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- British writer/director Donald Cammell, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1934, came from a wealthy shipbuilding family.
- The British Cammell (1934-1996) was a remarkable filmmaker, perhaps even a genius, although his filmography is disappointingly scant.
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Donald Cammell on White Of The Eye- "Tradionally art is amoral".
From White Of The Eye- David Keith and Cathy Moriarity, "I was gonna talk to you about that..."
Trailer for White Of The Eye (1987)"Does she really know him"?
In my last posting discussing Keith Richards' autobiography Life, I mentioned that Richards, who is comes off as a fairly forgiving soul (even Tony Sanchez who wrote the fun but hateful Up and Down With The Rolling Stonesis given a pass) only two people really stick in Keith's craw- one of course is Mick Jagger (see comments section of that posting for a few theories on that) and the other is film director Donald Cammell. Cammell is an interesting figure, the subject of a documentary (The Ultimate Performance) and director of only four films (and one unreadable novel, Fan Tan, co-written with Marlon Brando of all people).Two of his films are brilliant (the other two-- Wild Sideand Demon Seedare fairly awful, but that may be because they were re-edited by the producers and make no sense at all) . Cammell first flick was
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Donald Cammell
British film director (1934–1996)
Donald Cammell | |
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| Born | Donald Seton Cammell 17 January 1934 Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Died | 24 April 1996(1996-04-24) (aged 62) Hollywood, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Painter, screenwriter, film director |
| Spouses | Maria Andipa (m. 1954) |
| Children | Amadis Cammell (b. 1959) |
Donald Seton Cammell (17 January 1934 – 24 April 1996) was a Scottish painter, screenwriter, and film director. He has a cult reputation largely due to his debut film Performance, which he wrote the screenplay for and co-directed with Nicolas Roeg. He died by suicide after the last film he directed, Wild Side, was taken away from him and recut by the production company.[1]
Biography
Early years
Donald Seton Cammell was born 17 January 1934[2] in the Outlook Tower on Castlehill, on the approach to Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. He was the elder son of the poet and writer Charles Richard Cammell (who wrote a book on occultist Aleister Crowley) and
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Donald Seton Cammell was born in Edinburgh on 17 January 1934 into a formerly wealthy family that had lost its considerable fortune in the crash of 1929. A precocious boy, he obtained a scholarship to the Royal Academy and after further studies in Florence successfully set himself up as a portrait artist in London in the early 1950s.
By the mid 1960s he had given up painting to concentrate on filmmaking. His first two scripts, The Touchables (d. Robert Freeman, 1968) and Duffy (d. Robert Parrish, 1968), combine crime and hippies to unremarkable effect (The Touchables was re-written by Ian La Frenais). Cammell decided to try the same formula again in his next script, but to preserve his work insisted on directing as well. His agent, the aspiring producer Sandy Lieberson, paired him with cinematographer Nicolas Roeg as co-directors of Performance. The film brilliantly melds the narcissistic glamour of London's East End gangsters and the late '60s rock star phenomenon, but its mixture of homoeroticism, violence and rock music so alarmed its backers that it sat o
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