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Special
Guest: Mike Hodges
Uncompromising Poet of the Prescient
Born: July 29 1932, Bristol,
England
Lensing
nine-and-a-half feature films over
more than 30 years hardly slots Mike
Hodges into the ‘prolific’
bracket.
Yet while Hodges has remained busy
in television, documentaries and the
occasional music video, it is for
his wildly disparate movies that he
is considered one of the great, underrated
talents of contemporary western cinema.
We are delighted to welcome Mike Hodges
and his latest film, I’ll
Sleep When I’m Dead, to
BFF2004.
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BFF 2004 Mike Hodges Screenings
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Mike
Hodges Biography
After accountancy training and a spell at
sea during his National Service, Hodges broke
into TV during the commercial television explosion
of the late 1950s, hired as a teleprompter
operator by pioneering ex-pat Canadian producer
Lloyd Shirley.
He cut his teeth on the flagship current affairs
programme World in Action and, between 1965
and 1967, produced dozens of editions of the
arts magazine show Tempo, often dipping in
as writer and director.
Following three TV drama projects he made
a stunning segue into feature films with Get
Carter, a classic Jacobean tragedy with Michael
Caine in epic form as a dead-eyed angel of
vengeance seeking the killers of his brother.
He immediately worked with Caine again on
Pulp, before moving onto the sci-fi thriller
The Terminal Man and the 1978 horror sequel
Damien: Omen II, which he left after three
weeks.
Hodges bounced back with the camp spectacular
Flash Gordon – a visually stunning update
of the Thirties comic strip with a pounding
soundtrack by Queen – and an acclaimed
television drama, Squaring the Circle. He
seemed to lose his way in the ‘80s with
Morons from Outer Space and an adaptation
of the Jack Higgins novel A Prayer for the
Dying – a movie he has effectively disowned.
After a decade in the motion picture wilderness
Hodges exploded back onto the scene with Croupier,
a massive ‘sleeper’ hit that resurrected
his career and put his criminally neglected
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