CASINO ROYALE, GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE, Jess Franco's KISS ME MONSTER, TWO UNDERCOVER AGENTS, IN LIKE FLYNT and OUR MAN FLYNT.

What other 60s (or early 70s) films have the pop art comic book feel of the films mentioned above. CQ is a recent example that captures that feel and look.

I also found a website Movie Grooves that carries a lot of the great 60s composers' scores on CD, Krzysztof Komeda , Bruno Nicolai, Piero Piccioni, Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone, etc.

Anyone have any experience with Movie Grooves? Any other sites you like for composers like this? What about sites that sell posters for these kinds of films?

I'd add Corrado Farina's BABA YAGA (1973) into this company, although it certainly doesn't stop at PopArt.

Also Mario Bava's DANGER: DIABOLIK.

Ooops, that's already on the subject title, doh.

Posters for these kind of titles can be pricey (especially if we're talking BARBARELLA or DIABOLIK) but the best place I've found for this sort of Eurocult material is Wolfgang Jahn's site kinoart.net.

I picked up a first release DANGER:DIABOLIK French affiche there a while back; cost me a fair bit, but fortunately I'd just committed an ingenious gold heist with a futuristic submersible and a hot chick, so it all worked out fine.

Radley Metzger's CAMILLE 2000 is another good pop art example. I haven't seen LUCKY THE INSCRUTABLE, but that's another that comes to mind.

Other possibilities would be YELLOW SUBMARINE and THE TRIP. I haven't seen WONDERWALL (it's been running on the Encore channels recently), but that may fall into this category too. THE SWINGER with Ann-Margret might be another.

THE PRESIDENT'S ANALYST, BLACK TIGHT KILLERS, and TOKYO DRIFTER also leap to mind. Maybe Franco's VENUS IN FURS, too.

Or at least would be if the DVD transfer did it any justice. A situation that really ought to be rectified for such an iconic film.

WILD WILD PLANET is certainly one of these.

JOURNEY TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE SUN.

FIVE DOLLS FOR AN AUGUST MOON

The "space Hilton" sequence in 2001.

If memory serves, THE GREEN SLIME has the look, but I have not seen it in years. MONSTER ZERO cartainly does, in the alien ship sequences.

The TOBY DAMMIT sequence from SPIRITS OF THE DEAD has the feel if not consistently the look. Check out Terence Stamp's outfit.

No one's mentioned the Bond films - YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE is the one I'm thinking of in particular.

On TV, there's THE PRISONER and in varying degrees certain episodes THE AVENGERS. UFO is slightly later, but I think it still fits.

Movie Grooves is a solid operation. I've had nothing but good experiences with them-- it's out of the UK so you pay shipping to the US, obviously.

Another good site for finding some of the import soundtracks is Dusty Groove America
and it's located in Chicago I believe. First Class shipping w/them is super fast from my experiences.

Both the above sites have alot of my hard earned $$, and giving it to them has been well worth it.

Try HOW TO MURDER YOUR WIFE (1965) in which Jack Lemmon draws a spy-themed comic strip that looks more like a European-style strip than an American one. And he goes around Manhattan with actors to stage action scenes and photograph them to use as models for his strip. And then hot, hot Virna Lisi enters his life (he marries her after a drunken bachelor party) and he's not so sure he wants her in his life (hence the title), nor does his veddy English butler (played by Terry-Thomas, two years before he appeared in DANGER DIABOLIK).

Alain Jessua's THE KILLING GAME.

Piero Schivazappa's THE LAUGHING WOMAN aka THE FRIGHTENED WOMAN.

Tinto Brass's NEROSUBIANCO aka THE ARTFUL PENETRATION OF BARBARA.

And Mario Bava's 5 DOLLS FOR AN AUGUST MOON, to name a few.

FLASHMAN, The FANTOMAS series, MR. X, SATANIK, The KILINK films, KRIMINAL, The THREE SUPERMEN series, BATMAN (of course), LUCKY THE INSCRUTABLE...

There's also the Czech WHO WANTS TO KILL JESSIE? Also known as SUPERMAN WANTS TO KILL JESSIE. It just came out on DVD with English subs for the first time. It is, in many ways, the quintessential "comic/pop art" film. It's not as colorful or flashy as later examples, but it is a very early example of the style, with characters from comic strips coming to life and speaking with word balloons above their heads, etc.

D.

Did someone say posters? :blink:

Yes, I DISTINCTLY heard someone say poster... *cough*

But I might have been wrong? ;)

More films with pop art sets and/or costumes:

Roger Vadim's DON JUAN (or...IF DON JUAN WAS A WOMAN).

Fellini's JULIET OF THE SPIRITS.

Bava's FOUR TIMES THAT NIGHT.

If you're talking just visually, mind you, rather than quality, there are certainly Dean Martin's Matt Helm movies.

THE KNACK and BEDAZZLED each had their swinging mise-en-scene as well. And how about the Beatles movies? And HEAD?

Edit: Oh yes, and that live-action LUPIN III movie that recently showed up on DVD.

And there are several Hong Kong movies from the 1960s with a Bondian feel, all contemporary thrillers that belong in this thread. The ones I'm thinking of have female leads and lots of exotic imagery, costumes and sets:

ANGEL WITH THE IRON FISTS (1966) - starring Lily Ho
ANGEL STRIKES AGAIN (1968) - a sequel
TEMPTRESS OF A THOUSAND FACES (1968) - with Tina Chin Fei


Here's what I wrote about the last title on the ACD board last November:

TEMPTRESS OF A THOUSAND FACES (1968)
Someone on this board recommended this film about 18 months ago and I finally caught up with it. What a film. Definitely one of a kind, as far as I can tell. It’s a caper film involving a super-villainess who changes her face for every caper and impersonates lots of people (hence the title). She has an underground lair and lots of costumed henchmen and henchwomen. The lone heroine is a crusading policewoman who knows karate and has lots of action scenes. The “Temptress” captures the policewoman twice and impersonates her, framing her for a jewel robbery first and later going so far as to make passionate love to the policewoman’s newspaper reporter boyfriend (and the policewoman has to watch it in her dungeon cell on television!).

It’s set in contemporary Hong Kong (ca. 1968) and has a lot of interesting Hong Kong location scenes, including a finale in some kind of massive ruins (where’d they shoot this?). The policewoman is played by the very attractive Tina Chin Fei, whom I’d never heard of before. She’s not the greatest female fighter Shaw Bros. ever used—I mean, Cheng Pei Pei didn’t lose any sleep over this one—but she is game to do a lot of action stuff in this film in addition to the fighting, including hanging off a building roof. She is doubled a lot, but she does do some of her own stunts.

It’s not as well-directed as it ought to be, suffering from an inconsistency in tone that allows for some unwelcome comic relief and slapstick scenes that slow things down. But there are some truly inspired action scenes, one in which Tina fights herself(!) when the policewoman breaks in on the Temptress masquerading as her (just after the lovemaking scene) and they go at each other with the poor boyfriend unable to figure out which one to help. It’s in an apartment and there’s lots of smashing through doors and furniture and leaping over tables and counters and such. The other one is all on location and starts off with a foot chase through the streets, all captured with hidden cameras, and climaxes with Tina squaring off for a karate fight against a bunch of opponents on a high-rise rooftop with the full panorama of 1968 Hong Kong in the background (what a different landscape). She (or, rather, a stunt double) has to actually climb down the building—for real--to escape. And I believe all of this was shot without official permission.

It reminded me of the old cliffhanger Hollywood serials, but it also has traces of Italian caper films of the era like DANGER DIABOLIK. There must be some other influences at work, although I’m not sure what they are. There are two lovemaking scenes that are pretty hot for 1968.

Lars. You inscrutable, lucky bastard! ;) Great posters.

In the states, MovieGoods.com has some 27x40 reprints of films like DANGER DIABOLIK and BARBARELLA for $30.

Anyone know of a website that specializes in 60s posters, regardless of cost?

Thanks!

I'd second Steve's recommendation for Kinoart:
http://www.kinoart.net

Another German seller that specializes in horror/cult:
http://www.classic-movieposters.de/

In Canada, Posteropolis is always good value for money (but not a lot of Euro posters)
http://posteropolis.com/store/

And there's a great eBay shop in Spain I warmly recommend, they have a lot of sensibly priced buy-it-now posters and regular auctions. Most of my Spanish posters come from them and they are 110% reliable!

Groucho & Yo
http://stores.ebay.com/fantomas38000

There are lots more - I'd recommend poking around http://www.learnaboutmovieposters.com - they also have some good info on poster sizes etc.

My own collection comes from various dealers, personal contacts and of course eBay.

You're welcome and thanks (and Steve, too) for all the links and sources.