In honor of the news that schlockmeister Roger Corman will be the subject of a new documentary feature, take a look at the above fan-made mashup of the 5 Worst Lines in Corman’s The Last Woman on Earth. For all of the cinematic garbage he unleashed on the world, Corman gave a huge number of future stars and eventually important filmmakers their first big breaks, including Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson and Martin Scorsese. Last Woman’s highly mockable was actually scripted by Robert Towne, who went on to write Chinatown, The Parallax View, Shampoo … and also Days of Thunder, Orca and Tequila Sunrise. Those salesladies at Saks will do it to you every time!
So this afternoon, I’m banging my head against the wall trying to finish this thing I’m writing about the Pierrot Le Fou Criterion release, and as I always do in times of trouble, I turn to YouTube for guidance/inspiration/distraction, and I find the above clip from Pierre Koralnik’s 1967 TV musical Anna. I’ve never seen the film, but I remembered reading a Filmbrain post about it a couple of years back. Anna Karina, singing songs by Serge Gainsbourg, stars as a love-lorn, bespectacled ad agency illustrator who apparently fantasizes about transforming into some kind of comic book biker vixen … ? I don’t know, but this clip made my day.
