“But when there’s a film that has been seen by very few and discussed by many, a film that people are aware of but has been taken away, then it becomes cult.”

“You can find pretty much anything you want from the history of cinema these days,” says Paul Vickery, head of programming at London’s Prince Charles Cinema, a two-screen site famed for its regular movie marathons (including a recurring Nicolas Cage triple feature) and monthly showings of Tommy Wiseau’s so-bad-it-is-good masterpiece The Room. It’s also a movie he wrote, produced, directed, self-financed and stars in (as the lead, no less) and a film that had something of a contentious start when it first came to public attention in 2018, after which it promptly - and mysteriously - vanished from sight.Īnd for one cinema programmer, that’s exactly what gives Blackbird its cult credentials. And it’s a film whose cult status has been attained, rather uniquely, without anybody having seen it.īlackbird, the feature directorial debut of famed, fast-footed Lord of the Dance and Riverdance legend Michael Flatley, is “a spy thriller of the classic genre,” according to the 64-year-old Bostonian.

It’s far from it - a 4-year-old cult film from a first-time filmmaker better known for throwing his oiled-up torso across stages around the world. She was so attractive and the men looked ordinary and I never understood it.French TV Merger Called Off After Antitrust Probe She had lots of male friends, but they never seemed worthy. “She was very beautiful, very understated. It was upsetting to find out,” Smith said. Marcelle D’Argy Smith, the former editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, was one of her unwitting friends. In 2012, Maria Adela, who was actually the daughter of a colonel in the Russian military, married a purportedly Italian man.īut he was in reality Ecuadoran and Russian, and he died mysteriously at the age of 30 due to “double pneumonia and systemic lupus”.Īfter his death, she settled down in Naples and began befriending NATO diplomats. She told European friends that she had been abandoned in Russia by her Peruvian mother and raised by an abusive family. A US Navy officer said he had a “little crush” on her.

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