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Happy Birthday, Brion James

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2008-02-20 13:27:00 by ARBOGAST in Arbogast on Film
...Brion James for almost ten years. He was 54 years old when he died of a heart attack on August 7, 1999. Born in the subtly (and I suppose suitably) creepy California town of Redlands, James knocked around playing bits in the 1970s before hitting his stride in the 80s with back-to-back high profile roles in Walter Hill's SOUTHERN COMFORT and...
 
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Alain Robbe-Grillet's L'IMMORTELLE (1963)

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2008-03-10 17:58:00 by Robert Monell in I'M IN A JESS FRANCO STATE OF MIND
...Brion (ATTACK OF THE ROBOTS; AL OTRO LADO DEL ESPEJO) is L, the eternal feminine, the mystery woman, the angel of death in Alain Robbe-Grillet's first film as director N (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze) lost in the labyrinth of myth, geography, intrigue, memory and reality which is Istanbul. Valcroze, a journalist, co-founder of CAHIERS DU CINEMA...
 
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Blade Runner (1982)

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2008-04-01 01:32:36 by Joe Valdez in This Distracted Globe
...Brion James) is pushed too far by the test and shoots the officer Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is summoned by his old captain (M. Emmet Walsh) to hunt down four Replicants two male and two female who have returned to L.A. for reasons unknown. Paired with a cop (Edward James Olmos) who speaks in an amalgam of French/German/Hungarian known as...
 
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WANTED: ATTACK OF THE ROBOTS DVD!

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2008-05-16 16:42:00 by Robert Monell in I'M IN A JESS FRANCO STATE OF MIND
...Brion) attempts to seduce Al, but is killed by Rey. Then all hell breaks loose, as the robots turn on their creator as the Chinese attack the villa ATTACK OF THE ROBOTS is a Spanish-French co-production made by the same creative team responsible for THE DIABOLICIAL DR Z (1965). Both movies were given a tremendous boost by the imaginative...
 
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Synecdoche, New York - Review

2008-10-23 16:45:01 by Editor in Movie Blog
 
...Brion and Deanna Storeys smoky-n-sad after-hours ballad Little Person, which closes writer/director Charlie Kaufmans latest dive into the gaping, unforgiving maw of existence. The tone, always in a morose minor key, remains unvaried for a good two hours until Brion and Storey grant the proceedings (over a blessed fade-to-white) some...
 
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Blade Runner (1982)

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2008-11-14 04:21:12 by Joe Valdez in This Distracted Globe
...Brion James) - is pushed too far by the test and shoots the officer Ex-blade runner Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is summoned by his old captain (M. Emmet Walsh) to hunt down four Replicants two male and two female who have returned to L.A. for reasons unknown. Paired with a cop (Edward James Olmos) who speaks in an amalgam of...
 
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My Two Andersons

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2007-08-04 03:16:00 by Brian in Hell on Frisco Bay
...Brion along with him. On the other hand, the Life Aquatic made me wonder if Wes Anderson might be treading brackish water, recycling elements from previous films and just plopping them onto the larger canvas of the open ocean. It deserves the second look I never gave it when it came out, but my expectations are not high Still, any of these...
 
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The Seasons That Would No Longer Change

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2006-01-16 02:26:25 by Editor in Cinephiliac
...Brion James. As Karsthans, James' mouth filled with blood after being impaled with spears several times near the end of 1985's medieval marauder Flesh + Blood Dina Meyer huddles during a game of "Jumpball" in the pre-extermination sequences of 1997's fascistly funny, sci-fi satire Starship Troopers GAME 3, ROUND 6 Another Cast Party...
 
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Blade Runner: The Final Cut

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2008-01-02 22:04:00 by Gareth in gareth's movie diary
...Brion Jamess character is questioned; that scenes explosive conclusion is all the more powerful as a consequence). Later in the film, particularly near the climactic scenes, the action sometimes seems to miss a beat, almost as if to compensate for the earlier stateliness, the characters particularly Rutger Hauers replicant - popping up with...
 
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Kristin Øhrn Dyrud- The Monster Composer

2008-02-28 20:30:02 by Erica Harrell in A Monster in the Attic
 
...Brion, Thomas Newman, to mention a few She says, I get tremendously inspired by composers who incorporate everyday sounds in their music. Like Björk, who made a whole song based on sounds from a basketball court. I also find inspiration in literature, abstract paintings, photography, nature, the sounds that surround me As far as the A...
 
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