{"id":113,"date":"2017-01-31T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2017\/01\/31\/john-hurt\/"},"modified":"2017-01-31T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T16:38:00","slug":"john-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2017\/01\/31\/john-hurt\/","title":{"rendered":"John Hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tLast week, we were saddened to hear of the passing of John Hurt. As Nigel Andrews in the Financial Times wrote: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA film blessed with his presence had at least one actor who looked as if he had been harrowed straight from Hell. Hurt could do you any suffering you wanted: noble, sardonic, wry, railing, comical, tragic. He hired out his gravelled drawl and lined and haggard features, like a weather map of ever-warring fronts. And he combined a thoroughbred theatre-trained eloquence with a film actor\u2019s gift for mischievous miniaturism.\u201d (Nigel Andrews, FT<\/a> 1\/28\/2017)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>Here is a sample of his films in our home use collection:<\/span>

<\/span>Alien – HU DVD 885<\/a><\/span>
Dead Man – HU DVD 1429<\/a><\/span>
The Elephant Man – HU DVD 1535<\/a><\/span>
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – HU DVD 6041<\/a><\/span>
The Lord Of The Rings (1978) – HU DVD 2972<\/a><\/span>
Snowpiercer – HU DVD 11486<\/a><\/span>
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – HU DVD 4317<\/a><\/span>
V for Vendetta – HU DVD 5558<\/a><\/span>
Watership Down – HU DVD 9336<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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