An Evening with Terence Stamp
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Terence Stamp
soncoman — 14 years ago(April 28, 2011 09:22 PM)
One of my favorite actors, Terence Stamp, will be honored by the San Francisco Film Society this Friday, April 29th, 2011 at 7:30m at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco with "An Evening with Terence Stamp." He'll be receiving the Society's Peter J. Owens Award. The Award is given to actors whose work exemplifies "brilliance, independence and integrity." He'll be honored with an onstage interview about his extensive acting career, and a selection of clips from his films will be followed by a rare screening of one of his signature works: Federico Fellini's phantasmagoric masterpiece "Toby Dammit" (Fellini's Poe adaptation in 1968's "Spirits of the Dead" anthology film - the others were directed by Louis Malle and Roger Vadim) Stamp requested this specific film to be shown at his award presentation. Very impish of him, no?
Mr. Stamp occupies one of my earliest movie memories. As a young man spending a few years on the isle of Puerto Rico, I endured many an hour of watching classic films dubbed into Spanish. They used to play the same film five times a week, every weekday evening at 8pm. This is how I first saw "King Kong" and "Psycho." William Wyler's "The Collector" was another film I distinctly remember watching over and over. I couldn't understand a single word of dialog, but there was something disturbing and oddly compelling about Mr. Stamp's character that imprinted itself in my young movie-memory mind.
I hope to be attending this event and have the opportunity to hear Mr. Stamp discuss his career.
Information on the event can be found here>
http://fest11.sffs.org/awards/terence_stamp.php
(from
www.worstshowontheweb.com
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