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Post by teleadm on Jun 4, 2021 18:34:05 GMT
Over 150 movies and television productions on his CV, with five movies in post-production, two filming, and two in pre-production. “If you think I’m gonna retire so Jimmy fxxxxng Caan can get another part from me, you’re dead wrong. Because I’m gonna go till I’m 100. My goal is to do stuff with older characters that people never got the chance to do, because they never lived long enough... And because I don’t have anything else I can do." He studied at The Actors Studio under Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg. In 1956, he starred with Lyle Kessler in the Philadelphia premiere of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and in 1959 he had a small role in the original Broadway run of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, directed by Elia Kazan and starring Paul Newman and Geraldine Page. He cornered the marked of unstable characters, especially in the 1970's. Interviewed in 2017 "I always say that I feel like I’ve worked for six geniuses in my career... And the six directors, not in any order, would be Mr. Kazan, Mr. Hitchcock, Douglas Trumbull, Alexander Payne, Quentin Tarantino, and Francis Coppola." The formative years: Marnie, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, Hang 'em High, Support Your Local Sheriff! and They Shoot Horses Don't They. Then came the 1970's when everything was possible, even killing John Wayne as he did in The Cowboys. Earning his first Oscar nomination for Coming Home 1978, the other pics are from The Cowboys, Silent Running, The King Of Marvin Gardens, Posse, Family Plot, Black Sunday and The DriverThe came the 1980's, 1990's and 2000's. Earning a razzie nomination, for Tatoo and then bouncing back winning the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival for his performance in Jason Miller's That Championship Season 1982 (one of the few prices he's actually won). He continued to act in TV made movies and never heard of movies. Nebraska 2013 was his second Oscar Nomination, While he lost he seems to have work for another 20 years! as movie offers keeps pouring in Thanks for watching! Sure I forgot a lot! Oppinions of all kinds are welcome!
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Post by petrolino on Jun 4, 2021 18:45:28 GMT
Happy Birthday, Mr. Dern.
I have the new blu-ray of 'Smile' (1975), though I've not unwrapped it yet. I'm a Michael Ritchie fan so was willing to pay the big bucks. It's reviewed by jeffersoncody on the current weekly thread.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jun 4, 2021 18:45:56 GMT
He was very good in BLACK SUNDAY.
Good laughs in Support Your Local Sheriff with the jail cell he couldn't leave. And he faced the Zanti Misfits.
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 4, 2021 18:51:39 GMT
A favorite character actor. Yes, he killed the Duke in The Cowboys but only because the Duke killed him in The War Wagon. He played "The Loser" in The Wild Angels. Here the gang is about to get into a fight with some Mexicans who they call "taco benders".
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 4, 2021 18:52:43 GMT
Happy Birthday, Mr. Dern.
I have the new blu-ray of 'Smile' (1975), though I've not unwrapped it yet. I'm a Michael Ritchie fan so was willing to pay the big bucks. It's reviewed by jeffersoncody on the current weekly thread.
Smile is a hidden gem. A fine performance by Dern as a believer in America set in a time of declining faith.
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 4, 2021 18:55:38 GMT
"His paternal grandfather, George, was a Utah governor and Secretary of War (he was serving in the latter position during the time of Bruce's birth). Dern's maternal grandfather was a Vice President of the Carson, Pirie and Scott stores,[6][7] which were established by his own father, Scottish-born businessman Andrew MacLeish. Dern's maternal granduncle was poet Archibald MacLeish. His godfather was Illinois governor and two-time presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson II.
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Post by wmcclain on Jun 5, 2021 0:32:21 GMT
I'm working through the single-season "Stoney Burke" series and he was a regular in the first half, then vanished. I wonder what happened?
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Post by OldAussie on Jun 5, 2021 1:05:52 GMT
Jack Nicholson was once asked who the best actors were and he said something like " The fool on the hill (Brando) and Dernsy"
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Post by petrolino on Jun 5, 2021 2:09:48 GMT
Jack Nicholson was once asked who the best actors were and he said something like " The fool on the hill (Brando) and Dernsy"
"Bruce Dern went to college for a few years, decided it was not for him, dropped out and went to drama school. He then made his way to New York, where he drove a cab while hoping to get an audition at the legendary Actors Studio, run by Strasberg, a great champion of so-called method acting and the teacher of, among others, Al Pacino, James Dean and Robert De Niro. Eventually, Dern got a coveted audition: “I did this little scene from Waiting for Godot and afterwards Mr Kazan and Mr Strasberg said to me: ‘Congratulations, you’re a member of the Actors Studio. For your first year, you’ll act in as many scenes as you can, but you won’t have any dialogue.’ I said: ‘What?!’ They said: ‘We don’t want you to learn how to act; we want you to learn how to behave.’ So, wait … did you ever see Nebraska?” “Oh good, you’ve done your homework. OK, well, that’s an example of what I’m talking about, the behaving. When Al Pacino saw it, he called me the next day. He said: ‘So I saw your film,’ and I said: ‘Yessir,’ and then there was silence for 15 seconds. And he said: ‘How did you do it? Because I couldn’t see the work,’” Dern says with pride. His one regret about Nebraska “was that Mr Kazan was not alive to see the performance”. When people talk about method acting now, they generally think of Daniel Day-Lewis insisting he is addressed by everyone as Hamlet. But, for Dern, it simply means seeing no distinction between the character and himself. That means when he is playing the character, he is not performing; he is reacting, or behaving, as Kazan and Strasberg would say. This also means throwing in some little ad-libs as the character, something he has become so known for that his close friend Jack Nicholson calls them “Dernsies”. “I behave and every now and again the words I say are better than what the writer wrote, because I’m in the moment, but when he’s writing it down while eating a peanut butter sandwich at four in the morning he’s not in the moment,” Dern says. It was the Dernsies that threw Pitt at first, but Tarantino, who cast Dern in Once Upon a Time, The Hateful Eight and Django Unchained, can’t get enough of them: “Quentin is the best with me, because he allows me more freedom than anyone,” says Dern. So, eventually, Pitt came round. “Brad said to me: ‘My God, I get it. We don’t know when you’re acting!’ And Quentin said: ‘He’s not acting, he’s behaving!’” laughs Dern. By this point, we have now gone about half an hour over the interview’s time limit and the PR tries to end things. It is like a raindrop arguing with a snow plough: “What? No, we’re not done. Are you worried about the time or money? Don’t worry about it!” Dern tells her. And so, like Pitt, we sit back and let Dern be Dern."
- Hadley Freeman, The Guardian
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jun 5, 2021 4:07:11 GMT
And he's still actively working! He's got several new movies lined up, either in post or pre-production.
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Post by teleadm on Jun 5, 2021 23:01:08 GMT
Happy Birthday, Mr. Dern.
I have the new blu-ray of 'Smile' (1975), though I've not unwrapped it yet. I'm a Michael Ritchie fan so was willing to pay the big bucks. It's reviewed by jeffersoncody on the current weekly thread.
Smile 1975 has been high on my re-watch list for ages!
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Post by politicidal on Jun 6, 2021 15:39:16 GMT
He was a great villain in The Cowboys.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Jun 6, 2021 18:15:56 GMT
Saw him in the new indie crime flick DEATH IN TEXAS (2021) - which was better than I thought it would be, just this weekend. Dern chews up the scenery to great effect as the debauched villain; the leader of a drug cartel. Hell, he even takes part in a wild west style shoot out with John Ashton. Dern is not going quietly into that good night. He was also terrific in MR MERCEDES on Cable, and THE ARTIST'S WIFE recently.
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