Donald Sutherland has died

Anyone wanting to watch this movie (which is great) just go into it cold. Be warned that there's a pretty extended sex scene, but otherwise just go in without expectations.

That has got to be one of the earliest moving pictures of all time! Wow!

/s sorry, think you have a typo!

We're actually partial to 1971's Klute but that's because of an inside family story!

Incredible that his career spanned 60+ years. When I saw him in _The Dirty Dozen_ it must've already been thirty years old.

This got me curious about who had the longest career in Hollywood. Mickey Rooney came in near the top at 90 years. [0]

[0] https://www.imdb.com/list/ls058627770/

M*A*S*H. Not for his performance, necessarily. It's just a great, fun movie. I'm watching it tonight.

Don't Look Now is one of those unforgettable 1970s movies so ahead of their time, along with The Marathon Man and very few others. And it's spooky indeed, hard to bear if you've got a child. RIP

Don't Look Now is one of my favorite movies! So weird and spooky.

Phillip Kaufman's remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers..

That 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a classic. Well worth watching.

Eye of the needle was one of those rare twofers: a very good book and a very good movie.

His voice is I think one of the most distinctive in movies. If you like being haunted by scenes from slow-burn horror movies then I can recommend The Broken (2008) with Lena Headey.

Yep, that final scene is soul-searing

HN has always had a wider range of content than people tend to assume it has, and that's by design—when pg renamed it from "Startup News" to "Hacker News", that was the reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html.

For example, we had this thread 3 weeks after your account was created: RIP Michael Jackson - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=674438 - June 2009 (158 comments)

And of course the "How is this even remotely hacker news?" question was already in full swing back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=674461

In other words, twere ever thus!

This approach only works as long as no one class of story is over-represented to the point of being predictable, but that's ok because evading predictability is one of the core values of the site:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

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Holy cow someone else who has seen Virus... what a bad but good sci-fi flick, and gross!

Wonderful monster designs for such a dumb movie. Quake2-style body-horror cyborgs but on the big screen.

See comment elsewhere about 'negative waves'.

I also loved him in Kelly's Heroes, which sadly isn't mentioned in the obits I've seen so far.

One of my favorite movies! Glad to see it mentioned here.

They needed a major star, so John Landis got him to do it as a favor. He did all his scenes in one day. They offered him either $35,000 or two points (two percent of the film's gross). He took the $35K. The film made over $140 million.

You'd have to know MASH was a movie first :)

Gary Burghoff played Radar in the film and TV series. Timothy Brown was in both, but played two different characters.

The Altman film came first, starring DS as Hawkeye. The TV show starred AA.

Came here to post this. Here's more info about it:

From YouTube description: "The music video, directed by Julian Doyle, was conceived by Terry Gilliam and Kate Bush. The video features Canadian actor Donald Sutherland playing the role of Wilhelm Reich, and Bush playing the part of his young son, Peter."

From Wikipedia: "Reich's work on character contributed to the development of Anna Freud's The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (1936), and his idea of muscular armour—the expression of the personality in the way the body moves—shaped innovations such as body psychotherapy, Gestalt therapy, bioenergetic analysis and primal therapy."

"Following two critical articles about him in The New Republic and Harper's in 1947, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration obtained an injunction against the interstate shipment of orgone accumulators and associated literature, calling them "fraud of the first magnitude". Charged with contempt in 1956 for having violated the injunction, Reich was sentenced to two years imprisonment, and that summer over six tons of his publications were burned by order of the court"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich

"We're the pros from Dover." https://youtu.be/GeDFijEc-5U?si=8kuEs4rY8xpyeSd6

I watched the entire M.A.S.H series when I was young and it made a similar impression. I watched it before the film though, so my brain couldn't fathom anyone other than Alan Alda as Hawkeye.

Sutherland with Jane Fonda helped bring the anti-militarist anti-authoritarianism to actual soldiers in 1971....

F.T.A. is a 1972 American documentary film starring Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland and directed by Francine Parker, which follows a 1971 anti-Vietnam War road show for G.I.s, the FTA Show, as it stops in Hawaii, The Philippines, Okinawa, and Japan.[1][2]: p.143 It includes highlights from the show, behind the scenes footage, local performers from the countries visited, and interviews and conversations with GIs "as they discuss what they saw in battle, their anger with the military bureaucracy, and their opposition to America's presence in Indochina."[3] Called by Fonda "a spit and a prayer production" it was far from a big budget Hollywood movie, or even a well-funded documentary. While the movie "is raw," it "underscores how infectious the movement of the 60s and 70s was", and chronicles both the Tour itself as well as the soldiers who came to see it and "the local talent of organizers, labor unions and artist/activists" in the countries visited

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.T.A.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWAbhonmCOg

Because Kelly's Heroes is the world's finest movie and revolves around an intra-preneurial enterprise that hacks the mechanism of war for personal profit.

Basically its like Office Space and Three Kings rolled into one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40743833

Space Cowboys is a guilty pleasure of mine, most people don’t seem to know about it. I think I’ll join you this weekend.

Thanks for the reminder, I forgot about Space Cowboys but remember liking it.

Hey that is interesting - IMDB's name folder is an indexed list... ordered by.... ?

nm0000001: Fred Astaire

nm0000002: Lauren Bacall

nm0000003: Brigitte Bardot

nm0000004: John Belushi

nm0000005: Ingmar Bergman

nm0000006: Ingrid Bergman

... It seems it is alphabetical, based on last name, but the first list must have been a very small select list, and then it rolls over around 9xx to start another list of people at A, etc etc....

I wonder how that database was populated / why that way.

I think it's how I learned of him, when my dad bought me a 486 with CD-ROM, and some games on CDs in the 90's. That game even had footage of the 1991 coup attempt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUuiNcJKY4s

I came here to post this - he was perfect for that role. He and Robert De Niro played off each other so well.

"Burn it all", great scene

Also, his great one scene appearance as "X" in Oliver Stone's JFK.

One of my favorite works of literature and television adaptations. If someone ever had the perspicacity to create a streaming service showing nothing but Ian McShane performing scenes from Ken Follett books, I'd just hand them my wallet and never leave the house again, haha.

Idolised that film and his role since I first saw it in my early teens. The romance sequences between Liam and Molly Prior ( Donald Sutherland and Jenny Agutter ) affected me quite a bit. If you’ve read the book and the sequel, they’ve got the casting dead-on. Can’t imagine anybody else playing those two roles. I think the first time I actually wept at a film was that last scene. He decides to head back to Ireland after the action, and she reads his last letter while walking on the same beach where they met. Just overall a very touching moment. I loved the way they recruit him. He says he likes his slow professor life, and the general tells him - that’s like a race horse pulling a milk cart! Donald then agrees to come on board - you have such a way with words!

Amazing, amazing film.

And as imperfect as it is, I've decided it's my favorite World War II movie.

Ivan Sutherland is still doing active research! I saw a great talk he gave last year on quantum flux circuits. He politely refuses to talk about graphics anymore, which (as a graphics person myself) is kind-of awesome.

Only one I can recall is Hunger games. But he looked familiar in those so i am sure there are others.

Second the recommendation. Excellent movie, and excellently played by Sutherland opposite Connery.

Interestingly enough, I think The Great Train Robbery may have been one of the first Michael Crichton books adapted to film? https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0079240/ (check: nope, preceded by both Westworld and Andromeda Strain)

I went on a jog through historical heist films, and there's some amazing older stuff, e.g. Rififi (1955).

Exactly the quote I was thinking of! Great movie!

It's a great little gem, especially since it came out when Will Smith was near the peak of his "pop" persona, while the movie is definitely not.