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 » Valentino  » (1977, 128 min) An incredibly fictionalized biography away from quiet flick icon Rudolph Valentino (played here by well known Russian dancing performer Rudolph Nureyev within his earliest and simply headlining character), as the imagined because of the visually creative but otherwise demented manager Ken Russell. Informed inside flashback on their funeral service because of the women in existence, there are many terrific views sprinkled throughout this motion picture, most of which include dance (Valentino are a dancer prior to the guy turned a motion picture star, y’see). My personal fave are very early one to when he pulls Carol Kane out of the audience to get his companion after their own day–an obnoxious motion picture comic known as « Mr. Fatty »–drives their brand spanking new lover on the dance floor together with cat-calls. Together with away from notice: ex-Bowery Boy Huntz Hall while the business lead Jesse Lasky and you may previous Mother Michelle Phillips while the Rudy’s next partner (surprisingly, the first a person is never seen, and simply stated immediately after, albeit not by name). Wait for an entirely nude conversation within Phillips and you may Nureyev (exactly who apparently didn’t stand each other) into the a beneficial tent. Therefore the trumped-up boxing suits one stops the movie is actually an effective hoot too–as the scene of Valentino caught up in a jail phone which have a group of perverted derelicts is just the type of matter you to definitely expects regarding Russell, regrettably. Nureyev is not any actor, however, he tries hard, and i discovered his effort for some reason charming. Watch for a great pre-« Cheers » John Ratzenberger as the a journalist hounding the various mourners (also Leslie Caron once the celebrity Nazimova, using a clothes that might be discovered to be considered).Continue Reading..