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Category Archives: French cinema

Week 49: …Io, Emmanuelle – an exploration and overview of the global Em(m)anuelle filmic phenomenon

21 Thursday Jun 2018

Posted by Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine in French cinema, French erotica, Italian Erotica, Sexploitation, Women In Prison films

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Annie Belle, Aristide Massaccesi, Bitto Albertini, Black Emanuelle, Bruno Mattei, Carry On films, Dick Randall, Emmanuelle, Emmanuelle Arsan, Gabriele Tinti, George Eastman, Jean Rollin, Jean-Marie Pallardy, Joe D'Amato, Julie Lee, Just Jaeckin, Laura Gemser, Laure, Olivia Pascal, Sylvia Kristel, Walerian Borowczyk, Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine podcast, Yellow Emmanuelle

At the very dawn of the 1960s, a then-typically “Anonymous” book of erotica appeared on the shelves of the more specialized and discreet booksellers and bodegas of Paris.

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Week 48: Watch Out, Baby…It’s Eddie Constantine

07 Thursday Jun 2018

Posted by Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine in action films, French cinema, Spies and spy cinema

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Eddie Constantine, Jean Luc Godard, Jess Franco, Jesus Franco Manera, neo-noir, tough guy cinema, Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine podcast

A Russian-Pole cabaret singer and contemporary (and collaborator!) of Edith Piaf, Eddie Constantine made his fame in the bohemian Left Bank of Paris…first as a proto-Serge Gainsbourg chanteur…but more famously, as the unlikely star of a long running series of generally hard boiled neo-noir (but just as often, self-mocking and comedically oriented!) crime pictures.

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Week 46: The Icy Eyes of Death – the films of Barbara Steele

10 Thursday May 2018

Posted by Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine in American cult cinema, British cult cinema, British Horror and cult cinema, French cinema, Italian Gothic, Italian Horror and Cult Cinema, slasher film

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Antonio Margheriti, Barbara Steele, Corman Poe, Dan Curtis, Dark Shadows, David Cronenberg, Elvis Presley, Federico Fellini, Joe Dante, Lucio Fulci, Mario Bava, Michael Reeves, Queer Eye, Riccardo Freda, Roger Corman, Sergio Corbucci, Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine podcast

How does a nice British girl out of Liverpool wind up as the figurehead of Italian horror cinema?

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you probably won’t believe this, but…

17 Tuesday Apr 2018

Posted by Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine in Adult film and classic hardcore, arthouse, British cult cinema, British Horror and cult cinema, Decadence, French cinema, French Horror and cult cinema, German spy film, Italian Gothic, Italian Horror and Cult Cinema

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At Eye Level podcast, cult film, cult music, cult televison, Doc Savage, Louis Paul, Third Eye Cinema podcast, Weird Scenes, Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine podcast

Never Say Never Again!

After 15 months of inactivity and darkness across the podcast landscape (with a few sporadic breaks of light courtesy of Third Eye Cinema),

with At Eye Level‘s 6 or 7 years worth of material migrated over to Archive.org and Weird Scenes, the Third Eye Cinema podcast (for the most part) and a certain other podcast yours truly has been involved with having all gone dark for the nonce, things were looking a bit grim on the airtime front.

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Week 16: Dear Brigitte

16 Monday Nov 2015

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And God Created Woman, animal activism, Brigitte Bardot, Contempt, French cinema, Les Mepris, Louis Malle, Michel Boisrond, Roger Vadim, Viva Maria, Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine podcast

This week, we discuss the life, filmography and singing career of one of the world’s great beauties, the incomparable Brigitte Bardot!

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