I love Terence Stamp... not just because his foxy mug appears in many a great flick, but also because he is the proprietor of "The Stamp Collection" - a line of gluten-free food in the UK which is all DELISH.
As a Tribute, I will be penning a haiku for every Stamp film from the 1960s. (My apologies to Byron Coley and Thurston Moore - I'm totally stealing your "Trash Tanka" model)
Term of Trial (1962)
Alas! O.O.P.!
Olivier as a drunk
teacher: I want it.
This film looks great on paper, but maybe there's a reason it's not out on DVD? IMDB says it got two BAFTA nominations. That means quality.
Billy Budd (1962)
Young and pretty a
flower among brutes, you were
wearing mascara.
"We don't deal with justice here, but with the law."
The Collector (1965)
If Stamp drove up in
a van and tried to "collect"
you, would you run?
Stamp plays a cardigan-wearing weirdo who decides the only thing he needs to complete his killer butterfly collection is a real life lady. Weird and disturbing and great.
Far From the Madding Crowd (1967)
Mustached, you danced
with your sword in the moors and
Christie was so psyched
Epic and stacked: Stamp and Alan Bates vying for the love of Julie Christie's Bethsheba? Dude - its 60s British Cinema porn. The scene I pay tribute to here is a perhaps too long sequence of phallic sword play that Stamp's soldier character uses to woo Christie. Rewind-worthy hilarity.
Poor Cow (1967)
I've tried to find this.
A Loach film where Stamp is an
abusive thief? YES PLEASE.
This looks so great - a Ken Loach film set in working-class London set to Donovan tunes? Sign me up! It had been a while since I'd looked for it - this haiku exercise just inspired me to check on Netflix and voila! It has been released on DVD! More on this later...
Blue (1968)
Spaghetti Western
Sans plot - but with Stamp as Brit
cowboy with mission.
As a testament to the heavy Stamp phase I went through a few years ago, I actually purchased a used VHS copy on ebay for a few buck so I could watch this. It's pretty amazing; Stamp doesn't even try to shake the Cockney off his voice. Please see the following:
Teorema (1968)
Stamp knocked on the door
and then proceeded to doink
the whole damn family
This is my fave Pasolini film. Experts say there are only 923 words spoken through the whole thing. Terence Stamp plays a stranger who one day shows up at the door of an elite Italian family and then messes with them. Must see.
So ends my tribute. Eat Gluten Free.
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