Late Stocking Stuffers

Just before Christmas I posted a list of ten films that I was dying to see that I hadn't been able to find. Thanks to a loyal and friendly reader here I have just received copies of about half of them and am extremely excited. I am especially thrilled to finally have a copy of Chabrol's Alice with Sylvia Kristel, which I watched last night. I will be posting some thoughts on the film soon and sharing some screen caps from this very hard to see film...the Template pic at the top is actually a still from it.
It is always great to come across someone with like tastes who is up for sharing and trading. It frankly reminds me of the old days before torrents, downloads and such when it was just friends swapping tapes with friends because they were both drunk on cinema. Big thanks to the reader who helped me out and I hope my posts on these films prove interesting.

A Christmas Wish List

There are many, many hard to find film that I would like very much to see. Recently Out 1 had their contributors list some of their most wanted so I thought I would do the same. Christmas would fall on any day I would be lucky enough to see any of these pictures.

1. ALICE: Claude Chabrol's film starring Sylvia Kristel is at the top of my list. The beguiling stills and descriptions I have read of it make it sound like it is one of the great man and actresses key works.

2. JOE CALIGULA: Almost all of Jose Benazeraf's works are hard to find but this particular 1966 title is among the ones I most would like to see.

3. MERRY-GO-ROUND: Jacques Rivette's long version of this Joe Dallesandro-Maria Schneider film has had a troubling distribution history since it first premiered. My love for all three involved makes this another key missing film in my collection.

4. THE INNER SCAR: This Phillipe Garrel film starring Nico is so hard to get a hold of that clips from it were actually removed from NICO-ICON to secure that film a DVD release.

5. BIRDS IN PERU: This Romain Gary-Jean Seberg collaboration sounds really nuts, and I suspect it is among the more haunting works of the period.

6. A PLACE FOR LOVERS: I don't care how bad this Vittorio De Sica production starring Faye Dunaway and Marcello Mastroianni is supposed to be. I would love to see it in all of its melodramatic glory.

7. PUZZLE OF A DOWNFALL CHILD: Another Faye Dunaway film, this time directed by SCARECROW mastermind Jerry Schatzberg.

8. PROCESS: You woulddn't think that a recent film would be so hard to track down, but this Beatrice Dalle film from just a couple of years ago is a really elusive title.

9. THE FUTURE IS A WOMAN: A good quality English subtitled print of this final collaboration between Ornella Muti and Marco Ferreri would make a splendid stocking stuffer.

10. THE TRUTH: Brigitte Bardot received the best reviews of her career in this 1960 Clouzet film that to my knowledge has not been seen in this country since its original premiere.