Beautiful work. You did a great job with the smoke. Often it looks like you tweaked the human poster, but this one looks like you needed to work from scratch.
Alexikakos
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3 years ago
Here’s Georgie Fame with the song about Bonnie and Clyde; the role that made Faye Dunaway.
After Arthur Penn laid out the path for Polanski, Tarantino et al., by having Faye Dunaway’s nose shot off — a scene whose memory causes stomach twitches to this day — I have never wanted to watch another Faye Dunaway movie; I’m sure it’s available, but I’ve never wanted to watch the scene of Faye Dunaway on the horn either.
DennisinSeattle
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3 years ago
Love the way Faye Dunbasset blends with her environment.
Liverlips McCracken
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3 years ago
Have to say, even before looking at any of the comments, that everything that Stel Bel posted above is outstanding. From the original poster for Bassettown to the poster for LA. The links are all to special recordings and well worth a listen.
Oh, and if anyone is curious, the trumpet Terrence Blanchard is playing is a Monette. Each one is hand made by a gentleman of that name. I think his first name is Donald, or Douglas. They can be made to the specifications of each individual customer. They are extremely expensive, into six figures. The mouthpiece is not interchangeable on a Monette. Unlike most brands, it is part and parcel of the instrument. It’s one of their distinguishing features. Wynton Marsalis also plays one.
Now we know why that trumpet sounded so wonderful! Thanks for letting us know LL.
Liverlips McCracken
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3 years ago
This was simply a great, ultra-noir film. Dark, mysterious, atmospheric, at times malevolent, and ultimately haunting. It’s one you don’t forget. Which makes the last line even more potent.
If the video doesn’t embed automatically when you post the link, the problem may be your browser. That was my problem with the MSN browser, so as much as I didn’t want to, I downloaded Google Chrome onto my computer, and just use that exclusively to embed videos here. It’s just something to consider, Farside….
Hovering above the actual video you get after having followed your link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF5wTCYuFjU ,
I right-clicked and copied the video-url.
Or “just” get rid of the “www.” and put a “.” between “youtu” and “be” and delete the “?v=”…
OK, working in Firefox, I edited the embed code down to just the URL. After saving and refreshing, the video now displays correctly. Maybe I’m learning something.
Tigressy
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Famed Member
3 years ago
Great poster as usual!
Having read Susan’s description on “Ballard Street”, I knew it couldn’t possibly be any other but this movie.
SusanSunshine
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3 years ago
Good morning Cleo pals…
I guess it’s morning… I think I -just woke up. But I’m going to bed soon anyway.
…
The first two times I saw Bassettown I got lost…
It’s a beautiful film and recognised as a classic… but that doesn’t keep it from being confusing as heck.
And we all know how confusing heck is!
—
Couple of notes….
The water company scandal in the film was more or less based on real events.
Faye Dunabasset’s iconic make-up was supposedly based on Roman Pawlanski’s childhood memories of his mother.
And the film was finished not long before he left the US for good… fleeing charges that he’d been um… let’s say romantically … involved with a young puppy.
…
Of course all that has nothing to do with enjoying the film.
Beautiful job, Stel.
dorothea
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Famed Member
3 years ago
See? Even the poster makers couldn’t fit all of the name on. Where’s “de Porciuncula”?
That aside, I wonder what Niko on Antiques Road Show would appraise the poster for?
From the German article regarding Los Angeles (the English one doesn’t cover that) to this one in German first, switching to English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portiuncula
Chinatown original poster:
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Beautiful work. You did a great job with the smoke. Often it looks like you tweaked the human poster, but this one looks like you needed to work from scratch.
Here’s Georgie Fame with the song about Bonnie and Clyde; the role that made Faye Dunaway.
After Arthur Penn laid out the path for Polanski, Tarantino et al., by having Faye Dunaway’s nose shot off — a scene whose memory causes stomach twitches to this day — I have never wanted to watch another Faye Dunaway movie; I’m sure it’s available, but I’ve never wanted to watch the scene of Faye Dunaway on the horn either.
Love the way Faye Dunbasset blends with her environment.
Have to say, even before looking at any of the comments, that everything that Stel Bel posted above is outstanding. From the original poster for Bassettown to the poster for LA. The links are all to special recordings and well worth a listen.
Oh, and if anyone is curious, the trumpet Terrence Blanchard is playing is a Monette. Each one is hand made by a gentleman of that name. I think his first name is Donald, or Douglas. They can be made to the specifications of each individual customer. They are extremely expensive, into six figures. The mouthpiece is not interchangeable on a Monette. Unlike most brands, it is part and parcel of the instrument. It’s one of their distinguishing features. Wynton Marsalis also plays one.
Famed member and all that is fine, but I kind of think Liverlips avatar is pretty appropriate. {^¿^}
I am not displeased with it.
Made me laugh! I’m glad he likes it.
The information about the trumpet was fascinating! Thanks for that. And, thanks for the praise, as well….always appreciated!
A short interview with Terrence Blanchard:
Interestingly, at least one of Blue Note Records labels was designed by Robert Crumb, a bit of whose art nighthawks has shown below.
About 10 minutes after I posted the Georgie fame song above, the site went haywire on me (I was working on this post).
Checking a “web-site-up-or-down-site” I was told it was down for everybody, not just me, but no one else has mentioned this.
Did something happen or not?
Yes, it happened to Susan and to me, as well.
Now we know why that trumpet sounded so wonderful! Thanks for letting us know LL.
This was simply a great, ultra-noir film. Dark, mysterious, atmospheric, at times malevolent, and ultimately haunting. It’s one you don’t forget. Which makes the last line even more potent.
John Huston will make your blood curdle.
Try this against New Orleans by Billie Holliday and Louis Armstrong:
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Sorry, I don’t know how to embed youtube videos yet. You’ll have to do a little actual clicking to get to it.
If the video doesn’t embed automatically when you post the link, the problem may be your browser. That was my problem with the MSN browser, so as much as I didn’t want to, I downloaded Google Chrome onto my computer, and just use that exclusively to embed videos here. It’s just something to consider, Farside….
Hovering above the actual video you get after having followed your link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF5wTCYuFjU ,
I right-clicked and copied the video-url.
Or “just” get rid of the “www.” and put a “.” between “youtu” and “be” and delete the “?v=”…
OK, working in Firefox, I edited the embed code down to just the URL. After saving and refreshing, the video now displays correctly. Maybe I’m learning something.
Great poster as usual!
Having read Susan’s description on “Ballard Street”, I knew it couldn’t possibly be any other but this movie.
Good morning Cleo pals…
I guess it’s morning… I think I -just woke up. But I’m going to bed soon anyway.
…
The first two times I saw Bassettown I got lost…
It’s a beautiful film and recognised as a classic… but that doesn’t keep it from being confusing as heck.
And we all know how confusing heck is!
—
Couple of notes….
The water company scandal in the film was more or less based on real events.
Faye Dunabasset’s iconic make-up was supposedly based on Roman Pawlanski’s childhood memories of his mother.
And the film was finished not long before he left the US for good… fleeing charges that he’d been um… let’s say romantically … involved with a young puppy.
…
Of course all that has nothing to do with enjoying the film.
Beautiful job, Stel.
See? Even the poster makers couldn’t fit all of the name on. Where’s “de Porciuncula”?
That aside, I wonder what Niko on Antiques Road Show would appraise the poster for?
From the German article regarding Los Angeles (the English one doesn’t cover that) to this one in German first, switching to English:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portiuncula
Very interesting!
Happy Birthday, Vincent Van Gogh!
Vincent Van Gogh
Van Gogh’s mailman
Robert Crumb…
Vincent has StelBel’s knack for getting the eyes right!
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Another classic cinema poster with some of our favorite basset stars in one of my favorite basset movies by our very own Stel-lar artist.
Faye Dunabasset…. ARRROOOOOH!
Second vaccine shot today! Woohoo!
Y’all be good to each other. (((((Hugs for everyone!)))))
Imagine “The Purplie Rose of Cairo” here – but if I’d post it, it most certainly were wrong.
Glad you are getting your second shot. It is such a relief!
Getting mine today too… in about 3 hours.
We got our first ones the same day too.
Thank a doc
Write this down
Good morning Balladeers, (((((Plods))))) and Miss Susan!
National I am in Control Day
Sure you are….
That explains a lot.
Git some
Samgyetang leftovers (chicken stew with ginseng) – does that count?