What A Man
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Blake Edwards
Harold_Hardrider — 15 years ago(February 11, 2011 02:42 AM)
Blakey (to his friends) was a good man; nay, a great man. A man not like other men. A man who could take pride in his achievements. A man who once took Torquay Utd from League 2 to Champions League Glory on Football Manager 2007. But, no, no. This was not a man who liked to brag. This was a real man; yes, in that old cliche - a man's man. A man whose list of lovers read like a who's who of Who's Who. Katherine "Kitty" Wilder; Sandy Duchamps; Lima Zinelli; Toscanni de Graafschaap; Teddy "Bear" Thomas. Nay, do not judge for, yes, Blake was a bisexual. But Blakey also made films; "movies" in the American argot. "Cinema"; "pictures"; "shows" - Blakey loved them all and he embraced them all. His films spanned genres; took in wide vistas of landscape and architecturel;shot them all as if they were Heaven itself. Among his best were "Bad Time in Bolton" (1976), "Sad Days for the Sun-Kid" (1984) and the revelatory documentary "Now He's Gonna Show Ya: Old Boys of Virginny Talk" (1992). His work was marked by a distinct human feeling; an ability to divine the mystic in the rational. He favoured wide camera angles and short, punchy, dialogue. He was not a fan of 3-D or even, he claimed in later life, of colour films at all. He claimed never to have seen "Citizen Kane" and his favourite movie (in an oft-qouted, possibly sarcastic remark) "Just Friends" (yes, the Ryan Reynolds/Amy Smart/Anna Faris fandango).
Iced Diamond: Vuvezala THIS A**HOLE!
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missmhseps — 14 years ago(April 15, 2011 06:18 PM)
I think your "Blakey" is someone else. Not Blake Edwards the movie director married to Julie Andrews. I think you are in the wrong forum! Blake Edwards didn't make "BAd TIme in Bolton" or any of the other documentaries you listed.
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wordcraft — 13 years ago(January 25, 2013 03:49 PM)
Another splendid performance 5b4from Harold, right up there with his epic offering for
I'm Not There
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Sadly, this board seems more moribund than for the Dylan biopic, and so the thread has had fewer readers and comments.
One wishes Harold might come out of retirement to give us a eulogy on Michael Winner, perhaps