Anita Pallenberg

[Klove1121]

I couldn't find anything on a movie about Anita. But I did find a new movie that Anita will be in. It's called Cheri. Here is what the plot said "Set in 1920s Paris, it tells the story of the end of a six-year affair between an aging retired courtesan, Léa (Michelle Pfeiffer), and a pampered young man, Chéri (Rupert Friend). Turning stereotypes upside-down, it is Chéri who wears silk pajamas and Léa's pearls, and who is the object of gaze."

Anita plays La Copine

[luxie_dream]

so cool thanx is it gonna be released in america

[Klove1121]

I didn't see an official release date. On IMDB, it says the movie is in post-production.

Here is a cool photo of Anita that was taken in 2001. She looks so fabulous in this shot.
photo courtesy of CC&I (voodoo---catz)

[nicovelvet]

Thank you Klove. That is probably what we heard/read about. I love Michelle Pfeiffer; this should be interesting.

On the other hand, although I might be wrong, I do not think that a movie about Pallenberg was ever discussed. We are still waiting for her auto-biography which, it seems won't be coming anytime soon.

[EvaLaDiva]

Anita in St. Tropez for Mick and Bianca Jagger's wedding on May 12, 1971

Photo courtesy of http://groups.msn.com/anitapallenberg

[EvaLaDiva]

A few of Anita and Brian from Stern Magazine in 1966, scanned by me:








A cute one of Anita and Mick on the set of Performance in 1968, shot by Michael Cooper:



All photos courtesy of http://groups.msn.com/anitapallenberg

[Aretha]

Nice pics, thanks!!!

[EvaLaDiva]

Originally Posted by Aretha

Nice pics, thanks!!!

Thank you, Aretha!

There's a new photo exhibit going around the country, featuring photos by Michael Cooper and Dominique Tarle. Most of which we've already seen. Still, it looks very interesting:

Rare Rolling Stones photographs on display in Birmingham

Sep 16 2008

Rarely seen photographs of the Rolling Stones form an exhibition at Birmingham’s Snap Galleries. Sally Hoban takes a look.
Photographs of iconic sixties musicians are arguably just as important as their songs when it comes to how we remember them today. Think of the Beatles and the Sergeant Pepper album cover might spring to mind, Hendrix and you are more than likely to see a contorted figure bent double over a guitar and it’s pretty much impossible to think of The Doors without recalling the famous photo of Jim Morrison with his chest bared, leering out at the camera.
The work of photographers such as David Bailey and Linda McCartney is relatively well known today, but images taken by British photographer Michael Cooper and the French photographer Dominique Tarle in the 1960s and early 1970s haven’t received as much public exposure.
So Birmingham’s Snap Galleries are holding a selling exhibition of rarely seen photographs of the Rolling Stones taken by both Cooper and Tarle.
Their prints give us glimpses of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and their entourage in places we’ve never seen them before. It is wonderful to see photography of this quality and importance on show in Birmingham.
The exhibition, called Majesties and Exiles, has been organised in conjunction with Raj Prem Fine Art Photography. The title of the exhibition is drawn from the two Stones’ albums which are best associated with Cooper and Tarle’s work.
Cooper, who was a close friend of Keith Richards, shot the cover of Their Satanic Majesties Request in 1967, and Tarle accompanied the band and their friends when they were recording Exile On Main Street in 1971 at the Villa Nellcôte on the French Riviera.

Guy White, director at Snap Galleries, says: “While photographs of the Rolling Stones have appeared piecemeal in a number of our exhibitions over the years, this will actually be our first dedicated to the band.
“It is very unusual for a single exhibition to be split equally between the work of two photographers, but it struck me that their archives were so complementary, with many consistent threads, synergies, and characters running between them, that it made perfect sense.
“Dominique and Michael are both extremely important photographers who were part of a seminal Rolling Stones era that is respected and revered by the band and their fans. Both photographic archives have been the subject of landmark books which are now sold out or unavailable but we will have a few copies of both at the gallery during the exhibition.”
Photographers like Cooper and Tarle who were given intimate access to the most famous sixties bands captured moments from their lives that no publicity photo could ever hope to reproduce. There are pictures here of band members relaxing, sitting cross legged in the sun and even having breakfast.
“There’s a fly on the wall character to both sets of pictures, which are almost exclusively shot in black and white,” says Guy.

Michael Cooper photographed the cover for The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album, and it was this that inspired his later cover shot for the Stones’ Their Satanic Majesties Request.
You can see this colourful, psychedelic photograph in the exhibition along with images of the Stones in London, at Stonehenge and on holiday in California and Morocco. Marianne Faithful makes an appearance too.
Tragically, Michael Cooper took his own life in 1973 at the age of just 31. When he died he left an archive of over 70,000 images to his son Adam, along with a note saying ‘they will eventually be worth something.’
About 600 of the photographs were published in the now unavailable book Blinds And Shutters in 1989, but most of them have never been seen, much less exhibited.
The Satanic Majesties cover was taken using a special 3-D camera in New Jersey. It captures the band’s love of dressing up in exotic costumes, as does the image of Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenburg on the set of the film Performance.
This is a great photograph. Pallenburg lies languidly on a bed, cigarette in hand and dressed in an oversized, sparkling turban while Mick Jagger sits behind her, staring intensely at the viewer from a shadowed background.
Keith Richards talked about the process of making the Satanic Majesties cover in Blinds and Shutters. “I remember going to Manhattan on a Sunday, trying to buy all the plants and going to the costume place,” he said.

“Michael was being incredibly fussy about which plants he’d like. We went to the studios with spray cans and made the whole thing ourselves and we made our own set for the album cover – so different from The Beatles with Sergeant Pepper. It was like, “Got the glue?”, “Can I have the saw when you’ve finished with it Michael?” and bits of Styrofoam – like two or three days of handicrafts. We kept popping out and buying things when we ran out.”
It is the informality of Cooper’s pictures that make them so appealing. This is perhaps epitomised in the image of Brian Jones and Anita Pallenberg standing back to back holding hands as she bursts out laughing.
I also really like Cooper’s photograph of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards loitering either side of an advertising hoarding featuring a Palace Guardsman holding a bottle of milk. This photograph is the perfect symbol of the band’s rebellion against the English establishment.
Cooper also took photographs of the band during trips to the desert. In Blinds and Shutters, Keith recalls that: “We were looking for UFOs and Joshua trees. The thing about Michael was that when these expeditions were going on, he’d be very unobtrusive. We’d all be looning and he’d be working.”
Mick Jagger once said: “Michael Cooper … was never without a camera and even though at the time I would feel I was permanently on show when he was around, looking back I’m glad he captured this period with his brilliant pictures.”
Dominique Tarle’s images pick up chronologically where Cooper’s leave off, when the Stones were at the Villa Nellcôte in France. Keith Richards was living there with Anita Pallenberg and their son Marlon.
The Exile On Main Street album was made at the Villa with the help of a mobile recording truck connected to a basement studio.
Tarle’s achingly cool images capture the sun-soaked languor of that summer as well as unseen moments in Anita Pallenberg and Keith Richards’ relationship.
The Villa Nellcôte was certainly a colourful place to be. In an interview published in French Marie Claire in June 2002, Pallenberg recalled how: “The doors … were open day and night. Mainly because we did not have the keys. We searched for them. We never found them.”
Dominique Tarle told more of the story in the New York Times: “A carnival of characters paraded through: Terry Southern, Gram Parsons, John Lennon, even a tribal band from Bengal… dope dealers from Marseille; petty thieves, who stole most of the drugs and half the furniture; and hangers-on, all of them there to witness what was happening.”
Tarle’s images of Keith playing his guitar at the Villa Nellcôte are some of the most evocative in the exhibition.
In an interview with Stones News in August 2001, Tarle recalled that: “There was no radio, no stereo at the beginning… so it was Keith unplugged all day long. From early in the morning to late at night. A true delight.”
* Majesties and Exiles runs until November 15 at the Snap Galleries, Fort Dunlop, Birmingham. All the images are available for sale through the Gallery. For further information and prices visit snapgalleries.com.

[luxie_dream]

Originally Posted by EvaLaDiva

A few of Anita and Brian from Stern Magazine in 1966, scanned by me:








A cute one of Anita and Mick on the set of Performance in 1968, shot by Michael Cooper:



All photos courtesy of http://groups.msn.com/anitapallenberg

they looked so good together but he was a real a** to her

[luxie_dream]

keith and anita elle magazine 1967 scan (flickr)

[EvaLaDiva]

Originally Posted by luxie_dream

they looked so good together but he was a real a** to her

Agreed - Brian was a real creep.
I think she looked better with Keith though, and their personalities meshed well.

[60swildchild]

Originally Posted by EvaLaDiva

Anita in St. Tropez for Mick and Bianca Jagger's wedding on May 12, 1971

Photo courtesy of http://groups.msn.com/anitapallenberg

Never thought Anita looked good during this period. Sort of washed-out,,, Thanks Eva. Great photo you have!

[yougotthesilver]

Originally Posted by prsgl

I believe that she was born in Italy to German parents. She spent most of her younger years living in Italy.

Yeah, she was born in Rome. I think her mother was Italian, though. Her dad was German. She also has an older sister. I have never seen any pics of her sister, are there any at all, anyway? What's her sister's name again, I forgot?

Awwwwwww, the picture of Anita and Keith looking at photographs is too cute! I've seen it for the first time, awesome find, thanks so much for posting!

I'm so happy, Performance was officially released 1 1/2 weeks ago on DVd in geran language! Of course I immediately ordered! I had seen parts of the movie before, but only in english and the sound was bad, so I didn't understand too much, so I had been waiting so long for that day to finally come by! I received the DVD on thursday and have since watched it twice. I LOVE this movie, it's one of my absolute favourites!!

And Anita is so stunning, I can only repeat my self in saying it all the time. She's SO pretty - I really wish I looked like her , espacially her eyes! Wow! - and just has something upon her that amazes me. And her style is brilliant! Just what I love!
The ultimate rock-chick!

[luxie_dream]

anita should get like a muse award cuz she help inspire some great songs for the stones

[EvaLaDiva]

Originally Posted by 60swildchild

Never thought Anita looked good during this period. Sort of washed-out,,, Thanks Eva. Great photo you have!

Agreed! She looks bad, as the heroin abuse really began taking it's toll on her looks - her hair, her skin, her teeth! And just five short years prior, she looked so wholesome and beautiful:




Photos courtesy of http://groups.msn.com/anitapallenberg