This afternoon.
Kevin Quinn writes:
Albert Finney is dead. He turned down a Knighthood of the British Empire, and he did this magnificent thing [ above in 1990’s Miller’s Crossing] while Frank Patterson sang. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.
Everything. As It Happens.
Saturday Night Sunday Morning made a big impression. An actual actor.
I just heard a beautiful interview with his close friend Tom Courtenay on BBC radio. I didn’t realise he turned down a knighthood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJAeb0wiQjA
What a scene…
RIP Mr Finney
A cool dude had a good innings at 90
Great actor; performer. Missed. Sad. RIP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKgy5W3S6nw
What magnificent thing? What magnificent thing? I’m all for Albert Finney but what does this bit of videogame-style violence have to do with his finest moments? Am I missing something or is the thing that I’m missing just the fact that I’m not a teenage boy? I see nothing in this scene; I hear Frank Patterson – which is deliberately, conspicuously incongruous, in the undergraduate film-maker style – but I see nothing in it. To reduce Albert Finney to this… I’m saddened.
Self loading machine gun? Distortion of the tommy guns capabilities in the name of entertainment?
Just another dilema to add to.lifes pile..
If you have never seen him in “Big Fish” it is definitely worth a watch.