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Related: 1960s
Films: Carnival of Souls (1962) - The Intruder (1962) - Lolita (1962) - Mondo Cane (1962) - La Jetée (1962) - Jules and Jim (1962)
Barbara Steele in The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962) - Riccardo Freda
image sourced here. [Aug 2005]
Ursula Andress in Dr No (1962)
In one of cinema's most famous moments, Ursula Andress - like a modern day Venus - emerged seductively from the sea and caused bikini sales to skyrocket.
Literature: A Clockwork Orange (1962) - Anthony Burgess
Events and trends: suicide of Marilyn Monroe - first issue of Midi-Minuit Fantastique - The Grand Guignol theatre closes its doors - Founding of the Film-Makers' Cooperative -
Deaths: Marilyn Monroe - Yves Klein - Georges Bataille - Gaston Bachelard - Sylvia Beach - John Willie
Births: Jennifer Jason Leigh - Stewart Home - Steve Albini - Vincent Gallo - John Currin - Juan Atkins
On the occasion of Marilyn Monroe’s suicide on August 1962, Warhol used this publicity shot by Gene Korman for the film Niagara made in 1953.
In August ’62 I started doing silkscreens. … I wanted something stronger that gave more of an assembly line effect. With silkscreening you pick a photograph, blow it up, transfer it in glue onto silk, and then roll ink across it so the ink goes through the silk but not through the glue. That way you get the same image, slightly different each time. It was all so simple — quick and chancy. I was thrilled with it. … When Marilyn Monroe happened to die that month, I got the idea to make screens of her beautiful face — the first Marilyns. --Andy Warhol
Sixth Congress of the Situationist International in Antwerp
Poster announcing the Sixth Congress of the Situationist International in Anvers from 12 to 15 November 1962 (illustrated with a photo of Marilyn Monroe, who had committed suicide on 5 August). --http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/chronology/1962.html [Sept 2004]The Exterminating Angel (1962) - Luis Buñuel
See entry for Luis Buñuel
Knife in the Water (1962) - Roman Polanski
See entry for Roman Polanski