D, A, L & E film titles

 my name spelled with first letter of picture titles represented by key images:

Danger: Diabolik, 1968, Mario Bava

 Like Franju's Nuits Rouges and his L'Homme Sans Visage, Diabolik strikes me as a descendant of Feuillade's Fantomas, and just as thrillingly cheap. With a terrific score by Ennio Morricone, and produced by Dino De Laurentiis, it's Bava's only film for an American Studio; and it's made with high style. John Phillip Law is the strikingly beautiful Diabolik, the male counterpart to Barbarella and Modesty Blaise. A master thief constantly outwitting the authorities on the grandest scale imaginable, he is also a lover capable of great feats of sexual extravagance, and one who truly loves to steal. 

it's only money 1962 tashlin

A film by Tashlin & Lewis, their film Noir, very elegant in its way, evoking more than just Preminger, Siodmak, Ulmer and Sirk. It was worth doing just for the title alone.

Tashlin's great live-action cartoon Film Noir starring his one time protege and then current co-creator, Jerry Lewis. You can see where Jerry's routines alternate with Tashlin's more elaborate gags, but they harmonize jarringly, startling, beautifully, like the brilliant improvisational Jazz of the time. (They should have asked Ornette Coleman to do the score.) The photography and the setting of the house above the cliff evoke Preminger. The electrocuted Lewis, hopping down the driveway, evokes Porky Pig. Noir stalwart Zachary Scott (Ruthless, 1948) plays a murderous lawyer in his final role.

Ornette Coleman Town Hall 1962

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKfOJMN_FLE

A wacky repairer of televisions, lawnmowers and other electrical devices that have suddenly broken down, dreams of becoming the assistant of a private detective in the neighborhood who is investigating the son of a wealthy industrialist who has been missing for about twenty-five years. FUNNY AND SEDUCTIVE! www.cinefiches.com

Lester is a clumsy and awkward TV repair man who is nevertheless gifted technically. In helping out a friend, he is drawn into a mystery involving a missing heir in a rich family. He begins to notice little things, like how much those family portraits look like him. Surely..no..he can’t be…can he?

Glenda Jackson (9 May 1936 – 15 June 2023)

Jackson as Lady Alice playing Herodias in a clandestine performance of Wilde's Salome in Salome's Last Dance (Ken Russell, 1988) She made 6 with Russell. The last was the Secret Life of Arnold Bax (1992) also her last before her time as MP. RIP.

Appel's Questioning Children

 A mural and some related paintings and studies from Karel Appel, made in 1948 & 49.  The mural was done for the Amsterdam City Hall, in the cafeteria, and it was covered for many years because the eaters found it too disturbing. Though in a very geometrically stylized vocabulary, it depicts starving children begging for food.

More Bob Mizer Bondage

A quick follow-up to a post from a few years back,

 as more has come to light worth posting: