27 September 2008

Requiescat in Pace

Another great actor gone.

Martin Ritt’s The Long, Hot Summer, Paris Blues, Hud, The Outrage, Hombre
Stuart Rosenberg’s Cool Hand Luke, Pocket Money, The Drowning Pool
Richard Brooks’ Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Sweet Bird of Youth
Robert Altman’s Buffalo Bill and the Indians, Quintet
John Huston’s The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, The Mackintosh Man
George Roy Hill’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting
Alfred Hitchcock’s Torn Curtain
James Ivory’s Mr and Mrs Bridge
Sidney Pollack’s Absence of Malice
Sam Mendes’ Road to Perdition
Daniel Petrie’s Fort Apache, the Bronx
Robert Rossen’s The Hustler
Otto Preminger’s Exodus
Robert Wise’s Somebody Up There Likes Me
Sidney Lumet’s The Verdict
Joel and Ethan Coen’s The Hudsucker Proxy
Robert Benton’s Nobody’s Fool, Twilight
Martin Scorcese’s The Color of Money
Leo McCarey’s Rally Round the Flag, Boys
Roland Joffe’s Fat Man and Little Boy
Luis Mendoki’s Message in a Bottle
and Newman’s own Sometimes a Great Notion, Harry and Son.

What else is there to say?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Sad sad news. Ol Blue Eyes was one of the best.