#Luigi Bazzoni

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Tina Aumont as Polly Clay in in Luigi Bazzoni’s “Blu Gang” aka “Brothers Blue”, 1973. Ebay

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Pamela Tiffin in Luigi Bazzoni's The Fifth Cord.

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Why Do We Love ...

Tina Aumont

Tina Aumont didn't came into our life when we were child just like Shannen Doherty or Drew Barrymore did; she even wasn't a teenage idol just as Jane Asher or Pattie Boyd; Tina Aumont she came a bit later in life like Bebe Buell or Demri Parrott.

[Tina Aumont in Home Movie, autour du lit de la Vierge, directed by Frédéric Pardo, 1968]

We first knew about Tina by watching the documentary Nico Icon (Suzanne Ofteringer, 1995) where she was interviewed about her friend Nico. We watched that doc because we liked Nico, we felt Nico was very different from the 60s muses, we found her mysterious and unique and we wante dto know more about her, and by our surprise, a very beautiful dark-haired woman was there talking.

[Tina Aumont in Nico-Icon documentary directed by Suzanne Ofteringer, 1995]

This beautiful dark-haired woman was an actress who was 49 years old and looking great, and she was friend of Nico in the late 60s. Looking that beautiful in her late 40s, we were curious about how did she looked when she was young, so we decided to google her and to our surprise, very beautiful photos came as a result of that search. We love her naturallity, her dark hair and her heavy make-up around her eyes, and her hippie looks, of course!!

[Tina Aumont pictured by Angelo Frontoni in Spring 1968]

We didn't know anything about her so we decided to googled her, and by our surprise, she didn't have any website and we found it a little weird because we discovered that she was a famous actress in the 60s and 70s mainly in Italy, but also she was daughter of two great superstars.

We started to save the photos we saw on google, we started to make some screencaps from her films and then we start buying some clippings & magazines we found on ebay with the purpose to make a site for her as a tribute, for honouring her memory.

[Tina Aumont in Home Movie, autour du lit de la Vierge, directed by Frédéric Pardo, 1968]

We started to build (yes, build) a Facebook page for her, with all the photos we were collecting, and also we started a tumblr because we saw someone was sharing the photos we posted without crediting our effort (a las, the never ending story!)... the facebook we had was becoming very big, with more than thousand followers, people were sharing memories, stories, it was very beautiful, but one day facebook shut down our page for containing nudity.

We had to start everything again...

[Tina Aumont pictured in 1968, unknown photographer]

We created a new facebook, called Tina Aumont Tribute, and we started again to share our passion for this great creative girl, at first it was a very slow start, but little by little, more people liked the page, and we got really surprised when a couple of Tina's friends liked it, and one of them even told us, several times that he's very happy that we keep her memory alive. Through instagram (although we don't have any profile for her), we have contacted several photohraphers, who are glad to share their pics and who have helped us to credit them in some photos.

[Tina Aumont pictured early-mid December 1967 at her home, unknown photographer]

We found Tina had a very exotic and unique beauty, she loved Eastern culture, she was a hippie chick when she was really young and she lived with very creative people during the happiest days of her life. Sadly not everything was beautiful; as we were buying more magazines about her and sharing her photos, darker stories came, in the mid 70s she was a heavy heroin user, her step mother didn't treat her well in her childhood and teen years, and she married a friend of her dad just to runaway from that life. She got pregnant but the baby didn't survive...

[Tina Aumont in L'Uomo, L'Orgoglio, La Vendetta, directed by Luigi Bazzoni, 1967]

Thanks to the tumblr site but mainly to our facebook site for her, three really interesting people contacted us, one was Andrea Montez, a Peruvian girl who shared our passion for Tina and who shared lots of rare photos of Tina with us, we are happy to call us friends; the other person who contacted us was an Italian girl who made great videos with rare footage from Pierre Clementi & Frédéric Pardo's home movies and she sent us her screencaps, always sharing with much love and respect towards Tina; and the third person we met was a French writer who asked for some collaboration as he was writing a biography about Tina Aumont. We were really excited!! We exchanged photos, some stories and lots of knowledge came through him. He worked really hard on that book (Waiting for Tina, à la recherce de Tina Aumont) and he has a page for her on facebook called as the book. He is very active in poetry conventions and he is promoting the book in different festivals.

[Tina Aumont in L'Urlo, film directed by Tinto Brass, 1968]

Today, for what would have been her 77th birthday, we wanted to share with all of you, dear followers, how we knew about Tina and what made us love her.

Here we share:

OUR FACEBOOK PAGE FOR HER

OUR TUMBLR BLOG FOR HER

HER POSTS IN OUR BLOG

HAPPY HEAVENLY BIRTHDAY DEAR BOHEMIAN GYPSY - GONE BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN.

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Footprints on the Moon [Le Orme], (1975), dir. Luigi Bazzoni and Mario Fanelli

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Movie Review | Footprints on the Moon (Bazzoni, 1975)

This is a movie I’d made a mental note to see years ago when I’d come across some particularly striking screencaps. Seeing it now on Severin’s Blu-ray release, it certainly lived up to that impression, looking even more stunning than I’d anticipated. I suppose it wouldn’t have been too great a surprise had I looked up the credits beforehand, as we get none other than legendary cinematographer Vittorio Storaro on DP duty, going all out with the colours and making the most of the Turkish locations in which most of the movie is set. Now, I’d slotted in this movie this month as I’d been itching to watch more giallo, but this is probably on the fringe of the genre furthest from overt horror, as if director Luigi Bazzoni (who previously collaborated with Storaro on the similarly gorgeous Fifth Cord) wanted to strip away most of the violence and purify the genre into a psychological study. So it is perhaps not ideal Spooky Season viewing outside of some nightmare (or flashback?) sequences and some late bloodletting, although the results feel like a cross between the work of two other notable directors, one of whom has dabbled in more Spooky Season fare than the other.

On the less spooky side, the way this frames a sense of psychological unmooring and detachment against unfeeling surroundings brings to mind the films of Michelangelo Antonioni. In particular, the earlier sections in Rome with the gleaming modern buildings have some of the same science fiction quality of Red Desert and L’Eclisse. (I watched the Italian cut, which on top of classing things up probably invited this comparison further. Perhaps the American cut with its English audio would make it play closer to the rest of the genre.) On the more spooky side, the sense of narrative drift and the appreciative exoticism with which this views its Turkish locations brings to mind such qualities common in Jess Franco’s work. The relationship between the psyche and one’s surroundings, particularly in terms of architecture and décor, is a common theme in giallo, but what I think makes this closer to the work of those two directors than to the rest of the genre is that I find that most giallo externalizes psychological fracturing, whereas this movie and those other directors almost clamp it down. In one you’re pushed to scream, in the other you’re shushed into silence.

If anything, I wished this almost worked on the level of pure drift, like an ouroboros of mood, unreconciled clues and psychological unease, and I find the denouement a little unsatisfying, if only because it puts and end to the proceedings. But I can see myself warming up to this further in the future, with more time to drift along with the movie.

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"Le orme" (aka "The Footsteps"; Luigi Bazzoni, 1975).

The (short) story of this lightly imperfect but amazing Italian S/F mystery movie is about the double life of Alice (Florinda Bolkan), a woman obsessed by the hidden experiment that a scientist (Klaus Kinski) seems to perform on an astronaut: soon she is prey of a doubt: there is really a man who wants to kill her or is it just a fruit of his schizophrenia? (I stop here).

The genre of the movie can be a sort of "psychodrama with parascientific implications" (the footsteps of the title are those of the astronaut on the moon) that, through minimal devices, is able to create a pervading (and fascinating) atmosphere of mystery. The fact it (the movie) fails to reach a satisfactory melting among all the motives it presents, is its only (forgivable) flaw.

Great photography of Vittorio Storaro.

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"Le orme"; Luigi Bazzoni (1975).

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The Fifth Cord aka Giornata nera per l'ariete (1971), Luigi Bazzoni

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The Fifth Cord

[ Luigi Bazzoni • 1971 ]

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Watched Today: Footprints (on the Moon) (1975)

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Two "L'Uomo, L'Orgoglio, Las Vendetta" (Luigi Bazzoni, 1967) lobby cards showing Franco Nero as Don José and Tina Aumont as Carmen.

Ebay.

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La Donna del Lago, Franco Rossellini and Luigi Bazzoni, 1965

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'Footprints on the Moon,' directed by Luigi Bazzoni

Movie, 1975 Mystery film, featuring memories of an experiment on the moon and an amnesiac interpreter’s stay in an idyllic Turkish setting. While some of the technical aspects of the film feel stifled and jumpy, on occasion, the film has a great, unsettling power, as both Alice (the main protagonist) and the viewer try and put her story together. Visually, there are also some fine moments, and…

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Footprints on the Moon [Le Orme] (1975), dir. Luigi Bazzoni and Mario Fanelli

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Virna Lisi in 'La donna del lago' (1965) dir. Franco Rossellini and Luigi Bazzoni.

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The long-awaited film that Claudia Cardinale hoped to play:

Did you know that Claudia was going to star in the role of "Carmen"?

It was going to be made in 1962 under the direction of Luchino Visconti and the film would be called "Carmen".

It was Claudia's dream (it was said that perhaps Alain Delon was going to be the protagonist alongside Claudia) but finally and sadly it could not be made.

And the director Luigi Bazzoni opted for the idea and finally it starred beautiful Tina Aumont as Carmen and handsome Franco Nero as Don José under the title "L'uomo, l'orgoglio e la vendetta", released in 1967 (Italy).

Here photos we can see Claudia Cardinale as Carmen:

I would have also loved to see Claudia as a gypsy, there are other movie titles that Claudia was going to star in but finally for production reasons it was not made.

Dance, lady, dance! Here we see my other favorite Tina Aumont dancing in: 🎥 Tina Aumont in "L'uomo, l'orgoglio e la vendetta", 1967.