"You're a big man, but you're out of shape. For me it's a full-time job."
55th Anniversary 🎞 #OTD in #Film #History 7 March 1971, #MikeHodges' superb British crime thriller GET CARTER, starring Sir #MichaelCaine, had its UK premiere in #Newcastle.
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Fab #MikeHodges TV movie that paved his way to Get Carter! Kubrick was impressed and so was I viewing the Network DVD box set Armchair Cinema focused on Euston Films. Great performance from Michael Coles! Overlooked gem on my other blog…
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In which David reminds me of a story that #MikeHodges, of #FlashGordon fame, told me which I'd subsequently forgotten. Mike was full of amazing stories about other directors. The thing that makes me smile when I remember MH was how thoroughly bemused he was by the cult following FG had. Lovely man.
Forty-five years ago today, Gordon was alive in London cinemas… #FlashGordon #1980s #film #Films #MikeHodges #SamJJones #OrnellaMuti #MelodyAnderson #MaxVonSydow #Topol #TimothyDalton #BrianBlessed #scifi #sciencefiction
#FlashGordon was the king of the impossible 45 years ago when the movie opened on December 5th, 1980 #SamJJones #MelodyAnderson #OrnellaMuti #MaxVonSydow #Topol #TimothyDalton #BrianBlessed #MikeHodges #DinoDeLaurentiis #Queen #80sMovies #CultClassic
Happy 45th anniversary to Dino De Laurentiis’ campy motion picture, ‘Flash Gordon’. Released this week in 1980. #flashgordon #dinodelaurentiis #queen #mingthemerciless #samjjones #maxvonsydow #mikehodges
Pulp (1972) by #MikeHodges
w/ #MichaelCaine #MickeyRooney #LizabethScott
An old time Hollywood film gangster known for having ties to the mob hires a prolific author of trashy genre novels to ghostwrite his biography.
"Write it. Live it. But try not to be it."
#UK #Crime #Mystery #Comedy #Thriller
Films of the 80s. Mike Hodges' "Flash Gordon". #movies #films #mikehodges #flashgordon #maxvonsydow #melodyanderson #ornellamuti #samjjones #timothydalton #topol #brianblessed #peterwyngarde #lorenzosemplejr #alexraymond #queen #howardblake #mariangelamelato #richardobrien
Remembering iconic filmmaker and screenwriter Mike Hodges on his 93rd birthday, seen here with Sir Michael Caine during the filming of his brutal 1971 classic GET CARTER.
#MikeHodges
#BOTD on 7/29/1932
Michael Klinger, Producer of Get Carter
1971 Original M-G-M Theatrical Trailer
2022 BFI Re-release trailer.
#BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #WarnerArchive #MichaelCaine #MikeHodges
Released #OnThisDate in 1978 - Damien: The Omen II, Written by Stanley Mann & Mike Hodges and Directed by Don Taylor!
“The son of Satan is now 13.”
#DamienTheOmenII #StanleyMann #MikeHodges #DonTaylor #OTD #Anniversary #Horror #HorrorMovie #HorrorMovies #HorrorFilm #HorrorFilms #HorrorSky
9pm TODAY on @SkyArts
Classic Movies:
The Story of Flash Gordon
s3 Ep 5 of 6
As #MikeHodges' flamboyant 1980 #SciFi epic and Queen's iconic rock song declares, Flash Gordon will be the saviour of the universe
🌟 #SamJJones #MelodyAnderson #MaxvonSydow #BrianBlessed #OrnellaMuti
2pm TODAY on @SkyArts
Classic Movies: The Story of Flash Gordon
s3 Ep 5 of 6
As #MikeHodges' flamboyant 1980 #SciFi epic and Queen's iconic rock song declares, Flash Gordon will be the saviour of the universe
🌟 #SamJJones #MelodyAnderson #MaxvonSydow #BrianBlessed #OrnellaMuti
10:50pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
The 1972 #Comedy #Thriller film🎥 “Pulp” directed & written by #MikeHodges
🌟 #MichaelCaine #MickeyRooney #LionelStander #LizabethScott #NadiaCassini #DennisPrice #AlLettieri
Forty years ago today in West End cinemas, they came, they saw, they did a little shopping... #MoronsFromOuterSpace #1980s #film #Films #MelSmith #GriffRhysJones #JoannePearce #JimmyNail #scifi #comedy #MikeHodges #JamesBSikking #DinsdaleLanden
• Optional English Subtitles
#BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #KinoLorber #MikeHodges #CliveOwen #MalcolmMcDowell
Ornella Muti (Princess Aura) and Mariangela Melato (Kala) in Flash Gordon (1980) dir. Mike Hodges
#ornellamuti
#mariangelamelato
#flashgordon
#princessaura
#generalkala
#80s movies
#mikehodges
But still. #GetCarter. What a #WorkOfArt. Horrible but you can't look away. #MikeHodges is the British #Scorsese.
10:45pm TODAY on @BBCFOUR
👉 joint #TVFilmOfTheDay
The 1971 #Crime #Thriller film🎥 “Get Carter” directed & written by #Bristol-born #MikeHodges
Based on #TedLewis’ 1970 novel📖 “Jack's Return Home”
🌟 #MichaelCaine #IanHendry #JohnOsborne #BrittEkland #GeorgeSewell
👇🎶Theme by #RoyBudd
9:55pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
The 1972 #Comedy #Thriller film🎥 “Pulp” directed & written by #MikeHodges
🌟 #MichaelCaine #MickeyRooney #LionelStander #LizabethScott #NadiaCassini #DennisPrice #AlLettieri
11:05pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
The 1987 #Action #Thriller film🎥 “A Prayer for the Dying” directed by #MikeHodges from a screenplay by #EdmundWard & #MartinLynch
Based on the 1973 novel📖 by #JackHiggins
🌟 #MickeyRourke #BobHoskins #AlanBates #SammiDavis #LiamNeeson
bit.ly/49HU6vS
#BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #Arrow #ArrowVideo #GeorgeSegal #MikeHodges #JoanHackett
Forty-four years ago today, Gordon was alive in London cinemas… #FlashGordon #1980s #film #films #MikeHodges #SamJJones #MaxBonSydow #OrnellaMuti #MelodyAnderson #BrianBlessed #scifi #sciencefiction
‘Get Carter’ (1971)
Directed by Mike Hodges
#MichaelCaine #IanHendry #JohnOsborne #BrittEkland #MikeHodges #GetCarter #MovieSky #FilmSky
Shot by Michael Garfath (A Prayer for the Dying) – Written by Trevor Preston (What the Peeper Saw) – Directed by Mike Hodges (Get Carter, Croupier).
#BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #KinoLorber #CliveOwen #MalcolmMcDowell #MikeHodges
Happy anniversary to Dino De Laurentiis’ campy motion picture, ‘Flash Gordon’. Released this week in 1980. #flashgordon #dinodelaurentiis #queen #mingthemerciless #samjjones #maxvonsydow #mikehodges
The (rather interesting) story of how a screenplay was birthed. Involves talk of Get Carter, J G Ballard, Sylvester Stallone and Roy Budd #mikehodges #getcarter #grahambendel #roybudd #filmdirector #'screenplay @richardcabut.bsky.social @collettwriter.bsky.social
‘Flash Gordon’ (1980)
Directed by Mike Hodges
Music Composed by Queen
#SamJJones #MelodyAnderson #MaxVonSydow #Topol #OrnellaMuti #TimothyDalton #BrianBlessed #MikeHodges #FlashGordon #Queen #FreddieMercury #MovieSky #FilmSky
