Michael Caine

funeral in berlin is best

And yes Funeral in Berlin is good.

I like the way he makes crap movies occasionally to pay for his wife's jewellery.

I really liked him in Sleuth, but he has been in his share, and more than his share, of paycheck films.

It's possible that, like Jack Nicholson, I'm down on him became I was first exposed to his current "mining his legend" films rather than his great early ones.

I think there was a definite backlash around when he got the oscar, along the lines of "Oh god, why do the Yanks think he's a proper actor, he's an old hack these days." Though this was the year after he was reportedly great in the British Little Voice.

I like billion dollar brain, it is silly, that's probably why I like it, I don't hate fun.

I dunno, I finally saw it for the first time and I liked it (and since I'm totally free from whatever overquoted context it exists in over there, I have that on my side). It's actually kinda weirdly entertaining as a total mishmash of a bunch of other films -- it inherits Ealing comedies and James Bond (and more accurately James Bond knockoffs) and predicts pure stunt-driven hoohah of the seventies in turn. If Tarantino had done it he would have given every one of the characters little quirks to hint at A Rich Inner Life but this movie does none of that for the very good reason that there is no NEED to do any of that. Caine's hardly playing a character, he's a step up from a cipher with some good lines, and that's all that's required. And frankly I loved the ending, I didn't expect that at all! God knows what the remake must have been like...

Muppet Christmas Carol roXors

Damn straight. And yes he was great in Batman Begins too, so there.

Well he is one of the three or four sources of "I've never seen myself in that movie, but I beleive it's terrible. I've seen the house it paid for, and it's great."
Yup. My favorite version of this was when he told a story of the making The Swarm-of which he said- "There is always somebody you can find who says- 'Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time'"- in which there was a great expense layed out on white lab coats because- "you see, a bee's doo-doo, of its very nature is very small"- they all turned brown every time they released the bees.

well noel coward i guess.

If Tarantino had done it he would have given every one of the characters little quirks to hint at A Rich Inner Life but this movie does none of that for the very good reason that there is no NEED to do any of that.

haha and the black dude would have some lines?

Michael Caine to release chill-out album

Recently, he was great in Children of Men. I love the fact that he worked and worked and said yes to every rubbish part that came along as long as there was a big paycheck involved, but now that he's tremendously rich, he only does things he likes and will apparently now work for very little money, just to be helpful. That seems proper to me.

I saw Parkinson interview him some years back, and was very touched by his revelation about his brother who was developmentally challenged and lived in a special home. I was also amused by the fact that his mam continued to work as a cleaning lady for years after he was making steady money, because she didn't quite believe it would last. She used to work with Adam Faith's mam, who was also a cleaning lady.

You have to admire a man who skips the Oscars to film Jaws IV.

http://www.johnreid.helpinghost.com/SWARM.jpg

Tracklisting for Cained:

1. No Ordinary Morning - Chicane
2. Silence -Delerium feat. Sarah McLachlan
3. Café de Flor - Doctor Rockit
4. Lay Lady Lay - Magnet feat. Gemma Hayes
5. Summertime - Wass feat. Earl T
6. Sinnerman (Felix da Housecat mix) - Nina Simone
7. Rose Rouge - St. Germain
8. Sunshine's Better (Talvin Singh mix) - John Martyn
9. Path of Love - Atman
10. Crossing - Agartha
11. Everytime - Lustral
12. Spiritual High (State of Independence) - Moodswings feat. Chrissie Hynde
13. Jupiter - Craig Preuss
14. Swollen - Bent
15. Street Tattoo - Stan Getz
16. Hurry To Me - Roy Budd
17. Fields of Gold - Eva Cassidy
18. Move Closer - Phyllis Nelson

Actually quite impressed by the selection, just surprised that there's no Aphex Twin after it's use in Children of Men.

Watched The Ipcress File last night. Fantastic even with all the eye shadow. I should watch more of his films when he was younger.

I am stunned at tracklisting. How the hell is he going to sing SWOLLEN!??!

(A: V badly *rim shot*)

This is really weird - I just mentioned Ipcress File now on the canned vegetables thread, and here it is again.

*Twilight Zone music*

Ha ha! I was just trying to find the quote and put the article I found on that thread.

Also Caine disses button mushrooms here!

Finally found it:

"You're paying 10d more for a fancy French label, If you want button mushrooms, they're better value on the next shelf."
"It's not just the label. These have a better flavour!"
"You're quite the gourmet, aren't you Palmer?"

Right. ENOUGH! Back to album discussion!

Ipcress File on BBC2, Spirit of the Beehive on BBC4. Dreamy stuff. No wonder I was up late.

Trailer for Harry Brown is out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVOSfHFNlcI

Maybe his version of Gran Torino, but I'll be first in line to see this nevertheless.

everything about alfie is great except that awful theme song -- "alfie, what's it all about?"

what's it all about, JD?

Damn, saw the thread title and immediately thought "Aw shit, RIP 'Michael Caine, 1938-2009'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG3PQwRBRgw&NR=1

Fuk u Michael Caine will never die

xpost

"The book I return to is Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/13/interview-michael-caine

Caine has always seemed to me to be at least as lucky as he is good.

I seem to remember him on 'Inside the Actors Studio'...I just love how, unassuming he is irl. I mean, you can tell he enjoys the job immensely, but he doesn't overstate his importance. Him's good people.

violent, over-the-top, hyperreal, and should have ended with the shot of the pub 2 minutes before it did

but rather enjoyable

i mean no council estate is like that, and the police were portrayed in a very cliched, hamfisted way; also the 'good cop' didn't have much going for her except for the fact she was cool, calm and understanding UNLIKE STUPID PLODS IN CHARGE

Tories hoovering up the Cockney Wanker vote this year, like every year

He should spend more time living here

Remind me who is the most famous SNP supporter in the world again?

same goes for him

The Men Who Would Be Cunts

We need a thread to compile cunts who support the tories this election so we can hold it against them in future just like marcello still does.

Sure there's a "If Labour wins the election, I'm leaving the country" thread somewhere

Rolling Thread of people who are going to leave Britain because it's no longer Great.

heh there's nothing as vicious as labour voters with an easy target, really.

old rich dude votes tory, i mean film at 11 guys

he probably remembers when it were all just fields and the women would look at you shyly out the corners of their eyes, too- what a cunt, eh?

who you calling a labour voter!

ha i knew that was ill judged, tbh.

anyway, look, caine- you'd have a pint with him, and it would be very enjoyable, and i don't think much is served by calling people that don't do any harm but disagree with you in terms of their politics 'cunts' all the time.

mind you we're back to the scots/english/irish love of the word again maybe.

Shurely you're norra Shcorrish Nationalisht, like Sean Cunntery? (xxp)

caine- you'd have a pint with him

Only if the cunt was buying

no maybe about it (to both of you)

packie bonner bought me a pint once, given that i was 15 i didn't inquire as to his voting strategies before accepting. the cunt.

I um oversold Harry Brown upthread. It left very little lasting impression except a rather bitter taste. Its hatred of Britain's young is palpable. I got rather caught up in its tenseness and kinda forgot that the message was odious

Packie basher (xp)

dmac otm. the whole 'celebrity tory roll of shame' is just tedious. why is it a big deal?

It left very little lasting impression except a rather bitter taste

pretty much the same as packie's pint tbh

xp to blueski- i know i'm 'bemused, ireland' in all this, but i mean (maybe not the real radicals) even those that vote new labour will all but admit there's not much difference these days?

I thought we'd gone over this before? Endlessly? Anyway, it's a good excuse to say, "Ach, I never liked him anyway"

i always liked him, tbh. the above listed comments on the likes of 'the swarm' ae classic

But I never liked him anyway, so him being a Tory bastard is just the cherry on the cake

If only he could be all melllowed out like his Children Of Men character, and his compilation CD.

best bit of austin powers 3

High praise

well that movie did also feature beyonce in a bikini so

Just for a bit of balance, posh cunt 'not voting Tory'

just watched Harry Brown. turned it off halfway through. just blech. I love Michael Caine but I gotta have standards for my action movies. Watching an elder man shooting a bunch of kids who were about as realistic as villains on the videogame Narc isn't my idea of a good time.

And come on...EVERY TIME he looked out the window, the gang was committing a crime?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFIQIpC5_wY&feature=player_embedded

"...she was only sixteen..."

just saw Get Carter the other night. really enjoyed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0F3kY3uxU

my cocaine

awright geezer

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-michael-caine-80

I don't find him good at all in HANNAH AND HER SISTERS.

me neither

He gets a 6 out of 10 in the Woody Allen Proxy sweepstakes.

i 'ave my answeh

those '66 Life photos are great. Seen with lots of cute unidentified women, but of course :)

on a fix of this guy the past week, hannah and her sisters tonight, regardless of morbs's concerns

my concerns? I 'ave no concerns, luv.

i've only gone and read the bloody pinefox inn i?

anyway the first two arry palmers were great, i think i preferred funeral in berlin, is this against accepted wisdom

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Who knew MC was friends with Vin Diesel? This is really touching my heart.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DMPvP6TsY8S/?img_index=2&igsh=MXRidjkyazQyNTcyeg==

MoMA in NYC is holding a big month-long Michael Caine retrospective in a few weeks:

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5834

“Hello, I’m Michael Caine. The British actor.”