In 1934 the MPAA voluntarily passed the Motion Picture Production Code, more generally known as the Hays Code, largely to avoid governmental regulation. The code prohibited certain plotlines and imagery from films and in publicity materials produced by the MPAA. Among others, there was to be no cleavage, no lace underthings, no drugs or drinking, no corpses, and no one shown getting away with a crime. A.L. Shafer, the head of photography at Columbia, took a photo that intentionally incorporated all of the 10 banned items into one image. The photograph was clandestinely passed around among photographers and publicists in Hollywood as a method of symbolic protest to the Hays Code.
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iamsangsouvanh: Léa Seydoux photographed by Paul Wetherell for L’Officiel Paris, May 2010
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willmckinley: Director Jonathan Demme and star Paul Le Mat at a screening of MELVIN AND HOWARD (1980) @FilmLinc on 2/1/12 did Demme say “uh” after every word or…
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buscemis asked: PHEW omg my tired eyes deceived me and i was so sad

yeah. fuck I love American Graffiti.

but I’m gonna see American Gigolo because they’re pairing it with Pickpocket, which I’ve been meaning to see for ages. I actually haven’t seen either. it’ll be interesting to see why they’re paired together.

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buscemis:

guh american graffiti at the castro on feb 8th

DAMNIT

no no no they’re showing American Gigolo, not American Graffiti

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this is my home
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movie #62 - The Moderns
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