Le Clan des Siciliens is very entertaining, but (as far as I remember) it doesn’t change a fact that it gets quite messy towards the end and Verneuil seems to be oblivious of the direction in which he wants to lunge the plot.
I always remember Le Clan des Siciliens as a good film because of the cast and Morricone’s awesome score but in reality it’s not that great.
I remember it too as a good film, but in fact I have only a vague idea what it’s about. I basically remember the actors, Gabin - Delon - Ventura (what a team!), a scene on the beach with Delon being caught kissing a woman and the finale.
I love the main theme, I was learning it at keyboard lessons but had to give it up after breaking a couple of fingers in goal, one of them hasn’t been the same since.
Le Clan des Siciliens score is one I remember the most as it was one of the first score L.P’s I purchased with another score on side B which was to Violent City. Le Clan des Siciliens the film is one I enjoyed alot, stylish film for the time I thought.
I’m watching Death in Venice (1971) right now and it feels like a travesty of some Visconti’s movies. For the first 30 minutes, almost nothing is happening. So opulent and simultaneously hollow. I hope it will get better. :o
It won’t
Read the novella instead, it’s wonderful
It’s proper boring, I saw it on TV years ago. An old queer lusts after a young boy, doesn’t leave Venice when there is a big TB/Cholera (Can’t remember, something like that) outbreak because the old nonce wants to perv over the boy and dies after catching the disease.
Thomas Mann’s prose is the most beautiful German ever written, but it’s very hard to bring it to the sreen. This is an example of what Mann’s art is about:
(English)
So I will stay, Aschenbach thought. Where could it be better? And with his hands folded in his lap he allowed his eyes to wander in the vastness of the sea, his gaze slipping, becoming blurred, and breaking in the monotonous mist of nothingness. He loved the ocean for important reasons: out of the desire for tranquility harbored by the hard-working artist, who seeks to conceal himself
(German)
Ich will also bleiben, dachte Aschenbach. Wo wäre es besser? Und die Hände im Schoß gefaltet, ließ er seine Augen sich in den Weiten des Meeres verlieren, seinen Blick entgleiten, verschwimmen, sich brechen im eintönigen Dunst der Raumeswüste. Er liebte das Meer aus tiefen Gründen: aus dem Ruheverlangen des schwer arbeitenden Künstlers, der sich zu bergen begehrt.
It’s a good translation, but the text is more poetic in German. For example: ‘verschwimmen’ means indeed ‘to become blurred’, but someone who reads the German text immediately recognizes the linguistic association verschwimmen - schwimmen (to swim) - water - ocean - vastness, etc.
I think that Death In Venice is a great film, and lets one forget that it is based on a novel. One of Visconti’s best. 9/10
(but I haven’t seen it for ages)
It’s a bit wrong really though isn’t it. End of the day it follows a pedophile lusting after a kid!
Ehm… OK, I’ve made it. I’ve just ended this homosexual lullaby and it’s a visually dazzling flick, but beautiful imagery and Dirk Bogarde’s fantastic performance seem to be the only things existent in this sleep-inducing, overstylized, somnolent Viscontesque pulp. There is such a little number of dialogues that there are more sentences uttered in Polish than in Italian (I didn’t expect that :P). It’s not the worst effort by Visconti, but close to it IMO. I’ll read the novel, sounds terrific. BTW, the movie should be called A man who watched people eating, drinking, bathing and fell in love with a boy - you get to know everything while it is taking Visconti over two fucking hours to recount the whole story. There were moments when I literally laughed as it looked like someone was aping Visconti and his elephant-heavy, languorous narrative. 4/10
Nah, I agree with Stanton, great film. Especially because the choice of subject is so… deviant.
And at least with stars/plot etc and some kind of leading lady it can’t be anything other than a cult classic.
A Good Day To Die Hard - Enjoyable mindless fun, some really good action sequences. Much better than the last installment but not as good as the first three.
Alien - Not seen it for ten years, Classic.
Brother always goes onto me about films when Bruce had hair or a wig are his best films, definitely the case for me re the Die Hard films.
The Last Boy Scout could well be my favourite one of Willis’.
Only one movie this evening, a Eurowestern from the Westerns Unchained 25 Blu-ray, nodded off a bit in the middle.
Finger on the Trigger / El dedo en el gatillo - 1965 / Sidney W. Pink
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I saw this Swedish erotic comedy in 1970, in cinema. It probably was the first real erotic movie I ever saw. It had of course an 18 rating, but somehow I managed to sneak in.
The story is set in a small village in the Swedish countryside, in the beginning of the 19th century. Europe is at war and all young men have gone to the battlefields. Therefore the new vicar, a man of about thirty, is the only young man in town. He’s also the son of a witchfinder, who burnt a witch in the same town a few decades ago, and her daughter now plans revenge. Her plan consists of giving the vicar an eternal hard-on. Since the women in town are all horny without their husbands and friends, they all want to help the poor man with his problem, but what’s up, won’t come down …
In 1970 these type of raunchy movies were called ‘sex films’ in Holland, but all you get is a bare breast and an occasional glimpse at a girl’s (or vicar’s) bottom). It all seems prim and prudish today and you don’t understand what the fuss was all about (most probably the film was thought to be slightly blasphemous). For me it was of course a pleasure to watch it again, but only for old times’ sake. It doesn’t feel that raunchy anymore (the posters are more daring than the movie itself) and as a comedy it only works for 15 year olds (in 1970).
Some of the danish sex comedies from 70’s are quite good, Tegn films for example. They are actually quite funny and they usually have a dose of hardcore sex scenes. One of the few examples where the mixture of hc porn and “normal” moviemaking does work and doesn’t look like cheap cut & paste job.