#Brown and Bigelow

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October - art by Freeman Elliott (1950)

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"Sheer Comfort". From 1950-1959 Brown & Bigelow, The 50's

Painting by Gil Elvgren

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Gil Elvgren (1914-1980) “Looking for Trouble” Brown & Bigelow calendar illustration (1950) Source

Gil Elvgren (1914-1980) “Daisies Are Telling (Love Me, Love Me Not)” Brown & Bigelow calendar illustration (1955) Source

Oil on canvas

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Blue Steel (1990) Kathryn Bigelow

December 25th 2024

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Who has yards and yards of Dogs Playing Poker fabric in her hoard?

This girl!

My favorite of the 17-painting series is A Friend in Need.

You can see the whole series here.

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It’s not commonly known, but Dogs Playing Poker by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge refers to not just one painting, but 18 of them! The series includes the artist’s original Poker Game (1894) painting, along with 16 other oil paintings commissioned in 1903 by Brown & Bigelow to advertise cigars, and an additional 1910 painting. All eighteen of these paintings feature comical, humanized dogs; however, only eleven of the paintings actually depict poker-faced pups playing cards around a table.

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Blue Steel will be released on Blu-ray on November 14 via Lionsgate. The 1990 action thriller is spine #31 in the Vestron Video Collector’s Series.

Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Near Dark) directs from a script she co-wrote with Eric Red (The Hitcher, Near Dark). Jamie Lee Curtis stars with Ron Silver, Clancy Brown, Elizabeth Peña, Louise Fletcher, and Tom Sizemore.

Blue Steel is presented in high definition with 2.0 DTS-HD Master Audio. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by film historian Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Interview with editor Lee Percy

Interview with production designer Toby Corbett

The Phallic Woman: Deconstructing Blue Steel - Featurette with film historian Jennifer Moorman

A Profound Emotional Response – Video essay by film historian Chris O'Neill

Theatrical trailer

TV spots

Vintage promo

Still gallery

Newly minted NYPD officer Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) responds to a grocery store robbery – and kills the perpetrator – her first day on the job. But Megan’s uncorroborated story of the shooting gets her suspended from active duty when the stickup gun mysteriously vanishes. Enter a charming-but-disturbed commodities trader (Ron Silver), whose obsession with Megan threatens to destroy everything she holds dear, pushing her into a desperate fight to salvage her reputation… and save her own life.

Pre-order Blue Steel.

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Gil Elvgren - "Reclining Nude" Circa late 1940s - Brown & Bigelow Calendar Co.

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Mea Culpa (2024) Review

Mea is a very ambitious criminal defense attornery who wants to become a partner at her firm and decides to take on the case of Zyair an artist who is accused of murdering his girlfriend, this will put her up against her brother in law in court which doesn’t go down very well with her husband and extended family. ⭐️ Continue reading Mea Culpa (2024) Review

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May - art by Duane Bryers

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Al Buell - October 1961 Al Buell's Beauties Calendar Illustration - Brown & Bigelow Calendar Co. - American Pin-up Calendar Collection

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Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) Study for Winter, Brown & Bigelow Four Seasons calendar illustration (1961) Source

“Alternate idea for published version”

Source

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Corollary to the important Dracula movies post, here's a more general recommended and/or representative vampire movie curriculum; there's some overlap between the two lists, of course.

This list does include my personal favorite vampire movies and sometimes it's skewed a little to my taste rather than to what's most important in the genre, but I also think it's 25 movies that would make a pretty interesting education in vampire film.

1922-1964 (fundamental, genre-defining)

Nosferatu (dir. F.W. Murnau, 1922)

Dracula (dir. Tod Browning, 1931)

Vampyr (dir. Carl Th. Dreyer, 1932)

Dracula's Daughter (dir. Lambert Hillyer, 1936)

Dracula/Horror of Dracula (dir. Terrence Fisher, 1958)

The Last Man on Earth (dir. Sidney Salkow, 1964)

1970-1982 (experimentation in multiple directions)

The Nude Vampire (dir. Jean Rollin, 1970)

The Vampire Lovers (dir. Roy Ward Baker, 1970)

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (dir. Jaromil Jires, 1970)

Daughters of Darkness (dir. Harry Kumel, 1971)

The Velvet Vampire (dir. Stephanie Rothman, 1971)

Dracula A.D. 1972 (dir. Alan Gibson, 1972)

Ganja & Hess (dir. Bill Gunn, 1973)

Blood for Dracula (dir. Paul Morissey, 1974)

Dracula (dir. John Badham, 1979)

Nosferatu (dir. Werner Herzog, 1979)

Fascination (dir. Jean Rollin, 1979)

The Living Dead Girl (dir. Jean Rollin, 1982)

1983-present (the contemporary vampire film, of various types)

The Hunger (dir. Tony Scott, 1983)

Near Dark (dir. Kathryn Bigelow, 1987)

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (dir. Francis Ford Coppola, 1992)

Interview with the Vampire (dir. Neil Jordan, 1994)

Shadow of the Vampire (dir. E. Elias Merhige, 2000)

Let the Right One In (dir. Thomas Alfredson, 2008)

Thirst (dir. Park Chan-Wook, 2009)

Byzantium (dir. Neil Jordan, 2012)

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1929 Carmen from a Brown and Bigelow calendar by Rolf Armstrong. From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism, FB.

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Gil Elvgren's "Bewitching", 1956.

Gil Elvgren