Week 67: Stranger in a Strange Land: the Counterculture of Donald Sutherland

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Amicus, Animal House, Billion Dollar Brain, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Carol Lynley, Castle of the Living Dead, Christopher Lee, Clint Eastwood, Daniel Emilfork, Die Die My Darling!, Doctor Terror's House of Horrors, Don Rickles, Don't Look Now, Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Federico Fellini, Fellini's Casanova, Gene Wilder, Gig Young, Hammer Films, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Jane Fonda, Jeff Goldblum, Jennifer O’Neill, Jenny Agutter, Julie Christie, Kelly's Heroes, Ken Russell, Kentucky Fried Movie, Klute, Lady Ice, Lee Marvin, Leonard Nimoy, Luke Perry, M.A.S.H., Murder by Decree, Nicolas Roeg, Oliver Reed, Peter Cushing, S.P.Y.S., Sean Connery, Start the Revolution Without Me, Stefanie Powers, The Dirty Dozen, The Eagle Has Landed, The Great Train Robbery, The Rosary Murders, The Shuttered Room, Tina Aumont, Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine podcast

Next time, we’re taking on another counterculture icon!

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Week 66: That Knowing Smile, That Piercing Gaze: The Tao of Charlotte Rampling

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Amicus, Angel Heart, Asylum, Bo Derek, Caravan to Vaccares, Charlotte Rampling, D.O.A., David Birney, Dino DiLaurentis, Dirk Bogarde, Farewell My Lovely, Georgy GIrl, Jessica Harper, Keenan Wynn, Liliana Cavani, Lisa Bonet, Luchino Visconti, Lynn Redgrave, Marie-Christine Barrault, Meg Ryan, Mickey Rourke, Orca, Peter Hooten, Randy Quaid, Richard Harris, Robert DeNiro, Robert Mitchum, Sean Connery, Stardust Memories, The Damned, The Night Porter, Vanishing Point, Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine podcast, Woody Allen, Zardoz

Charlotte Rampling, like Diana Rigg and many others of her generation, began her career as a 60’s fashion model.

After bit parts in such well remembered films as A Hard Days Night and The Knack and How to Get It, she stepped into a major role in the seminal Swinging London kitchen sink drama Georgy Girl, which got her noticed and brought over to Italy where she showed up in two WWII related epics that made her famous (and perhaps unintentionally helped kick off a certain infamous and short lived exploitation subgenre in Italy, France and the US): Visconti’s The Damned and Liliana Cavani’s The Night Porter.

Week 63: He Always Comes Back: the life and films of Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Oak, Commando, Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Destroyer, End of Days, Grace Jones, Hercules in New York, Jingle All the Way, Joe Wieder, Kindergarten Cop, Last Action Hero, Mr. Olympia, Mr. Universe, Muscle & Fitness, Predator, Pumping Iron, Red Heat, Red Sonja, Running Man, The Expendables, The Governator, The Terminator, Total Recall, Twins, Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine podcast

Born into a stiff, lower middle class Austrian background just after the war, Arnold Schwarzenegger rebelled from his rigid father and proscribed life at an early age, eschewing the family plans for his life and career to pursue a rocky road in the dubious world of bodybuilding.