Cinema is the most visual of the arts. While images power it, as they do with static photograpy, more goes into and can wrong with the 3D world than 1D. In the 1D world, the artist is the god. Throughout is evolution from concept to realization, they remain in total control over the image and…
Category: Actresses
LBJBR’s Guide to Serge Gainsbourg and His Women
French musician Serge Gainsbourg was equal parts genius and mad man; musician and actor; husband and playboy; lover and philanderer; musical maestro and heavy breathing cunt chaser; father and potential pedophile? As you can see, the man who the public knew as Serge Gainsbourg, born Lucien Ginsburg, was a complicated man who came to be…
The Helen Mirren Files – ‘Age of Consent’
Age of Consent remains a fascinating film of contradictions. The 1969 film, based on the autobiography of the Austrailian painter Norman Lindsay, starred James Mason as painter Bradley Morahan. The Australian painter has lost his muse. On a sparsely inhabited island in the Great Barrier Reef, he finds in a beautiful young girl named Cora,…
LBJBR’s Actor Chronicles – Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren has had a long and varied acting career. She has played characters that range from Elizabeth II to a young girl living in the outback in Austrailia with her grandmother, who poses nude for a painter, who awakens her sexuality. She is one of the most versatile actresses in cinema history Born Helen…
This Month in Film History – November 2, 1932: Stage Actress Katherine Hepburn Makes Film Debut
From the beginning, Katherine Hepburn was different from everyone else. Hepburn ‘s parents made sure of that. Born into an upper-class family, her parents were progressive in their upbringing of the child and provided her with the tools to thrive in a world where women had just gained the right to vote. It was this…
This Month in Film History – October 10, 1957 – Desilu Studios Purchase Film Company RKO
Based on an old radio program entitled My Favorite Husband, I Love Lucy, starring real-life couple Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, would innovate and cement the blueprint for making the new medium of television a success. While negotiating to adapt the popular radio show to TV, Ball and Arnaz would gain all copyright control of the property after…
Boobs and Blood: A List of Alternative Euro Trash Horror Films to Watch This October: ‘Nude for Satan’
Let’s face it, the whole horror films on Halloween has become a tad lame of recent. Everyone repeats the same tired crap they have for the past number of years. Well, we here at LBJBR intend on busting the mold and opening up a watch party that will become the talk of the town. These…
