Back to the Wall (Le Dos au mur) (1958) Édouard Molinaro
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Back to the Wall (Le Dos au mur) (1958) Édouard Molinaro
February 18th 2025
Reverberation #401 1. Simon Haseley - Hammerhead 2. Philippe Nicaud - C'ex 3. Akofa Akoussah - La Lem 4. Erick Cosaque - Guadeloupe, Ile De Mes Amours 5. Paint - Landman 6. L. Simoncini - Niagara Falls 7. Lalo Schifrin - Middle Of The Night 8. Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - The Bottle 9. Zohra - Badala Zamana 10. Jim Spencer - No Place To Land
POST-POST-SCRIPTUM 1157
AGITATION FRITE 3, DISCORAMA -3 :QUELQUES REPÈRES PHONOGRAPHIQUES*
Au lieu de plus de 600 chroniques-commentaires, était prévue une succession de références phonographiques, d’avant 1966 à aujourdhui. Voici celles de 1969…
1969 : Docdaïl, Sad Harold, Disc’Az / André Almuro, Musiques expérimentales, Disques Adès / Alfred Panou, Je suis un sauvage, Saravah / Henri Michaux, Marcel Van Thienen, La Ralentie, BAM / Jean Guillou, Visions cosmiques / Improvisations dédiées à l’équipage d’Apollo 8, Philips / San-Antonio, Pierre Doris, Philippe Nicaud, Robert Manuel, Déconorama, Polydor / Acting Trio, Acting Trio, BYG / L’Origine, L’Origine, Odeon / Zorgones, Herr Doktor Reich, Mercury / Jean-Jacques Debout, Janko Nilovic, Music Bazaar, Télé Music / Les Titans, Sunday Morning Fever, JBP / Nato, Faire l’amour, Ceco / Popera Cosmic, Les Esclaves, CBS / Zoo, Zoo, Riviéra / Claude Lombard, Claude Lombard chante, Disques Jacques Canetti / Michel Colombier, Capot pointu, La Compagnie / Haira, Le Matin des magiciens, Saravah / Claude Piéplu, Robert Cohen-Solal, Claude Piéplu… raconte les Shadoks, Barclay
*Un même groupe ne figure pas deux fois. Par contre, un musicien peut figurer plusieurs fois, mais sous des occurrences différentes ne mettant pas son nom en avant.
Anna and friends heading to Venice to promote Dragées au poivre [Sweet and Sour, or Pepper Candy], 1963. You can distinguish Anna in the first one by the brim of her big hat!
365 Day Movie Challenge (2017) - #297: Voulez-vous danser avec moi? (aka Come Dance with Me!) (1959) - dir. Michel Boisrond
Voulez-vous danser avec moi?, known in the US as Come Dance with Me!, is possibly my favorite of the many Brigitte Bardot films I have watched recently. It is a delightful comedy/murder mystery, overflowing with excitement and sensuality. BB plays Virginie Dandieu, a young woman who helps her husband, Hervé (Henri Vidal), solve the homicide of Anita Flores (Dawn Addams), a gorgeous dance instructor who had been blackmailing him over some scandalous photos (it’s a long story; see the film to find out why). Virginie goes undercover by getting a job at Anita’s dance studio, a self-imposed assignment that brings Virginie into contact with many colorful characters, including a friendly police inspector, a suspicious barman and a male dance teacher who moonlights as a cabaret singer.
Come Dance with Me! is full of excellent performances, including supporting appearances by Philippe Nicaud, Noël Roquevert, Paul Frankeur, Darío Moreno, Georges Descrières, the one and only Serge Gainsbourg (as an accomplice in the blackmail scheme), Maria Pacôme, Pascal Mazzotti and Magdeleine Bérubet. There is also beautiful Eastmancolor cinematography by Robert Lefebvre and numerous enchanting costumes designed by Rosine Delamare. Viewers may also be intrigued by a subplot involving gay characters and a section of the film that takes place in a nightclub where men perform in full drag, surely an unusual sight in a mainstream film (even a European one) made in 1959.
The film also served as a nice introduction to Henri Vidal for me. He was one of French cinema’s handsomest leading men, married to the legendary actress Michèle Morgan. Tragically, Vidal died of a heart attack at age 40, shortly before Come Dance with Me!’s release. With every film I watch, I look not only to be entertained but also to enrich my understanding of film history, familiarizing myself with performers from both the present and the past.
Pouic-Pouic (Jean Girault - 1963)
Louis de Funès, Jacqueline Maillan, Mireille Darc, Philippe Nicaud, Guy Tréjean et, dans le rôle du “sous-fifre”, Roger Dumas (1932-2017)
French actors Claude Gensac, Philippe Nicaud, and Albert Préjean starred in the smash hit comedy play Sans Cérémonie, which ran at the Théâtre Danou in Paris, 1952-1953.
Martine Carol-Philippe Nicaud "Venetian honeymoon" (La prima notte) 1959, de Alberto Cavalcanti.