[words-pics-flicks]

Movies generally start out belonging to the writer and end up belonging to the director. If you're very lucky as a writer, you look at the director's movie and feel that it's your movie, too.

Nora Ephron (in ‘The most of Nora Ephron’)

[arte1misia]

One of my favourite cinemas