@michaelwarburton.bsky.social
Actor, Cinephile, Culturalist & Drummer posting stuff I like. buymeacoffee.com/mikewarburton
@michaelwarburton.bsky.socialMarlon Brando and 70’s pap Ron Galella in 1974. Galella always wore a helmet around Brando after getting sucker-punched by him in an encounter that ultimately led to a broken jaw, a lawsuit and a forty-thousand-dollar settlement.
@michaelwarburton.bsky.socialTHE PASSENGER (1975)
was one of JACK NICHOLSON’s favourite of his own films. So much so he acquired the rights to the film from MGM in compensation for a film project that fell through, and was the principal figure behind the film getting a DVD release.
@michaelwarburton.bsky.socialNicholson on the set of Antonioni’s THE PASSENGER (1975)
@michaelwarburton.bsky.socialLEE MARVIN plays an enforcer from the Chicago Irish Mob sent to Kansasto collect a debt from a meatpacker boss (played by Gene Hackman). PRIME CUT (1972)
@michaelwarburton.bsky.socialSissy Spacek in her first credited on-screen role PRIME CUT (1972)
@michaelwarburton.bsky.social“There’s 4 left in the box.”
RAIN MAN (1988)
A huge box office success ($400million+) & winner of 4 Academy Awards.
@michaelwarburton.bsky.socialFRANCIS FORD COPPOLA talks about his young ‘assistant’ GEORGE LUCAS and problems with Warner Bros, whilst DUSTIN HOFFMAN talks about not wanting to do “The Graduate” - when all three were on the set shooting “The Rain People” (1969)
@michaelwarburton.bsky.socialMALCOLM McDOWELL on why Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange” was so prophetic, how the “Singing In The Rain” sequence came to be, and why — as he puts it — the right to choose is a key message in the film.
@michaelwarburton.bsky.socialCoppola’s team placed 110 brass casings with gunpowder squibs and fake blood inside Caan’s clothing & 200 explosive squibs in predrilled holes inside the Continental. The scene cost $100k ($650k today) and they got the shot on the first take. THE GODFATHER (1972)
@michaelwarburton.bsky.social@michaelwarburton.bsky.socialFred Astaire & Rita Hayworth in a beautiful publicity still for their 1942 picture - ‘You Were Never Lovelier’
@michaelwarburton.bsky.social"If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one.”
SPOTLIGHT (2015)
A brilliant, important, double-Oscar winner.
@michaelwarburton.bsky.socialOn May 27th 1987 - 800,000 people gathered (peacefully) to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge.
@michaelwarburton.bsky.socialThe Paramount Pictures Gate: - under construction in 1926 - in the 1930’s - in 1945 - and in 1970
@michaelwarburton.bsky.socialA little film production company called UNITED ARTISTS was formed by 4 of Hollywood’s biggest stars - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks - and the most powerful Director at the time, D. W. Griffith. Here they are signing the contract.
@michaelwarburton.bsky.social33yr old MORGAN FREEMAN as you may not have seen him before, in 1971 on the kids show The Electric Company as ‘Easy Reader’.
@michaelwarburton.bsky.social"He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue! That's the Chicago way.”
THE UNTOUCHABLES (1987)
@michaelwarburton.bsky.socialBehind the scenes on THE UNTOUCHABLES (1987)
@michaelwarburton.bsky.socialRemembering French poet, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic — JEAN COCTEAU — who left us 63yrs ago today, aged 74.
@michaelwarburton.bsky.socialRemembering French poet, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic — JEAN COCTEAU — who left us 63yrs ago today, aged 74.
