Jess Franco RIP

[Teasing the Korean]

http://variety.com/2013/film/news/jess-franco-1200332021/

[GA Russell]

I take it that both the deceased and the author of that obit worked in a language other than English!

[brownie]

Not a very good film director;

He had the nerve of signing a couple of films under the name Clifford Brown!

There was a contribution by Chet Baker on his film 'Venus in Furs'...

[Teasing the Korean]

I dunno, the late 60s/early 70s stuff like "She Kills in Ecstasy," "Succubus" and "Vampiros Lesbos" are pretty great if you're into Euro-sleaze.

"Succubus" has a soundtrack by Jerry Van Rooyen.

Edited April 3, 2013 by Teasing the Korean

[sgcim]

Franco started out as a pianist/composer, and featured mediocre European jazz in many of his flicks of the 60s.

i just saw "The Awful Dr. Orloff"(1962) on TCM, and it featured his dubious practice of splicing in nude scenes of actresses who weren't even in the movie- right in the middle of a scene!

TCM (the last bastion of esoteric film- now that Sundance and IFC have succumbed to the ineveitable pressures of capitalism, like Bravo, A&E and all the others) recently showed Franco's "Venus In Furs" (1970), which stars James Darren as a jazz trumpet player.

Manfred Mann is featured in one party scene, and most of the music is pretty good in this one.

RIP, master of Eurosleaze.

[Teasing the Korean]

...featured mediocre European jazz in many of his flicks of the 60s...

I would argue that Jerry Van Rooyen's score to "Succubus" does not fall within this category.

[sgcim]

Never saw that one. thanks for the heads up!