This is a tribute if I ever saw one

Brilliant. Many thanks to Mark Gatiss for this.

You will be greatly missed

I have now known for some hours that Sir Lee has passed away.
This is indeed a sad day.

Earlier today I saw Mark Gatiss tweet:

He actually captures my own thoughts. However, since I grew up in Sweden, not many in my childhood had really any grasp of Christopher Lee. Some knew what he had done during his Hammer years, but in Bergman-film-snobbish-Sweden that kind of cinematic work was sneered upon. I myself had seen him in The Three Musketeers as a child and loved his appearance. It was, needless to say, impossible tho get hold of any of his films. I was fangirlishly happy when I caught sight of him in Macahans. But when the VHS-market was opened in the 80's in Sweden, I could finally at least watch The Man with The Golden Gun. I was 14 and stuck.

Sir Christopher has always been underrated, just as Mark Gatiss tweets. But that's why I absolutely love to watch this wonderful moment when he gets his special BAFTA- award in 2011. The ovations  are moving - a very proud moment.

I am truly, truly greatful to have had fifteen years of possibilites to see Christopher Lee on the silver screen - first in Sleepy Hollow (1999) and then, of course, in the new Star Wars- episodes, in LOTR and the Hobbit-movies.

Rest in peace, sir Christopher.
You will be greatly missed.

Happy Birthday Sir Lee!

Good luck on releasing your new album today!

"To Chris
You are the best in the 'biz

John Belushi,
Second best"

This. Man.

I just can't.

Charlemagne is cult!

I can really recommend this interview, made by Berlin Morgenpost in connection to Berlinale this week. It is in German, but Google Translate (surprisingly enough) does an ok job translating it from German. Sure, there are some oddities in the translation, but mostly it is completely comprehensable.

Strangely enough, SCL seems to think that the Charlemagne album The Sword and the Cross has disappeared from limelight - in a sense that it is forgotten. But I can honestly say that Twitter feeds on "Christopher Lee" reminds me of this album  - or other songs of his Metal career - almost everyday.

In fact I would say that a massive amount of the tweets are on this subject. So it might be away from the public limelight - but fans love it. The Charlemagne-album is cult!

Berlinale 2

Some pictures from this week's #Berlinale, where the film Nigth Train to Lisbon had its world premiere. This is a short video on Lee and his wife (ext link) in front of the cameras at Berlinale. That is an international moviestar! From Berliner Morgenpost.

Here are some LOVELY picts from the red carpet of the premiere night!


Previous blogpost.

It just snowballed...

Just went mad and ordered five, no six Lee-films. I will probably have to wait until summer to recieve them all, but never mind. Amazon is just... ugh.

I found The Three Muskeers and it just snowballed from there. I have only seen excerpts from Crimson Pirate - as with Bitter Victory - but as I love theese pre-fame films, I couldn't resist. Taste of Fear is a new acquaintance - so far, I have only known it by name. I want Beyond Mombasa as well, but it'll just have to wait. Though it was painful not to order it on spot... 

Night of the Big Heat is a joy. Very hot!

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• The Crimson Pirate [1952] [DVD]
  James Hayter, et al
  Sold by: Amazon EU S.a.r.L. 
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• Night of the big Heat (uncut) english audio
  Ronald Liles, Terence Fisher
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• Bitter Victory [DVD] [2007]
  Richard Burton, et al
  Sold by: Amazon EU S.a.r.L. 
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• The Three Musketeers/the Four Musketeers [DVD]
  Richard Lester
  Sold by: Amazon EU S.a.r.L. 
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• Taste of Fear [DVD] [2010]
  Christopher Lee, et al
  Sold by: Amazon EU S.a.r.L.

Love that hat...

This is short but brill! Wonderful hat!
(According to all sources a horrendous movie.)

#Berlinale

Three hours ago, British Council Film (@BC_Films) on twitter wrote:

Legendary Christopher Lee - on our flight to #berlinale & causing much excitement all round

During this filmfestival, the film Night Train to Lisbon is having its premiere. I wrote about it in this post. In March, it will go nationwide in Germany and then in Belgium as well, I think. Since the Scandinavian filmmarket is so dependent on only a few distributors, I, alas, can't hope to see it here. Sadly. Well, just have to order it on Amazon. It seems to be a wonderful film. SCL by the way deserves all excitement he can get. Wonderful. I can only hope they will all have a wonderful #berlinale. An that the film will be well recieved! :-) Good Luck!

Who's the most #badass???

Motivation:

"The Action Hero: The ultimate badass with an unquenchable work ethic, Christopher Lee is still popping up in the likes of The Hobbit, while LOTR and Star Wars saw him kicking ass well into his 80s."

Here is the entire list of the oldest and coolest action heroes.

Guess who tops the list.
Thank you, thank you! Chuck Norris has nothing on Christopher Lee!