The practical effect I like best in Barbarella, is when those arthropod like soldiers are shot, and they just collapse into their component parts. It looks really cool - and it's probably a very simple effect - but it looks awesome.
I first saw Barbarella bursting with teenage hormones. I had no idea what I was watching but I liked it. I've since come to appreciate it for all the reasons you mentioned. That soundtrack instantly makes me smile. Thanks Terry
Love both of these. When I finally got to see both, I was pleasantly surprised on each occasion. I hadn't realized just how awesome arty each one was. A movie to go with these besides Danger Diabolik and The President's Analyst? How about Modesty Blaise?
I love the 10th Victim with Ursula and her bullet-bra, but Barbarella is one of my all-time favorites. I was 14 when it came out, and as I'd already discovered the graphic novel ( or trade paperback, as graphic novels were known then) I cut school, and saw the first matinee on opening day. When Barbarella, the Black Queen, and Pygar flew off at the end... I didn't know who I wanted more, or if I just wanted to dive in the middle. I paid about 27 times to see it, (it started showing up as a third, on drive-in triple bills (with Rosemary's Baby, and the Dionne Warwick movie Slaves) for two years that was a go-to triple bill at Drive-Ins.... Heaven.... Still want to rewatch Slaves, the costumes are these fabulous outfits from Sacks Department Store late 60's Slave shops...) I just fell in love with Jane Fonda's Barbarella, Anita Pallenberg's Black Queen, and especially John Phillip Law's Pygar. (Yumm!!!). Named one of my favorite cats of all time after him. The visuals were just a treat, and I agree the soundtrack was great as well. The costumes influenced my style of dressing in the Disco 70's and 80's. Thank you for covering this, tonight I hit the shelf to watch it again (97th time...?) I have 3 copies of the DVD, and was wondering if the Blu-Ray extras would inspire my forth copy ...
When you talked about non US SciFI movies, "La mort en direct" came to my mind. I haven't watched it for a few decades, I feel like I should find a place to watch it again.
Whenever Barbarella was going to be repeated on tv back in the 70s, my friends and I (all of us aged around 14) would ring each other up to make sure everyone was informed... I've loved this movie ever since and even back in the distant 70s, I wished they'd made some sequels. I don't think it should be remade as such, but with a good script, I'd welcome a modern sequel. I love La Dolce Vita and The 12th Victim is on my short list of definite buys. Cheers Terry and have a nice weekend.
My older brothers talked incessantly about Barbarella when it was first released, but I was too young to appreciate or care about this kind of sci-fi (the B-grade Saturday morning Chiller Theater classics like Them!, It! The Terror From Beyond Space and The Thing were more my style at that age). It wasn't until I was older and listening to Duran Duran that I found out about how the band got its name that made me close the loop and watch Barbarella in its entirety- which was a little bit of a chore because the editions at the time were heavily edited. While I don't share Jane Fonda's political views (and acknowledge the mixed reception to her own 1988 apology about how her presence in Vietnam affected some POWs), I've always been able to compartmentalize the artist from their IRL selves and Barbarella continues to entertain many years later. I finally made time to watch The Tenth Victim a few years ago, and was not disappointed! Bravo, Terry! 👌
i got "The Tenth Victim" on your recommendation and wasn't disappointed at all. so damn cool and with more science fiction concepts to fill numerous sci -fi films today. the Italians and French really knew how to fill the screen with fantastic production design which would be evident a bit later in Flash Gordon (1980) which shares the same producer D Delaurentiis. Always thought Danger Diabolik, Barbarella and Flash Gordon (all Delaurentiis productions) make a great trilogy of luscious comic book adaptations.
The last half of the 1960's tended to assume things would keep going in one direction. That put a mark on the classics of that era. The contestants also tended to have side hustles within the same. That was also demonstrated in the first kill. My favorite scene was another match where the victor got a parking ticket. The President's Analyst is a good one for a review.
I remember when Barbarella was first (?) shown on telly, about 1973, and it was VERY popular with my mates in third form at Korumburra High. And I've loved it ever since. I know it's not a great film but it really does have something, as you've outlined. I've never got into Danger Diabolik, should maybe give it another look. Although I cannot remember seeing the 10th Victim I do like Marcello Mastroianni in general as an actor. Thanks!
I always liked ships that had interiors more like apartments than the standard starship Star Trek stuff. Barbarella knew how to travel in style! I mean if the technology is sophisticated enough then why not? 😁
I saw Barbarella after it had been out for a year when I was 18. Movies were cheaper to see at the end of their run, and I was a poor college student. Sci Fi was, and still is my favorite genre of film and books. Throw in some very nice Jane Fonda nudity, and I was in for a treat. Well I was very fonda jane, but the rest of the movie left me cold. I did see Jane speaking at an anti-war rally at my college in Orange County Ca. USA in in 1974-75. She was not at all sexy! She was in late stage pregnancy, and looked very disheveled. She had no make up on to cover her acne scars on her face, And she was very strident and bitchy. Maybe I should re-watch it for nostalgic reasons. I just saw the 10th Victim for the first time just about a month or so ago on your recommendation, I think. It was very good, and I enjoyed it very much! I had not heard of it until seeing your vid.
Oh yeah, I had that poster on my bedroom wall when I was a teenager! I didn't see the movie until five or six years ago. The zero-G striptease was very nice. All those floating busty-substances! I didn't like some of the scenes, some had really bad dialog and awkward pauses. Maybe it was, as you mentioned, because there were too many script writers. I did like the scene were she meets Dildano. The dialog and pacing was excellent IMHO. I must watch it again. Thanks.
This was first "X" rated movie I ever saw - in 1960s UK you needed to be 16 years old to he admitted - tho that later changed to 18 as I recall. Priducts named after items in Barbarella - one supects that the lava lamp brand "Mathmos" is named after the liquid ocean beneath the City.
'Matmos' is also an experimental band out of San Francisco. The movie also references the work of surrealist painter Max Ernst, particularly the people trapped in the rocks of the labyrinth.
Read the original short story by Robert Sheckley. Its pretty good. Sheckley wrote another short called The Prize of Peril which is a bit similar and was also adapted for the screen. It predicts reality TV game shows and might have inspired Stephen Kings Running Man, though he denies it. Sheckley is a bit like Douglas Adams before Adams emerged. Alot of his stories have had radio dramatisations in the 1950s, all on YT , X Minus One and Dimension X
According to Refused Classification, Barbarella did indeed lose quite a bit of footage to get the "suitable only for adults" rating. I presume all that stuff's been put back in since, though. Never seen 10th Victim, but clearly now I must.
Not science fiction (unless you stretch the definition to include period pieces because it's like time traveling for the viewer). but a couple of Italian Medieval comedies from the '60's I highly recommend: "The Chastity Belt" 1968, w/ Tony Curtis & Monica Vitti (who looks fantastic in gold armor!), and "More Than a Miracle" 1967, starring Sophia Loren & Omar Sharif. The latter has a knockout score by Piero Picconi. Both films a great deal of fun. Oh, & have you seen "When Women Had Tails" 1970? Senta Berger at her Wowwiest!!
Fun Fact: AVCO Embassy wanted Ann-Margret in "The Tenth Victim" but her manager never told her & refused the offer. Ursula's great, but Annie's a dancer & definitely would've rocked that silver bikini!
The practical effect I like best in Barbarella, is when those arthropod like soldiers are shot, and they just collapse into their component parts. It looks really cool - and it's probably a very simple effect - but it looks awesome.
The leathermen are definitely a good effect.
Two great choices. These hold up well today and are very rewatchable. 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍
They are! Groovy fun movies.
Now there's a couple of movies that I haven't seen in many, many years (decades)! Thanks for bring them back to my attention. 🙂
My pleasure. TBH, The 10th Victim is a better movie in my opinion but Barbarella is still fun.
I first saw Barbarella bursting with teenage hormones. I had no idea what I was watching but I liked it. I've since come to appreciate it for all the reasons you mentioned. That soundtrack instantly makes me smile. Thanks Terry
The soundtrack is an absolute banger. So is Piero Piccioni's soundtrack to The 10th Victim.
Terrific insights and observations on both of these excellent movies. The _10th Victim_ in particular I need to watch again.
The 10th Victim is such a cool, groovy movie. So much style and just enough substance.
Your creativity really stands out!
Thank you!
Stellar triple bill: Barbarella, Flash Gordon, and Flesh Gordon!!!
Fun, trippy, and sexy Science Fiction.
Finest Kind!!!
I don't much care for Flash Gordon, but Flesh Gordon is a winner!
Totally.
Great review, thanks for pointing these films out
Thanks for watching! They're fun movies.
Love both of these. When I finally got to see both, I was pleasantly surprised on each occasion. I hadn't realized just how awesome arty each one was.
A movie to go with these besides Danger Diabolik and The President's Analyst? How about Modesty Blaise?
Modesty Blaise works as an addition.
I still need to watch Barbarella again. 🥺
Have fun. That rocking soundtrack will see you through.
I love the 10th Victim with Ursula and her bullet-bra, but Barbarella is one of my all-time favorites.
I was 14 when it came out, and as I'd already discovered the graphic novel ( or trade paperback, as graphic novels were known then) I cut school, and saw the first matinee on opening day. When Barbarella, the Black Queen, and Pygar flew off at the end... I didn't know who I wanted more, or if I just wanted to dive in the middle.
I paid about 27 times to see it, (it started showing up as a third, on drive-in triple bills (with Rosemary's Baby, and the Dionne Warwick movie Slaves) for two years that was a go-to triple bill at Drive-Ins.... Heaven.... Still want to rewatch Slaves, the costumes are these fabulous outfits from Sacks Department Store late 60's Slave shops...)
I just fell in love with Jane Fonda's Barbarella, Anita Pallenberg's Black Queen, and especially John Phillip Law's Pygar. (Yumm!!!). Named one of my favorite cats of all time after him.
The visuals were just a treat, and I agree the soundtrack was great as well. The costumes influenced my style of dressing in the Disco 70's and 80's.
Thank you for covering this, tonight I hit the shelf to watch it again (97th time...?)
I have 3 copies of the DVD, and was wondering if the Blu-Ray extras would inspire my forth copy ...
Try The 10th Victim, too. Very groovy stuff.
When you talked about non US SciFI movies, "La mort en direct" came to my mind. I haven't watched it for a few decades, I feel like I should find a place to watch it again.
I covered Death Watch a long time ago. Great friend.
Whenever Barbarella was going to be repeated on tv back in the 70s, my friends and I (all of us aged around 14) would ring each other up to make sure everyone was informed... I've loved this movie ever since and even back in the distant 70s, I wished they'd made some sequels. I don't think it should be remade as such, but with a good script, I'd welcome a modern sequel. I love La Dolce Vita and The 12th Victim is on my short list of definite buys. Cheers Terry and have a nice weekend.
You too, Peter. La Dolce Vita and The 10th Victim are definitely worthwhile.
My older brothers talked incessantly about Barbarella when it was first released, but I was too young to appreciate or care about this kind of sci-fi (the B-grade Saturday morning Chiller Theater classics like Them!, It! The Terror From Beyond Space and The Thing were more my style at that age). It wasn't until I was older and listening to Duran Duran that I found out about how the band got its name that made me close the loop and watch Barbarella in its entirety- which was a little bit of a chore because the editions at the time were heavily edited. While I don't share Jane Fonda's political views (and acknowledge the mixed reception to her own 1988 apology about how her presence in Vietnam affected some POWs), I've always been able to compartmentalize the artist from their IRL selves and Barbarella continues to entertain many years later.
I finally made time to watch The Tenth Victim a few years ago, and was not disappointed! Bravo, Terry! 👌
Thanks for this balanced comment, Thomas. Barbarella is always fun and the 10th Victim is peak pop-art grooviness.
I have a soft spot for Barbarella but she would need Timelord technology to fit her wardrobe on that scoutship.
She gets a lot of it from other sources. Mark Hand, Dildano...
i got "The Tenth Victim" on your recommendation and wasn't disappointed at all. so damn cool and with more science fiction concepts to fill numerous sci -fi films today. the Italians and French really knew how to fill the screen with fantastic production design which would be evident a bit later in Flash Gordon (1980) which shares the same producer D Delaurentiis. Always thought Danger Diabolik, Barbarella and Flash Gordon (all Delaurentiis productions) make a great trilogy of luscious comic book adaptations.
I found Flash Gordon underwhelming. Flesh Gordon, however, rocks.
@@terrytalksmoviesThat talking monster is hard to beat.
@@terrytalksmovies Flesh Gordon is fun, but has some of the worst camera-work & editing!
The last half of the 1960's tended to assume things would keep going in one direction. That put a mark on the classics of that era. The contestants also tended to have side hustles within the same. That was also demonstrated in the first kill. My favorite scene was another match where the victor got a parking ticket. The President's Analyst is a good one for a review.
I covered The President's Analyst a long time ago when Imprint released their blu-ray. Great film.
@@terrytalksmovies Thanks, I'll look for it.
The helmet effect was done with double walled glass and mercury.
OHS laws were easier in those days. Mercury is dangerous stuff to play with.
I remember when Barbarella was first (?) shown on telly, about 1973, and it was VERY popular with my mates in third form at Korumburra High. And I've loved it ever since. I know it's not a great film but it really does have something, as you've outlined. I've never got into Danger Diabolik, should maybe give it another look. Although I cannot remember seeing the 10th Victim I do like Marcello Mastroianni in general as an actor. Thanks!
My pleasure, Brett. Definitely check the two flicks out
"Barbarella" isn't quite like anything else from that period. Maybe the Batman TV series. It's my favorite guilty pleasure movie.
my barbarella-poster was on my bedroomceilling! 😉
Thanks for sharing. 😧😉
I always liked ships that had interiors more like apartments than the standard starship Star Trek stuff. Barbarella knew how to travel in style! I mean if the technology is sophisticated enough then why not? 😁
Definitely. Humans have a great need to personalise their environments.
I saw Barbarella after it had been out for a year when I was 18. Movies were cheaper to see at the end of their run, and I was a poor college student. Sci Fi was, and still is my favorite genre of film and books. Throw in some very nice Jane Fonda nudity, and I was in for a treat. Well I was very fonda jane, but the rest of the movie left me cold. I did see Jane speaking at an anti-war rally at my college in Orange County Ca. USA in in 1974-75. She was not at all sexy! She was in late stage pregnancy, and looked very disheveled. She had no make up on to cover her acne scars on her face, And she was very strident and bitchy. Maybe I should re-watch it for nostalgic reasons.
I just saw the 10th Victim for the first time just about a month or so ago on your recommendation, I think. It was very good, and I enjoyed it very much! I had not heard of it until seeing your vid.
The 10th Victim is so groovy. I could watch it annually and still enjoy it.
A good Jane movie to watch with "Barbarella" is the goofy Western comedy "Cat Ballou" with Lee Marvin hamming it up in two roles.
Oh yeah, I had that poster on my bedroom wall when I was a teenager! I didn't see the movie until five or six years ago. The zero-G striptease was very nice. All those floating busty-substances! I didn't like some of the scenes, some had really bad dialog and awkward pauses. Maybe it was, as you mentioned, because there were too many script writers. I did like the scene were she meets Dildano. The dialog and pacing was excellent IMHO. I must watch it again. Thanks.
Go for it. I hope you enjoy it. Try The 10th Victim, too.
This was first "X" rated movie I ever saw - in 1960s UK you needed to be 16 years old to he admitted - tho that later changed to 18 as I recall.
Priducts named after items in Barbarella - one supects that the lava lamp brand "Mathmos" is named after the liquid ocean beneath the City.
There was also a chain of adult stores in Perth Western Australia called Barbarella's.
'Matmos' is also an experimental band out of San Francisco. The movie also references the work of surrealist painter Max Ernst, particularly the people trapped in the rocks of the labyrinth.
Bucket list of making "modern" sci-fi movie: 1. Buy a lot of light blue leds....
These days it's smarter to get multicolor LEDs. They're programmable and the colour range is great.
Read the original short story by Robert Sheckley. Its pretty good. Sheckley wrote another short called The Prize of Peril which is a bit similar and was also adapted for the screen. It predicts reality TV game shows and might have inspired Stephen Kings Running Man, though he denies it. Sheckley is a bit like Douglas Adams before Adams emerged. Alot of his stories have had radio dramatisations in the 1950s, all on YT , X Minus One and Dimension X
I read it a long time ago but not lately.
Are you familiar with the movie Series 7: The Contenders? An early satire of so-called reality TV which definitely reminded me of Victim. Thanks, Ter.
My pleasure. I saw that film but it definitely doesn't have the style and charm of The 10th Victim. 😀
According to Refused Classification, Barbarella did indeed lose quite a bit of footage to get the "suitable only for adults" rating. I presume all that stuff's been put back in since, though. Never seen 10th Victim, but clearly now I must.
Cutting things out of movies is always anathema to me. It's infantilising to an adult audience. Hope you dig The 10th Victim.
I always loved the main villain Duran Duran. Just because it's the name of the 80's pop rock band.
Could've been worse. The band could've called itself Milo O'Shea. 😀
I will be looking forward to your Monday video to hear what you have to say about "The Apprentice" and "Joker: Folie a Deux".
Me, too!
Not science fiction (unless you stretch the definition to include period pieces because it's like time traveling for the viewer). but a couple of Italian Medieval comedies from the '60's I highly recommend: "The Chastity Belt" 1968, w/ Tony Curtis & Monica Vitti (who looks fantastic in gold armor!), and "More Than a Miracle" 1967, starring Sophia Loren & Omar Sharif. The latter has a knockout score by Piero Picconi. Both films a great deal of fun. Oh, & have you seen "When Women Had Tails" 1970? Senta Berger at her Wowwiest!!
Thanks for the tips!
Fun Fact: AVCO Embassy wanted Ann-Margret in "The Tenth Victim" but her manager never told her & refused the offer. Ursula's great, but Annie's a dancer & definitely would've rocked that silver bikini!
Ann-Margret would've been great in it.
theres looks like a beastie boys connection with the 10th victim and danger diabolik
Could be.
10th Victim. Fembot Ursula Andress. Top Groovy
Not a femmebot. The femmebots are modelled after her lingerie. 😀
@@terrytalksmovies Exactly my point. I saw this and read the novel as a teenager in 1968(?).
Hanoi Jane was really hot as a 30-year old in 1968.
Beauty and intelligence is a good combination.
She's about average
It may not be the worst Kaiju movie ever made, but it takes the prize for the goofiest. For drinking game screenings and endless riffing only.
What does?
@@terrytalksmovies My bad., Terry. This was intended for a vid on another channel. I thought I posted this to it.
Barbarella is a bit lame compared with Danger Diabolik as a DiLauerentis production. 10th Victim is great
Barbarella is kinkier and funnier.
@@terrytalksmovies Diabolik is sexier and has Bava and Morricone
Didn't Diabolik do it in on piles of cash? And he dressed up like a condom.@@terrytalksmovies
The roadside brothel thing was an actual thing for the stars of holly wood
Yep. I read Scotty Bowers' book. It's sitting on the shelf here.
@@terrytalksmovies I think they did a documentary of sorts
I just passed a find danger Diabolik at my local used vid store .... going to pick it up next visit
Definitely grab it.
Could Soylent Green and Logan‘s run plus a boy and his dog fit into this universe. As this could be the reality differences by country
I think that's a big stretch. 😧
@@terrytalksmovies just asking