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Just picked up "Morgan" by Karl Reisz. Was excited to see this film again after so many years. There is so much of the energy of the Ealing Studios films, Sir Alec Guiness's "Henry V", the sixties films like "Look Back In Anger", "Billy Liar", "Georgie Girl", "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning", "Darling", that is still alive today...due in part to George Harrison of all people.Unfortunately the French get the traditional headlines, the British get short shrift.
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"The Knack." Or "The Ipcress File", my personal favorite among the British flicks of that era. "Spy Who Came In F T C" was damned good too, what with the duel between two actors who at the time were being hailed for their great stage Hamlets (Dicky Burton and Oscar Werner).
That's right !Michael Caine's "Alfie"! And all of those psuedo-"Hard Day's Night" copies like "Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush", too !
was in Caine's great period. In those days, for me, Harry Palmer was the epitome of cool. Mozart fancier, chef extraordinaire, clever office rebel, thick glasses (remember his detached removal of them before he dusted off the baldhead?), and a rather cavalier attitude toward pain. Let's see, who has inherited that mantle? Matt Damon? Tom Cruise? Yawnnnnnn.
A tape I know that you would enjoy is a video Caine did several years ago, with a small British acting class. Not only does it give great insight into the acting process, but also Caine shares his personal experience to a length I havent seen an actor do before.
And it was great. Caine is that rare bird, nowadays. A superb actor...and a gentleman. Hard to define, that last word. But you know it when you see it. Probably not much of a compliment anymore, either. Shows how far we've fallen as a culture....
I agree... and Anthony Hopkins and Sean Connery are other actors with that same quality.
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