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Max Von Sydow has died

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Re: Max Von Sydow has died

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Post by W-Stool »

Watch "Three Days of the Condor" if only for the scenes with DEC PDP hardware. That's the way we used to do it kids.

Max was also great in this movie - I would not want that guy coming after me. RIP after an exceptional career in films.

Re: Max Von Sydow has died

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Post by mongol »

tpmx wrote: post #28

To Americans with Scandinavian/Swedish ancestors (there sure are a lot of you), I really recommend watching these two movies starring Max von Sydow and Liv Ullman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emigrants_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Land They are based on a series of novels (1949 and onwards) by Vilhelm Moberg chronicling the fate of a family who decides to migrate from famine/poverty-stricken Swe…

They are great and considering the topic should be quite interesting for Europeans and Americans alike.

Re: Max Von Sydow has died

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Post by xenophonf »

Diederich wrote: post #43
melling wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First saw him in Three Days of the Condor, which I loved as a kid. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/three_days_of_the_condor

Sydow absolutely crushed that role. In the opening scene, part of the way the massacre, he's calmly trying to get his lighter lit. Creepy and awesome.

I don't know why, but the movie is available via the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/ThreeDaysOfTheCondor

Re: Max Von Sydow has died

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Post by lowbloodsugar »

RHSeeger wrote: post #40
parenthesis wrote: post #6

I recently watched Flash Gordon for the first time since the 1980s, and Max Von Sydow's performance was a definite highlight. Casting a `proper' actor as the villain in a silly movie is always a great idea. (See, for example, Basil Rathbone in The Court Jester .)

I love that movie. There was a time, back during HS, that I could recite every word while it played. I still randomly quote lines from it.

Klytus, I'm booooored. What plaything do you have for me today?

Re: Max Von Sydow has died

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Post by Diederich »

xenophonf wrote: post #54
Diederich wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sydow absolutely crushed that role. In the opening scene, part of the way the massacre, he's calmly trying to get his lighter lit. Creepy and awesome.

I don't know why, but the movie is available via the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/ThreeDaysOfTheCondor

Great find, thanks!

EDIT: The scene I referenced is 13 minutes and 43 seconds in. Also, I had forgotten that there were two shooters in the beginning. I only remembered 'the mailman'.

Re: Max Von Sydow has died

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Post by ce4 »

xenophonf wrote: post #54
Diederich wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sydow absolutely crushed that role. In the opening scene, part of the way the massacre, he's calmly trying to get his lighter lit. Creepy and awesome.

I don't know why, but the movie is available via the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/ThreeDaysOfTheCondor

Does anyone know why it is available at the Internet Archive? I would not assume that the copyright had expired yet.
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