#Mike's filmography may be slender by comparison to many of his contemporaries
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RIP Mike Hodges (29.7.1932 - 17.12.2022)
"A film is alive. You shouldn't stifle it. You should never over art-direct, over conceive, over research, or walk in with an exact idea of how things should be done."
#mike hodges#rip#death ment tw#film director#get carter#pulp#the terminal man#flash gordon#damien: omen ii#black rainbow#croupier#a prayer for the dying#I'll sleep when I'm dead#the tyrant king#itv playhouse#rumour#suspect#and so farewell to one of the last great british writer directors of his generation#Mike's filmography may be slender by comparison to many of his contemporaries#but for get carter alone he should be considered one of the greats#add in the much under appreciated Pulp and Black Rainbow (and yes Flash Gordon too)#and you have an artist of notable talent and style whose work (often interfered with by studios that couldn't accept his vision) stands#among the best british filmmaking of the era. his itv play Rumour‚ which was thankfully included on the Armchair Cinema boxset as a special#feature (it was in many ways a dry run for what Euston films were hoping to achieve with the subsequent series of one offs)#is one of the single dramas that has most thoroughly stuck in my mind years later and which has to be seen and experienced by anyone#interested in old tv. i wrote to mike as a kid and received a kind response and a signed photo which hung on my wall for many years#he was i believe in post production on a documentary film about his life and career and i hope that it was sufficiently completed to be#released soon. it seems a suitable tribute to a man who sat awkwardly within the cinema machine of big studios and shooting to instruction:#to end by telling his own story as he wanted to tell it
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