The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. Good book. Good film. I read the novel (a pleasingly tatty second hand copy - I love a bargain, although I suppose this predilection does nothing for the income of the author) almost at one sitting whilst lounging beside the pool in the garden of the house we rented in Noosa. Some things stay with you. It was Queensland winter and the pool was freezing, though the sea was perfectly swimmable to OG, DN1 and DN2. I digress. A film cast in noir shades with Richard Burton never better than as the embittered spy, Alec Lemas. 69/100.
An altogether different proposition but a film as redolent of the 80s as
Spy is of the 60s,
Desperately Seeking Susan wants to make you laugh at its kookiness. It succeeds. Madonna, though we couldn't have known it, was on the cusp of mega-stardom but would never be seen to such good cinematic effect again. As for Rosanna Arquette, stardon yes, mega-stardom, no, but she is glorious in the lead. 68/100.
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