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Re: Passages

#3826 Post by MichaelB » Wed Jan 23, 2013 9:50 am

colinr0380 wrote:The idea of Winner being 'the greatest living British filmmaker' is utterly gobsmacking, yet most likely true.
Just to be absolutely clear, I said "Britain's most famous living filmmaker" - which I believe was unarguably true up until Monday (so much so that I'm struggling to think of a runner-up: Ridley Scott, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach and Danny Boyle are probably all famous enough to trigger recognition of their names even among non-film buffs, but I suspect all four could walk down the street with a reasonable chance of not being recognised, which certainly wouldn't have been true of Winner).

But I don't think anybody, least of all Winner himself, would lay claim to him being great!

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#3827 Post by antnield » Wed Jan 23, 2013 9:57 am

Lucyna Winnicka (Mother Joan of the Angels, Night Train)

[Link is in Polish.]

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#3828 Post by thirtyframesasecond » Thu Jan 24, 2013 6:21 am

There's probably a Youtube clip, but one thing Winner did that gets him a lot of credit was going on Richard Littlejohn's chat show in the 90s (I think) and laying into the right-wing gobshite for inviting a group of lesbians on his show and ridiculing them.

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#3829 Post by thirtyframesasecond » Thu Jan 24, 2013 6:23 am

Lucyna is absolutely phenomenal in Mother Joan. An amazing performance.

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#3830 Post by MichaelB » Thu Jan 24, 2013 6:40 am

thirtyframesasecond wrote:There's probably a Youtube clip, but one thing Winner did that gets him a lot of credit was going on Richard Littlejohn's chat show in the 90s (I think) and laying into the right-wing gobshite for inviting a group of lesbians on his show and ridiculing them.
Yes, this was very much his finest hour. Or finest minute, at any rate.

You can see the encounter here.

(That said, "coming across as less loathsome than Richard Littlejohn" should really be normal rather than surprising...)

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#3833 Post by knives » Tue Jan 29, 2013 6:58 pm

Let's hope he didn't fall off of a horse. I am awful.

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#3834 Post by Sloper » Wed Jan 30, 2013 6:59 am

GaryC wrote:Bernard Horsfall
Wow, that gives me a strange feeling... I watched 'The Deadly Assassin' (classic Dr Who title - what other kind of assassin is there?) so many times when I was a child, and Horsfall's performance is indelibly printed on my memory. Especially, of course, that end-of-episode cliffhanger that Mary Whitehouse got worked up about. I used to love the hammy ferocity of Horsfall's delivery there: 'You're finished, Doctor - you're finished!' Happy days.

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#3835 Post by kinjitsu » Wed Jan 30, 2013 7:54 pm

Nagra inventor, Stefan Kudelski


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#3837 Post by domino harvey » Fri Feb 01, 2013 9:52 am

Ed Koch

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#3839 Post by JPJ » Wed Feb 06, 2013 5:31 am

Reg Presley of The Troggs.

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#3840 Post by MichaelB » Wed Feb 06, 2013 2:43 pm

Make-up genius Stuart Freeborn.

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#3841 Post by Perkins Cobb » Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:40 am

Tea and Sympathy star John Kerr.

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#3842 Post by knives » Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:42 am

He was also a bit of fun in the Corman Pit and the Pendulum.

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#3843 Post by tartarlamb » Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:37 pm

Black Wave director Krsto Papić.

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#3844 Post by Dadapass » Thu Feb 07, 2013 10:29 pm

Arpad Miklos - Porn star some may recognize from Perfume Genius' music video for Hood.

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#3845 Post by JPJ » Sat Feb 09, 2013 9:14 am

Jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd.

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#3846 Post by antnield » Mon Feb 11, 2013 1:24 pm


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#3847 Post by ellipsis7 » Mon Feb 11, 2013 5:36 pm

Alan Parker's Hambling obit in The Guardian...

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#3848 Post by Perkins Cobb » Mon Feb 11, 2013 7:34 pm

Alan Sharp, one of the key New Hollywood screenwriters (Ulzana's Raid; Night Moves).

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#3849 Post by colinr0380 » Mon Feb 11, 2013 7:48 pm

He's a great interview subject in that Sam Peckinpah: Man Of Iron documentary that was on the Criterion edition of Straw Dogs (Sharp adapted The Osterman Weekend).

I also want to recommend a couple of the TV movies that he wrote which have stuck in my memory decades after seeing them: Mission of the Shark, the story of the USS Indianapolis being sunk in shark infested waters in 1945; and Descending Angel, the 'is George C. Scott a Nazi-war criminal?' courtroom drama that works as a good companion to the Costa-Gavras film from the year before, Music Box.

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#3850 Post by Perkins Cobb » Mon Feb 11, 2013 8:10 pm

Sharp is also pretty frank regarding his ambivalence about Night Moves in Nat Segaloff's Arthur Penn biography, which I recently read.

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