Director's cameos and small parts.
Sam Fuller in The Last Movie
Kiarostami at the end of The Taste of Cherries.
Milos Forman in New Year’s Day dir. Henry Jaglom
John Sayles in Eight Men Out and in Lianna
Roger Corman in Godfather part II
Fassbinder also played a small speaking role in his film Ali: Fear Eats the Soul and a role in his short The Little Chaos.
“Fassbinder also played a small speaking role in his film Ali: Fear Eats the Soul and a role in his short The Little Chaos.”
Loved his role in Fear Eats The Soul.
More Fassbinder roles
Fox and His Friends – Fox (Lead)
Merchant of Four Seaons – Zucker (only seen from behind If i remember correctly)
Berlin Alexanderplatz – himself in epilogue (as well as the beautiful Narration)
Katzelmacher – Jorgos
Beware of a Holy Whore – Sascha (another great role!)
Love is colder than Death – Franz
Lili Marleen – Weissenborn (brief part but looking cool as hell)
Eric Rohmer in Jacques Rivette’s “Out 1”discussing Balzac.
Wim Wenders playing blliards – Summer in the City
I found Argento. scary stuff.
Again today I saw Pasolini in his own adaptation of The Canterbury Tales as author Geoffrey Chaucer. It boggles me though, is he speaking over with his own voice in English or is it being dubbed by someone else?
A few comments on Hitchcock’s many cameo appearances:
1. One of his best was in a before-and-after newspaper ad for weight loss in LIFEBOAT. How else was he to get in the picture, which mainly consisted of a small group of people in a lifeboat? Hitch supposedly thought of floating by as a corpse!
2. Although I have sometimes been accused of inventing wild interpretations of various movies, the one that takes the cake in my book is from French film scholar Raymond Bellour. In a famous essay called, “Hitchcock, the Enunciator,” he traces most of the director’s cameos. In describing I CONFESS, he points out that Hitch is seen walking across screen at the top of a flight of steps in Montreal. Then he urges us to count the steps: “There are ALMOST 39 steps.” !!!!!! As I always say, if there were EXACTLY 39 steps, Bellour would have made a brilliant observation, but 37-38 steps or 40-41 steps does not cut it.
3. Finally, some help, if possible. I posted this once before on another thread but the MUBI (I still hate that name) membership has no doubt changed and maybe some new people can enlighten me.
I’m writing an essay on VERTIGO and have been trying to figure out what Hitchcock is carrying in his cameo at the Gavin Elster’s San Francisco shipyard. Most commentators refer to it as a horn case or French horn case; however, I’ve looked through music books that depict EVERY horn in the orchestra and none of them match the shape of the case Hitch carries. One critic said it was a foghorn case, which makes odd sense because Hitch made a TV episode that same year called THE FOGHORN and it starred Barbara Bel Geddes, who plays Midge in VERTIGO!
Any other ideas. The clip is readily available on the Internet.
Also, a little-known director’s cameo:
In the last shot of REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, a man is seen walking away from the camera and toward the entrance of the Planetarium as the sun rises. That was director Nicholas Ray, who also surreptitiously snuck into the film by naming the tough-love juvenile cop “Ray.”
Jean-Luc Godard as Fritz Lang’s assistant director in Le Mepris, the informer as Breathless and his role as the silent film actor in Agnes Varda’s Cleo 5 to 7.
Sam Peckinpah as the coffin maker in Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Terrence Malick as the unexpected visitor in Badlands
Sam Raimi in the Evil Dead Trilogy. Accordingly, Evil Dead: a Hitchhiking Fisherman and the Voice of the Evil Force, Evil Dead II: as a Medieval Soldier, Army of Darkness: as a Knight in Sweatshirt and Sneakers “You can count on my steel!”
Scorsese as the Unnamed Gunman in Mean Streets and the stagehand in Raging Bull.
George Romero as the TV director in Dawn of The Dead and Zombie with a scarf in Day.
John Waters as the resort manager in the Sweet and the Lowdown
I think David Cronenberg has a cameo in Gus Van Sant’s To Die For. I’m not sure, though.
Peckinpah as one of the TV crew in CONVOY (1978)
Don Siegel as “Murph” in PLAY MISTY FOR ME (1971), Clint Eastwood’s directorial debut.
John Frankenheimer appears as the TV director in his own BLACK SUNDAY (1977)
Chang Cheh plays a Japanese crime boss in his own Hong Kong action film, THE ANGRY GUEST (1971).
Chang Cheh’s protege, John Woo, plays a priest in TWIN DRAGONS (1992). Woo also appears as a friend of the hero (Chow Yun Fat) in his own HARD-BOILED (1992). Many other Hong Kong directors appear in TWIN DRAGONS also.
Corey Yuen and Yuen Woo-Ping act in Sammo Hung’s EASTERN CONDORS (1987).
Mitchell Leisen appeared as himself in his own film, HOLD BACK THE DAWN (1941)
Cecil B. DeMille as himself in VARIETY GIRL (1947), in a great bit filmed on the set of UNCONQUERED, which DeMille was directing at the time. Three other Paramount directors, Mitchell Leisen, Frank Butler and George Marshall, are seen in VARIETY GIRL also. It was one of those big backstudio productions popular in the ’40s.
George Marshall is in his own film, PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES (1932) with Laurel & Hardy, but not as himself. He’s a character angrily ordering L&H around at some point. Funny bit!
In IT’S A GREAT FEELING (1949, Warner Bros.), Raoul Walsh, Michael Curtiz, King Vidor, and David Butler all appear as themselves.
Elia Kazan as Googi, a gangster, in City for Conquest (’40)
Elia Kazan as clarinet player Nickie Haroyen in Blues in the Night (’41)
John Waters as the sleazy used car salesman in Something Wild
David Cronenberg, the voice of the wrecked car lot salesman in Crash (his)
Quentin Tarantino as Mr. Brown in Reservoir Dogs
Quentin Tarantino as the first scalped Nazi in Inglourious Basterds, and, also, as an American Soldier in ‘Pride of Nation’ in Inglourious Basterds
David Lynch in Zelly and me.
D,W, Griffith in Rescued from the eagle’s nest.
Truffaut in The Green Room. Althogh it’s not a cameo or a small part, but the leading role. I’d say that’s probably the greatest performance in any film made by Truffaut.
Truffaut
He was very good in the Wild Child.
He shows up too in Close Encounters.(Bad part)
Day for Night playing a director.
Paul Morrisey in Midnight Cowboy (in the party)
Buñuel in Belle de Jour.
Truffaut in Wild Child
CB De Mille introduces the 10 commandments
John Huston as a preacher in Wise Blood
John Schlesinger for a split second as a theater director in Darling
<“Fassbinder also played a small speaking role in his film Ali: Fear Eats the Soul and a role in his short The Little Chaos.”
Loved his role in Fear Eats The Soul.
More Fassbinder roles
Fox and His Friends – Fox (Lead)
Merchant of Four Seaons – Zucker (only seen from behind If i remember correctly)
Berlin Alexanderplatz – himself in epilogue (as well as the beautiful Narration)
Katzelmacher – Jorgos
Beware of a Holy Whore – Sascha (another great role!)
Love is colder than Death – Franz
Lili Marleen – Weissenborn (brief part but looking cool as hell)>
As I recall, he also had a cameo in ‘’The Marriage of Maria Braun’’ as some kind of a dealer…
scorsese → after hours, quiz show
truffaut → adele h
fritz lang → le mepris
sam fuller → pierrot le fou
dario argento —> innocent blood
george romero —> silence of the lambs
david cronenberg —> Into The Night
eli roth —> inglorious basterds
Fellini as Fellini in We loved Each Other So Much
Scorsese as a photographer in Hugo.
Hitchcock was in most of his films. He is seen walking out of the bird shop with his dogs at the beginnig of ‘The Birds’.
Scorsese was also in ‘The King of Comedy’ as the director of the TV show.
Mike
Oliver Stone in Any Given Sunday and Wall Street 2
Kusturica in The good Thief
Jarmusch in Blue in the Face
and an accidental one, if u freeze at 1:11-1:12 you can see Argento’s reflection at the bottom left part of the frame