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Oliver Reed Movies: 1970-1979 |
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Offline Points: 45358 |
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![]() 1971: The Hunting Party 1971: The Devils ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 1973: The Three Musketeers 1974: Blue Blood 1974: The Four Musketeers 1974: And Then There Were None ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 1979: A Touch of the Sun Edited by Psychedelic Paul - 22 hours 10 minutes ago at 07:44 |
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Logan ![]() Forum & Site Admin Group ![]() ![]() Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: In repose. Status: Offline Points: 38880 |
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Various wonderful films, but I have a particular thing for ZPG (Zero Population Growth).
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Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me.
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verslibre ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: July 01 2004 Location: CA Status: Offline Points: 19432 |
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Outstanding film!
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Octopus II ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 21 2023 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 13521 |
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Burnt Offerings
And Then There Were None The Big Sleep The Devils |
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omphaloskepsis ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 19 2011 Location: Texas Status: Offline Points: 6906 |
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The Devils
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moshkito ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 04 2007 Location: Grok City Status: Offline Points: 18688 |
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Hi,
THE DEVILS is his best work ever ... though it's hard not to enjoy him alone in an island with Amanda Donohue, later ... he was great there, too! |
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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The Dark Elf ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: February 01 2011 Location: Michigan Status: Offline Points: 13393 |
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I found The Four Musketeers highly entertaining (probably because I saw it as a teen in the theater).
The Devils comes in second because the book, The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley, is far better. |
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Offline Points: 45358 |
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Sitting Target
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moshkito ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 04 2007 Location: Grok City Status: Offline Points: 18688 |
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Hi, I kinda think that it is his best film, specially as a biography, probably because the book was so strong and worth a read. There was no need for a Ken Russell moment, as the book had most of it anyway, though in the film you now get the visuals, and they are well done and far out. Compared to many of the other biographies Ken Russell did, he spent a lot of time writing them, and then colored it in his own way, and probably the one that is also really good, and has no funny moments is "Savage Messiah", which is totally subtle (I did not know the artist at all when I saw the film!!!) and ends with a really nice show of the work by the artist. |
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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Fercandio46 ![]() Forum Groupie ![]() ![]() Joined: September 06 2023 Location: Argentina Status: Offline Points: 59 |
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I also find The Hunting Party worthy of mention, where Oliver is restrained and builds a character, layer upon layer, until he bares his inner self. He touches different nerves, and is brilliantly accompanied by Gene Hackman and Candice Bergen. A non-classical Western, very contemporary and with multiple interpretations. While Women in Love (which is on the other list) and The Devils are among my favorites, this is, in my opinion, one of the gems of his filmography.
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moshkito ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 04 2007 Location: Grok City Status: Offline Points: 18688 |
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Hi, I have to look for this and watch it ... I'm not even sure I have ever seen this film ... in general, westerns started and stopped with "The Wild Bunch" for me ... and I stayed away from this ... other than being a part of a group of folks in the Theater Department at SBCC and doing a trip to the drive in once a month or so, when Guy Guden would do all the vocals for the Italian Spaghetti stuff ... which had us all in stitches the whole time. A special time it was. |
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Offline Points: 45358 |
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1. Sitting Target
2. The Triple Echo 3. Zero Population Growth 4. Assault in Paradise |
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Offline Points: 45358 |
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Splash it all over..... Oliver Reed meets "Henry's Hammer" in The Royal Flash. Et tu, Brut!
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Fercandio46 ![]() Forum Groupie ![]() ![]() Joined: September 06 2023 Location: Argentina Status: Offline Points: 59 |
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I was remembering that there is still a film about Oliver with Marcello Mastroiani directed by Dino Risi, in English it was called Dirty Weekend, from 1972.
A wild police film with a lot of comedy, and politically incorrect, where roles are called into question, and nothing is what it seems, Oliver is amazing, and as was so common in the 70s, these collaborations of actors in another country resulted in a different performance, another alchemy. |
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