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    The Cultural Gutter: At the Gutter: Batman vs. The French Revolution

    culturalgutter:

    Comics Editor Carol didn’t expect the French Revolution while watching the Dark Knight Rises. But then again, no one expects the French Revolution.

    In The Dark Knight Rises, Batman tells the people of Gotham that anyone can be a hero, that anyone could be Batman. But we—and Bruce…

     
    2. Sep 26th, 2012     Cultural GutterCarol BordenbatmancomicsmoviesThe Dark Knight RisesThe Scarlet Pimpernelcoversillustrationart

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    culturalgutter:

    Happy Birthday, Lee Byung-hun! Celebrate with the train-jacking scene from The Good, The Bad, The Weird.

     
    3. Aug 3rd, 2012     lee byung-hunsouth koreakim ji-woonsang kang-howesternsweird westernsmoviesclipsmanchuriathe good the bad the weirdjung woo-sung

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    culturalgutter: Miguel Rodriguez kindly invited the Gutter’s own Carol onto Monster Island Resort to discuss the late Kaneto Shindo, and his films, Onibaba and Kuroneko. Listen here, if you’d care to.

    culturalgutter:

    Miguel Rodriguez kindly invited the Gutter’s own Carol onto Monster Island Resort to discuss the late Kaneto Shindo, and his films, Onibaba and Kuroneko. Listen here, if you’d care to.

     
    4. Aug 3rd, 2012     podcastsMonster Island Resortmiguel rodriguezkaneto shindomoviespostersartCarol Bordenhorror

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    Japanese film from 1921: Goketsu Jiraiya / Goketsu the Hero.

     
    5. May 12th, 2012     moviesjapansilentsgoketsu jiraiyashozo makinofantasyswordsfrogsninjasamurai

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    culturalgutter: A gallery of “decaying and repurposed palaces” via Flavorwire.

    culturalgutter:

    A gallery of “decaying and repurposed palaces” via Flavorwire.

     
    6. May 12th, 2012     theatersmoviesphotographyurban explorationmovie palaces

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    parrotfeather: Bebe Daniels

    parrotfeather:

    Bebe Daniels

     
    7. May 12th, 2012     bebe danielsmoviessilentsphotography

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    culturalgutter:

    Flyer from the late Kung Fu Fridays film program in Toronto. Strangely enough the date for this screening coincides with tonight’s Drive-In Mob Chow Yun-Fat Heroic Bloodshed Double Feature!

    Kung Fu Fridays was programmed by current Toronto International Film Festival programmer and ActionFest Director, Colin Geddes. This particular flyer is from when the series was in its nomadic years before it found its home at the Royal. And, this particular screening was held in a theater that mostly showed porn at the time, leading passersby to wonder at the long line outside and down the block.

    (from Carol Borden’s collection of ephemera)

     
    8. Mar 22nd, 2012     Chow Yun-FatHong KongChinaCarol BordenpostersartephemeraactionGunsKung Fu FridaysColin Geddesmoviesfilm historytheaters

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    theloudestvoice: Theda Bara portrait for Salome, 1918 “This deadly Arab girl was a crystal gazing seeress of profoundly occult powers, wicked as fresh red paint and poisonous as dried spiders.” ~Film historian Terry Ramsaye speaking of Theda Bara in his 1926 book A Million and One Nights

    theloudestvoice:

    Theda Bara portrait for Salome, 1918

    “This deadly Arab girl was a crystal gazing seeress of profoundly occult powers, wicked as fresh red paint and poisonous as dried spiders.”

    ~Film historian Terry Ramsaye speaking of Theda Bara in his 1926 book A Million and One Nights

     
    9. Feb 8th, 2012     Theda Barafemmes fatalethe ladiesmoviessilentsphotographySalome

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    ozu-teapot:

    Happy Birthday and Deathday Mr Ozu (12 December 1903 – 12 December 1963)

     
    10. Dec 13th, 2011     yasujiro ozumoviesbirthdaysJapan

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    More stills from Seijun Suzuki’s operetta, Princess Raccoon / Tanuki Goten. Love the ladies with the naginatas.

     
    11. Dec 2nd, 2011     moviesstillsprincess raccoonseijun suzukijo odagirizhang ziyifairytalesmusicalsoperaoperetta