Films and TV Programmes that remind me of being a kid - mainly 1980's stuff.
Franchises by alphabetical order. Sequels/remakes by chronological order. Let me know if you think I should add something. (Work in Progress)
G-PG Rated Films suitable for Family.
Movies and series referenced in The Simpsons. Not finished, current status 7x08 Mother Simpson
Netflix Genre
List of Nominees and Winners.
Robert De Niro in "Taxi Driver"
Peter Finch in "Network" - WINNER
Giancarlo Giannini in "Seven Beauties"
William Holden in "Network"
Sylvester Stallone in "Rocky"
Ned Beatty in "Network"
Burgess Meredith in "Rocky"
Laurence Olivier in "Marathon Man"
Jason Robards in "All the President’s Men" - WINNER
Burt Young in "Rocky"
Marie-Christine Barrault in "Cousin, Cousine"
Faye Dunaway in "Network" - WINNER
Talia Shire in "Rocky"
Sissy Spacek in "Carrie"
Liv Ullmann in "Face to Face"
Jane Alexander in "All the President’s Men"
Jodie Foster in "Taxi Driver"
Lee Grant in "Voyage of the Damned"
Piper Laurie in "Carrie"
Beatrice Straight in "Network" - WINNER
"All the President’s Men" Art Direction: George Jenkins; Set Decoration: George Gaines - WINNER
"The Incredible Sarah" Art Direction: Elliot Scott, Norman Reynolds; Set Decoration: Peter Howitt
"The Last Tycoon" Art Direction: Gene Callahan, Jack Collis; Set Decoration: Jerry Wunderlich
"Logan’s Run" Art Direction: Dale Hennesy; Set Decoration: Robert de Vestel
"The Shootist" Art Direction: Robert F. Boyle; Set Decoration: Arthur Jeph Parker
"Bound for Glory" Haskell Wexler - WINNER
"King Kong" Richard H. Kline
"Logan’s Run" Ernest Laszlo
"Network" Owen Roizman
"A Star Is Born" Robert Surtees
"Bound for Glory" William Theiss
"Fellini’s Casanova" Danilo Donati - WINNER
"The Incredible Sarah" Anthony Mendleson
"The Passover Plot" Mary Wills
"The Seven-per-cent Solution" Alan Barrett
"All the President’s Men" Alan J. Pakula
"Face to Face" Ingmar Bergman
"Network" Sidney Lumet
"Rocky" John G. Avildsen - WINNER
"Seven Beauties" Lina Wertmüller
"Harlan County, U.S.A." Barbara Kopple, Producer - WINNER
"Hollywood on Trial" James Gutman and David Helpern, Jr., Producers
"Off the Edge" Michael Firth, Producer
"People of the Wind" Anthony Howarth and David Koff, Producers
"Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry" Donald Brittain and Robert Duncan, Producers
"American Shoeshine" Sparky Greene, Producer
"Blackwood" Tony Ianzelo and Andy Thomson, Producers
"The End of the Road" John Armstrong, Producer
"Number Our Days" Lynne Littman, Producer - WINNER
"Universe" Lester Novros, Producer
"All the President’s Men" Robert L. Wolfe
"Bound for Glory" Robert Jones, Pembroke J. Herring
"Network" Alan Heim
"Rocky" Richard Halsey, Scott Conrad - WINNER
"Two-Minute Warning" Eve Newman, Walter Hannemann
"Black and White in Color" Ivory Coast - WINNER
"Cousin, Cousine" France
"Jacob, the Liar" German Democratic Republic
"Nights and Days" Poland
"Seven Beauties" Italy
"Obsession" Bernard Herrmann
"The Omen" Jerry Goldsmith - WINNER
"The Outlaw Josey Wales" Jerry Fielding
"Taxi Driver" Bernard Herrmann
"Voyage of the Damned" Lalo Schifrin
"Bound for Glory" Adaptation Score by Leonard Rosenman - WINNER
"Bugsy Malone" Song Score and Adaptation Score by Paul Williams
"A Star Is Born" Adaptation Score by Roger Kellaway
"Ave Satani" from "The Omen" Music and Lyrics by Jerry Goldsmith
"Come to Me" from "The Pink Panther Strikes Again" Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Don Black
"Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" from "A Star Is Born" Music by Barbra Streisand; Lyrics by Paul Williams - WINNER
"Gonna Fly Now" from "Rocky" Music by Bill Conti; Lyrics by Carol Connors and Ayn Robbins
"A World That Never Was" from "Half a House" Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
"All the President’s Men" Walter Coblenz, Producer
"Bound for Glory" Robert F. Blumofe and Harold Leventhal, Producers
"Network" Howard Gottfried, Producer
"Rocky" Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, Producers - WINNER
"Taxi Driver" Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips, Producers
"Dedalo" Manfredo Manfredi, Producer
"Leisure" Suzanne Baker, Producer - WINNER
"The Street" Caroline Leaf and Guy Glover, Producers
"In the Region of Ice" Andre Guttfreund and Peter Werner, Producers - WINNER
"Kudzu" Marjorie Anne Short, Producer
"The Morning Spider" Julian Chagrin and Claude Chagrin, Producers
"Nightlife" Claire Wilbur and Robin Lehman, Producers
"Number One" Dyan Cannon and Vince Cannon, Producers
"All the President’s Men" Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Jim Webb - WINNER
"King Kong" Harry Warren Tetrick, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, Jack Solomon
"Rocky" Harry Warren Tetrick, William McCaughey, Lyle Burbridge, Bud Alper
"Silver Streak" Donald Mitchell, Douglas Williams, Richard Tyler, Hal Etherington
"A Star Is Born" Robert Knudson, Dan Wallin, Robert Glass, Tom Overton
"All the President’s Men" William Goldman - WINNER
"Bound for Glory" Robert Getchell
"Fellini’s Casanova" Federico Fellini, Bernardino Zapponi
"The Seven-per-cent Solution" Nicholas Meyer
"Voyage of the Damned" Steve Shagan, David Butler
"Cousin, Cousine" Story and Screenplay by Jean-Charles Tacchella; Adaptation by Daniele Thompson
"The Front" Walter Bernstein
"Network" Paddy Chayefsky - WINNER
"Rocky" Sylvester Stallone
"Seven Beauties" Lina Wertmüller
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Interview with Hideo Kojima in "METAL GEAR SOLID naked" published 2004
I decided to not include the runner-ups to keep the list short and sweet. Might add them in the future or an extended list.
source: https://www.junkerhq.net/favoritefilms.html
(archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20231015232143/www.junkerhq.net/favoritefilms.html)
Often credited as the greatest comedian of all time, Peter Sellers was born Richard Henry Sellers to a well-off acting family in 1925 in Southsea, a suburb of Portsmouth. He was the son of Agnes Doreen "Peg" (Marks) and William "Bill" Sellers. His parents worked in an acting company run by his grandmother. His father was Protestant and his mother was Jewish (of both Ashkenazi and Sephardi background). His parents' first child had died at birth, so Sellers was spoiled during his early years. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force and served during World War II. After the war he met Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine, who would become his future workmates.
After the war, he set up a review in London, which was a combination of music (he played the drums) and impressions. Then, all of a sudden, he burst into prominence as the voices of numerous favorites on the BBC radio program "The Goon Show" (1951-1960), and then making his debut in films in Penny Points to Paradise (1951) and Down Among the Z Men (1952), before making it big as one of the criminals in The Ladykillers (1955). These small but showy roles continued throughout the 1950s, but he got his first big break playing the dogmatic union man, Fred Kite, in I'm All Right Jack (1959). The film's success led to starring vehicles into the 1960s that showed off his extreme comic ability to its fullest. In 1962, Sellers was cast in the role of Clare Quilty in the Stanley Kubrick version of the film Lolita (1962) in which his performance as a mentally unbalanced TV writer with multiple personalities landed him another part in Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) in which he played three roles which showed off his comic talent in play-acting in three different accents; British, American, and German.
The year 1964 represented a peak in his career with four films in release, all of them well-received by critics and the public alike: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), for which he was Oscar nominated, The Pink Panther (1963), in which he played his signature role of the bumbling French Inspector Jacques Clouseau for the first time, its almost accidental sequel, A Shot in the Dark (1964), and The World of Henry Orient (1964). Sellers was on top of the world, but on the evening of April 5, 1964, he suffered a nearly fatal heart attack after inhaling several amyl nitrites (also called 'poppers'; an aphrodisiac-halogen combination) while engaged in a sexual act with his second wife Britt Ekland. He had been working on Billy Wilder's Kiss Me, Stupid (1964). In a move Wilder later regretted, he replaced Sellers with Ray Walston rather than hold up production. By October 1964, Sellers made a full recovery and was working again.
The mid-1960s were noted for the popularity of all things British, from the Beatles music (who were presented with their Grammy for Best New Artist by Sellers) to the James Bond films, and the world turned to Sellers for comedy. What's New Pussycat (1965) was another big hit, but a combination of his ego and insecurity was making Sellers difficult to work with. When the James Bond spoof Casino Royale (1967) ran over budget and was unable to recoup its costs despite an otherwise healthy box-office take, Sellers received some of the blame. He turned down an offer from United Artists for the title role in Inspector Clouseau (1968), but was angry when the production went ahead with Alan Arkin in his place. His difficult reputation and increasingly erratic behavior, combined with several less successful films, took a toll on his standing. By 1970, he had fallen out of favor. He spent the early years of the new decade appearing in such lackluster B films as Where Does It Hurt? (1972) and turning up more frequently on television as a guest on The Dean Martin Show (1965) and a Glen Campbell TV special.
In 1974, Inspector Clouseau came to Sellers rescue when Sir Lew Grade expressed an interest in a TV series based on the character. Clouseau's creator, writer-director Blake Edwards, whose career had also seen better days, convinced Grade to bankroll a feature film instead, and The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) was a major hit release during the summer of Jaws (1975) and restored both men to prominence. Sellers would play Clouseau in two more successful sequels, The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) and Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978), and Sellers would use his newly rediscovered clout to realize his dream of playing Chauncey Gardiner in a film adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski's novel "Being There". Sellers had read the novel in 1972, but it took seven years for the film to reach the screen. Being There (1979) earned Sellers his second Oscar nomination, but he lost to Dustin Hoffman for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979).
Sellers struggled with depression and mental insecurities throughout his life. An enigmatic figure, he often claimed to have no identity outside the roles that he played. His behavior on and off the set and stage became more erratic and compulsive, and he continued to frequently clash with his directors and co-stars, especially in the mid-1970s when his physical and mental health, together with his continuing alcohol and drug problems, were at their worst. He never fully recovered from his 1964 heart attack because he refused to take traditional heart medication and instead consulted with 'psychic healers'. As a result, his heart condition continued to slowly deteriorate over the next 16 years. On March 20, 1977, Sellers barely survived another major heart attack and had a pacemaker surgically implanted to regulate his heartbeat which caused him further mental and physical discomfort. However, he refused to slow down his work schedule or consider heart surgery which might have extended his life by several years.
On July 25, 1980, Sellers was scheduled to have a reunion dinner in London with his Goon Show partners, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe. However, at around 12 noon on July 22, Sellers collapsed from a massive heart attack in his Dorchester Hotel room and fell into a coma. He died in a London hospital just after midnight on July 24, 1980 at age 54. He was survived by his fourth wife, Lynne Frederick, and three children: Michael, Sarah and Victoria. At the time of his death, he was scheduled to undergo an angiography in Los Angeles on July 30 to see if he was eligible for heart surgery.
His last movie, The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980), completed just a few months before his death, proved to be another box office flop. Director Blake Edwards' attempt at reviving the Pink Panther series after Sellers' death resulted in two panned 1980s comedies, the first of which, Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), deals with Inspector Clouseau's disappearance and was made from material cut from previous Pink Panther films and includes interviews with the original casts playing their original characters.
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by Harry Keogh