You ask what you should watch. I ask how I should live. It’s the same thing. – Corrado Zeller (Richard Harris) in Antonioni’s The Red Desert (1964) Cinephiles have suffered some great losses in recent days with the death of Ingmar Bergman, actor Michel Serrault and now Michelangelo Antonioni. I was really touched by all … Continue reading »
Posted in July 2007 …
The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen
Last week 20th Century Fox released their impressive Land of the Giants – The Full Series (The Giant Collection) (1968) DVD box set and it will undoubtedly be one of the best DVD sets to come out this year. With a list price of $229.00 (currently available from Amazon for $169.99) it’s a very pricey … Continue reading »
Let’s Get Sadistik!
I recently discovered Mort Todd’s terrific website Go Sadistik which is devoted to the diabolikal super-kriminal Sadistik (also known as Kriminal, Kilink and Killing). The site is well worth a look if you enjoy sexy sixties era pulp-style crime thrillers as much as I do. I first read about the Sadistik / Kriminal / Kilink … Continue reading »
Terence Stamp Turns 68
One of my favorite actors is the handsome, talented and all-around extraordinary Terence Stamp who is celebrating his 68th birthday today. Stamp got interested in acting at the tender age of four after seeing Gary Cooper in Beau Geste (1939), but he didn’t decide to seriously pursue acting until he was seventeen years old. On … Continue reading »
Revisiting the Bay of Blood
Welcome to the Bay of Blood When Stacie Ponder first announced her Friday the 13th blog-a-thon I didn’t sign-up right away since here at Cinebeats I try and keep the focus on sixties and seventies era films, and the first Friday the 13th movie was released in 1980. Then I remembered the obvious. Long before … Continue reading »
Dario Argento News
David Hemmings and Dario Argento on the set of Profondo Rosso (1974) One of my favorite Italian directors has been making lots of news lately. On July 7th Dario Argento launched his first official website which is shaping up to be a really magnificent site jam packed with lots of info and eye-candy spanning Argento’s … Continue reading »
The Face of Bibari Maeda
In addition to my previous review of Hiroshi Teshigahara’s film The Face of Another (1966) which has just come out on DVD, I decided to write up a brief piece about the talented Japanese actress and sixties pop idol Bibari Maeda for my music blog Let’s Go J-Sound! Bibari Maeda has a brief role in … Continue reading »
The Face of Another (1966)
The face is the door to the mind. Without it, the mind is shut off. There is no communication. – Mr. Okuyama (Tatsuya Nakadai) in The Face of Another One of my favorite Japanese films is Hiroshi Teshigahara’s The Face of Another (a.k.a. Tanin no kao, 1966) and it’s getting the Criterion treatment in a … Continue reading »
Kerwin Mathews (1926-2007)
Today I read the sad news at Holger’s terrific Hammer and Beyond blog that the handsome and talented action star Kerwin Mathews has passed away at the age of 81. Mathews is best remembered for his roles in adventure and fantasy films like The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960), … Continue reading »
The Lady is a Vamp!
Hammer Studios created some of the greatest horror films ever made, but many critics wouldn’t consider the acting in them noteworthy and that’s a shame. Believe me when I say that you can find plenty of impressive performances in many of Hammer’s horror films if you go looking for them and one of my favorites … Continue reading »
The Last Film of Julien Duvivier – Diaboliquement Vôtre (1967)
Julien Duvivier is undoubtedly one of France’s most important and influential directors. Unfortunately unlike many of his contemporaries, such as Jean Renoir and René Clair, Duvivier’s cinematic contributions are sometimes forgotten. He was often dismissed by the Nouvelle Vague and I personally think his real talents were in re-imagining crime thrillers and fantasy films, which … Continue reading »
Lee Marvin on John Ford
Lee Marvin as Liberty Valance (1962) Vincent has kick-started his ongoing John Ford Blog-a-thon which lasts all week and ends July 9th. His blog is French, but he welcomes readers and blog-a-thon contributors from around the globe. In all honesty I haven’t seen a lot of John Ford’s films myself but my favorites are Mogambo … Continue reading »
June Movie Review Roundup
Another month has come and gone and that means it’s time for another edition of what I now offically call my Movie Review Roundup which collects links to all the films I reviewed for Cinedelica last month. First on the list is director Shohei Imamura’s smart and disturbing Japanese crime film Vengeance Is Mine (1979) … Continue reading »
