that song is not about her, but Stones' are. She cowrote Sister Morphine with Mick and Keef and had her own version recorded in 1969 with Ry Cooder and Jack Nietzsche.
It has also been claimed that Marianne Faithfull inspired Stones songs including You Can't Always Get What You Want and Dear Doctor, while it has also been reported that The Beatles' And Your Bird Can Sing was inspired by her and Mick' Jaggers relationship.
pic from Girl on a Motorcycle (1968) by Jack Cardiff, where Marianne was at her most sexual peak, together with Alain Delon who kinda stole her briefly from her boyfriend Mick Jagger.
I got a record of her, Before the Poison, and surely Broken English. She has two songs in Alan Rudolph's Trouble in Mind (1985). Her last album was in 2012 with Warren Ellis & Nick Cave & Brian Eno, She Walks In Beauty.Tru ;)
last time saw her in Irina Palm (2007) at TIFF, a risque role of a grandmother forced to work on a peephole. She was also in Marie Antoinette by Sofia Coppola.
La Traque / The track (1975) is an excellent french thriller with psychological and social touches, it can be included in the pre-survival horror genre. A riff on the Most Dangerous Game meets La regle du jeu with a bit of Straw Dogs..
The social / class commentary (la bourgeoisie de la campagne/province), and the solid acting by some of the best French actors of that time (Jean Paul Marielle, Michel Lonsdale, Philippe Leotard, Jean-Luc Bideau, Michel Constantin), the presence of American Mimsy Farmer (in lots of giallos in Italy at that period) , the atmosphere (no music except the opening and end credits), the time unity (all almost in real time, one day) and the great photography by Claude Renoir ! make this one of the most interesting films of this kind of the seventies. An unknown gem ! Considered to be the best Serge Leroy film.
First good film I've seen in a cinema this year. Also from last year, in the Cannes 77 film fest official selection. A very personal film, una affare di famiglia with everyone playing their own parts.
Marcello Mio is of course about Marcello Mastroianni, and Chiara Mastroianni, and her mom, Catherine Deneuve. And the buddies, from Fabrice Luchini to Nicole Garcia, Benjamin Biolay (Chira's ex), Melvin Poupaud (un autre Chira's ex ;), all playing themselves. Also Stefania Sandrelli and Marcello MM himself in an excerpt from pietro Germi's 1961 Divorzio all'italiana/Divorce Italian Style. And Francesca Fialdini, a hot TV host from Rai.
written and directed by Christophe Honoré (les Chansons d'amour),
super self referential (meta-meta) and for true cinephiles, including plot points from MM's films, a dog, a soldier, a bridge, a white kitten, and family memoires, this film is not for everyone. But maybe those who see it (of course I was alone in the theater, Monday at 16.45 !!!) should dig further. from the easy clues, 8 1/2 & La Dolce Vita, to the more obscure family references (including Maria Callas, a specific restaurant in Paris, Ginger & Fred, a song about how Marcello makes you laugh, etc.)
Beautiful soundtrack, including Isao Tomita's version of Clair de Lune
I haven't seen The Brutalist and A Complete Unknown yet, those films I wrote about will have links on their titles, very happy for Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan for The Apprentice !!! And for the 5 nominations for The Substance ! Even tho Emilia Perez will win big ( incl. best foreign film), I stand by Demi Moore ! And may Flow go home to Latvia with the best animation award ! Anora rocks too !!!
Garth Hudson, the last surviving member of THE BAND is gone at 87 ! After the demises of Richard Manuel (suicide in 1986 at 42 !), Rick Danko(1999), Levon Helm (2012) & Robbie Robertson on my Bday in 2023....
David Lynch, our beloved dad, was a guiding light of creativity, love, and peace. On Monday, January 20th—what would have been his 79th birthday—we invite you all to join us in a worldwide group meditation at 12:00pm NOON PST for 10 minutes.
Let us come together, wherever we are, to honor his legacy by spreading peace and love across the world. Please take this time to meditate, reflect, and send positivity into the universe.
Thank you for being part of this celebration of his life.
Love,
Jennifer, Austin, Riley and Lula Lynch
(that is Ten PM in Romania)
*****
Toototabon's song from You Don't Know Jack !, Lynch's short film is on Netflix released on his 74th birthday !
Yesterday I saw Blue Velvet's Extended Cut. 47 minutes of lost footage put together by Felipe Guerra, it's here on youtube.
Today I'm watching his commercials, love the ones for Japanese Georgia coffee with the Twin Peaks cast.
Pentru prima oară în România și la Brașov, ”A True Irish Blues Legend”, Eamonn McCormack vine la clubul Rockstadt pentru un concert unic, vineri 24 ianuarie ora 20.00 !!!
Eamonn McCormack e originar din Dublin, Irlanda și e cunoscut ca o ”Adevărată legendă de blues irlandez/ True Irish Blues Legend”. De peste 4 decenii pe scenă, chitarist virtuoz, Eamonn are un stil energic, inventiv și exploziv, cu o energie maximă live. Rădăcinile sale muzicale și de concept sunt Slade, Cat Stevens, Neil Young și Rory Gallagher, cu care a și cântat. De fapt ultima piesă înregistrată de Rory Gallagher, este chiar cu Eamonn McCormack.
A plecat din Irlanda în America pentru a-și trăi visul, a cântat cu Cannes Heat și chiar și cu J. J. Cale. S-a întors în Irlanda și a cântat în diverse formule, pînă la cea de acum, un ”power blues trio”. A înregistrat pe disc cu mulți artiști de valoare de gen, de la Rory Gallagher la Jan Akkerman, Pat Travers, George Thorogood, Walter Trout, Johnny Winter, Nils Lofgren.
Coraline Fargeat's second feature The Substance (after her thriller Revenge in 2017), won best screenplay in last year's Cannes Film Festival. Should've won best actress for Demi Moore but they gave that for ensemble to Emilia Perez. No comments. But now Demi has won the Golden Globe, will be nominated for an Oscar and I hope she wins, she deserves that totally and More than that.
Note on Jan. 23d: Nominated for 5 Oscars, Coraline Fargeat for Directing and original screenplay, Demi Moore for best actress, make up and hair stilling and Best Picture ! My predictions, Demi and maybe best screenplay !
Dennis Quaid plays cartoonlike a caricature of a manager, Ray Liotta was supposed to play this part but he died before the film production. I think Quaid is better, 'cos he played a lot of straight characters, while Liotta was lampooning himself in a lot of his films.
Fargeat's film I found more digerable than Julia Ducournau's exploits, Grave /Raw and Titane, which are overdone and overbearing. Keep in mind, if a male director would've done this film in 2024, no festival would've touch it and he would've been "luggered" (or lapidated). Anyway, I don't think a man could've done the same kind of approach and message, it's a woman's film about women's condition in the showbiz industry, and not only, about aging and about the compromises you make in order to be noticed. It's a very superficial world and it fades out quickly, but the subject is treated with acidity, irony and black humor. And great body horror gore practical effects. The whole thing could've been summarized in the opening and closing of the film, with the story star on the Hollywood Boulevard (a great short imo).
The music is by British artist Raffertie (Benjamin but it's more like a sound design, pounding and very effective. Can't be listened separately tho.
See it in a cinema, for the sound design, set design, bright costumes (that yellow coat, that pink bodysuit), the cinematography (by Benjamin Kracun) and the visceral effect.
Also warning, not for the faint at/of heart, and sensible stomachs !!!
There are many posters for the film, all good, from the B&W to this kaleidoscope puzzle.
References galore: from Lynch's LA (shot in Cannes and Antibes no less), to David Cronenberg (The Fly is quoted tooth and nail ;), Brian De Palma (Carrie's blood shower), Kubrick's The Shining, The Elephant Man, Frankenheimer's Seconds, All about Eve, Sunset Blvd., even Zemeckis' Death Becomes Her.
As Demi Moore described the film: " a blend of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Death Becomes Her (1992), and a Jane Fonda workout video."
A great and extended making of from Mubi (the worldwide distributor of the film buying it Cannes cos the original backer, Working Title, a division of Universal backed away ):
I wasn't expecting David Lynch to start this year of " I see dead people"...here he is playing John Ford in Steven Spielberg autobiographical The Fablemans (2022). I will post separately about my relationship with Lynch. Talked about him extensively with Christa Bell, his muse and last collaborator (their album, in 2024, Cellophane Memories).
“I loved David’s films. Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and Elephant Man defined him as a singular, visionary dreamer who directed films that felt handmade. I got to know David when he played John Ford in The Fabelmans. Here was one of my heroes—David Lynch playing one of my heroes. It was surreal and seemed like a scene out of one of David’s own movies. The world is going to miss such an original and unique voice. His films have already stood the test of time and they always will.”
"There's nothing like the big screen. The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience." - David Lynch
Farawell David Lynch the Magician, white or black lodge, I guess you have your own, the David Lynch Lodge, there's a lady with a Log there and some guy, Bob, is the bouncer. Badalamenti plays the piano, Bowie's at the bar, Dennis Hopper sips his whisky, Jack Nance gets another bottle, even Tom Sizemore is aloud to come for a drink...
Another masterful Bob Ezrin production with DP, his fifth with the band (starting with Now What ?! " in 2013), an elegant classy album of a bans that had nothing more to prove a long time ago, and now it's just having fun !
The Black Crowes-Happiness Bastards
-great comeback, Rock'nRolla ! their first album since 2009 !
new material released after Wayne Kramer and Dennis Thompson''s deaths, featuring Tom Morello, Slash, Vernon Reed. First album of the band in 53 years !!! Again Bob Ezrin's in the cooking !!!
Our new album: LIFE, DEATH AND DENNIS HOPPER. Out 4 April on Sun Records. Guests include Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, Fiona Apple and Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes. It's the story of Dennis Hopper's life in songs - and the story of his and our times. #TheWaterboys#RockAndRoll
Nicolas Cage Award of the Year: Longlegs (not seen The Surfer yet)
Bonus: a grand barf for the grand guignol of The Substance (will see it again in theaters soon and conclude)-Later Edit, yep, much better, I swallowed the last 1/2 hr. ok)
