RIP Peter Yates, who directed at least one film you love if not a number of them

See what I mean?

Obituary.

i do!

The Dresser is the one i love.

RIP

I have never seen any of those movies, but I have seen stills of Jacquiline Bisset in The Deep. R.I.P.

yeah, breaking away, at least.

rip

Breaking Away, yes.

Eyewitness is very odd.

Eerie - I was planning to watch THE HOT ROCK on Film Four this afternoon...

Huh, had no idea the guy behind Bullitt and, er, Krull were one and the same.

Breaking Away is great, Friends of Eddie Coyle is also recommended.

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews45/the%20friend%20of%20eddie%20coyle%20criterion/800%20eddie%20coylePDVD_006.jpg

Mitchum & this guy
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews45/the%20friend%20of%20eddie%20coyle%20criterion/800%20eddie%20coylePDVD_012.jpg

were also fun/fine in The Yakuza. hoping Dvdbeaver allows hotlinking

Huh, had no idea the guy behind Bullitt and, er, Krull were one and the same.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, January 10, 2011 9:39 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

Yeah, me neither

A workmanlike director, but he served Eddie Coyle and Breaking Away particularly well.

breaking away is so great, rip

I have never seen any of those movies, but I have seen stills of Jacquiline Bisset in The Deep. R.I.P.

― kkvgz, Monday, January 10, 2011 9:19 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

basically the genesis of the wet t-shirt contest

I thought this was Peter Medak for a second (always get them confused.)

Jeffrey Wells OTM for a change!

Yates was lucky to have come along when he did and find his metier at a time when action films could be natural and reality-driven, before the Michael Bay aesthetic took things into a hyper-edited cartoon realm and completely polluted the entire action-film world and reset the rules so that nothing meant anything. Bleccch.

lol was all ready to pop in this thread and deny the title but... there is the Friends of Eddie Coyle, which is awesome

You don't like Breaking Away or Bullit?

never seen Breaking Away. Bullit is pretty good I guess, haven't seen it in years.

never seen Breaking Away.

Correct that.

man, krull

Yeah, when I saw BA for the first time about three years ago I was amazed by its nuances.

Bleccch.

R.I.P.

Breaking Away is such a classic, and it looms especially large in the psyches of Hoosiers who grew up in the '70s. It was a very big deal, like the little film that could.

I have no interest in Indiana or cycling so it's no real mystery why I've never bothered

i pretty much hated Breaking Away. it didn't even make any sense.

or in Dennis Quaid's washboard abs (xp)

great comic performance by Paul Dooley as the dad in that film.

DQ is good and hot in the film though.

Breaking Away is about as close as a studio would get to making a "class resentment" film THEN, and now, forget it.

I agree that it didn't make any sense that a 19-yo dude who looked like Dennis Quaid would be spending his entire summer hanging out at the rock quarry with the other 3 guys.

yeah, was gonna say paul dooley is reason enough to watch breaking away

i pretty much hated Breaking Away. it didn't even make any sense.

― jed_, Monday, 10 January 2011 19:44 (8 minutes ago) Permalink

This post makes no sense. You had trouble following "Breaking Away?" Umm.

I doubt that's what he means. It may be a US/UK thing.

The Friends of Eddie Coyle was a film that I wanted to see for the longest time--probably 15 or 20 years. I think it went out of circulation for some reason. Anyway, very downbeat and unusual, as I remember it. And, of course, I remember the poster for The Deep very well...

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/2750

Krull was another one of those HBO-intensive movies from childhood that I don't think I've seen in like 15 years.

i saw john and mary recently and the only thing i recall was how dope dustin hoffmans apt was

dug breaking away, and i can see as why it's the sentimental favorite, but bullitt, the friends of eddie coyle and mother, juggs & speed deserve mention (well, i like mother, juggs & speed anyway). the dresser, too, though it's big shift in tone and style. RIP.

Saw John and Mary and surprise, not very good! Watchable for above-ment'd apt, Hoffman trying to play normal/contemporary, Mia's odd slips into quasi-Brit accent, and NY '69 locations.

That's the one night stand movie, right? I actually quite liked it. It seemed like it could have been made last week.

It's not terrible. Can't see Hoffman pulling a model (his flashback GF) if he's a furniture designer, though.

I don't know, Dustin was kinda cute back then.

in an "unconventional" way that seldom draws models, unless you're loaded or famous. Also, she tries to cook dinnerr, and it's a disaster! Very 1942.

I love 'Breaking Away'.

"What is this Eytie food?"

I loved his still hip now drip coffee pot.

Dustin's, not Paul Dooley's

Exactly.

Breaking Away is about as close as a studio would get to making a "class resentment" film THEN, and now, forget it.

word. "Breaking Away" would make a great triple bill with "This Sporting Life" and "Friday Night Lights" since they all do the class resentment and sports thing.

the (kinda big) drawback to "Breaking Away" was how easily Katherine/Catarina was taken in by Dave pretending to be Italian -- Dennis Christopher couldn't even pass for a Northern Italian, and no college student could be that dumb to fall for an accent/schtick that made Chico Marx look like Marcello Mastroianni.

the (kinda big) drawback to "Breaking Away" was how easily Katherine/Catarina was taken in by Dave pretending to be Italian -- Dennis Christopher couldn't even pass for a Northern Italian, and no college student could be that dumb to fall for an accent/schtick that made Chico Marx look like Marcello Mastroianni.

― Puppenmeister Meisterpuppen (Eisbaer), Saturday, February 18, 2012 12:33 AM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In Indiana in the '70s it would have been very possible for her never to have met or heard an Italian (no cable, no internet, remember?)

(Besides, if you're going to see fictional movies looking for a realistic experienc you're kind of barking up the wrong tree.)

Yes to all of the movies, but, you guys: Mother, Jugs & Speed!

I was planning to watch THE HOT ROCK on Film Four this afternoon...

Anyone seen it? Aside from the Redford-Segal star pairing, it has an amazing supporting cast (Zero, Ron Leibman, Moses Gunn, Paul Sand, young Chris Guest) and the heist is at the Brooklyn Museum. Being 'presented' in NYC this month by a comedian...

http://filmforum.org/events/event/the-hot-rock-presented-by-janeane-garofalo

From this thread I can see that I watched it about four years ago. It has a screenplay by William Goldman that's not very faithful to a much better Donald E Westlake 'Dortmunder' novel (George C Scott played the same character in Bank Shot, a couple of years later.) It's no Friends of Eddie Coyle, that's for sure, but moderately amusing on its own terms, I suppose

I've seen the Hot Rock. It's quite good despite Redford being somewhat miscast as Dortmunder.

i can't believe someone hasn't seen The Hot Rock before. I'd seen it about 10 times by the time I was 12. Thank you, channel 5.

The performances are pretty solid in The Deep, and for what was a big blockbuster at the time, it's not sensory overkill--it's mostly people sitting around talking, with a couple of jump-scares thrown into the diving sequences. (There's a parallel with Sorcerer; anyone who went expecting Jaws would have been badly let down.) Completely lost on the convoluted details of the treasure mystery, but I wasn't bored. Jackie Bisset meant it that way.