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[mariocki]

Man in a Suitcase: Property of a Gentleman (1.25, ITC, 1968)

"Sir James is in the dining room but he'll come down. Ladies' annexe, Miss Farson, is along the passage, on the right."

"Would it be better if we waited out on the sidewalk?"

"I'm sorry, sir, it's standing orders. Ladies not admitted, except to the annexe."

"Well, that's what's wrong with this place."

[abs0luteb4stard]

W A T C H I N G

[ozu-teapot]

The Ipcress File | Sidney J. Furie | 1965

Frank Gatliff, Gordon Jackson, Michael Caine, Nigel Green

[cleowho]

“I would rather be a cave dweller and free.”

The Monster of Peladon - season 11 - 1974

[diasporaslippage]

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COLLECTIONS: VOSS

Spring/Summer 2001; Gatliff Road Warehouse, London; 26 September 2000

McQueen had always declared that he wanted his shows to elicit a strong audience reaction. Voss, one of his most celebrated, achieved that result. An enormous clinical glass box formed the centrepiece, constructed to resemble a padded cell in a psychiatric hospital with white tiled floors and walls formed from surveillance mirrors. From the outset the mood was tense; the audience forced to endure an hour-long wait, staring at their own reflections whilst listening to the unnerving pulse of a heartbeat. Eventually, the light levels in the glass box rose to reveal models trapped in the cube, who were unable to see the audience. 

Depictions of madness and incarceration were the principal inspirations behind the collection’s presentation. While the psychiatric hospital was most readily identifiable, Frank Darabont’s film The Green Mile (1999), which told the stories of inmates on death row, provided an alternative notion of confinement.

Voss, like so many of McQueen’s collections, harnessed multiple, disparate themes which coalesced into the designer’s unique vision of beauty. The title – the name of a Norwegian town renowned as a wildlife habitat – suggested the collection would celebrate nature. Bodices, skirts and dresses constructed from razor-clam, mussel and oyster shells astonished the audience with their elegance and ingenuity. McQueen’s love of birds found expression in feather skirts, and in a headdress composed of taxidermied hawks, which hovered perilously above a model and appeared to claw her hair through the bandages that swathed her head. The notion of medical scrutiny was starkly conveyed in a vermillion ensemble, modelled by Erin O’Connor, which comprised a skirt of dyed ostrich feathers and bodice of microscope slides hand-painted red to hint at the blood beneath the skin. The sharp glass of the slides hanging delicately from the bodice also mimicked the soft feathers on a bird’s chest.

McQueen’s fascination with the Orient was explicit in designs featuring appliquéd chrysanthemum roundels; an embroidered grey silk ensemble with real amaranthus dangling from the rectangular headpiece; and a dress that incorporated the panels of an antique Japanese silk screen atop a skirt constructed from 80 polished black oyster shells. The look was completed by a neckpiece of silver branches, adorned with clusters of Tahitian pearls. The finale was the most transgressive of any of McQueen’s catwalk shows: a recreation of Joel-Peter Witkin’s Sanitarium (1983). As the models dispersed and the soundtrack of a pulsing heartbeat gave way to a flat-line monotone, the glass box shattered to reveal the voluptuous, naked figure of fetish writer Michelle Olley, reclining on a horned chaise longue in the graceful pose of a Botticelli painting, her masked head bowed and attached to a breathing tube. Moths fluttered about her before the lights dimmed and left the audience to ponder the meaning of beauty.

— Kate Bethune, Senior Research Assistant, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty. ‘Encyclopedia of Collections’ in Alexander McQueen, ed. Claire Wilcox, V&A Publishing 2015

[deepredradio]

Ipcress - Streng Geheim

Ipcress – Streng Geheim

Story: Als die bedeutendsten Wissenschaftler Großbritanniens entführt und einer Gehirnwäsche unterzogen werden, l��uten beim britischen Secret Service die Alarmglocken. Mit Harry Palmer wird der Top-Agent ihrer Majestät auf den mysteriösen Fall angesetzt. Zusammen mit seiner Kollegin Jean Courtney kommt er einer tödlichen Verschwörung auf die Spur, die auch für die beiden Agenten lebensbedrohlich…

[movies-derekwinnert]

Miss Marple: Nemesis *** (1987, Joan Hickson, Anna Cropper, Margaret Tyzack, Valerie Lush, Helen Cherry, John Horsley, Peter Tilbury, Frank Gatliff) - Classic Movie Review 9632

Miss Marple: Nemesis *** (1987, Joan Hickson, Anna Cropper, Margaret Tyzack, Valerie Lush, Helen Cherry, John Horsley, Peter Tilbury, Frank Gatliff) – Classic Movie Review 9632

Director David Tucker’s inventive 1987 TV movie Miss Marple: Nemesis again stars Joan Hickson, who takes on her eighth case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on the novel by Agatha Christie. Unusually for this faithful series, it deviates significantly from Christie’s plot.

A letter from a dead friend sends Jane Marple on a journey around England. She receives a letter from the solicitors of the…

[thisdayinwwi]

Sitting far right is Capt Frank E Gatliff, No 6 Battery, AIF. KIA Aug 6 1917 in Belgium. Family had 5 sons serving… https://t.co/Agy8ph5CmZ http://twitter.com/ThisDayInWWI/status/894191624359518209

[mariocki]

Armchair Theatre: The Gong Game (ABC, 1965)

"We're never afraid to aquire the one thing that really counts, are we."

"Oh, money, you mean?"

"No, no, no. No, money isn't important. Some of the finest men I've ever met were, um... were quite poor."

"What is important then?"

"Character."

"You didn't come all this way to talk about that, did you?"

[mariocki]

Zodiac: Sting, Sting, Scorpio! (1.5, Thames, 1974)

"Oh! You can drop me."

"Drop you where?"

"At, uh, West End Central."

"Sorry Grad, it's far too far out of my way, I'll drop you at the nearest bus stop."

"I might get picked up!"

"In those clothes?"

"I'll have you know, I had three offers in Curzon Street less than half an hour ago."

"Any from women?"

[cleowho]

“So, Doctor, you too admit your guilt!”

The Monster of Peladon - season 11 - 1974

[cleowho]

“...the Doctor here is a spy and a saboteur.”

The Monster of Peladon - season 11 - 1974