I wonder what Vilmos Zsigmond must be going thru. Both of them started their careers fresh out of film school by documenting the 1956 Hungarian rebellion and smuggled themselves together (avec footage) out of the country and towards eventual Hollywood superstardom as the leaders of the 70's new wave.
― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)
RIP!
― admrl, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)
:( rip
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)
:'(
RIP
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)
:-o
― ^@^, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)
wow, aside from Nicholson his images are the only thing I like about Easy Rider.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)
rip indeed. has that hungarian footage ever been shown?
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)
for ages i wondered why godard happened to use this name as j-p belmondo's character's pseudonym in 'breathless' but apparently it's quite a common name in hungary.
!! Oh no!
― Michael White, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)
I didn't remember he did New York, New York and Say Anything.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)
I know that there were some stills from it available in several cinematography books. I think that one of the press associations purchased it - in fact, IIRC, they kinda arrived too late, and other footage had already been broadcast by then. Dunno, though, I'll have to dig that story up...
― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)
IIRC, the only cameraman during The Last Waltz to keep his camera rolling during Muddy Waters' "Mannish Boy" (thus saving the performance for its inclusion in the film).
― Joe, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)
(That's probably just as much a luck of the draw wrt magazine running times, I'm guessing.)
― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)
― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)
Actually Godard got the name from Claude Chabrol. Right before Breathless, Belmondo starred in a dynamite Chabrol whodunnit called A Double Tour, and his character's name was "Laszlo Kovacs." The name reappears in Pierrot le fou (there it belongs to someone Belmondo and Anna Karina tell a story to).
― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)
New York, New York on TCM tonight.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)