Our fourth and final episode on David Puttnam's misadventures as the head of Columbia Pictures is now available...
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We complete our miniseries on British film producer David Puttnam and his brief run as the head of Columbia Pictures, by taking a look at the movies Puttnam would approve or acquire that were released between July 1989 and March 1990, as well as a summary of several Puttnam-developed films that would never get made or released, Puttnam's life after the studio, and a personal commentary on the state of cinema today, and the continual mistreatment of the Puttnam films, thirty-three years later.
The titles discussed during this episode include Christopher Guest's debut as director, The Big Picture, the low-budget adaptation of Damon Runyon stories that happened to star Steve Buscemi and Madonna, Bloodhounds of Broadway, an unmade adaptation of Gary Larson's The Far Side to be written and directed by Alan Rudolph, the infamous talking peen movie Me and Him, and a romantic drama featuring Gregory Peck, Jane Fonda and Jimmy Smits during the Mexican Revolution.
I hope you'll check it out.
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