Comments on: Euphoria #21 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/euphoria-21/ David Cairns' wilfully eccentric film blog Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:57:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/euphoria-21/#comment-504 dcairns Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:35:32 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/euphoria-21/#comment-504 "I knew I shouldn't have trusted you!" I like how the guy Joe Pesci beats to death (almost) in GOODFELLAS, gets to beat him to death (almost) in CASINO. Seems inherently FAIR. “I knew I shouldn’t have trusted you!”

I like how the guy Joe Pesci beats to death (almost) in GOODFELLAS, gets to beat him to death (almost) in CASINO. Seems inherently FAIR.

]]> By: David Ehrenstein http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/euphoria-21/#comment-502 David Ehrenstein Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:27:15 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/euphoria-21/#comment-502 And don't forget <i>La Piscine</i> with Jane and Romy Schneider as les girls idling about while les boys -- Alain Delon and Maurice Ronet -- have a rematch. Delon, who drowned Ronet once already in <i>Plein Soleil</i> does it again! And don’t forget La Piscine with Jane and Romy Schneider as les girls idling about while les boys — Alain Delon and Maurice Ronet — have a rematch. Delon, who drowned Ronet once already in Plein Soleil does it again!

]]> By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/euphoria-21/#comment-500 dcairns Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:40:26 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/euphoria-21/#comment-500 I have seen virtually none of this mouth-watering stuff. although my pal David "Hot Voodoo" Wingrove probably has. Looking at la Birkin's career, I find I have a few rarities: Wonderwall, If Don Juan Were a Woman, Seven Deaths in a Cat's Eye, Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment, and Leave All Fair. As well as a couple more obvious ones. A fellow could have a pretty mind-bending film festival with that bunch! I have seen virtually none of this mouth-watering stuff. although my pal David “Hot Voodoo” Wingrove probably has.

Looking at la Birkin’s career, I find I have a few rarities: Wonderwall, If Don Juan Were a Woman, Seven Deaths in a Cat’s Eye, Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment, and Leave All Fair. As well as a couple more obvious ones.

A fellow could have a pretty mind-bending film festival with that bunch!

]]> By: David Ehrenstein http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/euphoria-21/#comment-498 David Ehrenstein Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:44:51 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/euphoria-21/#comment-498 Correction: Mathieu Demy (not Doillon) Jane and Serge are key members of the cast of Abe Polonsky's magnificent swan song <i>Romance of a Horse Thief</i>. The there's Serge's <i>Je t'aime, moi no plus</i> where Joe Dallesandro discovers that she isn't the boy he was expecting to get it on with. Correction: Mathieu Demy (not Doillon)

Jane and Serge are key members of the cast of Abe Polonsky’s magnificent swan song Romance of a Horse Thief.

The there’s Serge’s Je t’aime, moi no plus where Joe Dallesandro discovers that she isn’t the boy he was expecting to get it on with.

]]> By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/euphoria-21/#comment-496 dcairns Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:04:19 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/euphoria-21/#comment-496 We'll see what we can do. Have probably seen more of JB's girls than I have of her, but something should be possible... We’ll see what we can do. Have probably seen more of JB’s girls than I have of her, but something should be possible…

]]> By: David Ehrenstein http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/euphoria-21/#comment-493 David Ehrenstein Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:24:14 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/euphoria-21/#comment-493 Can we have a Jane Birkin Tribute? I especially adore her in Jacques Doillon's <i>La Pirate</i> where she gets it on with Marushka Detmers all the while feeling guilty about neglecting her husband -- played by her brother Andrew. She is likewise luminous in Doillon's two-hander <i>Comedie</i> (just jane with Alian Souchon), Agnes Varda's <i>Kung-Fu Master</i> (where she falls in love with Mattieu Doillon) and Bertrand Tavernier's <i>Daddy Nostalgie</i> (where she gets to play Dirk Bogarde's daughter -- making for Sheer Iconographic Heaven. ) Can we have a Jane Birkin Tribute?

I especially adore her in Jacques Doillon’s La Pirate where she gets it on with Marushka Detmers all the while feeling guilty about neglecting her husband — played by her brother Andrew.

She is likewise luminous in Doillon’s two-hander Comedie (just jane with Alian Souchon), Agnes Varda’s Kung-Fu Master (where she falls in love with Mattieu Doillon) and Bertrand Tavernier’s Daddy Nostalgie (where she gets to play Dirk Bogarde’s daughter — making for Sheer Iconographic Heaven. )

]]> By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/euphoria-21/#comment-489 dcairns Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:58:46 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/euphoria-21/#comment-489 Yes, Jane Birkin is the SKINNY PIVOT around which we all rotate. Yes, Ollie liked a bit of a cavort when he would drunkenly appear on chat shows. When they allowed him to sing "Wild thing" on The Word that got a bit much -- exploiting a man with an alcohol problem. Of course he was quite knowingly exploiting himself too, but still... Must blog more on Mr. Reed and his famous uncle soon. Yes, Jane Birkin is the SKINNY PIVOT around which we all rotate.

Yes, Ollie liked a bit of a cavort when he would drunkenly appear on chat shows. When they allowed him to sing “Wild thing” on The Word that got a bit much — exploiting a man with an alcohol problem. Of course he was quite knowingly exploiting himself too, but still…

Must blog more on Mr. Reed and his famous uncle soon.

]]> By: David Ehrenstein http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/euphoria-21/#comment-488 David Ehrenstein Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:20:46 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/euphoria-21/#comment-488 Just a few years after <i>Beat Girl</i>, Gillian Hills could be found romping nude on pink paper with David Hemmings and Jane Birkin in <i>Blow-Up.</i> Birkin had the year before met John Barry (who scored her debut film, <i>The Knack</i>) and married him. An essential link in my <B>Six Degrees of Jane Birkin</b> World Theory. Just a few years after Beat Girl, Gillian Hills could be found romping nude on pink paper with David Hemmings and Jane Birkin in Blow-Up.

Birkin had the year before met John Barry (who scored her debut film, The Knack) and married him.

An essential link in my Six Degrees of Jane Birkin World Theory.

]]> By: alex http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/euphoria-21/#comment-487 alex Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:37:56 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/euphoria-21/#comment-487 i know it's not in a film but i remember oliver reed doing some great dancing on some british chat show or other. he had a great big mug of orange squash with him - it must have been full of e-numbers because he seemed to be pretty excited i know it’s not in a film but i remember oliver reed doing some great dancing on some british chat show or other. he had a great big mug of orange squash with him - it must have been full of e-numbers because he seemed to be pretty excited

]]> By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/euphoria-21/#comment-486 dcairns Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:30:45 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/euphoria-21/#comment-486 Yes! More on that architecture in my Quote Of The Day. Yes!
More on that architecture in my Quote Of The Day.

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