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Drowning By Numbers is in my top ten favourite films!Also, he was right about Peter Greenaway. RIP.
Quite like The Draughtsman's Contract, too.
Drowning By Numbers is in my top ten favourite films!Also, he was right about Peter Greenaway. RIP.
It's a mystery to me that Greenaway has earned a living from his films. Most of them are really obscure and made no money.He hated Greenaway's films, and said if he made another one he (Parker) would leave the country. Which he did.
They mayIt's a mystery to me that Greenaway has earned a living from his films. Most of them are really obscure and made no money.
Grants and prizes from arts groups!It's a mystery to me that Greenaway has earned a living from his films. Most of them are really obscure and made no money.
?They. Hitting not have made a huge amount of money but he still got paid to make them. And I enjoy him![]()
Guess that would be it.Grants and prizes from arts groups!
I like a bit of Peter Greenaway. Then again, in the 1980s Film Studies was my minor subject at university – so I'm allowed to like his oeuvre! I think I saw all his 80s films at the cinema apart from The Falls, and remember liking The Draughtsman's Contract, Drowning by Numbers and The Cook... Michael Nyman's soundtracks always worked well too.Drowning By Numbers is in my top ten favourite films!
Quite like The Draughtsman's Contract, too.
I seem to recall seeing that on TV. Isn't that the film where Shadey deliberately sits in a sink, hands the evil protagonist a knife and goads them to stab him? Whereupon he gets stabbed in the nads and is hauled off to get a sex change....even going to see real obscurities such as the now-forgotten Shadey (written by fellow UEA graduate Snoo Wilson)...
Autocorrect, edited to make sense!
I hate Greenaway's films, but I already live in another country, so there's that.He hated Greenaway's films, and said if he made another one he (Parker) would leave the country. Which he did.
I have been reminiscing since and as happens nowadays, discovered a gold mine of previously unseen, to myself, footage of his artistry, especially blues related.Ahhhh Peter Green... I'm sad to hear that, he was very talented. I first loved Fleetwood Mac for rumours/tusk/tango in the night etc. However discovering their earlier era with Peter Green was like finding a whole other amazing band to explore, a bit of a revelation really. RIP.
Respectfully, this is my aforesaid recollection as clarified within Wikipedia:Such was Peter Green's majestic touch of feeling for playing blues, BB King remarked that Green was the only blues guitarist who ever made him shiver...
Concise!!I hate Greenaway's films, but I already live in another country, so there's that.
He seems to have been one of those actors who was old forever. RIPWilford Brimley from The Thing, The Firm, Cocoon and a number of westerns on the big and small screen (and much else). If the name doesn't sound familiar, the face will be recalled--and his fantastic voice will likely come into your head.
Unfortunately, He died last night after two months of kidney problems.
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RIP
I very much enjoyed his work. When he was in Cocoon, he was a lot younger than the other actors.Wilford Brimley from The Thing, The Firm, Cocoon and a number of westerns on the big and small screens (and much else). If the name doesn't sound familiar, the face will be recalled--and his fantastic voice will likely come into your head.
Unfortunately, He died last night after two months of kidney problems.
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Can we have Jack Lemmon back, too, please? He was a great actor.He's really good being frustratingly calm as Jack Lemmon gets ever more panicky in The China Syndrome.
70's Jack Lemmon is awesome - that film and his performance is epic.Can we have Jack Lemmon back, too, please? He was a great actor.
This is pretty good.
"I'm on your side. So you'll do exactly as you are told."
That's quite sad that he thought The Thing was rubbish. (do you have links?), I think it is the best horror movie ever made. He is excellent in the movie - makes it what it is - when he says he "wants to come in now and he's all better" is amazing. There is real fear in his voice - just brilliant.He was 49 when he made Cocoon! He also thought The Thing was rubbish. And he was a strong advocate of cockfighting. Quite a guy, but he did give us this:
Most epic riding away from an explosion scene evah! RIP.
A brilliant comic actor, and underrated as a dramatic actor. Just like his buddy Walter Matthau.Can we have Jack Lemmon back, too, please? He was a great actor.
The Thing quote is on his bio page at IMDB. I guess there weren't enough horses in it for him.That's quite sad that he thought The Thing was rubbish. (do you have links?), I think it is the best horror movie ever made. He is excellent in the movie - makes it what it is - when he says he "wants to come in now and he's all better" is amazing. There is real fear in his voice - just brilliant.
Yes, thank goodness for people like him or the Troubles could still be going on at full pelt. RIP.Sad to see that John Hume has passed away. He did so much for the Irish peace process and was deservedly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with David Trimble.
Bill English: Computer mouse co-creator dies at 91
The co-creator of the computer mouse, William English, has died aged 91.
The engineer and inventor was born in 1929 in Kentucky and studied electrical engineering at university before joining the US Navy.
He built the first mouse in 1963, using an idea put forward by his colleague Doug Engelbart while the pair were working on early computing.
It would only become commonplace two decades later, when personal home computers became popular.
Very sad - but what an achievement to have under your belt at the pearly gates. Hume, the late Seamus Mallon, Trimble - politicians in a time and a place when it took genuine heroism to be one, especially if you avowedly despised the way of the gun.Sad to see that John Hume has passed away. He did so much for the Irish peace process and was deservedly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with David Trimble.
The Daily Telegraph, in its own sweet time, published the CP Lee obituary yesterday and it was a respectful combination of facts and obvious affection. (Subscription only on website so no reference). The Albertos based their name in 1972 on the then popular Latin American folk outfit