versiunea 1.3. redux (incl. ROCKLAND & alinland)
Stacy Keach, great American actor, gone at 85...No Oscar, just an amzing body of work, over 200 films and TV...also theatre.
He was among many others Mike Hammer on TV, many westerns: Bad Bob in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, Doc Holiday in Doc, a Long Rider (Frank James in Walter Hill's film). Fat City, Nebraska, Escape from LA.
Last film in 2025, Jay Kelly, as Jay Kelly (Clooney);s father. He was living in Poland for his last years.
“I’ve killed people in countries you can’t even spell.” (john Malkovich as Chris)
The new and awaited Martin McDonaugh new film, Wild Horse Nine, is in cinemas now !!! His fifth feature, after In Bruges, Seven Psychopats, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and The Banshees of Inisherin is his most of a western film and the most American and in the same time anti-American !
It does for Easter Island / Rapa Nui what he did for Bruges with In Bruges, but actually way more, the Island and 'the big heads' becoming a major character in the story and the film.
See it on the big screen !!!
Great widescreen cinemtography by McDonaugh;s DOP, Ben Davis in location on the island and Santiago, Chile, also great period detail (the film happens in 1973 and has to do with CIA policy, and Agency secrets).
One of the year's best, an instant classic and top acting from those involved (talk of Oscar for John Malkovich came out as far as the Venice world premiere!) but Sam Rockwell is extraordinary too. And Steve Buscemi is wonderful as MJ. Special praise for Chilean Mariana di Girolamo as Monica, Parker Posey (as Marge) not so much...
I'd love to see Malkovich win next year but his character and the film are some kind of a tough sell. Amazingly enough (or not :() Malkovich has no Oscar yet !
Loved the cheese talk, great one-liners McDonaugh style and the whole Butch Cassidy romantic angle about death (maybe cause of the location and South America and the 70's vibe), another McDonugh film about friendship in a wrong time and space when you're also out of time! A bit more cynical and a bit more dangerous though !
Nice use of Hank Williams' song I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry and The Rolling Stones, Out of Time.
A great surpise cameo in Monument Valley, shot exactly like John Wayne in The Searchers ;)
4.5 out of 5 / 9 out of 10 !
Tinto Brass, Italian mastro of the Erotica was 93...
Salon Kiltty, Calogula, La Chiave, paprika...
https://variety.com/2026/film/global/tinto-brass-dead-caligula-salon-kitty-1236939212/
Saw Deep Purple for the seventh time or so on Oct. 1st in Cluj.
Wrote about it on Sunete Live here.
Deep Purple in Rock Forever Cluj, BT Arena, 1 octombrie 2026
It was the 2nd concert of the tour and I was fearing Ian Gillan is too frail to keep on going and finish the tour that was suppose to went on 'til the end of November, with sold-out shows at Apollo Hammersmith in London.
And Saturday the inveviable happened, Gillan went to hospital and Leipzig and the next two dates were 'postponed' or 'rescheduled'. And tonight the announcerment broke:
