Donald Sutherland worked constantly for six decades and never won a competitive Academy Award, receiving an honorary one in 2017. The face, long and slightly wrong, made him equally usable as a comic presence and a source of dread.
MASH and Kelly’s Heroes gave him the counterculture register, Klute and Don’t Look Now the serious dramatic work, and the final shot of Invasion of the Body Snatchers is one of the most effective endings in horror, resting entirely on his face and a sound.
Ordinary People is the performance most critics name, as a father holding a family together while it dissolves around him.
He worked into his late eighties and his son Kiefer has been open about how much of his own approach came from watching him.
Donald SutherlandOrdinary People (1980) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Robert Redford's first film as director is a carefully observed drama about a family that cannot discuss a death, and it won Best Picture and Director over Raging…
Donald SutherlandMoonfall (2022) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Roland Emmerich spent around a hundred and forty million dollars of independent money on a film where the moon is a hollow alien megastructure, and it is the most…
Charles CioffiKlute (1971) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The film is called Klute and it is not about Klute. Jane Fonda won the Academy Award for a performance built out of therapy sessions and a tape recorder,…
Donald SutherlandNicolas Roeg's 1973 Venice grief drama. Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie.
Donald SutherlandRobert Altman's 1970 Korean War satire. Sutherland and Gould as wartime surgeons.
Donald Pleasence1976 John Sturges WWII thriller with Michael Caine as a German paratrooper colonel sent to kidnap Churchill from rural England. The Eagle Has Landed is John Sturges's 1976 British WWII thriller adapting Jack Higgins's 1975 novel.
Donald Sutherland1991 Oliver Stone conspiracy drama with Kevin Costner as New Orleans DA Jim Garrison prosecuting Clay Shaw for the Kennedy assassination. JFK is Oliver Stone's 1991 American historical drama.
Donald SutherlandInvasion of the Body Snatchers exists in four major film versions across fifty-one years, each of which reflects the political anxieties of its era while. Don Siegel directed the 1956 original.
Charles BronsonThe Dirty Dozen is the better-known cousin of The Devil's Brigade, released a year earlier in 1967 to massive box office success. This is going to be a different kind of review because the experience was different.
Charlize TheronThe production closed the intersection for seven days, used 300 cars to recreate the gridlock, and ran the sequence with the kind of practical-effects commitment most modern action films have stopped attempting. Gary Gray made a film that loves its…
Brooke AdamsThe 1978 Body Snatchers remake improves on the 1956 original in one key respect: it doesn't flinch at its own ending. Philip Kaufman follows the premi.
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