Chariots of Fire director Hugh Hudson is dead to me!!!

Awww, that’s a shame. I always enjoyed his episodes of 20/20 with Barbara Walters.

God, I HATED that movie. What a bore and that song drove me nuts.

Anyone see the re edited REVOLUTION?

Revolution was rush-released in December 1985 for the Christmas market and for Academy Award consideration. Dissatisfied with the version of the film released to theatres, Hugh Hudson released Revolution: Revisited on DVD in 2009. This new cut added narration by Pacino (recorded for this release), and numerous scenes were trimmed or deleted outright (running at 115 minutes, the Director's Cut is approximately 10 minutes shorter than the theatrical version). Also included is a conversation with Pacino and Hudson who discussed the film's being rushed for a U.S. release during Christmas, being trashed by the critics, and having other issues related to the making and release of the film.[15][16]

The film was re-released in the UK in 2012 by the British Film Institute in a Blu-ray Disc/DVD combo. This edition came with both cuts of the film, as well as a booklet with essays written by Nick Redman, Michael Brooke and critic Philip French, who argues that the film was a victim of bad publicity and cultural misunderstandings, and regards the 'Revisited' cut as a 'masterpiece'.[17]

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Until the Crown, I had no idea about the weird connection to Princess Diana.

God, the walking of the casket down the aisle and into the hearse is going to take HOURS.

[quote]God, I HATED that movie. What a bore and that song drove me nuts.

Really? I loved the movie and thought there were several very poignant and beautiful scenes.

As a matter of fact, now I'm going to go to youtube and watch one.

Dodi Fayed produced Chariots of Fire.

I never realized.

[quote]God, I HATED that movie. What a bore and that song drove me nuts.

I agree. It was a very BIG deal in England - I don't think we'd had an Oscar winning movie for a very long time and it opened the doors for lots of some very good, much more interesting British made movies of the 1980s.

The day after the Oscar win, we were in a restaurant and Ian Charleson was there with a gaggle of gays and my brother went over to congratulate him and he said "I didn't win anything!" Which was rather ungracious. Haven't thought about this in all the years. Why would I?

[quote]Now I have the Chariots of Fire theme playing in my head

He died last May.

Oh, yes and Ben Cross who was in it became a friend of my brother's. It's all coming back. I think he felt like a big star from this. That was the vibe he gave out. I guess he was (in England) [bold]for a few minutes. [/bold]Don't know what happened to him. Did he go to America and milk this cow for all it was worth?

R3 I've seen the 'director's cut' of Revolution and it is a huge improvement on what was released originally back in the cinemas.

I no run. Or maybe I do.

Or not.

God God G*D G*D God.

Ben Cross and Ian Charleson were hot

Hugh Hudson loved him some Greek music. After working with GOD Vangelis on Chariots Of Fire, he use the Yanni and Malcolm McLaren sampling of Lakme’s Flower Duet in this much copied British Airways ad. It captured the last gasps of flying as glamorous, exciting and the door to open up a cosmopolitan and exotic new world for curious travellers.

Chariots Of Fire became a punching bag because it was the first big Oscar winning examples of the glossy Prestige, Heritage period films and TV shows of the 1980s - British or not.

It’s very earnest and straightforward and conjures up an image of Britishness that maybe never truly existed as portrayed, but brought a lot of meaning and comfort to a lot of people. It’s the kind of Britishness that Hugh Grant, Richard Curtis, Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson, Delia Smith and Nigella Lawson were able to take and run with in the 1980s and 1990s.

Nonetheless, it is very well made. The synth music makes it. And it is legendary for that great title sequence alone. And for Ian Holm’s performance.

Danny Boyle - a very different kind of popular filmmaker - knew this and cannily included a tribute to it in the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony.

Chariots of Fire shows up in BEE’s book the Shards. Bret, the character, goes with a hot guy he’s lusting over and hoping to get turned on by all the sexy half naked guys in the movie and maybe get a handjob from the other guy in the darkened theater, but he’s disappointed, by the movie and lack of sexual activity.