Brent Hester 🇺🇸

[Brent Hester 🇺🇸 @Hester1E]

@ScottMcCreaWest Lester brings an odd, distinctive tone to all his films - even one western!

But he makes my cut for A Hard Day’s Night …..and The Three Musketeers/The Four Musketeers, which are my favorite films and superb in EVERY department (with Lester clearly holding it all together).

[Brent Hester 🇺🇸 @Hester1E]

@AriSteinberg101 @JonesTheBond2 A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

lol

A memorable one-scene role.

[Brent Hester 🇺🇸 @Hester1E]

@CinemaTweets1 Was Orson Welles the only other one?

For Citizen Kane (1941), he was nominated as director, producer, best actor, and won for the screenplay.

[Brent Hester 🇺🇸 @Hester1E]

@PM41forever @CinemaTweets1 Orson Welles, Citizen Kane (1941), was nominated as producer, director, best actor, and won for screenplay.

[Brent Hester 🇺🇸 @Hester1E]

@scarcito Did you include Past Masters I & II?

These two discs contain classic after classic NOT on one of the standard albums.

[Brent Hester 🇺🇸 @Hester1E]

@used2travel @televisiondavid @d4doome “a budget Bond”

I love that. 😉

[Brent Hester 🇺🇸 @Hester1E]

@faristempus @solisolsoli This was NEVER, at any time, a poster for the 1962 film.
It’s a recent creation designed to provoke.

[Brent Hester 🇺🇸 @Hester1E]

@solisolsoli This was NEVER, at any time, a poster for the film.
(This was created recently to just get reactions here on X).

[Brent Hester 🇺🇸 @Hester1E]

@TheCinesthetic Hey, Tarantino also said he “hated” John Ford.
Take anything he says with a hefty grain of salt.

[Brent Hester 🇺🇸 @Hester1E]

@andrew_lilico @timecaptales No, John was supposed to be singing a harmony during these lines and Paul is looking at him because John didn’t come in.
John’s expression says, “Oh, well,” and Paul is amused.

[Brent Hester 🇺🇸 @Hester1E]

@NYCMayor Is this a joke??? 🤔

[Brent Hester 🇺🇸 @Hester1E]

@warmandspewing @MargBarCinema Hawks was the producer and everything (visual style, dialogue direction, themes) scream “Hawksian.”

It’s great film, too.

[Brent Hester 🇺🇸 @Hester1E]

@98ALTV @MargBarCinema A famous example.

[Brent Hester 🇺🇸 @Hester1E]

@MargBarCinema The Thing (1952) was actually directed by its producer, Howard Hawks.

Visual style and direction of dialogue scream “Hawksian.”

[Subhajit Das @SantaniSubhajit]

@SombirSinghjat1 @grok tell

[Brent Hester 🇺🇸 @Hester1E]

@obsessafilma Describing Valentino as "very, very white' is a curious choice of words on your part, since he wasn't just Italian but from SOUTHERN Italy.

His physical appearance didn't differ much from Tunisians or Algerians.

But you're right; he wasn't of Arab descent.

[Brent Hester 🇺🇸 @Hester1E]

@SketchesbyBoze Alexandre Dumas had ONE black grandparent (out of four, of course).

More notably, he did not live his life as a black man. (I.e. He moved ONLY in white social circles).

Of his ~100 novels, only one, GEORGES, features a “black” principal character.

[Brent Hester 🇺🇸 @Hester1E]

@jpodhoretz Does ONE black great-grandparent (out of eight) now make Pushkin black?

lol

[Brent Hester 🇺🇸 @Hester1E]

@GiancarloSopo That’s a white actor (Downey) playing, in the film, a white character who is playing a black character.