New Promotional Poster & Prints for the Mextasy/Textmex Exhibition/Lectures at the University of Washington in Seattle | February 28, 2013

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Pretty Remarkable LADY FROM SHANGHAI Movie Poster from Argentina! | via Heritage Auctions

from Heritage: "The Lady from Shanghai (Columbia, 1947). Argentinean One Sheet (27" X 42.75"). Rita Hayworth is nothing shy of stunning in this gorgeous Argentinean one sheet. Her scandalous pose and bare back are similar to that seen on the US one and three sheet, however her skin tight dress is a bit more revealing in this poster. A fantastic piece from an equally fantastic film directed by Hayworth's then-husband, Orson Welles. The poster has fold wear, cross fold separation, and a small chip in the left border. Touchup work has been done. Very Fine- on Linen. Estimate: $1,200 - $2,200."


and a bonus Touch of Evil poster from 1958...

Touch of Evil Newspaper Ad, release year 1958

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Pretty Remarkable and Comprehensive Set of Lobby Cards for Touch of Evil

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bid on the lobby card set here!

Pretty Remarkable LADY FROM SHANGHAI Lobby Card Auction, via Heritage Auctions

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Grandi and Quinlan Conspire (a great promotional still from TOUCH OF EVIL) | Orson Welles & Akim Tamiroff

 

You can preview the TOUCH OF EVIL chapter from 

Tex[t]-Mex, "Hallucinationals of Miscegenation and Murder," 

here, via googlebooks.

Wow! LADY FROM SHANGHAI Original Movie Poster Auction! Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles

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Touch of Evil (1958) Re-release Poster Auction @ Heritage

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Goodbye 2011, Hello 2012 from the Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog!

A big tip of the sombrero to all our regular visitors! To celebrate, the lauded opening minutes from Orson Welles's remarkable TOUCH OF EVIL:

Touch of Evil, Again (French Movie Poster)

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Orson Welles, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Marlene Dietrich and More: Great TOUCH OF EVIL Clip off of TCM

The chapter on TOUCH OF EVIL forms the corazón of TEX[T]-MEX--I can't get enough of Welles' inspired imagineering of the US/MEXICO border...

Here's a screengrab of Dietrich from the scene above, right after Welles reveals his identity as "Hank Quinlan," an old friend and customer of "Tanya"--Dietrich as a memorable bordertown prostitute and entrepreneur.

also, from Turner Classic Movies, one of the original hand-colorized lobby cards of Welles's noir classic:

Seeing Rita Hayworth Once Again--the infamous mirrors sequence shot by Charles Lawton Jr., Rudolph Maté, & Joseph Walker with ORSON WELLES directing...

....as a bonus, here's two glossies of Margarita Carmen Cansino, aka Rita Hayworth from a recent Heritage Auction...

Remarkable Treasure Trove of Movie Stills Online and Free!

I just ran across a VERY cool treasure trove of scanned movie stills--click here for the archive! Here's one, slightly tweaked, still from TOUCH OF EVIL (1958) I would have LOVED to have included in Tex[t]-Mex.

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NY TIMES's A.O. Scott on Orson Welles's TOUCH OF EVIL

the ArtsBeat NYTimes story is here.

Amazing Publicity Still | The Lady from Shanghai | Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles

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Cool closing sequence--Spanish-language edition

...updated Thursday, April 14, 2011

...and Welles' 'sharks' scene from this singular cinematic opus!

Touch of Evil | Classic Paperback Cover

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Cool Orson Welles Print from THE STRANGER

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Rita Hayworth Photo Auction Explosion at Heritage Auctions

Click here for all the current Rita Hayworth photo auctions!
Click the image to see Welles and Hayworth at the peak of
their careers in a publicity glossy for LADY FROM SHANGHAI.

Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles, from the climax ending of LADY FROM SHANGHAI

Cool Italian Movie Poster featuring Orson Welles

Orson Welles makes more than a cameo in Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America--for that reason and more I feel compelled to share Wellesiana when it comes on the market. The cool movie poster for The Stranger (1946), opposite, from Italy, is just too cool!

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