| Intl. Notebook | Sep 30 2019 |
For British movie lovers Continental Film Review was their ticket across the English Channel.
Continental Film Review was first published—as far as we can discern—in November 1952. We decided on that month because we saw a copy from February 1953 numbered Vol. 1 Issue 4, and the masthead said the magazine was published the first week of every month. CFR would go on to become one of Britain's most popular film magazines, exposing English language readers to the wide variety of foreign movies being made across continental Europe. The above issue appeared this month in 1966 with cover star Maria Pia Conte, and numerous film personalities inside, including Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Bates, Rossana Podesta, Evi Marandi, and more. We have other issues we'll get around to sharing at some point. In the meantime see more here, here, here, and here.
BritainContinental Film ReviewMaria Pia ConteEvi MarandiTaina BérylTaina BeryllTayna BeryllAlan BatesVanessa RedgraveJacqueline MillsSenta BergerFrance AngladeEstella BlainMabel KarrRossana PodestaThommy BerggrenHarriet AnderssonZbigniew CybulskiJarl KulleChristina Schollincinema
| Intl. Notebook | Mar 22 2016 |
Something about Paris just makes you want to dance.
This issue of Cancans de Paris, which is number 10, hit newsstands this month in 1966 featuring cover star Virginia Litz, someone we saw a while back in Folies de Paris et de Hollywood, but modeling under the pseudonym Arabelle. Turns out Litz may be a pseudonym too, as we've determined she's also known—and better known—as Christine Aarons. She pops up inside Cancans along with Gloria Paul, Dany Carrel, Sylvia Sorrente, and Uta Levka, as well as Sean Connery and Claudine Auger, who were starring together in Thunderball. We have Virginia Litz/Christine Aarons on at least one other mid-century magazine, which we'll post a bit later. In the meantime below are assorted scans from today's issue.
FranceFolies BergèreCancans de ParisThunderballVirginia LitzGloria PaulDany CarrelSylvia SorrenteUta LevkaSean ConneryClaudine AugerJeanne MoreauFrançoise GiretChristine AaronsGinette DupontClara DundéeLinda VerasVéronique VendellEstella Blainburlesque
| Vintage Pulp | Jun 24 2015 |
If you’re going to murder someone at least make sure they deserve it.
The above Japanese promo poster is for André Haguet’s French thriller Colère froide, which was made in 1960 and played for the first time in Japan today in 1961. Basically, the movie concerns a jealous journalist who kills his girlfriend’s previous lover. But it was really all a big misunderstanding—the journalist thought his girlfriend had been seeing her ex on the sly, but in reality she was only trying to tell him to stay out of her life forever. Oops. And then the girlfriend is accused of the murder. Double oops. The movie starred Estella Blain, Harold Kay, and Pierre-Jean Vaillard, and though it was directed by the very experienced Haguet, it’s mainly forgotten today. Nice poster, though.
