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Thank you. Some faces are just iconic forever.

Oh yes. I can see why.

Thank you. It is a great film.

@@dreamsofprojectedlight MERITAVA L'OSCAR !!!!!!!

@@fabriziofinetti9364 I agree but the buffoons who vote on that kind of thing gave it to 'Out of Africa'.

GREAT FILM ....... PAUROSO INQUIETANTE..............

Thanks. It is one of my favourites. I find her such good company in all of the films she is in. In 'French Dressing', where she is playing a version of Brigitte Bardot, she brings so much humour to a role that could easily have been a one note spoof.

It is great.

Thank you for saying so. It's always stepping off a cliff when I make something like this so it's very pleasant to hear.

Yes. There is something about the truly great movie stars, however little regarded they might be by weighty critics, in that ability to be completely in command of themselves and the space around them. However perilous the situation, you felt that she never lost her composure. She could pin someone down simply by holding their gaze.

Yes. There was always something about the way she could look at the camera with a smile lingering in her eyes even while saying something quite intense... Unique.

Cool. It's one of those films that despite a slightly sour view of humanity has sequences in it, especially the iconic scene with Ekberg at Trevi Fountain, which are so beautiful that I still keep going back to watch it again.

Always such a powerful presence.

She is so bewitching here that I can only imagine how she must have been in person. It is hardly surprising that you wanted to see all her films.

I know exactly what you mean.

I was very inspired by her book because it doesn't have an ounce of self pity despite her having lived through such a terrible time. She describes it so matter-of-factly. Horrible things happening every day and yet finding kindness in the oddest places. In describing her career as an actress, she portrays herself as being quite brazen and determined to succeed. But she never lost her memories of friends who died, one in a particularly shocking way that I cannot shake from my mind, and I think when we see Carmilla torn between her knowledge of how things are and how she would like to pretend they are, we see this in her.

The music is a large number of three or four second choral samples woven together, played backwards, or slowed. Mostly Holst, some Beethoven and Messiaen.

I find that surprising too. But then, perhaps not when you consider that you can find just about anything on the internet and algorithms do seem to favour those views most likely to piss one off. Sad really. It's sad that comic or light acting is not thought of as being something difficult when it is the hardest kind of acting of all. Anyone can be funny for their friends but to make millions feel their day is lighter or better for having watched or seen something takes the highest skill. Rigg was renowned as a serious actress but I would hold her work on 'The Avengers' as the pinnacle of her career because she was so able to make those little bits of repartee flow so beautifully. Macnee too. He was such a comforting presence in all that he cropped up in because, like the best actors, he made it look so easy. I'm not going to say that other kinds of acting are easy (well, I might but only after a drink or two), but everyone knows that comedy is infinitely harder to pull off than tragedy or drama. 'The Avengers' made near-horror stories seem as light as air. That takes a kind of genius.

@@dreamsofprojectedlight I know she is dead now, but she is still my favorite actress (which she preferred to be called). She may have been the feminist prototype, but she liked being treated as a woman. I never saw her on stage, but I still think she was a wonderful actress. She never overacted and made acting seem easy, which maybe some misunderstood. An actor who can act so well that you don't realize they are acting is a fantastic actor. Some enjoy putting others down as well, usually out of jealousy. The combination of beauty and intelligence made her very attractive. I still have a major crush on her. "Paddy Knee" said she was one of Britain's top 3 actresses. He mentioned Linda Thorson needed more training. I forget how he worded it, but he was a polite critic. Patrick Macnee was a true gentleman. I saw somebody, maybe you, comparing how he treated women compared to American spy shows. He was a class act.

@@ChetJang He was a class act in every way. He had a great voice and that bearing of someone who knows the difference between right and wrong, between good and bad behaviour. And he was very much unlike those 'heroes' who would slap a woman around a bit to seduce her or mete out sadistic torture to his enemies to get information. You wouldn't have been able to accept Macnee as Bond (in fact it is because Roger Moore was cut from a similar cloth as an actor that so many found him unconvincing in those 'hardman' moments). You could, on the other hand, totally believe that Macnee, playing John Steed, was capable of a relationship with a woman that wasn't predicated on sex (even if there was still an element of sexual tension there). It's a lovely ideal; that inherent decency. For me, at least, 'The Avengers' does not age because it was always played at an odd angle to reality. Some modern viewers might complain that 'in real life' one cannot do battle with a rolled up umbrella but it is the 'knowing' unreality of 'The Avengers' that makes it work. While Rigg went on to more actorly work such as playing Medea or Hedda Gabler, Macnee remained in that lighter vein for most of his career. He doesn't ever quite convince as a villain (as in Joe Dante's 'The Howling') because he is always John Steed in our minds. Much better to see him as Holmes or Watson or that short role he had in 'A View to a Kill' bantering with his old friend, Roger Moore. They used Macnee as the voiceover in all those Bond documentaries. Rigg did play some lighter roles. She is especially enjoyable with Oliver Reed in 'The Assassination Bureau' and she does a lot to life Lazenby to a higher level in 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' but most of her work is in the more serious dramatic range.

Yes. When I was growing up he was one of the most renowned film-makers doing those pieces for the BBC and then breaking through with huge hits like 'Women in Love'. He was a name that everyone knew whether they were film-lovers or not. Now, he seems one of those many film-makers rarely mentioned when serious people sit around talking about great movies. This is why one must always avoid the company of serious people. They are usually sheep following whatever is in fashion. Russell was a genius in the true sense of the word. He used the camera and choreographed his films in ways that nobody had. He gave us a feeling of the lives of great men as rollercoaster rides of sex and insanity.

I’m working on a video essay about him right now. I’d never heard of him til I discovered The Devils, then I worked through as much of his filmography as I could find. He deserves so much more credit in film history!

@@mugiwaraboshi37 He did have that credit at one point. He was probably the most famous British film-maker of the 70s and Sunday supplements would regularly cover his work, as would TV shows and even news programmes. But, at some point, his way of seeing fell out of fashion. He was seen, by some as a kind of pale British version of Fellini. While the two film-makers did have much in common in seeing the world from a unique perspective, they weren't cinema. It's just that here, in the UK, I have found that when someone gets successful or revered, they will soon be torn down and damned as 'pretentious' or 'tasteless' or 'out of fashion'. Russell was an eccentric but he was also a visionary. He saw the world in ways that other people didn't.

I feel the same way. An amazing talent. I always find those images and sounds lingering in the mind long afterwards.

Thanks. She really was such a dynamic presence in every one of the films she was in. But in those character parts, like in Twins of Evil or Lust for a Vampire, she is so convincingly that other person, the person not taking centre stage., that she can get overlooked by Hammer fans. I think it might have been 'Fawlty Towers' that first made me aware of her even though I had seen her in other films first. But once I saw that the Australian who has Fawlty falling all over himself was also the woman in all those horror films, I realised that this was an actress who deserved to be admired. And her two Pete Walker films (or the two that I have seen) are unforgettable.

@ I’m of the age to have watched a lot of those Hammer Horror films late at night. Always entertaining 👍👍

@@Blueboy9055 Me too. I suspect I saw a good number of them on 'Appointment With Fear' in the UK the first time I saw them. All the TV regions showed them at different times so depending on where you were, there were some you might never see and some you might see umpteen times. I suspect this is why the BBC2 double bills became so mythic. The BBC showed the same films everywhere at the same time.

Interesting. The idea of the cybernauts, something that would just keep coming for you because it has no other function but to kill you, is one that has been used in countless movies but I think the design being so devoid of features gives them that uncanny quality that makes them scary to kids. There was a similarly uncanny quality to the cybermen on Dr Who who seemed so devoid of features (I'm talking the ones from the 60s of course). Modern films and TV throw blood and gore everywhere but it's the small things that are genuinely scary. The things that just aren't quite right.

Thanks. Always great to hear someone enjoys it.

She is indeed. A unique presence in all of her films. I love these moments between her and Vincent Price so deeply and watch the film in its entirety about once a year. But I could watch Steele in almost anything.

Glad to hear it.

Very good idea. Just be aware that you might encounter mutations who do not belong in the same dimension. But don't let that put you off.

Yes. I've only seen a few of her later films but she brings such brightness and humour to those I've seen.

Thank you. These are amazing films and deserve to be seen.

Yes. It really was a one off. The tone would be almost impossible to replicate today or at any other time. I can imagine someone trying and play it too obviously for laughs or feel they were above the material and make it obvious that this was the case. The Avengers was so perfectly fine-tuned and unique in its quality and appeal.

The language of dance is always universal

True. And the makers of all these movies were aware of this. The way movies depict the distant, and alien, past has always had that intoxicating quality.

Thanks. I put it down to my misspent youth.

@@dreamsofprojectedlight IKWYM.

@@dreamsofprojectedlight Suspiria is like a painting come to life.

@@hoibsh21 It is an incredibly beautiful film to watch on a big screen. On first viewing, and I'd have been watching a BBFC cut version, it absolutely floored me. I became obsessed.

She is a real star. I also like Sylvia Krystel but I feel the films they made were so different that I cannot compare the two. It's like comparing chalk with cheese. I really like the Gemser character of the photojournalist constantly exposing white slave trades, inhuman prisons and dodgy sex cults and having affairs and experiences without being traumatised by them. The films do change her character quite a lot but she always seems in control of her destiny. Krystel's Emmanuelle is constantly being controlled by other people.

That's great to hear. There are so many amazing films that often get missed and if anything in any of my videos inspires anyone to track down these films, I'm very happy.

Good to hear. It is an amazing period. I didn't see any of these films at the cinema when they were out. I did see 'Werewolf Woman' and some Borowczyk films on first run but I was just a little bit late to the party and some of the UK cinemas showing such films could be on the seedy side. Anyway... Feel free to contact me here. I don't really use any other social media (old man syndrome) but these comments sections are a pretty good forum for chatting on. I shall check out your page. Sorry to get back to you so late.

Yes. Me too.