His roles in Alien and Fifth Element are my favorites.
What a career. Rest in peace.
LOTR, The Hobbit, Alien, The Fifth Element (it's my post and I like it!), Chariots of Fire, Time Bandits, and many, many more. Thank you for sharing your talent, sir! RIP.
BTW, the virtual LOTR reunion referenced in the article is worth a watch for folks that liked the movies. Holm was unable to make it but sent his regards.
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His roles in Alien and Fifth Element are my favorites.
What a career. Rest in peace.
You had me at "Alien."
RIP Bilbo.
That's Sir Ian to you.
R.I.P.
Dang. Just watched Chariots of Fire the other day on a whim. He didn't have a huge part in the film, but he was wonderful as Sam Mussabini. R.I.P.
Just last month I wrote this in the Shakespeare quote thread:
Sir Ian Holm played Polonius in that movie. He also had the best lines in Big Night. ("Give people what they want, then later you can give them what you want.")
My favs were The Fifth Element and A Life Less Ordinary. In the second one, he played Cameron Diaz's truly awful rich father who wouldn't pay up when she was "kidnapped" by Ewan McGregor.
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
I'm going to have to check that one out, I've never seen it. And per Wiki, you are right about the soundtrack.
The film also spawned a soundtrack for which Braff, who picked the music himself, won a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
Braff is a big Imogen Heap fan. Had her on his talk show. Here’s Immi singing “Let Go” - the Frou Frou number from “Garden State”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDiC...&feature=share
Early 90s, England. EBTG, Portishead, Zero 7, Tricky, Morcheeba, Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation. Some trance-like, down tempo.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trip_hop
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
Coming back to this thread and seeing all this music talk, I thought someone went ahead and posted the bon mot that came to my mind, which was that Ian Holm was great with Deep Purple.