Last Tango In Paris and The Passenger are of course the important roles, with her significant part in Jacques Rivette's Merry-go-Round a close second, but I also thought she gave a really good performance in a small role in the dreadfully underrated Les nuits fauves (Savage Nights) by Cyril Collard - one of the better films from the early 90s cycle of films about AIDS (much better than Solo con tu pareja! )
Though of course Solo con tu pareja is not half as laugh out loud funny as Philadelphia.
(I'd love to read an analysis of Tom Hanks's career that put forward the theory that, rather than 'forsaking' his early comedies for more serious roles, he has instead just been working in more insidious forms of ludicrous comedy for the last twenty years)
I loved Tura Satana! Faster, Pussycat is one of my favorite films, in the most non-ironic way (I even wrote a paper about it in grad school). She really carved an indelilbe impression in that film, and she seemed like such a genuinely nice person in real life. I would have loved to have met her. The Arrow DVD includes a fantastic commentary track and featurette with Satana and the other great ladies that shows just how much fun they must have been. May she rest in peace.
antnield wrote:Exploitation producer David F. Friedman (can't find a link yet...).
If a still from The Defilers or A Smell of Honey, a Swallow of Brine somehow makes it into the Oscar death montage, I will take back everything bad I ever said about the Oscars.
Or a clip from Blood Feast or Ilsa...(or one of his exploitation 'remakes' of 1930s films, such as Freaks becoming She Freak, or Trader Horn becoming the single entendre titled Trader Hornee)
On that note, I thought it was curious that in yesterday's BAFTAs that Claude Chabrol was namechecked and Eric Rohmer was not. It seemed strange to salute one and not the other (or was there a strange heirarchy in play that I wasn't aware of?)
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Just heard about that. He was a hell of a player, great singer too.
