(Von Sydow in Bergman's "Hour of the Wolf", 1968)
By Raymond Benson
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We lost one of the world’s great thespians on March 8, 2020, and it’s sad that so many in the U.S. know him only from such Hollywood-fare franchises such as Star Wars, Game of Thrones, and even James Bond.
In fact, my Facebook and Twitter feeds on March 9 were full of tributes to the late Max von Sydow, but I despaired to see so many Bond fans acknowledge him only for what amounted to a five-minute-ish cameo as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the 1983 non-Eon Productions 007 picture, Never Say Never Again. Really? That’s what you remember him for?
Max von Sydow was so, so much more than Blofeld, or Lor San Tekka, or the Three-Eyed Raven, or even Father Merrin (The Exorcist).
For me, I knew Max von Sydow through...
By Raymond Benson
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We lost one of the world’s great thespians on March 8, 2020, and it’s sad that so many in the U.S. know him only from such Hollywood-fare franchises such as Star Wars, Game of Thrones, and even James Bond.
In fact, my Facebook and Twitter feeds on March 9 were full of tributes to the late Max von Sydow, but I despaired to see so many Bond fans acknowledge him only for what amounted to a five-minute-ish cameo as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the 1983 non-Eon Productions 007 picture, Never Say Never Again. Really? That’s what you remember him for?
Max von Sydow was so, so much more than Blofeld, or Lor San Tekka, or the Three-Eyed Raven, or even Father Merrin (The Exorcist).
For me, I knew Max von Sydow through...
- 3/10/2020
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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