Yahrzeit? OK, OK, so Jess Franco wasn’t Jewish. That’s OK: neither am I. Still, this is the one-year anniversary of his death, so in his honor I’m posting reviews from two of the last — how shall I put it? — unambiguously good years of his film-making life.
1965
Miss Muerte/The Diabolical Dr. Z — often called Franco’s best film.
1966
Cartes sur table/Attack of the Robots — Franco’s first movie with Eddie Constantine.
Residencia para Espías/Golden Horn — Franco’s last movie with Eddie Constantine, who really looks better in black & white.
#1 by Jason Farrell on April 3, 2014 - 5:02 pm
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If you are going to do two Eddie Constantine films, then you should probably follow-up with an ALPHAVILLE tie-in.
Come on, that’s a B-movie, right? Right?
#2 by Braineater on April 3, 2014 - 10:51 pm
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You know, I was going to tie in Alphaville, until I realized Cartes sur table was much closer in spirit to Marcel Ophüls’s Faîtes vos jeux, mesdames… which I end up talking about almost as much as Cartes sur table.