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Post by Calidore on Aug 5, 2023 20:10:54 GMT -5
R.I.P. to Italian comics creator Saverio Tenuta (Legend of the Scarlet Blade, Izuna, The Mask of Fudo, et al), who has passed away at 54. I read at least one of those series a while back and would like to do the full trilogy one day. I remember that the stories were good and the art was eye-popping.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 7, 2023 17:00:36 GMT -5
R. I. P. character actor Mark Margolis, best known for playing Hector Salamanca in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. He also appeared in dozens of movies and other television shows.  |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 7, 2023 17:08:23 GMT -5
Also R. I. P. director William Friedkin who directed a number of hugely successful films including The French Connection and The Exorcist. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 7, 2023 21:49:03 GMT -5
R. I. P. character actor Mark Margolis, best known for playing Hector Salamanca in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. He also appeared in dozens of movies and other television shows. My only major encounter with him, apart from a few of films (Defiance, Thomas Crown Affair, The Wrestler) was as Jimmy, in The Equalizer. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 7, 2023 21:57:39 GMT -5
Also R. I. P. director William Friedkin who directed a number of hugely successful films including The French Connection and The Exorcist. Friedkin was such a good director, but I am more partial to To Live and Die in LA, than The French Connection (and I never saw The Exorcist). The Night They Raided Minsky's is an old favorite, about the Burlesque showman, and he did a great tv version of 12 Angry Men, with Jack Lemon, in the Peter Fonda role. The cast was pretty interesting, with Ossie Davis, Edward James Olmos, Tony Danza and a few more, with people cast against expectations. Olmos was cast as the little foreign man, but he played him as Eastern European, not Latino. You also have Hume Cronin, George C Scott, Armin Mueller Stahl, James Gandolfini, Dorian Harewood, Courtney Vance and Mary Mcdonnell, as the judge. Cruising is not what I would call a great film, but it is an interesting one, depending on your sensibilities and how squeamish you are about the Leatherboy scene, at the center of things. It took a ton of criticism, some justly, some not. It also spawned a pretty fun, if rather dark SCTV sketch, with The Cruisin' Gourmet. Sorcerer has been on my list to watch, for a while. |
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Post by Calidore on Aug 8, 2023 13:13:55 GMT -5
Sorcerer has been on my list to watch, for a while. Sorcerer is IMO one of the best ever Hollywood remakes of a foreign film. It's different enough that I can recommend watching Wages of Fear and Sorcerer back to back. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 8, 2023 21:57:50 GMT -5
R. I. P. character actor Mark Margolis, best known for playing Hector Salamanca in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. He also appeared in dozens of movies and other television shows. Creepily unforgettable in "Gone, Baby, Gone" also.  |
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Post by foxley on Aug 9, 2023 2:38:04 GMT -5
Sorcerer has been on my list to watch, for a while. Sorcerer is IMO one of the best ever Hollywood remakes of a foreign film. It's different enough that I can recommend watching Wages of Fear and Sorcerer back to back. Maybe I should check it it out. I've never been a fan of American remakes of foreign films, as too often they seem to completely miss the point of the original. Even the decent ones seem to exist only because many Americans are too lazy to read subtitles. And I really couldn't understand how anyone could have the hubris to remake a film as close to perfect as The Wages of Fear. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Aug 9, 2023 15:27:46 GMT -5
Well, crap. Just saw the news that songwriter/singer/musician Robbie Robertson has died at the age of 80, apparently after a long illness.  He was probably best known for his work as a member of The Band, for which he wrote or co-wrote some of their best known songs; however, good as that material is, I think I always preferred his solo efforts, particularly his first, untitled album from 1987 and Contact from the Underworld of Redboy from 1998. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 9, 2023 15:48:14 GMT -5
Well, crap. Just saw the news that songwriter/singer/musician Robbie Robertson has died at the age of 80, apparently after a long illness. He was probably best known for his work as a member of The Band, for which he wrote or co-wrote some of their best known songs; however, good as that material is, I think I always preferred his solo efforts, particularly his first, untitled album from 1987 and Contact from the Underworld of Redboy from 1998. I don't think any of his solo work is particularly interesting at all, which probably leads me to believe that he puffed the amount of writing he did with The Band. Be that as it may, he was clearly an important figure in an important group. |
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Post by Calidore on Aug 9, 2023 18:14:48 GMT -5
Sorcerer is IMO one of the best ever Hollywood remakes of a foreign film. It's different enough that I can recommend watching Wages of Fear and Sorcerer back to back. Maybe I should check it it out. I've never been a fan of American remakes of foreign films, as too often they seem to completely miss the point of the original. Even the decent ones seem to exist only because many Americans are too lazy to read subtitles. And I really couldn't understand how anyone could have the hubris to remake a film as close to perfect as The Wages of Fear.
I think your first sentence could apply to any country's remakes of another country's works. Sturgeon's Law always applies. But then you have gems like A Fistful of Dollars, which is an Italian remake of an excellent Japanese adaptation of an American noir novel.
As for remaking WoF, I guess it's a matter of what the artist thinks he can bring to it. Of three major changes Friedkin made to the original that come to mind offhand, I really liked one, didn't like another, and the third was six of one, half-dozen of another (but led to the change I liked). Then there are also plenty of smaller changes, plus beautiful widescreen color cinematography and Tangerine Dream's first film score.
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Post by Confessor on Aug 9, 2023 19:41:26 GMT -5
Well, crap. Just saw the news that songwriter/singer/musician Robbie Robertson has died at the age of 80, apparently after a long illness. He was probably best known for his work as a member of The Band, for which he wrote or co-wrote some of their best known songs; however, good as that material is, I think I always preferred his solo efforts, particularly his first, untitled album from 1987 and Contact from the Underworld of Redboy from 1998. I like The Band just fine, but I'm not crazy over them. Though two of my best friends and band mates are HUGE fans. Like Slam, I've never liked any of his solo output that I've heard. But I don't necessarily think that means he didn't write everything he was credited with writing: I just think that like John Fogerty, he had a burst of a few years of quality songwriting which just happened to coincide with his time working in a band with a bunch of very talented musicians, which of course enhanced his songs no end. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 10, 2023 11:45:40 GMT -5
R. I. P. Johnny Hardwick. Hardwick was the voice of Dale Gribble on King of the Hill and also acted as a writer and producer on the show. If nothing else he taught us to always be wary of pocket sand. |
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Post by tartanphantom on Aug 10, 2023 11:52:14 GMT -5
I didn't discover him until the award-winning documentary, "Searching for Sugar Man".
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Post by Batflunkie on Aug 10, 2023 11:55:21 GMT -5
R. I. P. Johnny Hardwick. Hardwick was the voice of Dale Gribble on King of the Hill and also acted as a writer and producer on the show. If nothing else he taught us to always be wary of pocket sand. Yeah, that sucks. Him dying didn't hit me as hard as Paul Reubens last week, but still, I loved Dale Gribble. He was probably one of my favorite characters in any tv show |
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