“If it’s in your blood, directing, you never stop. And it doesn’t matter that you’re alone in your mind, dreaming or imagining things, you’re always making a movie.”
Peter Medak, realisateur extraordinaire (1937-2026)
He would've been probably not mentioned if he didn't flew Budapest in 1956. Arriving in London he started an extraorinary life and career, then moved to Holllywood.
Just The Changeling (1980) would be enough to make him a mastero of cinema. Highly underrated and influential (Spielberg and Scorsese and DelToro and Stephen King are huge fans and learned from it) !!!
But it was 1st a crazy Peter O'Toole one-off The Rulling Class (1972), that made him controversial (and desired to work with).
Also ecclectic: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, The Krays, Species II, Zorro: The Gay Blade, The Men's Club, etc.
A whole lotta of Television, videos for Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters...
Last year I saw again one of my faved films of the early '90's, the noir arrogant, cult curio Romeo is Bleeding (1993) with an unbelievable Lena Olin and a suffering Romeo by Gary Oldman.
Bonus: The infamous Ghost on a Noonday Sun (1974, unfinished!), Peter Sellers' nightmare becoming Medak's maelstorm ! And the doc on it, The Ghost of Peter Sellers, the last film he did, back in 2018, which I saw during the pandemic.
Medak did it with panache, every film goulash had its own (and his own) flavour. Viszontlátásra...
obit in The Hollywood Reporter
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