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  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    edited 11:09am Posts: 24,836
    GoldenGun wrote: »
    I had a very long day yesterday, came home late, and I was in no mood to use any more braincells (don't think there were any left anyway :p). So I made myself bucatini all'amatriciana, my preferred comfort food, and sat down for:

    BARBARELLA (1968)
    Directed by Roger Vadim

    barbarella-poster.jpg

    As one can expect from a Vadim-directed, De Laurentiis-produced Franco-Italian space adventure, Barbarella is wacky, nonsensical, colourful, occasionally funny and super, super sexy.

    It benefits from crazy production design, gorgeous outfits, funky music and vibrant cinematography (by TSWLM's Claude Renoir), but it's also cheap-looking, has an incoherent plot and has nothing useful to say. Personally I can be forgiving for the lack of those latter elements as long as those former elements are provided. Especially on a lazy night.

    You can't talk of Barbarella without discussing the beautiful Jane Fonda. She steals the show of course as the likeable, stunning yet slightly naive protagonist. She also wears a wide variety of imaginative and unrevealing outfits, as everyone knows Dino and Roger did not cast her only for her acting chops. If you take issue with that, this film is not for you, naturally.

    Worth mentioning is also a small but hilarious role for David Hemmings of Blowup and Profondo rosso fame.

    Recommended? If the above poster appeals to you, then yes :p

    I absolutely love Barbarella. Jane Fonda is hotter than a bright sun in that film. I only recently discovered the unrated cut, which I must say offered a few nice surprises (always in doubles) ;-). It's a delightfully campy film with a celebration of the sexual revolution of the '60s, a great score, an excellent cast, amazing sets, ... there's nothing not to enjoy. This is one of those films I regularly return to.
  • Last_Rat_StandingLast_Rat_Standing Long Neck Ice Cold Beer Never Broke My Heart
    edited 12:08pm Posts: 4,763
    Speaking of the Escape Room films. Has anyone seen Exam ?

    Kind of a similar premise featuring our very own Colin Salmon in the beginning and the end of the film. I watched it last week and thought it was pretty good.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
    Posts: 26,293
    Last_Rat_Standing wrote: »
    Speaking of the Escape Room films. Has anyone seen Exam ?

    Kind of a similar premise featuring our very own Colin Salmon in the beginning and the end of the film. I watched it last week and thought it was pretty good.

    Not heard of it before though will look out for Exam.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,836
    Last_Rat_Standing wrote: »
    Speaking of the Escape Room films. Has anyone seen Exam ?

    Kind of a similar premise featuring our very own Colin Salmon in the beginning and the end of the film. I watched it last week and thought it was pretty good.

    I saw Exam many years ago. It was okay but I wasn't thrilled by it. It felt like something inspired by Cube, which I still think is the best of its kind.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
    edited 4:24pm Posts: 7,731
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    GoldenGun wrote: »
    I had a very long day yesterday, came home late, and I was in no mood to use any more braincells (don't think there were any left anyway :p). So I made myself bucatini all'amatriciana, my preferred comfort food, and sat down for:

    BARBARELLA (1968)
    Directed by Roger Vadim

    barbarella-poster.jpg

    As one can expect from a Vadim-directed, De Laurentiis-produced Franco-Italian space adventure, Barbarella is wacky, nonsensical, colourful, occasionally funny and super, super sexy.

    It benefits from crazy production design, gorgeous outfits, funky music and vibrant cinematography (by TSWLM's Claude Renoir), but it's also cheap-looking, has an incoherent plot and has nothing useful to say. Personally I can be forgiving for the lack of those latter elements as long as those former elements are provided. Especially on a lazy night.

    You can't talk of Barbarella without discussing the beautiful Jane Fonda. She steals the show of course as the likeable, stunning yet slightly naive protagonist. She also wears a wide variety of imaginative and unrevealing outfits, as everyone knows Dino and Roger did not cast her only for her acting chops. If you take issue with that, this film is not for you, naturally.

    Worth mentioning is also a small but hilarious role for David Hemmings of Blowup and Profondo rosso fame.

    Recommended? If the above poster appeals to you, then yes :p

    I absolutely love Barbarella. Jane Fonda is hotter than a bright sun in that film. I only recently discovered the unrated cut, which I must say offered a few nice surprises (always in doubles) ;-). It's a delightfully campy film with a celebration of the sexual revolution of the '60s, a great score, an excellent cast, amazing sets, ... there's nothing not to enjoy. This is one of those films I regularly return to.

    I'd be very interested in that cut :p Is it widely available or do you need some digging to find it?
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,836
    GoldenGun wrote: »
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    GoldenGun wrote: »
    I had a very long day yesterday, came home late, and I was in no mood to use any more braincells (don't think there were any left anyway :p). So I made myself bucatini all'amatriciana, my preferred comfort food, and sat down for:

    BARBARELLA (1968)
    Directed by Roger Vadim

    barbarella-poster.jpg

    As one can expect from a Vadim-directed, De Laurentiis-produced Franco-Italian space adventure, Barbarella is wacky, nonsensical, colourful, occasionally funny and super, super sexy.

    It benefits from crazy production design, gorgeous outfits, funky music and vibrant cinematography (by TSWLM's Claude Renoir), but it's also cheap-looking, has an incoherent plot and has nothing useful to say. Personally I can be forgiving for the lack of those latter elements as long as those former elements are provided. Especially on a lazy night.

    You can't talk of Barbarella without discussing the beautiful Jane Fonda. She steals the show of course as the likeable, stunning yet slightly naive protagonist. She also wears a wide variety of imaginative and unrevealing outfits, as everyone knows Dino and Roger did not cast her only for her acting chops. If you take issue with that, this film is not for you, naturally.

    Worth mentioning is also a small but hilarious role for David Hemmings of Blowup and Profondo rosso fame.

    Recommended? If the above poster appeals to you, then yes :p

    I absolutely love Barbarella. Jane Fonda is hotter than a bright sun in that film. I only recently discovered the unrated cut, which I must say offered a few nice surprises (always in doubles) ;-). It's a delightfully campy film with a celebration of the sexual revolution of the '60s, a great score, an excellent cast, amazing sets, ... there's nothing not to enjoy. This is one of those films I regularly return to.

    I'd be very interested in that cut :p Is it widely available or do you need some digging to find it?

    @GoldenGun
    The Arrow Video Blu-ray of Barbarella is the uncut version. I presume other Blu-rays as well, also in our region. The DVD I owned had the edited '77 version (for that country whose inhabitants love their guns but are afraid of the nipple.)
  • DEKE_RIVERSDEKE_RIVERS
    Posts: 2,308
    Modesty Blaise. 1966.
    What the hell happened here? Losey didn't want to make the film? It's hard to imagine a more malicious adaptation.
  • GerardGerard
    Posts: 6,202
    Yes, indeed. 'Tis a pity we never got a good adaptation of Peter O'Donnell's novels.
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