The thriller Wait Until Dark (1967) with Audrey Hepburn. He could play scary.
“Serpentine, Sheldon! Serpentine!”
Yossarian!
(To whom I suspect Corporal Klinger in MASH was a nod.)
Literally, the whole scene just played out in my head from that line!
This is a really dumb movie, but I loved Alan Arkin in it - So I Married an Axe Murderer.
Alan Arkin also wrote one of my most unsettling and favourite books as a child - “The Lemming Condition”
Nero also wrote the score for the 1963 Jane Fonda film “Sunday in New York” and made an appearance in the movie.
A film I always watch whenever it plays on TCM.
That obit reminds me of just how cranky I found his books! Everything’s wrong with the modern world! No! It must be Czech folk music! Everything else is fake!
My goodness. Both of them at their absolute, onion-cutting, teaching best. Wow.
Incredible to see how much the music affects, and effects, him.
Came here for Ms. Birkin. (Though not that particular song )
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/089088-000-A/jane-birkin/
(You might need a VPN to watch if not in Europe?)
Ah that’s a shame. Many a slow dance happened in Irish discos to that song