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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!

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

[Link is in Polish.]

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.

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

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...)

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

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.

Nagra inventor, Stefan Kudelski

Ed Koch

Reg Presley of The Troggs.

Make-up genius Stuart Freeborn.

Tea and Sympathy star John Kerr.

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

Black Wave director Krsto Papić.

Article in Croation.

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

Jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd.

Editor Gerry Hambling.

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

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

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.

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