I've enjoyed reading the recent blog posts celebrating Jess Franco's birthday at Video Watchblog and Robert Monell's Franco page. Franco is an exciting director for me these days as there are dozens of fascinating sounding films by him (noted in OBSESSION: THE FILMS OF JESS FRANCO and elsewhere) that have never really been widely available, and there's a fresh sense of discovery when one of his more obscure titles hits DVD. I'd still like to see a properly uncut / subbed THE DEMONS, see LORNA THE EXORCIST, examine the early 80's EUGENIE film that is listed as one of his best movies but exists for me only as a few enticing stills, catch a few of his very early b/w films that are basically unavailable, and so on. Maybe the European DVD market will bring some of these to the rescue.

Any Franco fans have any other titles by him that they're patiently waiting for?

I would especially like to see proper English-friendly releases of Franco's Eddie Constantine movies (RESIDENCE OF SPIES and ATTACK OF THE ROBOTS), as well as LUCKY THE INSCRUTABLE, LINDA'S HOT NIGHTS, and of course the Robert De Nesle-produced titles. But really, ANYTHING not already available would be very welcome.

Definitely LUCKY THE INSCRUTABLE. And if I was going to program my own JF triple feature to celebrate his birthday, I'd probably go with EUGENIE, VENUS IN FURS and THAT GIRL FROM RIO.

But wait... Soledad isn't in any of those.

A representative Jess Franco triple feature may simply not be possible.

D.

:wacko:

Agreed!

However, I think tonight I'll watch my unopened Blue Undeground EUGENIE DE SADE for a little Franco, and a little Miranda :wub:

!Feliz cumpleaños, Jesus!

That's because he keeps remaking it!