Tag: Scarlet Diva

Set my Polack free!

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An apt cinematic analogy of the Polanski brouhaha can be found in Charles Laughton’s NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, namely the hyper-reactive old salt of the general store, Mrs. Icey Spoon (Evelyn Varden). First she practically forces Robert Mitchum’s homicidal preacher on poor Shelley Winters, taking his collar and phony rap at face value, endangering and [...]

Women We Love – Asia Argento

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Photographers’ model (above). Talented and charismatic “bad girl” actress. Novelist (I Love You, Kirk). Director and screenwriter of two personal and highly eccentric feature films – Scarlet Diva and The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things – in which she also starred, both quite intriguing in their ways. Daughter of Italian “Master of Horror” Dario [...]