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Image of the day, 8/10/11

By August 10, 2011January 12th, 202610 Comments

CDS

The hand of Françoise Dorleac, the vinyl of Thelonious Monk (music not fea­tured), Cul-de-sac, Roman Polanski, 1966.

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10 Comments

  • Stephen Bowie says:
    August 10, 2011 at 1:11 pm

    CUL-DE-SAC is my favor­ite Polanski, and I am choos­ing to inter­pret your choice of screen grab as a timely eulogy for the loss of so much vinyl & digit­al product in the Sony ware­house fire.

  • Oliver_C says:
    August 10, 2011 at 2:20 pm

    I live in Enfield, about one mile west of that fire (which is still smoldering).

  • Stephen Bowie says:
    August 10, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    Oliver, I’m glad I don’t live where you live, because I prob­ably would have per­ished try­ing to res­cue arm­loads of discs for myself.

  • David Ehrenstein says:
    August 10, 2011 at 4:26 pm

    Just look­ing at Cul-de-Sac again yes­ter­day. Of all his films it’s the one he and only he could have made.

  • James Keepnews says:
    August 10, 2011 at 4:35 pm

    The album pro­duc­tion of, per Bill Evans: Re: A Person I Knew

  • Lex says:
    August 10, 2011 at 4:56 pm

    Cul-de-Sac is total geni­us, and that chick is SO hot, plus she shows her feet the entire movie. Almost everything Stander or Pleasance do is hil­ari­ous… though the improv seems start to show a little bit in the “one take” shot.
    Early Polanski used to always cast the hot­test chicks.

  • haice says:
    August 10, 2011 at 8:17 pm

    Great start for the money-making cof­fee table book (I’d buy it) of screen­grab jazz vinyl in Swinging 60s British cinema. Komeda rules. Maybe James Fox spin­ning Dankworth/Cleo Laine in THE SERVANT or David Hemmings lower­ing the stylus on a Herbie Hancock Verve label groove to chill Vanessa Redgrave in BLOW-UP?

  • Bob Fergusson says:
    August 10, 2011 at 10:26 pm

    And the won­der­ful Riverside label.

  • ptatleriv says:
    August 11, 2011 at 11:16 am

    Watched this last night and loved it. I’ve always been a bit of a suck­er for “minor” Polanski.
    One tech geeky ques­tion: does any­one know why the disc is so dark? Granted, I watched the SD ver­sion, but the act­ors faces (espe­cially) are often obscured in shad­ow in a way that makes me think it’s a cre­at­ive decision. Was it a Polanski-approved choice?

  • Stephanie says:
    August 16, 2011 at 6:08 pm

    Neat movie. RIP, lovely Francoise, who died much too young.