…Et mourir de plaisir
Roger Vadim’s adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu’s novella Carmilla, …Et mourir de plaisir (1960), opened to poor reviews focused on Vadim’s choice to relocate the setting of Carmilla to a contemporary… Read more »
Roger Vadim’s adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu’s novella Carmilla, …Et mourir de plaisir (1960), opened to poor reviews focused on Vadim’s choice to relocate the setting of Carmilla to a contemporary… Read more »
Lina Wertmüller’s third feature film, Rita la zanzara (1966), was a “musicarello” picture starring Yé-yé sensation Rita Pavone. Wertmüller’s would-be muse Giancarlo Giannini makes his leading man debut as the… Read more »
Sedmikrásky (1966), or Daisies as it is known in english, is one of those milestone films in every cinephile’s life. Once you see Sedmikrásky it changes you. Since the arrival… Read more »
It’s Valentine’s Day and like every other critic and movie blogger my mind has turned to celebrating this holiday with a write up about a romantic comedy. But instead of… Read more »
Director Clive Donner seems to have spent the silver sixties trying to tap into the zeitgeist. Films like What’s New Pussycat? (1965) and Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush… Read more »
Producer Preben Philipsen wasn’t the first filmmaker to realize the big screen potential of Edgar Wallace’s mystery novels but he was the only one to make that enterprise an industry… Read more »
On a sunny Halloween in Southern California, Mark (Chris Kroesen) agrees to help an old “witch” (Valerie Hobbs) get her cat Lucifer out of a tree. Sadly, Mark falls from… Read more »
Frankie Bono (writer and director Allen Baron) has come to New York City at Christmas time to assassinate a low level gangster. A borderline sociopath, Frankie scours the city looking… Read more »
Valerio Zurlini’s WWII epic Le soldatesse (1965) follows Lt. Martino (Tomas Milian) as he escorts a truck carrying prostitutes (including the iconic Marie Laforêt, Anna Karina, and Valeria Moriconi) from… Read more »
In a remote corner of the English countryside, Doctor Vance (William Berger) oversees an asylum and safeguards the tragic secrets of his past. But when a new nurse and an… Read more »