April 28, 2005
FLASH IN THE PAN BABES OF THE EIGHTIES
Nastassja Kinski, the prototype Bad Girl.. Best attributes: bus-stoppin' body, big lips. For men of my era, the pic wearing only the snake said it all. Emotional freight: lots-this woman had a "relationship" with that child molester Roman Polanski while she was still a minor. Most bizarre flick: Cat People. Dropped off the radar scopes in the mid-eighties, surfaced for Terminal Velocity in 1994. Probably in a federal witness protection program.
Posted by LMC at April 28, 2005 09:51 PMOT:
http://www.filmfocus.co.uk/review.asp?ReviewID=263
Posted by: Bill from INDC at April 28, 2005 10:46 PMAnybody who had Klaus for a Dad will certainly claim some emotional freight. But still, Nastassja was the absolute definition of Central European beauty around the mid 80s. And, the woman had no parts that didn't come straight from the Lord Himself. She's still, now in her 40s, got a very, very hot older-woman vibe going on. She still shows up in a B-movie now and again, complete with cute attenuated German accent.
Posted by: Bruck at April 29, 2005 02:00 AMShe appeared a couple years back in one of Neil LaBute's films - Your friends and neighbors - one of the most disturbing films I've ever seen, but also a really good movie. She's terrific in it, and I was really glad to see her again.
Posted by: red at April 29, 2005 08:19 AMI had the Avedon picture of Natassja with the snake... Ohhhhh...
Posted by: The Maximum Leader at April 29, 2005 09:14 AMShe,s made 33 films since Terminal Velocity, most of them so-so, but for An American Rhapsody, and especially The Claim. Still an amazingly attractive woman. And 47 is old?
Posted by: Mr, Kurtz at April 29, 2005 11:31 AMSorry, one last thing: she may be off "American" radar, but she's made a ton of films and movies all across Europe and Eastern Europe in the last 10 years. Another one of those actresses who never seems to have been out of a job.
Posted by: red at April 29, 2005 12:28 PMOops ... meant to put quotation marks around "radar" not American. hahaha Takes on kind of a different weird meaning the way it is now!
Posted by: red at April 29, 2005 12:29 PMOne of those women who helped define my emerging notions of what constitutes "sexy" back in the 80s. "Cat People" was an extraordinarily silly movie, but Lord God Almighty, she looked good.
Re-saw the film recently and it has not aged well. Ms. Kinski, on the other hand, has aged very nicely indeed.
Posted by: utron at April 29, 2005 01:52 PMIf you think Cat People was Nastassja Kinski's strangest movie, you haven't seen Aguirre, Das Zorn Gotes
Posted by: Kathy Hutchins at April 29, 2005 05:16 PMI have not but I may rent it just to find out.
Posted by: LMC at April 29, 2005 05:26 PMSheila: I will always have a place in my heart for Nastassja Kinski, in my part because of P.J. O'Rourke's saying she was one of the things he was "for" in describing his politics.
Posted by: Dave J at May 1, 2005 06:51 PMI'll have to go back and re-visit "Tess." I remember liking the strawberry scene quite a bit at the time. Must have been the hormones...
Posted by: Chrees at May 2, 2005 04:06 PM
