DVD's
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I'm busy at work and have had lots of laughs this week with David. Someone tried to break-in last night at the shop, it was quite exciting this morning - seeing all that broken glass everywhere. What could they possibly steal that anybody would want?
Emma is in town, I called her while she was in a changing cubicle, probably trying on warmer clothing than the clothes she's been used to in Abuja, the weather in London has been putrid this week.
Pete Burns autobiography gets published next month (yay!), I hope it's full of rare photo's and bitchy comments from Pete. (That's a safe bet).
Anyway stuff we (or I) have watched recently:
'Colpo in canna' ('Loaded Guns' Directed by Fernando Di Leo 1975)
Certainly one of the weirdest Italian crime films I've yet to see. It's a comedy really, but a pretty unfunny one. It starts off okay but gets more and more comedic. I had to fast forward the long drawn-out fight section at the fun fair and the plinky-plonky happy soundtrack grates (surprisingly for me) on your nerves. That said, you do get to see Ursula Andress fight, scheme and look foxy. Marc Porel is there too, looking cute but his role is wasted, he's a boxer turned acrobat and has a great apartment with a trampoline for a bed. DVD has a featurette with the director, who loved Andress, while the other technicians didn't.
'Sette orchidee macchiate di rosso' ('Seven Blood-Stained Orchids' Directed by Umberto Lenzi 1972)
Have seen this before, but not the German DVD edition (in the Edgar Wallace collection 8). What a fantastic giallo this is! It's got all the trademarks you want including a gorgeous soundtrack. Stars a fantastic looking Marisa Mell as twins, Uschi Glas and hunky Antonio Sabato who frowns a lot.
'Belle Of The Nineties' (Directed by Leo McCarey 1934)
God! This film is old. Very camp Mae West vehicle which sees her as a singer (guffaw) moving to New Orleans to perform. The usual gags and drag costumes but always a treat to see Ms West and her famous smutty lines.
'Hercules and the Princess of Troy' (Directed for TV by Albert Band 1965)
Another peplum I hadn't seen before. It was weird watching this as it's filmed in English rather than Italian and dubbed badly. Anyway it was a pilot for a show that never took off (well, it never started), starring more than capable Gordon Scott as our hero Hercules, this time involved in saving Troy (and it's Princess) from a make-and-do sea monster and some evil guys. Forgettable. Well, apart from the monster.
I'm busy at work and have had lots of laughs this week with David. Someone tried to break-in last night at the shop, it was quite exciting this morning - seeing all that broken glass everywhere. What could they possibly steal that anybody would want?
Emma is in town, I called her while she was in a changing cubicle, probably trying on warmer clothing than the clothes she's been used to in Abuja, the weather in London has been putrid this week.
Pete Burns autobiography gets published next month (yay!), I hope it's full of rare photo's and bitchy comments from Pete. (That's a safe bet).
Anyway stuff we (or I) have watched recently:
'Colpo in canna' ('Loaded Guns' Directed by Fernando Di Leo 1975)
Certainly one of the weirdest Italian crime films I've yet to see. It's a comedy really, but a pretty unfunny one. It starts off okay but gets more and more comedic. I had to fast forward the long drawn-out fight section at the fun fair and the plinky-plonky happy soundtrack grates (surprisingly for me) on your nerves. That said, you do get to see Ursula Andress fight, scheme and look foxy. Marc Porel is there too, looking cute but his role is wasted, he's a boxer turned acrobat and has a great apartment with a trampoline for a bed. DVD has a featurette with the director, who loved Andress, while the other technicians didn't.
'Sette orchidee macchiate di rosso' ('Seven Blood-Stained Orchids' Directed by Umberto Lenzi 1972)
Have seen this before, but not the German DVD edition (in the Edgar Wallace collection 8). What a fantastic giallo this is! It's got all the trademarks you want including a gorgeous soundtrack. Stars a fantastic looking Marisa Mell as twins, Uschi Glas and hunky Antonio Sabato who frowns a lot.
'Belle Of The Nineties' (Directed by Leo McCarey 1934)
God! This film is old. Very camp Mae West vehicle which sees her as a singer (guffaw) moving to New Orleans to perform. The usual gags and drag costumes but always a treat to see Ms West and her famous smutty lines.
'Hercules and the Princess of Troy' (Directed for TV by Albert Band 1965)
Another peplum I hadn't seen before. It was weird watching this as it's filmed in English rather than Italian and dubbed badly. Anyway it was a pilot for a show that never took off (well, it never started), starring more than capable Gordon Scott as our hero Hercules, this time involved in saving Troy (and it's Princess) from a make-and-do sea monster and some evil guys. Forgettable. Well, apart from the monster.
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