That’s a shame - I was thinking of watching it. Perhaps I will, just to see the campy special effects :).
Oh the wonders of childhood, the film does have Ornela Mutti, and I saw it in the cinema, with the catchy soundtrack brings me back good memories. The cast goes from Max Von sydow to Mariangela Melato, go figure.
Les exploits d’un jeune Don Juan/L’iniziazione (1987) Gianfranco Mingozzi
Funny erotic comedy, based in a novel from French libertine writer Appollinaire, directed by the same man who gave us Flavia la monaca musulmana, couln’t be more different movies.
It’s a very well made and enjoyable film with good production values, you need some savoir faire to make a film like this work, without looking cheap or vulgar.
The story is well told and and the film has a a good pace, some scnes are indeed very funny, and the more sensual scenes are very well made, this is far from the usual Italian sex comedies of the 70’s, or even from Brass usual erotic rigueur, it ownns more to a director like Samperi.
The story is about a teen kid that tries to score while living in a mansion full of womans, but with no success, this until WWI breaks out, and he becomes the only man around (the only one who stays was a poet so), in a sudden he becomes king of the hill, as all the girls start looking at him with other eyes, and with babes like Serena Grandi or Alexandra Vandernoot around (even an older Marina Vlady looked hot), it was like hitting the jackpot, but there’s always a but.
So its a well made movie, a good screenplay, some quality actors like Aurélien Recoing (played Vicente in the superb film L’emploi du temps) or Claudine Auger or Serena Grandi in her own special way, some great scenes like the ones with the maid, and even if very erotic it isn’t quite exploitive like I was expecting to be, the only main drawback was the actor who played the main part as the young kid, looked like a jerk. In conclusion not avery good sex comedy, but a very nice erotic comedy, and there’s a difference in both things, the last one is normally better.
Special note to the soundtrack matching perfectly with the film, and also for a 10 years old Virginie Ledoyen (the main actress from The Beach), in her first film credit as an actress, but already showing great skills behind the camera.
I always been said that living in the countryside is good for your wealth, couldn’t agree more.
Mr. Booooooooooohannon
yes, i finished Hell on Wheels first season and last tenth episode was just superb - that’s how i like it
[quote=“ENNIOO, post:7100, topic:1923”]Was expecting this one to be a bit better.[/quote]It was actually better than I was expecting it to be, everywhere I read about it said it was an absolute stinker so I wasn’t expecting a great deal, but Joe Don Baker as a 70’s cop… just had to be checked out ;D
Average but it did have it’s moments, some good action here and there.
NIGHT HAWKS. Early 80s cop film with Sylvester Stallone. Nice cast with Rutger Hauer, Billy Dee Williams, Joe Spinell, faces I always enjoy seeing on screen. I liked the ending (and the beginning too) even though it’s sort of unintentionally funny. Nothing to die for, but it’s quite watchable.
After having a rather rough evening watching Makavejev’s THE COCA COLA KID, I wanted to see something more serious so I went for the ‘classic’ THE HAUNTING. I’m sorry to all the fans of the film but I really don’t see what’s so classic about it. Honestly, I don’t know where to start from…The fact that I couldn’t relate to any of the characters? The fact that I couldn’t see why Julie Harris felt so attracted to the house? The fact that I was hoping for a reasonable explanation for all the strange things that were going on after having Richard Johnson pestering us half the film with his theories but didn’t get a good explanation at all, reasonable or not? Some scenes are also uneccessarily prolonged (especially at the end when Harris is going up the stairs up until the point she crashes on the tree - hell, this felt like a year) while the same strange phenomena are repeated over and over again (they totally overdid it with the doors) etc etc etc. Great photography and atmospheric settings and that’s about it. I could easily take a film like THE CHANGELING over it any day of the year.
I’ve been watching a lot of world cinema lately thanks to the World Cup over at Mubi, seen plenty of great films, my favorites being Tewfik Saleh’s The Dupes - truly a hidden masterpiece. Also I’ve finally watched Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai and loved every bits of it. Took me two films to warm up to Mifune, but I now consider myself a fan, Takashi Shimura is exceptional too.
You can try Kobayashi’s movies as well. I liked Kurosawa’s films until I saw Seppuku and my life has changes dramatically. 
Kurosawa is great, but Kobayashi is a true master IMO. Even in Japan the former is considered to be more an European director(!), while the latter shows us more Japanese culture and mentality.
Well, his flicks are different and not for everybody’s taste, but you can try them.
[B]The Bedevilled[/B] - Really enjoyable horror from Lo Wei. A Magistrate accepts a bribe and condemns an innocent man to death and the man’s wife later hangs herself and the couple come back to haunt him.
[B]Tales from the Crypt[/B] - Not seen this for many years, still hold up well, I like these anthology horror films. I watched the U.K. DVD which is a stunning print. I forgot I already had a R1 MGM Midnite Movies release double billed with Vault of Horror. Does anybody know if there is any difference?
WALKABOUT. This sure as hell is a bad week moviewise for me because I mustn’t have picked so many ‘not-for-me’ movies in a row ever before…Anyway, in Walkabout Roeg touches too many issues the short time the film lasts and consequently not all of them are thoroughly examined or at least examined to an acceptable degree. The savage that is not as savage as we’d like to think. The civilized man who is more savage than the real savage. How relative things are when you are outside your daily environment. The feeling of being real close to nature and so on. I’ve seen people who praise this film (and many other Roeg films) beyond words. What the hell is so glorious about it really? Either they see something I don’t or I’m just a dumb guy who can’t understand one bit of all this ‘poetry’ What irritates me more though is the fact that few people say something about Walkabout’s nasty animal killings/beatings while a film like Cannibal Holocaust gets all the negativity a film can get from critics’ ‘infallible’ judgement. I also saw this one in the list with 1001 films you must see before you die. Well, I’ll tell you what. I’d rather watch fucking Lawman 500 times and The Hunting Party another 501 and then die in peace without having any kind of remorse about not having viewed films like this one.
[quote=“Mickey13, post:7109, topic:1923”]You can try Kobayashi’s movies as well. I liked Kurosawa’s films until I saw Seppuku and my life has changes dramatically. 
Kurosawa is great, but Kobayashi is a true master IMO. Even in Japan the former is considered to be more an European director(!), while the latter shows us more Japanese culture and mentality.
Well, his flicks are different and not for everybody’s taste, but you can try them.[/quote]
Sounds good, I’ll check it out!
When Eight Bells Toll.
Old school adventure film all about a British agent investigating missing boats and stuff in the isles of Scotland. Anthony Hopkins is not bad in the James Bond type role, makes me wonder if he would have been a good Bond.
I reckon Lewis Collins would have made a good Bond.
Probably would have done. Wish he had made a few more films in general.
Café Bagdad [size=12pt]/size Percy Adlon
Second view of this somehow classic film, that I always kept it my mind, for some reason I haven’t forgot that first TV view almost 20 years ago. This second view was a bit more clinical but sitll a very good work in the sense of a feel good movie, with quality.
I liked the ideia of the clash of cultures that the film brings in its genesis as the main theme, and not what tourists suffer in foreign countries as I read somewhere, we are different but not that different in the end, is the main message of the film IMO.
Did notice some flaws during this more critical view, is not a perfect movie, but I think that nobody even those who don’t like the film at all, notice its most important flaw, the Wim Wenders moments, and there’s plenty of those iduring the film (from The state of things to Paris texas). Yes there’s practicaly no story, but the story its made by its characters and their dialogues, and how their interact.
So I still think its a good movie, with great performances from both the main actresses (CCH Pounder and Marianne Sagebrecht), and why not from our man Jack Palance, it has some great characters, they seem to be stucked in time and space, like if there was no world apart from that cafe and road, until someone from a strange placed arrived.
I sense that the film could not have been made much different from what it is, so it couldn’t be much better, is quite a unique work (if it wasn’t for Wim Wenders). The director above all things made a good film almost out of nothing, only from a lonely cafe in a road somewhere.
Great use of classical music Bach mostly
4 stars
Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971).
Not a bad film at all, it was quite interesting and gripping. Still, the connection between the nightmare of the main character and the ending was unintentionally funny. I liked the main score by Morricone, a funny episode with Bud Spencer and a couple of stylishly executed murders. A good entertainment, but don’t expect too much, as this one cannot be definitely compared to two earlier Argento’s flicks. 6/10
Inn Of Evil (1971).
An another masterpiece by Kobayashi (this guy is simply unbelievable!), I couldn’t believe this was so good, as it’s much less known than other Kobayashi’s films. One of my favorite movies of all time for sure. I might exaggerate a bit, I don’t know myself. I’m crazy about his works! Tatsuya Nakadai is at his best (he’s become one of my favorite actors) just like the rest of cast. Actually this one has no flaws at all (at least nothing particularly visibly wrong). This is said to be the last black and white great Samurai film. Definitely not worse than The Samurai Rebellion and Kwaidan. Seppuku is undoubtedly the best though. Aside from Leone, this is my favorite director. 9.5/10 or 10/10.
Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970).
A very good movie with very, very good story. This is one of those films where we can have a look at murderer’s mind. It’s not scary too much (although in a few moments it was a bit creepy) and at times even funny. I felt sympathy for the murderer, as I really wanted him to kill finally his horrible wife, who had awfully yellow teeth! 
A stylishly made giallo with effective atmosphere, but do not expect a high kill count. 8/10
Saturday Night Fever.
Besides the memorable songs and distinctive 70’s dance numbers, this is a gritty drama aswell. At least in the 18 version and not the watered down PG version. No mistaking this as being a 70’s film thats for sure.
i finished 3.season of Battlestar Galactica, and i am very satisfied about it, well-written and addictive tv show
well, after these sf, postapo and occult movies i was watching recently, i feel it in my bones it is a time for a good spaghetti western marathon
but not until i will finish last 20 eps of BSG 4.season
The Roots of Heaven - I quite enjoyed this John Huston film about a man who will do whatever it takes to slop the slaughter of Elephants. I wonder if Huston made this after feeling guilty about going Elephant hunting making The African Queen?
Invasion of the Body Snatchers - I’ve watched this the most out of the various different versions.
From Paris with love - A whole lot of fun, Travolta is crazy in it.
Night of the Eagle - a.k.a. Burn Witch Burn. Sidney Hayers film about a teacher who finds out that his wife is practicing witchcraft, recommended.
