#Martine Brochard

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Murder Obsession (1981)

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Gatti rossi in un labirinto di vetro (1975)

AKA Eyeball, Wide-Eyed in the Dark, The Devil's Eye, The Eye, The Secret Killer

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Savage three (1975), dir. Vittorio Salerno

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Una donna alla finestra 1976

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Sexy...

Martine Brochard

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Décembre MMXXIII

Films

Chef (2014) de Jon Favreau avec Scarlett Johansson, Jon Favreau, Sofía Vergara, Emjay Anthony, John Leguizamo, Robert Downey Jr. et Dustin Hoffman

Y a-t-il un flic pour sauver Hollywood ? (The Naked gun 33⅓: The Final Insult) (1994) de Peter Segal avec Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, Fred Ward, O. J. Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, Kathleen Freeman, Ellen Greene et Ed Williams

Quai des Orfèvres (1947) de Henri-Georges Clouzot avec Louis Jouvet, Simone Renant, Bernard Blier, Suzy Delair, Pierre Larquey, Claudine Dupuis, Henri Arius, Charles Blavette, René Blancard et Robert Dalban

Maintenant, on l'appelle Plata (…più forte ragazzi!) (1972) de Giuseppe Colizzi avec Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Cyril Cusack, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Riccardo Pizzuti, Ferdinando Murolo et Marcello Verziera

Moi, Michel G., milliardaire, maître du monde (2011) de Stéphane Kazandjian avec François-Xavier Demaison, Laurent Lafitte, Laurence Arné, Xavier de Guillebon, Guy Bedos, Patrick Bouchitey e Alain Doutey

Noël blanc (White Christmas) (1954) de Michael Curtiz avec Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera Ellen, Dean Jagger, Mary Wickes et John Bascia

Rendez-vous avec la mort (Appointment with Death) (1988) de Michael Winner avec Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, John Gielgud, Piper Laurie, Hayley Mills, Jenny Seagrove et David Soul

Bridget Jones : L’Âge de raison (Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason) (2004) de Beeban Kidron avec Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent, Jacinda Barrett, Shirley Henderson et Sally Phillips

Les Trois Mousquetaires : Milady (2023) de Martin Bourboulon avec François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris, Pio Marmaï, Eva Green, Lyna Khoudri et Louis Garrel

Y a-t-il un flic pour sauver le président ? (1991) (The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear) de David Zucker avec Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, O. J. Simpson, Robert Goulet, Richard Griffiths, Anthony James et Jacqueline Brookes

Wallace et Gromit : Le Mystère du lapin-garou (Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit) (2005) de Nick Park et Steve Box avec Jean-Loup Horwitz, Jeanne Savary, Philippe Catoire, Frédérique Cantrel, Patrick Messe et Mireille Delcroix

Rivière sans retour (River of No Return) (1954) de Otto Preminger avec Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun, Tommy Rettig, Murvyn Vye et Douglas Spencer

L'Ange de Noël (Christmas Magic) (2011) de John Bradshaw avec Lindy Booth, Paul McGillion, Derek McGrath, Kiara Glasco, Teresa Pavlinek et Tricia Braun

Joyeux Noël (2005) de Christian Carion avec Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet, Diane Kruger, Gary Lewis, Daniel Brühl, Dany Boon, Lucas Belvaux, Bernard Le Coq et Alex Ferns

L'Assassinat du père Noël (1941) de Christian-Jaque avec Harry Baur, Raymond Rouleau, Renée Faure, Marie-Hélène Dasté, Robert Le Vigan, Fernand Ledoux et Jean Brochard

Danse avec les loups (Dances with Wolves) (1990) de et avec Kevin Costner ainsi que Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant, Floyd Westerman, Jimmy Herman, Nathan Lee, Tantoo Cardinal et Wes Studi

Noël en trois actes (Christmas Encore) (2017) de Bradley Walsh avec Maggie Lawson, Brennan Elliott, Art Hindle, Tracey Hoyt, Mercedes de la Zerda, Mika Amonsen, Sherry Miller, Sabryn Rock, David Tompa et Erin Agostino

La Souffleuse de verre (Die Glasbläserin) (2016) de Christiane Balthasar avec Luise Heyer, Maria Ehrich, Franz Dinda, Dirk Borchardt, Robert Gwisdek, Max Hopp et Ute Willing

Le père Noël est une ordure (1982) de Jean-Marie Poiré avec Anémone, Thierry Lhermitte, Gérard Jugnot, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Josiane Balasko et Bruno Moynot

Le Lion en hiver (The Lion in Winter) (1968) de Anthony Harvey avec Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, John Castle, Nigel Terry, Timothy Dalton, Jane Merrow et Nigel Stock

Les Mystères de Paris (1962) d'André Hunebelle avec Jean Marais, Raymond Pellegrin, Jill Haworth, Dany Robin, Pierre Mondy, Georges Chamarat, Noël Roquevert et Jean Le Poulain

Derrick contre Superman (1992) de Michel Hazanavicius et Dominique Mézerette avec Patrick Burgel et Évelyne Grandjean

La Classe américaine : Le Grand Détournement (1993) de Michel Hazanavicius et Dominique Mézerette avec Christine Delaroche, Evelyne Grandjean, Marc Cassot, Patrick Guillemin, Raymond Loyer, Joël Martineau, Jean-Claude Montalban, Roger Rudel et Gérard Rouzier

La Grande Course autour du monde (The Great Race) (1965) de Blake Edwards avec Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon, Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn, Arthur O'Connell, Vivian Vance et Dorothy Provine

Séries

Life on Mars Saison 1, 2

Bienvenue en 73 - La Loi selon mon boss - Le Pari - Corruption - Rouge un jour, rouge toujours - Compte à rebours - Cas de conscience - Mon père - Meurtrier en puissance - La Chasse aux ripoux - Peur sur la ville - Pièges pour jeunes femmes - Kidnapping - Héroïne - Recherche du coupable - La Promesse

Doctor Who

La Créature Stellaire - Wild Blue Yonder - Aux confins de l'univers - Le Fabricant de Jouets - The Snowmen - A Christmas Carol - The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe - The Return of Doctor Mysterio - The Church on Ruby Road - Eve of the Daleks

Les Enquêtes de Vera Saison 12

À contre-courant - Un homme d'honneur - Au nom de la loi - Une soirée funeste - Marée montante

Coffre à Catch

#144 : La Draft 2009 : Les bonnes affaires du mercato ! - #145 : La ECW débarque à Londres et l'Undertaker à Strasbourg! (avec Carole) - #146 : Christian enfin champion de la ECW ! - #147 : Un coffret à Noël, ça c'est une idée !

Kaamelott Livre III

Le Jour d’Alexandre - La Cassette II - La Ronde II - Mission - La Baliste - La Baraka - La Veillée - Le Tourment III - La Potion de fécondité II - L’Attaque nocturne - La Restriction II - Les Défis de Merlin II - Saponides et Détergents - Le Justicier - La Crypte maléfique - Arthur in Love II - La Grande Bataille - La Fête de l’hiver II - Sous les verrous II - Le Vulgarisateur - Witness - Le Tribut - Le Culte secret - Le Mangonneau - La Chevalerie - Le Mauvais Augure - Raison d’argent II - Les Auditeurs libres - Le Baiser romain - L’Espion - Alone in the Dark - Le Législateur - L’Insomniaque - L’Étudiant - Le Médiateur - Le Trophée - Hollow Man - La Dispute première partie - La Dispute deuxième partie

Affaires sensibles

Gérald Thomassin : l'étrange disparition d'un coupable idéal

Top Gear

Spécial Nativité

La Voie Jackson

Episode 1 - Episode 2 - Episode 3

Meurtres au paradis

L'étrange Noël de Debbie

Spectacles

Le Muguet de Noël (2021) de Sébastien Blanc et Nicolas Poiret avec Lionnel Astier, Frédéric Bouraly, Jean-Luc Porraz et Alexie Ribes

Sinatra (1969) avec Frank Sinatra, Don Costa & son Orchestre

Le Professeur Rollin a encore quelque chose à dire (2003) de François Rollin

Alain Souchon : J'veux du live au Casino de Paris (2002)

La Bonne Planque (1964) de Michel André avec Bourvil, Pierrette Bruno, Robert Rollis, Roland Bailly, Alix Mahieux, Albert Michel et Max Desrau

André Rieu : White Christmas (2023)

Michael Bublé: Home for Christmas (2011) avec Michael Bublé, Gary Barlow, Gino D'Acampo, Dawn French et Kelly Rowland

Michael Buble's Christmas in the City (2021) avec Michael Bublé, Leon Bridges, Camila Cabello, Jimmy Fallon, Kermit the Frog, Hannah Waddingham, Dallas Grant, Jarrett Johnson, Julianna Layne et Loren Smith

Michael Bublé's 3rd Annual Christmas Special (2013) avec Michael Bublé, Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, Red Robinson, Jumaane Smith, Patrick Gilmore et Cookie Monster

Un fil à la patte (2005) de Georges Feydeau avec Thierry Beccaro, Marie-Ange Nardi, Valérie Maurice, Églantine Éméyé, Ève Ruggiéri, Tex, David Martin et Patrice Laffont

Vintage Getz (1983) The Stan Getz Quartet live at the Robert Mondavi Winery, Napa Valley, California avec Stan Getz, Victor Lewis, Marc Johnson et Jim McNeely

James Brown : Live at Montreux (1981)

Livres

Le seigneur des anneaux, Tome 3 : Le retour du roi de J.R.R. Tolkien

Détective Conan, Tome 18 de Gôshô Aoyama

Lucky Luke, Tome 27 : L'Alibi de Morris et Claude Guylouïs

Détective Conan, Tome 19 de Gôshô Aoyama

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Eyeball (1975)

Dir. Umberto Lenzi

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Murder Obsession (1981)

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Follia omicida (1981) - VHS

AKA Murder Obsession, Murder Syndrome, Fear, The Wailing, Satan's Altar

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Costume designer: Adriana Spadaro

Gatti rossi in un labirinto di vetro aka Eyeball (1975) dir. Umberto Lenzi

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Storia di una monaca di clausura (Story of a Cloistered Nun, 1973)

"It is a mark of infamy! A mark of infamy not only on this convent and our diocese, but on the entire Christian community of this country! I should use words of fire to define the abyss of ignominy into which this convent has fallen! Be aware that we are facing one of the greatest disgraces that can befall us, a disgrace too great for the despicable nun among you to hide!"

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Follia omicida (1981)

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Himomurhaaja / Murder Obsession (1981) TrixAb Film Ab https://www.videospace.fi/release/himomurhaaja_vhs_trixab_film_ab_finland

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La Nottata

Data di uscita: 1974

Regista: Tonino Cervi

Musica composta da: Vince Tempera

Sceneggiatura: Tonino Cervi, Umberto Simonetta

Cast

Sara Sperati: Susy

Susanna Javicoli: Angela

Giancarlo Prete: taxista Vito

Max Delys: Piero

Giorgio Albertazzi: “Destino"

Martine Brochard: Marta

Claudio Cassinelli: Davide

Raoul Casadei: se stesso

Giuliana Calandra: proprietaria dell'anello

Angelo Pellegrino: ricettatore

Riccardo Berlingieri:

Aldo Bonamano:

Emilio Lo Curcio:

Francesco Bagagli:

Elisa Mainardi:

Delio Cioni:

Luciana Passin:

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Eyeball (1975) AKA Gatti Rossi in un Labirinto di Vetro (Red Cats in a Glass Maze)

Directed by Umberto Lenzi

Written by Felix Tusell and Umberto Lenzi

Music by Bruno Nicolai

Country: Italy

Language: Italian

Running Time:

CAST

Martine Brochard as Paulette Stone

John Richardson as Mark Burton

Ines Pellegrini as Naiba Levin

Mirta Miller as Lisa Sanders

Daniele Vargas as Robby Alvarado

Andrés Mejuto as Inspector Tudela

George Rigaud as Bronson

Silvia Solar as Gail Alvarado

Raf Baldassarre as Martinez

José María Blanco as Inspector Lara

Marta May as Alma Burton

John Bartha as Mr. Hamilton

Olga Pehar as Mrs. Randall

Verónica Miriel as Jenny Hamilton

Richard Kolin as Mr. Randall

Rina Mascetti as Hospital Nurse

Fulvio Mingozzi as Policeman

Francesco Narducci as Receptionist at Hotel Presidente

Carolyn De Fonseca as Gail Alvarado

Laura Trotter as Murder Victim at Castle

(Rather than screengrab I elected to use the lobby card reproductions from the recent UK blu-ray release. They are kind of fun, I think.)

Eyeball is a hilariously trashy giallo. Giallo being defined on this day by me as Italian genre movies characterised by stylish sadism, sexual fetishism, ridiculous plot contortions and usually sporting an unwarrantedly fine soundtrack. (Other definitions are available by other people on other days.) Whether the hilarity and the trashiness of Eyeball are intentional is unlikely, but it’s their presence which provides the movie’s salvation, salvaging Eyeball from an unpleasant and, worse, unentertaining, mix of tedium and obnoxiousness.

A tour bus to Italy containing a disparate group of people from the same American town (where apparently everyone speaks fluent Italian like a native) become the target for a series of savage stabbings perpetrated by a maniac (mostly) clad in a red pac-a-mac. Oh, and during the prolonged session of frenzied stabbing the crimson plastic clad killer also likes to take out an eye...ball. Hence the title. Italy is a lively country but even there murder is frowned upon, and Andrés Mejuto is entertainingly brusque as Inspector Tudela, a man seemingly whittled from burnished leather who is racing against the clock to solve the crime before he retires to catch “trouts”, or succumbs to skin cancer.

For all its sleaze and gore Eyeball is at heart a  mystery; usually part of the fun of a mystery would be trying to identify the murderer and their motive. In a normal movie written by a normal person this would depend on picking up on clues in the script and subtle hints in the performances. Eyeball is a giallo, though, and so considers adhering to logic and realism as party pooping in the extreme. During Eyeball you can still have a lot of fun conjecturing about the killer and their motive, but you might as well just take a wild guess, because like the victim’s eyes the solution is out there. Much to Inspector Tudela’s leathery dismay Eyeball may be light on “trouts” but it’s very heavy on the red herrings.

After all, what possible reason could there be for a killer to target a bus full of American tourists, besides extreme xenophobia? There are suspects galore from the tour guide who likes laughing at his own practical jokes like a rapist in a prison movie as the camera zooms in on his face, to Mark Burton (John Richardson), our typically blandly handsome protagonist, who likes to explain his job in promotion to young women via the illustrative example of those free toys in cereal.  Or is it John’s mistress, Paulette Stone  (Martine Brochard), who has crossed her legs to him since discovering his wife is ill? Or is it John’s wife, Alma Burton (Marta May) who is not where she should be and is apparently a bit mental? Or is it even one of the apparently few people on earth who haven’t a working knowledge of John’s genitals? The domineering lesbian photographer? Her unhappy partner? The priest with the picture of himself and some kids (uh-oh, spaghetti-o!) hidden in his Bible? What about that guy who runs to the top of the steps who looks like an explosion in a Disco Factory? (Unhappily he’s only onscreen for a few seconds; he’s great, but (SPOILER) it isn’t him). Practically everyone on the bus likes standing over sleeping people with a straight razor or touching young women inappropriately when their wife is out of sight. To be fair it was the ‘70s, so both those things were probably considered a bit of “cheeky fun”. The quirkiness of the characters and the impressively nuts plot are Eyeball’s greatest strengths, keeping things interesting even when it seems the director has dozed off.

Every now and  again though, Lenzi does rouse himself and remember he’s making a giallo. Giallo is a very stylish genre but, unfortunately, Eyeball isn’t very stylish; but it is, just, stylish enough. There are a smattering of stylistically impressive shots in Eyeball, but for the most part it is lumpenly dogged stuff, sporadically enlivened by the inspired visual of the bright red maniac. Even the lovely score by Bruno Nicolai is just kind of jammed on scenes without much deliberation. This slapdash quality is not uncommon amongst giallo movies, we aren’t talking about movies which were laboured and sweated over so much as written, shot and released as if in a race against time. Given their cheapskate origins the resultant shoddiness probably has to be reluctantly acknowledged as part of their charm. Giallo are usually a bit of a mess, for the most part, but ultimately outlandish enough to be fun and Eyeball doesn’t buck this trend.