1973 Fiat 124 Sport Coupe 1800
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This is an excellent article about an excellent film, which features some wonderful cars, one of which is a lovely Alfa, and one of which is the best Pagoda Merc in ever. Also fabulous clothes, but best of all what may perhaps be Audrey Hepburn's most nuanced and emotionally truthful performance. Also the young Albert Finney, and Eleanor Bron in all her sixties fabulousness. It is a delightful film in every way. NB: quite grown up.
https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/cinema-67-revisit...
https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/cinema-67-revisit...
This guy Mark Harris is a great writer about film. Here he is on the quintessential Swinging London movie, Antonioni's "Blow Up", another one from 1967, the year in which Fiat launched the AA Series 124 Sport Coupe.
https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/cinema-67-revisit...
If you like that, find an odd but perfect pairing in the deeply subversive and very well made "Charge of the Light Brigade", which, despite being set during the Crimean War, is also a Swinging London movie, not least because of the presence of David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave who are also, of course, the stars of "Blow Up". The Rolls Royce driven by the cool dude celebrity photographer played by Hemmings in "Blow Up" is a thing of beauty and a joy forever, and the supermodel with whom he has the famous sex by photo shoot scene is yer actual mid sixties supermodel Verushka.
https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/cinema-67-revisit...
If you like that, find an odd but perfect pairing in the deeply subversive and very well made "Charge of the Light Brigade", which, despite being set during the Crimean War, is also a Swinging London movie, not least because of the presence of David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave who are also, of course, the stars of "Blow Up". The Rolls Royce driven by the cool dude celebrity photographer played by Hemmings in "Blow Up" is a thing of beauty and a joy forever, and the supermodel with whom he has the famous sex by photo shoot scene is yer actual mid sixties supermodel Verushka.
Breadvan72 said:
This is an excellent article about an excellent film, which features some wonderful cars, one of which is a lovely Alfa, and one of which is the best Pagoda Merc in ever. Also fabulous clothes, but best of all what may perhaps be Audrey Hepburn's most nuanced and emotionally truthful performance. Also the young Albert Finney, and Eleanor Bron in all her sixties fabulousness. It is a delightful film in every way. NB: quite grown up.
https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/cinema-67-revisit...
Thanks for that link, looks like a good read - I've got the film on DVDs but haven't got round to watching it yet. Interesting links there too to 'Accident' and Chaplin's last film 'A Countess From Hong Kong', you'd never expect to see Sophia Loren, Marlon Brando and our very own Michael Medwin in the same Fillmore.https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/cinema-67-revisit...
'67 was a good year for films, music and cars, despite period reviews in all three spheres often stating that they were in decline.
PS : Moon River was my parents' favourite song, it was played at both of their funerals. For mine, I'd like Bernard Cribbins singing 'Hole In The Ground'....
Edited by P5BNij on Thursday 30th July 11:21
Blow Up is pretentious tosh to some but I love it, it was shot in '66 and released in '67, Antonioni didn't want Hemmings for the starring role but was overruled by the studio bigwigs. Whisper it, but the fab Rolls belonged to Jimmy Saville at the time. The Yardbirds were draughtier in after The Who declined to take part, quite surprising given Pete Townsend's arty background. Also considered were The Velvet Underground but there was some hassle going on behind the scenes so the job went to The Yardbirds.
Edit - damn this iPad's keyboard!
Edit - damn this iPad's keyboard!
Oooh! Funeral music! That has got me thinking...
OK, I hope that my funeral occurs not long after the 97 year old me drives his 1962 Maserati 3500 GT off a cliff, with his 23 year old girlfriend still holding his, er, Martini.
I have narrowed the music choices down to the following, but the list is still too long -
- Elizabeth Schwarzkopf singing "Porgi Amor" from Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro
- Elizabeth Schwarzkopf singing the fourth of Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs
- Glenn Gould's first recording of the theme from the Goldberg Variations by J S Bach
- the theme music from "UFO"
- Joni Mitchell singing "California"
- Paul McCartney singing "Blackbird"
- "Ever Fallen In Love With Someone You Shouldn't Have Fallen In Love With?" by The Buzzcocks
- the opening track from "Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis
- "A Pint of Plain's Your Only Man" by Flann O'Brien, as performed by Gerry McGowan.
- T-Rex's "Twentieth Century Boy"
and lastly the "Resurrexit" from the Bach B Minor Mass, not that I believe in resurrection or any such nonsense.
OK, I hope that my funeral occurs not long after the 97 year old me drives his 1962 Maserati 3500 GT off a cliff, with his 23 year old girlfriend still holding his, er, Martini.
I have narrowed the music choices down to the following, but the list is still too long -
- Elizabeth Schwarzkopf singing "Porgi Amor" from Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro
- Elizabeth Schwarzkopf singing the fourth of Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs
- Glenn Gould's first recording of the theme from the Goldberg Variations by J S Bach
- the theme music from "UFO"
- Joni Mitchell singing "California"
- Paul McCartney singing "Blackbird"
- "Ever Fallen In Love With Someone You Shouldn't Have Fallen In Love With?" by The Buzzcocks
- the opening track from "Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis
- "A Pint of Plain's Your Only Man" by Flann O'Brien, as performed by Gerry McGowan.
- T-Rex's "Twentieth Century Boy"
and lastly the "Resurrexit" from the Bach B Minor Mass, not that I believe in resurrection or any such nonsense.
Quite the mix tape there! The rest of mine would be :
The theme from 'UFO'
The Fabs' 'Tomorrow Never Knows'
The Stones' 'Sympathy For The Devil'
The Kinks' 'Waterloo Sunset'
Ennis Morricone's theme from 'The Strange Vice Of Mrs.Whard'
And as my box passes through the curtains 'The Persuaders' theme at notch 11
Sorted!
The theme from 'UFO'
The Fabs' 'Tomorrow Never Knows'
The Stones' 'Sympathy For The Devil'
The Kinks' 'Waterloo Sunset'
Ennis Morricone's theme from 'The Strange Vice Of Mrs.Whard'
And as my box passes through the curtains 'The Persuaders' theme at notch 11
Sorted!
P5BNij said:
PS : Moon River was my parents' favourite song, it was played at both of their funerals. For mine, I'd like Bernard Cribbins singing 'Hole In The Ground'....
A very good friend of mine walked down the aisle to Monty Python's "I like Chinese". Care to guess his partner's ethnicity? He also owns the 1967 FIAT 1500 that I navigate. It's fitted with a twin-cam: he has proof one was run in competition at the time. (It's now an 1800, but don't tell anybody).
It's impressive how much period factory competition tuning data is available: cam specs, carb sizes & jetting, etc.
Marianne Faithfull - The Ballad of Lucy Jordan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0NxhFn0szc
At the age of 37, she realised she'd never drive though Paris
In a Sports Car with the warm wind in her hair
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0NxhFn0szc
At the age of 37, she realised she'd never drive though Paris
In a Sports Car with the warm wind in her hair
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