tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6952132016236201534.post1607284897963691252..comments2024-02-25T01:29:54.175-05:00Comments on The Films in My Life - a personal journal of cinema: TCMFF wish listkate gabriellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00524340938024619737noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6952132016236201534.post-85230853035625547372016-03-04T00:50:30.904-05:002016-03-04T00:50:30.904-05:00Other key movies for me are PURPLE NOON/PLEIN SOLE...Other key movies for me are PURPLE NOON/PLEIN SOLEIL which I first saw when 14 and it introduced me to European art and beauty and decadence. What is fascinating about it now is that the clothes are still fabulous and could be worn now, that smart casual look - whereas in the 1999 version those 50s fashons are trowelled on and look well so old-fashioned! I love Marie Laforet too - as well as Delon and Schneider - she has the most fantastic face, as does Monica Vitti. <br /><br />and we love Sophia Loren esp in ARABESQUE a silly but amusing spy caper now, but she is at her zenith there in a fantastic Dior wardrobe. I love that scene with all those shoes and those white kinky boots! plus she and pal Peck have great chemistry together. Very 1966! Michael O'Sullivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17820802843771524920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6952132016236201534.post-1979442770707546802016-03-04T00:45:05.754-05:002016-03-04T00:45:05.754-05:00I saw Sarah Miles introduce THE SERVANT here in Lo...I saw Sarah Miles introduce THE SERVANT here in London maybe 3 years ago now, along with co-stars James Fox and Wendy Craig - how often does that happen - seeing a movie with its co-stars 50 years later! It was the 50th anniversary of THE SERVANT then, in 2013 - and this screening, at London's prestige Curzon Soho cinema, was to tie in with the film's release on Blu-ray. I actually went over to Bluray then as had to have the disk with some great new extras and intervews. It was great to see Sarah Miles again, a long time favourite (along with those other British 60s gals Julie Christie and Susannah York) - she does not at any more - it would have been ideal if she had been in Downtown Abbey as say one of Maggie Smith's bitchy rivals...) . As I had seen Dirk Bogarde and director Joseph Losey both give interviews and discussions seperately back in 1970, I just had to be at this THE SERVANT screening, even though recovering from knee surgery! <br /><br />Amazing too BLOW-UP is now 50 - why is it not on Blu-ray (here in UK)? its maybe my Nr 1 film of all time - I was 21 when it opened in London in 1967 and it was like seeing oneself up there on the screen, as we all looked and dressed like Hemmings then. <br />BLOW-UP though was not a happy experience for Miles - she clashed with Antononi and more or less walked off the film and her small part suffers - it seems she wanted to know who the man (John Castle) on top of her was - her husband or her lover and Antonioni said it did not matter ...<br />. <br />This blog item of mine might interest you (I have done lots on Hemmings, Antonioni, Miles etc as per my labels). <br />http://osullivan60.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/olly-and-david.htmlMichael O'Sullivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17820802843771524920noreply@blogger.com