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It did! I agree it’s not Fellini’s best but I’ve seen it several times since (thanks to LA’s once thriving revival theater circuit) and it includes some of his greatest imagery - and Sutherland is amazing given he apparently got zero direction from the maestro. (And the Nino Rota score is arguably his masterpiece.)
I didn’t realize the negative was stolen- I wonder if that’s why the original English language version (far superior to the Italian if only to hear as well as see Sutherland’s portrayal) has become much harder to see (if anyone’s interested, there used to be an excellent print on YouTube.) Sent from my iPhone Ron, and mopolistas,
And did FELLINI CASANOVA turn you into a randy young thing? I always thought that Fellini's choice of Sutherland for that role was very unusual to say the least. Not my favorite Fellini movie to be sure, but the Nino Rota score was sublime.
There are so many good Sutherland performances, it's hard to pick one.
We were lucky to see CASANOVA theatrically. I thought we might not see it at all when the negatives were stolen from Technicolor in Rome.
Kirby movieart.com
A very sad day!
Among my favorite actors of all time – I first became aware of Donald Sutherland when he starred in Fellini’s Casanova, which played in English for one week at the Avco Center theater in Westwood, and had a profound impact on my budding childhood sexuality (I think I was 13 at the time.
Sutherland then followed up with what is in my opinion, the best remake of all time Phil Kaufman‘s invasion of the body snatchers, which manages to function as both a remake and a sequel!
So many other great performances followed– got to see him live at the Mark Taper Forum some years back and he was of course superb even though the play was not.
Sent from my iPhone RIP Donald Sutherland :(
He was a superb Canadian actor from the 1960s to the present. While he gave wonderful performances in a number of movies, his main criteria for deciding to take a role seemed to be how much he was paid, because he appeared in lots of movies not worthy of his talents.
Some of his movies include: JFK, MASH (as Hawkeye Pierce), Ordinary People, Dirty Dozen, Animal House, Don't Look Now, 1900, Cold Mountain, Kelly's Heroes, and The Hunger Games series (as President Snow).
In 2015's "Forsaken", he played the father of his real life son, Kiefer Sutherland, who is also a wonderful actor, and in many ways has followed in his father's footsteps.
See https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/movies/donald-sutherland-dead.html
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