The death was announced on Sunday of British director Peter Yates. He was 81. He directed such classics as BULLITT, THE DEEP, EYEWITNESS, KRULL, THE DRESSER, SUSPECT and numerous episodes of the TV series THE SAINT.
R.I.P. Peter Yates
Started by Hitch, Jan 11 2011 03:28 PM
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Posted 11 January 2011 - 03:28 PM
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Posted 11 January 2011 - 03:31 PM
I saw this yesterday and meant to post a RIP thread.
Rest in peace.
Rest in peace.
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Posted 11 January 2011 - 03:33 PM
I'm not all that familiar with his work, but the car chase from Bullitt immediately comes to mind:
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From a storytelling point of view, from a directing point of view, there is one thing I associate with what he does, which is calm. There is such an inherent calm and inherent trust of the one powerful image, that he makes me embarrassed with my own work, in terms of how many different shots, how many different sound effects, how many different things we’ll throw at an audience to make an impression. But with Kubrick, there is such a great trust of the one correct image to calmly explain something to audience. There can be some slowness to the editing. There’s nothing frenetic about it. It’s very simple. There’s a trust in simple storytelling and simple image making that actually takes massive confidence to try and emulate.
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Posted 11 January 2011 - 10:47 PM
"The Dresser" is quite, quite brilliant. "Eyewitness" (in the U.K., it was clled "The Janitor") is good. I'm going to go on record by saying that I like "Krull". It had a lot of very good ideas in it; it's too bad that the excecution was...less than perfect.
Oh, yes; and Jacqueline Bisset in a wet t-shirt...
Oh, yes; and Jacqueline Bisset in a wet t-shirt...
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Posted 11 January 2011 - 10:50 PM
Same here. Rest in piece!I'm not all that familiar with his work, but the car chase from Bullitt immediately comes to mind:
Human aggression is instinctual. Humans have not evolved any ritualised aggression-inhibiting mechanisms to ensure the survival of the species. For this reason man is considered a very dangerous animal.
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Posted 11 January 2011 - 10:53 PM
I have to put up KRULL simply for James Horner's fantastic music
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