Tag Archives: Gore Vidal

Pete’s Peek | Welcome to the weird, wild world of Mike Sarne’s Joanna

Posted on 6 June 2011 by peter

Former 1960s pop singer turned film director Mike Sarne is probably best known for helming the infamous 1970 box office bomb Myra Breckinridge – an overblown, kitsch adaptation of Gore Vidal’s novel starring Raquel Welch and Rex Reed. But two … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | Ben-Hur

Posted on 22 March 2009 by Beth Williams

Showing on Five this afternoon at 3.10pm There were 8,000 extras It was shot on an immense 18 acre set It took five weeks to film Widely hailed as the best action scene in cinema’s history (and with no CGI … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Caligula on DVD

Posted on 6 October 2008 by Jason Best

It’s one of the most notorious films of the 1970s: a multi-million-dollar historical epic about the infamously decadent Roman emperor that boasted a script by novelist Gore Vidal, lavish sets by an Oscar-winning designer and a cast of distinguished British … Continue reading →

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