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At work on the set of The Medusa Touch (1978), directed by Jack Gold (June 28, 1930 – August 9, 2015).
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Play for Today: Bavarian Night (BBC, 1981)
"These bloody middle class parents, ooh, they do get up my nose! You can work yourself blue in the face for them, go out of your way to accommodate them, but it's no use! They're just out to carve and criticise and try to make a fool out of you! Oh, I felt like - I'm ashamed to tell you what I felt like."
"Giving her a good hiding?"
"Yes, somebody should have done, I don't mind saying so! Oh, they make me sick! Always had their own way, always had the best of everything; she should have been brought up in our house, my dad would've had her sorted! I'm sorry, Estelle, this isn't like me, I know. Well, that's my evening spoilt for a start!"
"But what about the sausages?"
#play for today#bavarian night#1981#single play#andrew davies#jack gold#bob peck#sarah badel#malcolm terris#arwen holm#barrie rutter#gawn grainger#kristopher kum#allan surtees#christine hargreaves#noel collins#brian protheroe#jack chissick#karen craig#a comparatively rare original work from Davies‚ who already in 81 was known chiefly for his adaptations of the work of others#a comic piece about a teacher parent social evening which descends into predictable chaos what with the heavy consumption of alcohol and#the loudly decried lack of sausages. Davies' script is frequently very witty‚ sometimes very funny indeed‚ but in a rather grotesque way#you can tell there's little warmth in his writing for most of the characters on display here: the late great Peck is the ostensible lead‚ a#hypocritical intellectual who waxes lyrical about his love for his children but who really just mines them for material for his job as a#scriptwriter; Rutter's would be progressive young head teacher quickly reveals his reactionary‚ petty nature‚ while Grainger is positively#repulsive as a middle class fascist whose desire to teach the younger generation he despises a lesson in manners is tempered only by his#own cowardice. warmth is reserved only for Badel‚ as Peck's cheating wife who at least retains a streak of humanity and a willingness to#stand by her (mildly) socialist principles‚ and particularly for Kum as the sole parent actually interested in learning more about his#daughter's education and progress (and whose bemused response to the increasingly bacchanalian mood of the evening is often the funniest#thing here). a sharp satirical piece on the mores of 80s English suburbia and the petite bourgeoisie‚ and a genuinely funny play
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The Reckoning Jack Gold UK, 1970 ★★★ Alright, whose reckoning are we talking about here?
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#rogue#rogue perfumery#chypre-siam#manuel cross#quentin crisp#the naked civil servant#jack gold#an englishman in new york#richard laxton#partners#james burrows
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The Medusa Touch, Italian lobby card (Fotobusta), 1978
#submission#The Medusa Touch#Jack Gold#Richard Burton#Lee Remick#Lobby Cards#Lobby Card#Fotobusta#Fotobuste
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The original Death of Stalin character introduction scene. 😌
RED MONARCH, 1983. (dir. Jack Gold)
#red monarch#red monarch 1983#ussr#soviet union#the death of stalin#joseph stalin#lavrentiy beria#vyacheslav molotov#georgy malenkov#nikita khrushchev#kliment voroshilov#anastas mikoyan#lazar kaganovich#im sad theres no zhukov and bulganin#but its fine#i should make gifs with this soon!!#jack gold#colin blakely#david suchet#nigel stock#peter woodthorpe#brian glover#wensley pithey#george a cooper#WE DONT KNOW WHO PLAYED MIKOYAN!??!?!?
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#Michael Jayston#Mad Jack#Play for Today#The Wednesday Play#Jack Gold#michael jayston#BAFTA#award#war#world war#WW1#WW I#war poet#war poem#poetry#moving#politics#political#Siegfried Sassoon#siegfried sassoon#Royal Welsh fusiliers#protest#sacrifice#Does It Matter#Michael Pennington#Tom Clarke#play#performance#soldier#officer
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Aces High (1976)
My rating: 7/10
Damn, but this one's a stone cold bummer. Really rather good, though, mostly due to a solid cast led by a (despite his 33 years) still heartbreakingly baby-faced McDowell.
#Aces High#Jack Gold#Howard Barker#R.C. Sherriff#Cecil Lewis#Malcolm McDowell#Christopher Plummer#Simon Ward#Youtube
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"The Medusa Touch" (1978) - Jack Gold
Films I've watched in 2022 (205/210)
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#films watched in 2022#The Medusa Touch#Lee Remick#Lino Ventura#Jennifer Jayne#Norman Bird#Marie-Christine Barrault#Jeremy Brett#Jack Gold#1970s cinema#1970s horror#horror#motionpicturelover's gifs
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praying mantis, jack gold 1982
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praying mantis, james keach 1993
#praying mantis#jack gold#1982#james keach#1993#jonathan pryce#friedrich von thun#jane seymour#heaven can wait#brazil#buw#about photography
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The Tenth Man
The Tenth Man is a book written by Graham Greene. I really don’t know what he’s most well known for, because the first time I remember hearing his name was around the time that the movie “The Quiet American” opened, back in 2002. I don’t remember watching the movie, but my parents had an old cheap print of the book, and that I did read. I loved the book. It was a tiny one, like this I’m talking about today, but very well written. It drove me to try and find more books from Greene. I don’t remember how I got to “The Tenth Man”, though. Greene wrote many novels, travel books, and also a few screenplays, amongst them is “The Third Man”, dated c.1949, directed by Carol Reed and with Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles.
The print I got is a Vintage Classics Edition, from 2000. I bought this one at G David Bookseller, an old bookshop in Cambridge, UK, that has lots of antiques, but also many new editions at very tasty prices. A bookshop I highly recommend. Their website is here.
Anyway, I bought it back in 2017, but only got to it now (February 2023)…as you do, when you have hundreds of unread books, that you hoard every year. I had no idea what The Tenth Man was about until I actually started reading it a few weeks ago. Graham Greene wrote it around 1944, when he was bounded to a contract with MGM at the time. It’s actually Greene that tells you about how “The Tenth Man” came about, and the short stories he wrote previously.
The Tenth Man is the story of Jean-Louis Chavel, a Second World War prisoner, who exchanges his life, due for execution, for everything he owns. He survives, but at what cost? This is not a book that shows you the usual context of war, as we usually see. The focus is on the individuals, more precisely Chavel. What makes him offer all of his possessions in such a hopeless situation? What’s his homecoming like after the War? We can feel the suspicion mood against the countrymen that returned unharmed, the change that the lingering Americans caused in France, after the War.
Because it’s a very small book, we don’t have the time to go into the deep thoughts and reflections regarding why people do what they do, while you’re going through the motions of the story, but after that? Maybe. I wish it was a longer and more developed novel.
The book was later adapted to cinema (1988) and turned into a film with the same name, directed by Jack Gold, and with the actors Anthony Hopkins, Kristin Scott Thomas and Derek Jacobi. It was unheard of by me until now, but just got onto my waiting list.
“The Tenth Man” written by Graham Greene, Vintage Classics, 2020 ISBN: 9780099284147
#graham greene#the tenth man#orson welles#joseph cotten#books#literature#novel#movie adaptation#world war 2#anthoyn hopkins#kristin scott thomas#derek jacobi#jack gold#vintage classics
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Jack Rackham is my favorite character in Black Sails because Toby Schmitz is the only actor who realizes he is in a prequel for Muppet Treasure Island...
#toby schmitz#Jack Rackham#no but for real the sheer surreal quality of the very notion of a 'professional pirate' is embodied by Jack#Silver who sings the song in MTI is not the same Silver as the one in black sails...he's not the same silver who rolls his eyes with utter#delight when Miss Piggy calls him LLLlllloooooooong John#I'm convinced that Toby Schmitz is channeling that Silver in his performance...like I fully expect to see him in episode XII or whatever#with a long boat full of spanish gold sinking and still rowing and singing and leaving em wanting more#because that's showmanship baby#black Sails#muppet treasure island
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I don't remember this but HOLY FUCKING SHIIIIIITT LLOYD WAS CONFIRMED TO BE AT LEAST 9 YEARS OLD HERE AND HE WAS ABLE TO DO THAT??? JESUS FUCK
#This might be proof that lloyd is quite jacked#i mean lloyd literally cracked the entire floor split open under ONE fucking FIST#and in dragons rising lloyd literally blocked the empress' sword on her big mech with his tiny ass gold sword#and lloyd also literally lifted and threw kai across the ship in dragons rising too..#and in the magazine comics (not entirely canon sadly) lloyd threw a big ass enormous fucking vengestone mech in his oni form with his HANDS#ANNNNDDD lloyd can even handle the power of the source dragon in dragons rising..#ANNNNNDD the original ending for crystallised was gonna be about lloyd lost in his oni form and beating the overlords ass and rule ninjago..#in which apparently the ninja save him from the power of FRIENDSHIP#lloyd literally fell on piles of glass and wasn't bothered by it#HE WAS 9 AND HE FELL ON PILES OF GLASS WITH NO HESITATION!?!?!#fucking OUCH#and yet wu says lloyd is “the wise one” fuck that shit he should become a GOD#lloyd literally risked to sacrifice his life to the three dragon cores in dragons rising like holy fucking shit I'd marry him#if lloyd was a villain I'd fucking root for him so hard I'd be on my knees they should make it happen PLEASE PLES PLEASEE#sorry i love lloyd hes my wife#ninjago#ninjago fandom#lloyd garmadon#lloyd montgomery garmadon#lloyd garmadon ninjago#ninjago lloyd#lloyd ninjago#ninjago lloyd garmadon
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Simone Biles flip book, from “The Flippist”.
(This is post No. 4,300).
#flip flops#flipaclip#flipbook#the flippist#reddit#simone biles#2024 olympics#paris olympics#GOAT#gymnastics#champion#gold medal#2016 olympics#2020 olympics#artistic gymnastics#final five#athlete#kinograph#flipper book#cracker jack#flip page#stop motion#champ
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#rogue#rogue perfumery#chypre-siam#manuel cross#quentin crisp#the naked civil servant#jack gold#an englishman in new york#richard laxton#partners#james burrows
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The Medusa Touch, Italian lobby card (Fotobusta), 1978
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