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Post by mortsahlfan on Nov 10, 2021 15:21:06 GMT
Director, musician, writer, actor, comedian, etc... For better or for worse. Their work or their personality.
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Post by Ollie Vander on Nov 10, 2021 15:47:50 GMT
Orry-Kelly was just another familiar name on the screen until I watched this very interesting documentary. What a long, varied and productive career he had !  IMDb linkCostume designer: Movie (298 credits) ! |
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Post by mgmarshall on Nov 10, 2021 18:51:48 GMT
That Cursed Films doc on Shudder really left me with a sour impression of John Landis.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Nov 10, 2021 19:19:22 GMT
That Cursed Films doc on Shudder really left me with a sour impression of John Landis. I'm surprised he was able find work after The Twilight Zone Movie.
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Post by ck100 on Nov 10, 2021 19:28:06 GMT
That Cursed Films doc on Shudder really left me with a sour impression of John Landis. I'm surprised he was able find work after The Twilight Zone Movie. I've heard he only got the job for Coming To America based on Eddie Murphy's doing. That Paramount didn't want to hire him because of the trial, but Eddie insisted because he liked working with him, wanted to give him a break, and had director approval.
"We had a tussling confrontation… We didn't come to blows. Personalities didn't mesh. ... He directed me in Trading Places when I was just starting out as a kid, but he was still treating me like a kid five years later during Coming to America. And I hired him to direct the movie! I was gonna direct Coming to America myself, but I knew that Landis had just done three fucked-up pictures in a row and that his career was hanging by a thread after the Twilight Zone trial. I figured the guy was nice to me when I did Trading Places, so I'd give him a shot… I was going out of my way to help this guy, and he fucked me over. Now he's got a hit picture on his resumé, a movie that made over $200 million, as opposed to him coming off a couple of fucked-up movies – which is where I'd rather see him be right now."
"Yes. He'd done four fucked up movies in a row and I knew he'd spent a lot of money on his trial. I went to Paramount and said I wanted to use Landis. But they had reservations, His career was fucked up. But I said, "I'm gonna use Landis." I liked the guy. I used to always say that the one fun experience I had with a director--and I've worked with directors I really liked: Martin Brest, Walter Hill, Tony Scott - was with Landis, because he plays around a lot on the set. I made Paramount hire him."
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Post by Archelaus on Nov 11, 2021 19:10:37 GMT
Reading Pictures at a Revolution by Mark Harris made me think negatively of Rex Harrison. I don't think I had a strong opinion of him before, but he was delightful as Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady and well cast as Julius Caesar in Cleopatra. Reading of his behavior during filming of Doctor Dolittle made it hard to like him. He was difficult to work with, and he was apparently jealous of his co-star Anthony Newley. According to Newley, Harrison made some alleged anti-Semitic remarks.
Reading Stanley Kubrick: A Biography by James Baxter changed my perspective. I thought of him previously as a cold, intellectual, and obsessively demanding director. The book humanized him a little bit because I relate with him being a shy and awkward teen, and him being a family man. I think his fear of flying in airplanes is understandable given the recent airplane crashes and disappearances in the past decade.
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