The First Post (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Erotic sci-fi movie Barbarella has supplied a generation of geeks with fantasy material, and spawned a gamut of pop-culture spoofs and references too. Based on the French…
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
Have you heard that Brigitte Bardot was convicted this week in France for "inciting racial hatred?" Here's what the 73-year-old former sex goddess wrote about...
Tonight (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
A Paris court fined former film star Brigitte Bardot about R180 000 for inciting racial hatred by insulting Muslims.
Thanks for the Use of the Hall (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
I accidentally created an interesting double bill when I attended back-to-back screenings at MOMA of Yasushi Nakahira’s 1956 Kurutta kajitsu (Crazed Fruit , aka Juvenile Passion) and Roger Vadim’s 1959 Les Liaisons dangereuses . Both Nakahira and Vadim were championed in the mid to late 50s by the Cahiers du Cinema critics, who used them as sticks to beat the mainstream French cinema for its stiffness...
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 05/31/2008
Movie auteur Robert Rodriguez certainly is a busy boy of late. Robert Rodriguez and fiancée Rose McGowan are at it again. No… I meant movies, not sex. Well, actually maybe a bit of both… Between shooting Rodriguez' remake of the 1968 Roger Vadim-Jane Fonda film Barbarella, set for release sometime ...
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
For all the Sex and the City promotional madness and media hype, says Diane Garrett at Variety, “there’s no escaping the fact that the movie is a chick flick with strong appeal among an older femme demo but questionable interest among others. All the magazine coverage in the world — 63 pages in the May [...]
TVShowsOnDVD.com News (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
By David Lambert - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Koch Vision Presents Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre 26 ways To Live Happily Ever After A Brand New 7-Disc Set With New Bonus Material, Including... (more)
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
One of John Phillip Law's earliest film roles was as a young Russian sailor who falls for an American girl in the classic 1966 satire (and Best Picture Oscar nominee) "The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!" But the actor, who died Tuesday at the age of 70, was much better known for the bad movies he made. Law's most famous role (shown in this photo) was as Pygar, the blond, blind
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
John Phillip Law, the strikingly handsome 1960s movie actor who portrayed an angel in the futuristic "Barbarella" and a lovesick Russian seaman in "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming," has died. He was 70.
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
BARBARELLA star JOHN PHILLIP LAW has died at his home in Los Angeles. He was 70. The actor enjoyed success on Broadway before relocating to Europe to star in Italian films ...
PR-Inside.com Entertainment News (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
BARBARELLA star JOHN PHILLIP LAW has died at his home in Los Angeles. He was 70. The actor enjoyed success on Broadway before relocating to Europe to star in Italian films in the early-1960s. His first big Hollywood break came when director Norman Jewison cast him as a Soviet sailor in The Russians Are Coming, The Russians [...]
Film Forno (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Shock! John Phillip Law is dead, he was only 70. No word on what he died from. Daniele Luppi told me he saw him at a party a few months ago. He was in some classic films, Mario Bava’s Danger Diabolik,Giulio Petroni’s Death Rides A Horse, Roger Vadim's Barbarella, Dennis Hopper’s The Last Movie and [...]
Moon in the Gutter (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
I am very saddened to hear the news, courtesy of Tim Lucas at Video Watchblog , that the wonderful John Phillip Law has passed away. I am a huge fan of John's and this is really just extremely bad news. To follow Kimberly's lead from Cinebeats , here are some of my favorite films that the beautiful and talented Law appeared in. My best to his friends and family...he will be greatly missed. The Russians...
Taliesin meets the vampires (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Director: Roger Vadim Release Date: 1960 Contains spoilers Anticipation is a strange thing. It builds expectation and expectations are designed, the cynic might say, to be dashed. I have wanted to see Blood and Roses for the longest of times. Based on Carmilla , I had heard much about the film and wanted to experience it for myself. Then visitor OllieMugwump posted a comment on my review of Black...
Moon in the Gutter (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Directed with style to spare by Peter Collinson, 1971’s Fright is an often overlooked and very solid British Fright Film well worth a first, second or even third look for film fans. Featuring a great lead performance from lovely Susan George and script from popular screenwriter Tudor Gates, Fright (pre-dating both Halloween and When A Stranger Calls by several years) centers on a young and very vulnerable...
