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Charlie Largent

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Sometime illustrator, sometime writer, full time movie lover. https://charliehill.com/

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 3h

BTD - Daliah Lavi - CASINO ROYALE - 1967 - Italian promotional poster - Art by Georgio Olivetti

Daliah Lavi poses in a leggy costume while brandishing a machine gun

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 4h

The Marx Bros. in A NIGHT IN CASABLANCA - Released this day in 1946 - Italian release poster - Art by Enrico DeSeta

The three Marx Bros. pop out of a jack in the box toy

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

“Yes but judgement of any system or a priori relation of phenomena exists in any rational or metaphysical or at least epistemological contradiction to an abstract and empirical concept such as being or to be or to occur in the thing itself or of the thing itself.”

RIP to a great one.

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 1d

heartbroken - farewell Diane Keaton

Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 1d

OKLAHOMA - Todd-AO Roadshow version released this day in 1955 - Spanish release poster

A movie projector beams a gigantic image over an auditorium filled with ticket buyers. On the screen is a bucolic image of a Surrey with the fringe on top

Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 1d

Howard Hawks' TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT - NYC premiere this day in 1944 - Belgian release poster

a wary Bogart and an apprehensive Bacall wonder what's next

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 2d

BTD - Ed Wood - PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE - 1959 - Behind the scenes with Criswell

Ed Wood lounges in the director's chair as a cameraman sets up while Criswell looks on

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 2d

BARBARELLA - Released this day in 1968 - Japanese release poster

wearing a red leather outer-space showgirl costume, Jane Fonda floats over an extraterrestrial backdrop

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 2d

NIGHTMARE ALLEY - NYC premiere this day in 1947 - German release poster

Standing in front of a crimson curtain covered with astrological signs, a tuxedoed Tyrone Power gestures in hypnotic fashion

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 3d

William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM - Premiered in NY this day in 1935 - Swedish release poster

A fairy in a diaphanous gown flies through the night sky, a red star next to her

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 3d

BTD - Jacques Tati - PLAYTIME - 1967 - Japanese release poster

a giant Jacques Tati stands in the middle of a metropolis surrounded by tiny cars

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 3d

BTD - Alastair Sim! GREEN FOR DANGER - 1946

Alastair Sim lounges against a wall with his legs crossed, behind him a larger portrait of Sim and a vivacious blonde in a gown

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 3d

Happy birthday John - GIVE PEACE A CHANCE - The Plastic Ono Band - Apple Records -1969

Cover for the single to John Lennon's Give Peace a Chance, a picture of recording instruments incased in plexiglass

Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 4d

William Castle's MR. SARDONICUS - Released on this day in 1961 - German release poster and "Punishment Poll" cards

a woman tied to a chair cowers in the shadow of a man with a top hat

a card with a thumb's up image indicating a plea for mercy

a card with a thumb's down indicating a judgement of no mercy

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 4d

BTD - Director Julien Duvivier - PANIQUE - 1947 - French release poster

Portrait of Viviane Romance, below her a carnival scene

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 4d

BTD - Director Rouben Mamoulian - GOLDEN BOY - 1939 - Italian release poster - Art by Sergio Gargiulo

Lush, bare-shouldered portrait of a slightly smiling Barbara Stanwyck

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 5d

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 5d

BTD - Gabe Dell! Here with Sach in HOLD THAT BABY - 1949

Sach practices the art of diapering using a toy baby while Gabe looks on in disgust

Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 5d

Frank Sinatra in SUDDENLY - NYC premiere this day in 1954 - Italian release poster

Sinatra is backed up against an alley wall, checking the gunshot in his shoulder, beside him a woman cowers

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 5d

BTD - Producer/director Dwain Esper - MARIHUANA - 1936

A man inserts a hypodermic needle into a woman's arm. Below them a tableau of exploitation imagery, a red, clawed hand, and a woman in an open robe wearing a slip.

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 5d

THE FRENCH CONNECTION - LA & NY premieres on this day in 1971 - Spanish release poster

Popeye takes aim at an unknown criminal, behind him the New York skyline

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 6d

THE LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES - Released in the UK this day in 1974 - Japanese release poster

a golden-masked demon is backed up by a hoard of vampire zombies, below him are images of kung-fu fighters fighting—in fact, everybody was kung-fu fighting

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 6d

Kirk Douglas in ULYSSES - Italian release this day in 1954 - Polish release poster - art by Wiktor Gorka - an uncredited Mario Bava co-directed and photographed the Cyclops episode

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 6d

BTD - Carole Lombard - NOTHING SACRED - 1937 - Swedish release poster

Carole Lombard socks Fredric March in the jaw

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