tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6952132016236201534.post5428343837634820714..comments2024-02-25T01:29:54.175-05:00Comments on The Films in My Life - a personal journal of cinema: TCMFF souvenirs (alternate title: coolest photo of Monica Vitti ever)kate gabriellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00524340938024619737noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6952132016236201534.post-18229737315698259982016-06-06T07:49:44.465-04:002016-06-06T07:49:44.465-04:00Thats www.osullivan60.blogspot.co.ukThats www.osullivan60.blogspot.co.ukMichael O'Sullivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17820802843771524920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6952132016236201534.post-83548558136335802032016-06-06T07:48:01.834-04:002016-06-06T07:48:01.834-04:00Hi, I love your blog too - it is so me, with all t...Hi, I love your blog too - it is so me, with all the stuff of Monica, Alain, Dirk etc. I have taken the liberty of copying your great Monica still, I hope you do not mind. You will find plenty of other stills of them on my own blog: www.osullivant0.blogspot.co.uk. including a great autographed still of Bogarde which I just had to buy - its a pose from MODESTY BLAISE, you will see it on the right hand side, I have my own personalised autograph from Dirk though which he signed for me in 1970 when he was promoting DEATH IN VENICE here in London and I got to speak to him briefly. <br />Do we know anything concrete about Monica these days? She is supposed to be in seclusion with Alzheimers ... but I imagine she is being well looked after. Great to see Sophia and Gina still going strong too and of course Anna Karina, whom I saw and reviewed last week in LAUGHTER IN THE DARK.<br />regards, Mike. Michael O'Sullivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17820802843771524920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6952132016236201534.post-73172123964609203312016-05-11T17:43:41.670-04:002016-05-11T17:43:41.670-04:00@Hamlette - Yes!! That's the one! It may be th...@Hamlette - Yes!! That's the one! It may be the only western I've ever thoroughly enjoyed, and I think that's because it's so impossibly zany! Although I'm sure Alain Delon had something to do with it too (Red Sun was also pretty good.) <br /><br />It's funny, I almost always find star-studded movies kind of boring. Which seems counter-intuitive, but it's like they have so many people to focus on that they lose all focus? I have a little bit higher hopes for this one considering who wrote it but I'm proceeding with caution :) <br /><br />And I'm so glad it's not just me! I always struggle because ideally I want to be a completest and have some authority when I'm talking about a movie/tv show/person I love, but when it comes at the expense of ever being able to experience the work fresh for the first time, I just can't bring myself to do it!<br /><br />@Gabriella - Thank you so much! That made my day!! :) And I hadn't heard of Touchez pas au grisbi before but.. Jeanne Moreau, Lino Ventura AND Jean Gabin? I'm sold!kate gabriellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16613714423917702757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6952132016236201534.post-60739598560568109762016-05-11T16:45:29.148-04:002016-05-11T16:45:29.148-04:00Hi Kate! I love your blog anyway, but attending t...Hi Kate! I love your blog anyway, but attending the TCM Film Fest with you has been SO special and FUN! Thanks for sharing it with us. <br /><br />Thanks also for sharing your photos with us. That still of Monica Vitti is the MOST. The one of Jean Gabin is wonderful too! I adore him. I don't thnk I've seen the Sicilian Clan but Touchez pas au grisbi is one of my favorite crime films. <br /><br /><3 GabriellaGabriellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01274399710388948522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6952132016236201534.post-74937009537742002122016-05-11T14:00:01.033-04:002016-05-11T14:00:01.033-04:00I know that western! That's Texas Across the ...I know that western! That's <i>Texas Across the River</i> that we were talking about a while back! My husband loves to quote Delon's character from it, especially, "I do not laugh at your pain, but merely its location." (Dean Martin took an arrow to the butt, you see...)<br /><br />I saw <i>Is Paris Burning?</i> once, like twenty years ago, and was bored stiff. But I was like 15, and expecting it to be a "typical" WWII movie, so who knows? I might really dig it now. It's quite famous, must be for a reason. I'd like to see it again just for Glenn Ford now.<br /><br />I also save movies for myself for later. And TV show eps. I've still got almost 50 eps of my fave TV show left unwatched, some of them reportedly amazingly good... and I've been a fan of it since I was 14. People keep going all agog when I admit all the eps, and the only thing I can say when they ask me why not is that I'm saving them for later. I own 2 Bobby Darin movies I haven't watched yet, and several John Wayne movies, and I suspect that as I chow my way through Alan Ladd's filmography, I'll reach a point where I'll tuck a few away "to save for later." I'm so glad to know I'm not the only one who does this!Hamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.com