The Burglars (1971) Jean-Paul Belmondo, Omar Sharif

Today's movie. 

A 1970s euro caper movie with the late greats Belmondo and Omar Sharif, famous for its car chase and a Belmondo jump down some earthworks. 

Set in Greece, with lots of sunshine, out of season, not that much action.

Contract on Cherry Street (1977) starring Frank Sinatra

I just finished watching this movie while doing a spot of working (hardly) on my computer.

Not a bad 70s cop movie, worth seeing for the feel, character 70s menswear and some solid acting led by Mr. Frank Sinatra himself in his first made-for-TV appearance and first acting role in 7 years.

I distinctly remember seeing it once already but not in the 1970s - I think, it was shown here on TV in Moscow in the 1990s.

Movie of the night: Busted Up (1986) | Irene Cara Stan Shaw Paul Coufos. #IreneCaraWeek

Here is my movie of the night.



It's on Youtube as you can see... but I am also lucky (?) to have it on VHS. 

 

Tenet Suits

Some suited protagonists in Nolan's movie Tenet, there are lots of suits but I'll just focus on the principal characters.

First, some summer jobs.

The collar is always buttoned for the protagonist when there is no tie.

Nolan seems to have a thing (which shall remain unnamed) for (men in) suits and Tenet is no exception.

This one is a brown suit.

Sir Caine himself.

The tie seems to be nicely coordinated with the color of the lunch the man is having (or pretending to,  Shakespeare troupe style).

Yes, the suit is brown (although I could have sworn from the earlier two pictures that it was grey). 

Brown in town on a black man in a white man's club, I look confused. In fact, I look confused the entire movie.

No offense but... Brooks Brothers doesn't cut it. May I recommend a tailor? (this is an approximate quote from the movie).

There was also something about the "English monopoly on snobbery" but it's so cringe inducing I won't reproduce it here.

Light grey three piece job.

Wooing the thoroughbred and blue blooded English rose of a lady and succeeding in it too by the look of it; but all the same it is the all powerful Russian oligarch who naturally has the full use of her body even if her heart seems not to be in it.

Nothing like two complementing sets of tailored clothes worn casually to introduce some homoerotic vibes (below).

DB no. 1

Maybe, there will be more.

Opening Scene Sxy Beast

Just watched a movie that began with this scene.

AChS-1 Board Clock on Dashboard

Last summer I made some pics of my AChS-1V aviation clock that I keep at my country log cabin. As a backdrop I used the dashboard of my 2008 Second Gen Ford Focus II face-lifted (European).

I thought it looked good in that setting. The idea crossed my mind of how interesting it would be to install it in or on the dash kind of permanently.

Turns out I am far from the first who has ever had that idea.

A week back I was watching on Youtube a 1972 Russian film Gonshchiki (Rally Racers) featuring rally driving in the Moskvich 412 one of my favorite cars, like this one (Internet pictures).

Interior

 

Nice interiors! Check out the bordello-red (vinyl -- no animals were harmed etc.) seats and upholstery, nicely combined with the black dashboard & central stack.

And in some of the rally cars shown in the film, they definitely had an early version of AChS-1 installed on the dashboard in the center.

Here is the film but it's in Russian and no English subtitles. Good film.