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#9476 Post by domino harvey » Mon Oct 11, 2021 3:04 pm

His Arif was a great secondary character who was admittedly overshadowed by design by Said but who also helped to highlight his strengths, hypocrisies, and struggles by his omnipresence in the orbit. So much ridiculous talent in the series, wish more were able to have the breakout success of JK Simmons after the series

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#9477 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Mon Oct 11, 2021 4:35 pm

domino harvey wrote:
Mon Oct 11, 2021 3:04 pm
His Arif was a great secondary character who was admittedly overshadowed by design by Said but who also helped to highlight his strengths, hypocrisies, and struggles by his omnipresence in the orbit. So much ridiculous talent in the series, wish more were able to have the breakout success of JK Simmons after the series
The anecdote Lee Tergesen tells about texting Simmons after winning an Academy Award is a good one

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#9478 Post by domino harvey » Mon Oct 11, 2021 5:20 pm

flyonthewall2983 wrote:
Mon Oct 11, 2021 4:35 pm
domino harvey wrote:
Mon Oct 11, 2021 3:04 pm
His Arif was a great secondary character who was admittedly overshadowed by design by Said but who also helped to highlight his strengths, hypocrisies, and struggles by his omnipresence in the orbit. So much ridiculous talent in the series, wish more were able to have the breakout success of JK Simmons after the series
The anecdote Lee Tergesen tells about texting Simmons after winning an Academy Award is a good one
Wow, this whole thing was such a great read. Only spoilers for season one in it, too, for anyone not all the way through the series

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#9479 Post by MichaelB » Tue Oct 12, 2021 8:15 am

Veteran Disney animator Ruthie Tompson, at the age of 111. Her credits go back to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

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#9480 Post by bearcuborg » Tue Oct 12, 2021 9:47 am

domino harvey wrote:
Mon Oct 11, 2021 5:20 pm
flyonthewall2983 wrote:
Mon Oct 11, 2021 4:35 pm
domino harvey wrote:
Mon Oct 11, 2021 3:04 pm
His Arif was a great secondary character who was admittedly overshadowed by design by Said but who also helped to highlight his strengths, hypocrisies, and struggles by his omnipresence in the orbit. So much ridiculous talent in the series, wish more were able to have the breakout success of JK Simmons after the series
The anecdote Lee Tergesen tells about texting Simmons after winning an Academy Award is a good one
Wow, this whole thing was such a great read. Only spoilers for season one in it, too, for anyone not all the way through the series
I picked up the DVD boxset from Walmart this past summer, it’s well worth it for $30 (the sale at the time). There are several hours of wonderful commentaries. Watching it again, I found myself laughing a lot more. You can see how much fun the cast had.

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#9481 Post by L.A. » Tue Oct 12, 2021 12:01 pm

Deon Estus, bassist for Wham! and George Michael.

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#9487 Post by dadaistnun » Fri Oct 22, 2021 10:00 am

Martha Henry, renowned Canadian stage actress. Offstage, she mostly did Canadian tv. One of her few film roles was in Olivier Assayas's Clean as the mother of Maggie Cheung's boyfriend. She's not in the film much, but the scene where she & Nick Nolte
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#9488 Post by Mr Sausage » Fri Oct 22, 2021 12:35 pm

dadaistnun wrote:Martha Henry, renowned Canadian stage actress. Offstage, she mostly did Canadian tv. One of her few film roles was in Olivier Assayas's Clean as the mother of Maggie Cheung's boyfriend. She's not in the film much, but the scene where she & Nick Nolte
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receive the news of their son's death is very well done: shot from afar, no dialogue audible, just her stricken body language to convey what she's been told.
Wow, she was a staple at the Shakespeare festival in Stratford, Ontario. I saw her many times growing up, and was lucky to see her bravura turn as Prospero in The Tempest a few years ago.

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#9490 Post by cdnchris » Fri Oct 22, 2021 1:58 pm


Mr Sausage wrote:
dadaistnun wrote:Martha Henry, renowned Canadian stage actress. Offstage, she mostly did Canadian tv. One of her few film roles was in Olivier Assayas's Clean as the mother of Maggie Cheung's boyfriend. She's not in the film much, but the scene where she & Nick Nolte
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receive the news of their son's death is very well done: shot from afar, no dialogue audible, just her stricken body language to convey what she's been told.
Wow, she was a staple at the Shakespeare festival in Stratford, Ontario. I saw her many times growing up, and was lucky to see her bravura turn as Prospero in The Tempest a few years ago.
Yep, recall seeing her perform a few times in high school, and she was well known around town, so this one's a bit more impactful personally. Sadly, I haven't been back at the theater since, maybe, 2001 or so...

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#9491 Post by swo17 » Fri Oct 22, 2021 4:40 pm

Halyna Hutchins discussion moved here

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#9493 Post by L.A. » Fri Oct 29, 2021 4:12 pm

Wakefield Poole passed away on Wednesday. He was 85.

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#9495 Post by colinr0380 » Sat Oct 30, 2021 1:04 pm

L.A. wrote:
Fri Oct 29, 2021 4:12 pm
Wakefield Poole passed away on Wednesday. He was 85.
Out of those films released on DVD by Vinegar Syndrome I still have Take One and The Boys In The Sand in my 'to watch' pile but Bible! (here's the opening of Samson and Delilah, which is just as worthy of putting next to the likes of Ken Russell or Derek Jarman) and Bijou (NSFW: this is the section that goes a bit Blind Beast) are amazing pieces of work.
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#9496 Post by colinr0380 » Sat Oct 30, 2021 1:22 pm

Bollywood actor Puneeth Rajkumar at 46 from a heart attack.

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#9497 Post by ianthemovie » Sat Oct 30, 2021 1:42 pm

colinr0380 wrote:
Sat Oct 30, 2021 1:04 pm
L.A. wrote:
Fri Oct 29, 2021 4:12 pm
Wakefield Poole passed away on Wednesday. He was 85.
Out of those films released on DVD by Vinegar Syndrome I still have Take One and The Boys In The Sand in my 'to watch' pile but Bible! (here's the opening of Samson and Delilah, which is just as good as putting next to the likes of Ken Russell or Derek Jarman) and Bijou (NSFW: this is the section that goes a bit Blind Beast) are amazing pieces of work.
That clip from Bible! makes me want to see the rest! Judging from the Bible stories it deals with it sounds like Poole's attempt to cross over into straight soft-core (or is it more sexually explicit than that?)

I saw Bijou years ago and didn't really think it worked all that well, but it's an admirable effort. Boys in the Sand was apparently a quite groundbreaking film in its day and is worth seeing. Of all the gay hard-core filmmakers of that era Poole was one of the most artistic and serious-minded (for better or worse). He came out of the NY arts scene and, like Radley Metzger, he certainly had an eye not just for filming sex but also for mise-en-scene and camerawork.

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#9498 Post by colinr0380 » Sat Oct 30, 2021 1:47 pm

ianthemovie wrote:
Sat Oct 30, 2021 1:42 pm
That clip from Bible! makes me want to see the rest! Judging from the Bible stories it deals with it sounds like Poole's attempt to cross over into straight soft-core (or is it more sexually explicit than that?)
Bible! is very much softcore and often features a quite funny and irreverent take on the Bible stories. The David and Bathsheba episode is kind of done as one of those slapstick slamming door bedchamber-swapping farces! Although the rest are a bit more serious such as Samson and Delilah and the opening Creation (NSFW) sequence.

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#9499 Post by L.A. » Sat Oct 30, 2021 2:13 pm

colinr0380 wrote:
Sat Oct 30, 2021 1:04 pm
L.A. wrote:
Fri Oct 29, 2021 4:12 pm
Wakefield Poole passed away on Wednesday. He was 85.
Out of those films released on DVD by Vinegar Syndrome I still have Take One and The Boys In The Sand in my 'to watch' pile but Bible! (here's the opening of Samson and Delilah, which is just as worthy of putting next to the likes of Ken Russell or Derek Jarman) and Bijou (NSFW: this is the section that goes a bit Blind Beast) are amazing pieces of work.
After reading this I remembered a film that was an influence on William Friedkin’s Cruising. What was it? 🤔

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#9500 Post by L.A. » Sat Oct 30, 2021 3:06 pm

L.A. wrote:
Sat Oct 30, 2021 2:13 pm
After reading this I remembered a film that was an influence on William Friedkin’s Cruising. What was it? 🤔
New York City Inferno (Jacques Scandelari, 1978), that’s it.

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