The production designer extraordinaire whose death was announced earlier today.
Marnie, 1964; credit: Production Designer; director, Alfred Hitchcock
The Birds, 1962; credit: Production Designer; director, Alfred Hitchcock
The Crimson Kimono, 1959; credit: Art Director; director, Samuel Fuller
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation, 1953; credit: Art Director; director, Charles Lamont
I sometimes idly imagine the hypothetical movie that could be made by everybody in cinema who made it to 100:
Produced by Adolph Zukor
Directed by Manoel de Oliveira / Leni Riefenstahl / Hal Roach
Starring George Burns, Bob Hope, Luise Rainer and Gloria Stewart
Music by Irving Berlin
Production Design by Robert Boyle
(Who would be the cinematographer? Henri Alekan and Kazuo Miyagawa ‘only’ lived into their 90s, Douglas Slocombe is still around but has a few years to go yet.)
R.I.P.
I loved Boyle’s work on Joe Dante’s EXPLORERS. The simultaneously strange and goofy alien spaceship is the most obviously “designed” element, but the more impressive work was the exteriors of our heroes’ various houses: One look at them, and you knew everything about the characters and their places in the world.
Late to the party but I appreciate the Roubaud allusion, working on many levels wonderfully.