2,000 POSTS DONE!, so I am posting less frequently, but will still be adding news, comments and photos.. As archived, its a ramble through my movie watching, music and old magazine store and discussing People We Like [Loren, Monroe, Vitti, Romy Schneider, Lee Remick, Kay Kendall, Anouk & Dirk Bogarde, Delon, Belmondo, Jean Sorel, Belinda Lee; + Antonioni, Hitchcock, Wilder, Minnelli, Cukor, Joni Mitchell, David Hockney etc]. As Pauline Kael wrote: "Art, Trash and the Movies"!
Dedications: My four late friends Rory, Stan, Bryan, Jeff - shine on you crazy diamonds, they would have blogged too. Then theres Garry from Brisbane, Franco in Milan, Mike now in S.F. / my '60s-'80s gang: Ned & Joseph in Ireland; in England: Frank, Des, Guy, Clive, Joe & Joe, Ian, Ivan, Nick, David, Les, Stewart, the 3 Michaels / Catriona, Sally, Monica, Jean, Ella, Anne, Candie / and now: Daryl in N.Y., Jerry, John, Colin, Martin and Donal.
What an attractive couple they made! I checked imdb to see if Horst and Romy had actually worked together, because I hadn't heard of them collaborating. It turns out they were in two German films together, Helmut Kautner's "Monpti" and "The Girl and the Legend" a costume film concerning Daniel Defoe. I don't imagine I'll ever be able to get hold of either, but it would be wonderful, if only for the eye candy!
I had heard of the German films but they are an unknown quality. A scene from Romy and Delon in the Visconti stage production of "Tis Pity She's A Whore" in Paris in '58 is on YouTube and should be easy to find. I have just acquired what may well be Romy's two worst (and rarest) films - 'Bloomfield' with Richard Harris in '71 and 'My Lover My Son' made in England in '69. Reports on those in due course !
What an attractive couple they made! I checked imdb to see if Horst and Romy had actually worked together, because I hadn't heard of them collaborating. It turns out they were in two German films together, Helmut Kautner's "Monpti" and "The Girl and the Legend" a costume film concerning Daniel Defoe. I don't imagine I'll ever be able to get hold of either, but it would be wonderful, if only for the eye candy!
ReplyDeleteI had heard of the German films but they are an unknown quality. A scene from Romy and Delon in the Visconti stage production of "Tis Pity She's A Whore" in Paris in '58 is on YouTube and should be easy to find.
ReplyDeleteI have just acquired what may well be Romy's two worst (and rarest) films - 'Bloomfield' with Richard Harris in '71 and 'My Lover My Son' made in England in '69. Reports on those in due course !