― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 6 January 2003 10:20 (twenty-three years ago)
― Gordon (Gordon), Monday, 6 January 2003 15:50 (twenty-three years ago)
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 6 January 2003 15:57 (twenty-three years ago)
I appreciate his lightness of touch and audacity, even when the films don't work on the whole. Just watched Blood and Roses (1960), a lesbian vampire film he made about ten years too early, possibly the first genuine film adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla. I'd forgotten that he was married to someone else after Bardot and before taking up with Catherine Deneuve - the actress who played Carmilla in this film, billed as Annette Vadim - who was Danish and looks like a knock-off Bardot.
Also watched Vice and Virtue from 1963, which is De Sade set in Nazi Germany, again a bit ahead of its time and rather ambitious, but again he was probably hampered by the censorship of the period. Kind of an interesting failure though.
― Josefa, Sunday, 12 April 2020 00:12 (six years ago)
17+ yrs between posts. so little has changed in the world
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 12 April 2020 15:45 (six years ago)