Talk:John Schlesinger

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John Schlesinger died today, will someone add him to the front page?


 * What did he die from? Would you put it on the article if you know ( or just everybody who knows ). webkid 20:26 25 Jul 2003 (UTC)


 * Can we get a citation for the "implicitly gay" main characters in Marathon Man, please? I think that statement is kind of stretch... 90.136.129.43 (talk) 23:56, 23 February 2010 (UTC)


 * For that matter, Buck and Rizzo were far from explicitly gay. We need a cite from Herlihy or Salt or JS (or all of 'em) as well. — HarringtonSmith (talk) 00:03, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

If memory serves, there is a citation for Marathon Man to be found in Vitto Russo's The Celuloid Closet. I believe he cites changes made to the original script. Plus, if you've seen the movie it's perfectly obvious that the Roy Schieder character was carrying on an affair with his CIA handler. Really all you have to do is look. Theonemacduff (talk) 06:59, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

New "Sexuality" section
Do we really need these anecdotes about his sexuality? Do they contribute to the discussion of his work? Would they be included if he were straight? There's more discussion about his difficulty in finding a sex partner in a bath house than about his Oscar for Best Director or his Best Picture-winning picture. — HarringtonSmith (talk) 13:23, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I quite agree, I don't see why his sexuality has to be addressed through anecdotes. Nor do I see the relevance of Alan Bennett to this section. Schlesinger had several long term partners in any case, the emphasis on the bath house story is an odious character stain.Scotchegg (talk) 22:31, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Agreed. This is not the Enquirer; his sexuality should not be made into a punchline. Prayer for the wild at heart (talk) 13:30, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Another one for the filmography
A short film made for the BBC’s topical magazine Tonight, Song of the Valley [1957] is not strictly a documentary. Showing a man’s reminiscences of home as he is escorted to prison, it is set to Dorothy Squires’ ‘Song of the Valley’ and though it is dramatised, it portrays a working-class Yorkshire community in much the same style as documentaries being produced by directors like Denis Mitchell in this period.

The use of the streets and landscapes of Yorkshire certainly correspond to John Grierson’s oft-used definition of documentary as a “creative treatment of actuality” and in this pioneering period experimental formats were regularly used with little attention to distinctions between genres. What Song of the Valley best shows is the kind of short, beautifully made film that was regularly being produced for magazine style programmes. Schlesinger of course would later make the transition from television to film, where he would become one of Britain’s most well-known directors. Song of the Valley is included on the forthcoming DVD box set Visions of Change Volume 1: BBC 1951-1967. cassandra — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cassandrathesceptic (talk • contribs) 12:37, 6 September 2016 (UTC)