Modesty Blaise!

[zeca azevedo]

Hi,

well, tonight I saw MODESTY BLAISE on cable TV. The movie, released in 1966, is truly a guilty pleasure, a delightful POP artifact, very colorful, funny - and CRAZY. The cast is really something else: MONICA VITTI (as Modesty, of course), DIRK BOGARDE (as Gabriel, the charming villain) and TERENCE STAMP (as Modesty's sidekick). The movie is pure 60's POP, and its soundtrack is fantastic - lots of lounge music and rock'n'roll. The director of the movie is JOSEPH LOSEY. The best moment of this great POP flick in my opinion: Modesty and her friend (STAMP) singing a cheerful song in the middle of a gun fight. Crazy stuff indeed!

[JussiK]

The dvd will be out this summer so we can have it all bigger better and in widescreen! Equally maginficent: Casino Royale, The Day The Fish Came Out, Camille 2000, Danger: Diabolik!, Scacco Alla Regina, The Libertine, The Laughing Woman, The 10th Victim. AND Roman Coppola, son of his father, has just realesed an incredible journey back to the timezone of silver wet-look luggage and sportscars to die for, called "CQ", with Jeremy Davies, Sophia Coppola, GÈrald Depardieu and Billy Zane playing a Diabolik-styled character. Other films to look out for include Brian de Palma's style over substance extravaganza "Femme Fatale" with Antonio Banderas. This is something like Mission Impossible meets Showgirls, with dazzlingly shot hi-tech robbery setpieces, lesbian interludes, expensive jewelry, nudity, plush sets, baroque slo-mo violence, latest fashions, labyrinthine plot not too concerned with logic, split screen camerawork, in other words everything you'd want from a film.

[zeca azevedo]

On 2002-06-17 02:18, JussiK wrote:
The dvd will be out this summer so we can have it all bigger better and in widescreen! Equally maginficent: Casino Royale, The Day The Fish Came Out, Camille 2000, Danger: Diabolik!, Scacco Alla Regina, The Libertine, The Laughing Woman, The 10th Victim. AND Roman Coppola, son of his father, has just realesed an incredible journey back to the timezone of silver wet-look luggage and sportscars to die for, called "CQ", with Jeremy Davies, Sophia Coppola, GÈrald Depardieu and Billy Zane playing a Diabolik-styled character. Other films to look out for include Brian de Palma's style over substance extravaganza "Femme Fatale" with Antonio Banderas. This is something like Mission Impossible meets Showgirls, with dazzlingly shot hi-tech robbery setpieces, lesbian interludes, expensive jewelry, nudity, plush sets, baroque slo-mo violence, latest fashions, labyrinthine plot not too concerned with logic, split screen camerawork, in other words everything you'd want from a film.

Hey JussiK,
what a lesson on POP crafted movies! CASSINO ROYALE is superb, one of my favorites from the era. And BARBARELLA? Amazing stuff.

I don't know nothing about ROMAN COPPOLA's or BRIAN DEPALMA's, but I will look for them, for sure. Thanks for the info.

Peace and diamonds and red porshes,

zeca azevedo