Monica Vitti

there's uh there's there's one if you can find it it's called uh 008 operation exterminate or some variation thereof um about like a lady spy um and like oh fuck this should have been a there should have at least been two this this is better than this should have been it's really strong um that's that yeah that's kind of a euro spy thing or springtime where i was watching a bunch of

Well, you know, Kel and I always bond over Modesty Blaze, both the comics and the Monica Vitti movie and everything,

you know, never, never, never better than the poster.

Oh, well, sure.

And I'm kind of looking around.

And I look up and I see this towering black and white poster of Monica Vitti.

And it's a Criterion logo on it.

Nice.

All right.

He planned to cast Barbara Steele and Michael Caine, but before he could, he sold those rights to Joseph Gianni, who was already working with clients Monica Vitti and Joseph Losey.

Funny enough, Caine would go on to star as Alfie in the film Alfie, a role intended for Terrence Stamp, who played Willie in this film instead.

It's really funny because having seen Alfie, I think what works about Michael Caine is that he's a little soft.

Listen, you cannot have two really hot people in a film, especially in the heterosexual world we live in, without being like, I think I'm gonna fuck.

Yeah, truly, truly.

This was Monica Vitti's first English language film.

She was already a rising star because of Michelangelo Antonioni in Italy.

Oh, he was in L'Eclise.

Alan Dillon was in L'Eclise with Monica Vitti.

yeah okay so it was the other film that

doesn't make him the same person fair

And he was also woeful in his cast.

The Italian actress Monica Vitti, who's a darling of arthouse filmmakers, just wasn't right for the part.

1968, Roger Fardim makes Barbarella with Jane Fonda.

That is quite successful, that film, and it might be because of Jane Fonda.

this one, because of the production alone, is Flash Gordon.

And that's just Max von Sydow just being brilliant.

And that Romanian actress whose name I can never remember who played the daughter of the Empress, who was absolutely gorgeous.

So why don't we get sort of submerged by a role of sort of more... memorable superhero movies, because that's what Holly tends to do, isn't