#the brink's job

[lieutenant-columbro]

peter falk as tony pino in the brink's job (1978)

[haverwood]

The Brink's Job William Friedkin USA, 1978 ★★★ RIP William Friedkin

[illustraction]

The BRINK'S JOB (1978) - PETER FALK POSTERS (Part 10/10)

On The back of Columbo's success and last season, PETER FALK returned to movie acting as a genuine movie star in this crime comedy heist movie inspired by a real story directed by William Friedkin.

The movie was a mild success as many Columbo fans wanted to see their favorite actor on the big screen. The Italian poster clearly plays on the Columbo linkage with a great illustration Art

Director: William Friedkin Actors: Peter Falk, Warren Oates, Gena Rowlands

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[greensparty]

Remembering Gena Rowlands 1930-2024

Sad news tonight: actress Gena Rowlands has died at 94. Some might call her the First Lady of Independent Cinema as the films she made with her husband John Cassevetes were so influential in the pantheon of independent cinema! John Cassevetes (1929-1989), who was married to Gena from 1954 to his death in 1989, would act in a ton of movies and take the money from those to direct his own films. A number of them starred Rowlands as his leading lady. John and Gena had three kids, all of whom are filmmakers: Nick (born in 1959, a friend and frequent collaborator of Ted Demme's! He actually co-wrote Blow), Alexandra (born in 1965, directed the excellent Z Channel documentary), and Zoe (born in 1970). Talent definitely runs in their family!

Peter Falk and Rowlands in A Woman Under the Influence

John and Gena made about 10 films together, both co-starring and John directing Gena. The best of them was A Woman Under the Influence, which Gena was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for. Her performance as Mabel, the housewife who begins showing some behavioral issues with her husband and family. She gives one of the greatest film performances of all time. How she didn't win the Oscar is beyond me!

Other notable films she appeared in included The Brink's Job, Michael J. Fox and Joan Jett's mother in Light of Day, Another Woman, and Night on Earth.

The link above is the obit from Hollywood Reporter.

[titfairy]

[annaxxee]

its so interesting (and gut wrenching) to me how everyone is telling atsushi to "keep going", "never give up" etc etc while he loses his himself into madness every single time.

[crowerclover]

Can't stop making more of these little guys

[jacksoldsideblog]

I'm curious — is there any unusual (as in, people would not expect this of them) jobs y'all can think of that would occupy the same narrative niche as the narrator's crash coordinator job? With the same level of abject, disturbingly accepted corruption and whatnot, the vibe of "in a just world you would be a good guy but instead you're much worse than most people can dream of"

[rosykims]

do i make ashara more devoted to mythal post trespasser or do i alienate her from the evanuris entirely. is she immune to propaganda by virtue of how badly solas damaged her ability to believe in anything or is she especially vulnerable to it now bc she still WANTS to believe in anything. is she sporting subtle mythal details in her costume design or is she not

[woundposting]

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i had to take a beta blocker today because my heart rate wasn't slowing down and i was able to go to work but then i came home and literally felt like i was suffocating 🧍‍♂️ my heart rate was absolutely fine but i felt like i was running out of oxygen and was going to die. it took two hours for it to pass. never in my 7 years of anxiety have i felt so weak and such strong physical symptoms. i'm so full of life and i had so many plans and i keep getting my hopes up that it'll get better soon but it isn't and there's literally nothing i can do except waiting and coping with it

[oscarpiastriwdc]

if i were checo i would legitimately be more upset about the fact the number one song in the world exposes the fact i came in 16th place at the monaco gp this year than all the rbr fuckery going on right now

[acesammy]

man how do you tell someone you literally do not have the emotional bandwidth to deal with their breakdown

[lieutenant-columbro]

so i heard it was fat tiddie tuesday

[greensparty]

Remembering William Friedkin 1935-2023

Director William Friedkin has died at 87. He will forever be known for 2 classics from the 1970s: The French Connection, which he won an Oscar for directing, and The Exorcist, considered by many to be the scariest movie of all time. In the case of French Connection, it was an awesome 70s NY cop film and that car chase scene of Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman) driving underneath the above ground train is one possibly the greatest car chases in movie history. I don't know that I would say Exorcist is THE scariest movie ever, but it's up there in the Top 5 for me. The other film of his I was a big fan of was the bank robbery film The Brink's Job.

Friedkin directing Hackman

In the 80s, he did some music videos for Laura Branigan, Wang Chung, and Barbara Streisand. He also did a good 1992 episode of Tales from the Crypt.

 In my directing class in college, the teacher mentioned a few of the legendary tales of Friedkin. In 2020, I got to review the documentary Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist. The doc was average, but there were more than a few engaging directing stories from Friedkin.

The link above is the obit from Hollywood Reporter.

[nightswatchdisbandmentera]

Might be a hot take but a major character’s death is really only as good as the weight and the treatment that the narrative gives it. Sure, any author has the ability to write death as they see fit. But whether the consumer (of any given form of media) is actually able to emotionally connect and resonate with the departure of someone who has occupied a good chunk of narrative space very heavily depends on how it’s treated within the story. If it’s a major character, the narrative needs enough built-in breathing space. As in, the consumer doesn’t have to fill in the blanks as to how the death impacted the plot or the remaining characters. Let the narrative do that for them, and that would actually allow the consumer to better react and relate to that major death (sadness, anger, joy, etc). Allow the rest of the characters (who were impacted by the deceased) to react to their parting. Let them engage with the death in a manner that helps justify the character’s inclusion in the narrative to begin with. Make it clear how the character’s life and (especially) their death relate to the larger themes of the story. Because most consumers aren’t stupid. We don’t want our hands held at every waking moment, but we also don’t want our investment in a story to be insulted just for the sake of a cheap shock. Give us time to breathe and grieve. And respect that we have put in a lot of emotional investment in a story and its characters, and we deserve to have that acknowledged.

[borgeslabyrinth]

I will say it was extremely funny how my boss and I just had a conversation about how much we've been working on our temper and just letting things go. And how neither of us had lost our temper in two years.... and then both of us blew up over the exact same thing like. Minutes apart. We fail together 🫶