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#3901 Post by The Narrator Returns » Tue Mar 05, 2013 6:04 pm

Not necessarily pop-culture (although he did appear in that Oliver Stone documentary), but Hugo Chavez.

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#3902 Post by matrixschmatrix » Tue Mar 05, 2013 6:09 pm

Well, shit

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#3903 Post by Mr Sausage » Tue Mar 05, 2013 7:18 pm

Talk about Chavez' death here, please.

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#3910 Post by Cold Bishop » Fri Mar 08, 2013 6:14 am

Great filmmaker who never quite received serious attention here in the States. Probably since his most high profile film here is Amityville II (which is a lot better than its reputation sometimes suggests). But the first series of La Piovra alone should secure his legacy to those who are willing to dig into his filmography.

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#3911 Post by Graham » Fri Mar 08, 2013 7:59 am

The Most Beautiful Wife is one among many great Damiano films that deserve greater recognition.

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#3912 Post by colinr0380 » Fri Mar 08, 2013 1:45 pm

The Franco Nero starring How To Kill A Judge is also a pretty neat political thriller.

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#3914 Post by MichaelB » Thu Mar 14, 2013 8:54 am

British documentarist Michael Grigsby, a Free Cinema pioneer (Enginemen, Tomorrow's Saturday) who went on to have a distinguished career in television.

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#3915 Post by MichaelB » Mon Mar 18, 2013 8:29 am

Frank Thornton, a prolific British character actor, mostly in comedy, probably best known for Captain Peacock in Are You Being Served?.

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#3918 Post by Perkins Cobb » Wed Mar 20, 2013 11:12 am

And writer-director of the excellent Panic (2001).

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#3919 Post by antnield » Wed Mar 20, 2013 2:19 pm

British horror author James Herbert.

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#3921 Post by colinr0380 » Wed Mar 20, 2013 6:35 pm

A real shame to hear about James Herbert – an even bigger shame is that Herbert was never really treated that well in adaptations to the screen, especially compared with the voracious appetite the cinema and television has for Stephen King’s very similar works. Although I guess the way that most of his works are epic scaled probably prevents them from being made on a small to medium sized budget – you couldn’t easily recreate a post-nuclear war London or global catastrophes without needing a Roland Emmerich-sized production! And even if that was possible then you likely couldn't do the spectacular gore scenes that would also be necessary to properly capture the tone of the novels!

(Although I have often thought that Creed – the amoral paparrazi getting his just deserts story - would make a brilliant film, and could even benefit from getting transferred to a US setting. In my wildest imaginings I’d like to think of any film of that novel fitting in tonally with something like Polanski’s The Ninth Gate. Shrine could also neatly fit in with the current trend for The Last Exorcism-style religious horrors, though without the modern shakeycam element. I also think the alternate history novel set in a post-WW2 plague ravaged London – ’48 – could be done as a fantastic Indiana Jones-esque adventure film, full of American heroes out-motorbiking Nazi foes across London wastelands, with the British characters hanging around in eveningwear in ballrooms being vaguely duplicitous, and with an exploding Tower Bridge finale! Although if you want Indiana Jones-antics, The Spear probably fits best into the idea of the search for fabled Biblical artefacts while battling neo-Nazis!)

I guess because of budget and violence considerations it has mainly been his ghost stories that have reached the screen: The Survivor in 1980 (directed by David Hemmings and starring Robert Powell, Jenny Agutter and Joseph Cotton and relocated to Australia - a great film about guilt of surviving a plane crash that unfortunately relies too heavily on supernatural deaths in the mid-section. But it looks amazing throughout, using its widescreen very effectively); Haunted in 1995 (directed by Lewis Gilbert with Kate Beckinsale, Anna Massey and John Gielgud and very much taking cues from both The Haunting and The Innocents, unfortunately to its detriment. I much prefer the second book featuring the main character, the paranormal investigator David Ash, The Ghosts of Sleath, which is an excellent ‘dark underbelly of a seemingly idyllic village’ ghost story. The same (by this point much traumatised and extremely unlucky in love!) main character is also the subject of Herbert’s now final novel, Ash); and the recent BBC television adaptation of The Secret of Crickley Hall.

(EDIT: I forgot about that early 80s version of The Rats, but then I think forgetting that film is for the best!)

The one non-ghost story film so far was that mid-90s adaptation of Fluke starring Matthew Modine. Although it doesn't involve huge set piece action or visceral gore scenes that was quite a problematic book to adapt in its own way as it involves telling the story of a man killed in an accident getting reincarnated in the body of a dog and trying to keep himself together in order to save his family before the memories of his previous life are overwhelmed by his new doggy persona. While its not a bad film it is hard to untangle it from all the cinema tropes of the time, with it only feeling as if it got made because it involves a mix of cute-doggy antics popularised from the Beethoven films, Look Who’s Talking-style wacky voiceover and a moment where a father who had little time for his son finally gets to bond with him in a new form which kind of anticipates that Jack Frost film!
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#3923 Post by Rufus T. Firefly » Fri Mar 22, 2013 3:56 am

Risë Stevens, would have turned 100 in June.

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#3925 Post by triodelover » Fri Mar 22, 2013 10:21 am

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:Risë Stevens, would have turned 100 in June.
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