"... which he conquers all over the world. He is deeply inspired by the Romantic poets and his performances of their work are spellbinding and come from a passionate love of literature. “He is a friend bound by Homeric qualities of loyalty and living life to the full. He takes no prisoners and yet is as gentle and generous and sensitive as the poets he so admired. His total and absolute adoration is always towards his wife the novelist and screenwriter Evgenia Citkowitz by whom he has two daughters. And his son Henry by his first wife the journalist Sarah Sands is closely bonded to him and joined the search for him in the Californian mountains where he went missing....."
Said a friend of Julian Sands's, quoted in "‘Doing what he loved best’: Last pictures actor Julian Sands sent to his grandson from snow-clad mountain peak/Picture exclusive: Poignant images show missing ‘A Room with a View’ star scaling peaks in the Alps as search enters sixth day" (Independent).
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Sands' is a face I always instantly recognize when I see him in anything, even if I sometimes have think for a few minutes to attach a name to it. He has done lots of guest roles in shows that I have watched over the years. I hope they find him alive, but it isn't looking good.
Nice of his friend to use the present tense when describing him.
He did not tell people where he was going, he did not leave behind a marked map showing his planned route, and despite being a successful actor he apparently did not purchase a $300 personal locator beacon. Did he have a satellite phone and know how to use it?
I hope they find him. Finding him alive seems too much to hope for.
Thurber reports Alpine skiers eaten alive by St. Bernards in drunken orgies.
I had two VHS tapes players, so I could copy movies like A Room with a View. I would watch it again like some people re-read books they love.
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Car found as search for missing actor Julian Sands continues in 'dangerous conditions'
Hopefully they will find him.
He played Shelley in a mid-eighties movie called Gothic, about the time Shelley, Byron, Polidori, and their women hung out in a castle and Mary Shelley came up with Frankenstein. A climactic scene has him straddling a gabled roof, naked, in a lightning storm. I was in college when it came out and it really influenced me.
Guess that was his off-camera personality, too.
JSM
I love that movie. So beautiful and emotional.
He was wonderful in A Room With a View.
It's been a favorite film since when I was studying in Florence it came through in a tiny theater and we all went to see it - how could we resist!
That was the day when I realized just how terrible subtitles can be. I had enough Italian to see how simplified and basic the subtitles were compared to the beautifully written screenplay. The romance and beauty still shone through and I will always remember seeing a beautiful movie in a beautiful city and then going for gelato and feeling like we were walking through the movie.
"A Room with a View" is one of the loveliest movies, truly one of a kind with such perfectly drawn characters. A love story that just had to turn out right, or it would have broken everybody's heart.
I'm surprised that Julian Sands has grandchildren, but then I haven't heard or thought of him since the Nineties.
His career took off with A Room with a View and crashed with Boxing Helena, which I think was about an artist who cut off his girlfriend's arms and legs so he could keep her in a box. I might have watched that one if the boxed Helena had been the Bonham Carter one.
Not to be a name dropper, but Julian's wife's mother was the famous/notorious Lady Caroline Blackwood, a Marquess's daughter, who had been married the the painter Lucian Freud, the composer Israel Citkowitz, and the poet Robert Lowell. Probably none of the marriages was very happy, but Lady Caroline hit the trifecta when it came to the arts.
I didn't realize when I started writing this that Julian Sands went missing in the mountains. I hope he is found. He was very memorable in the films of his that I saw.
I hope they find him. I just watched “A Room with a View” again a few months ago after I re-read Forster’s book. It’s an excellent adaptation and so well-cast.
My sister and I grew up hiking Mt Baldy with my Uncle (not really my uncle but a neighbor and we weren’t allowed to call him by first name without an honorary uncle) and sometimes my dad. It’s is fairly straight forward hike. Except there is (or was in the 90’s) a split to a lesser used and more difficult trial. My boyfriend (now husband) and I hiked the trail and weren’t paying attention and ended up on the trail less traveled, it was difficult, longer, and more dangerous. That was the day my husband, a San Diegan, was introduced to the chest pain that smog causes. It was also the day he met my mother for the first time, we showered and had dinner at her condo after the hike.
I don’t the remember the main trail being that difficult. We did hike it in snowy conditions but not extreme conditions. I was pretty young though. Under ten years old.
Cecil "doesn't know what a woman is."
Since it's late, and this won't post for a few hours, I'll just say that I never read the book, saw the movie, or heard of Julian Sands.
It's a big world!
Baldy can be very treacherous in the winter. Just a week ago an experienced hiker was killed in a 500 ft fall in an ice chute.
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/mother-of-four-falls-more-than-500-feet-to-her-death-at-mt-baldy/
here's such a thing as an adrenalin junky. It will eat you up, eventually.
Other people have adrenalin but it doesn't work. [raises hand]
I was 18 and a freshman in college when "A Room with a View" came to the arthouse theater near campus. I think I saw this movie in the theater four times. I loved everything about it: the light, the language, but most of all, Julian Sands. I still love the movie. I hope he is found. I can't believe he is a grandfather. I guess that's how it is, but when I see his face I'm instantly 18 again and he's shouting from a Tuscan treetop.
I think I'll introduce my daughter to A Room with a View tomorrow night.
I have a friend who goes solo camping up the Queets river valley on the front side of the Olympics. Sat Nav phone. Family knows where he goes. Knows the area well.
Potential river washouts, mountain goats higher up, black bear, slip and fall etc. watches the weather very carefully. Used to be a Boy Scout Leader.
He could die, I suppose. The weather and timing and local knowledge are very important.
Sierras during storms like this are incredibly dangerous. Donner Party dangerous.
Still...if it’s your time, go out doing something you love and go out while living.
Best of luck.
How lovely, Mary Martha. The movie is wonderful and he is perfect in it. I'm always gloriously surprised when I watch it and remember it's Florence. I once sat in the plaza where she faints and ate the most delicious tiramisu at an outdoor cafe. The resonance of that film is endless.
Mary Martha @ 7:06: “…gelato…”. Vivoli’s?
Regardless, thanks for the memory of Firenze, la bella città .
Never go hiking by yourself without a Personal Locator Beacon and, if allowed, a firearm. Don't be an addition to the Missing 411.
British television remade A Room with a View a few years back. Why? As with Brideshead Revisted what did they think they could add to the earlier version?
Spoiler alert: in the television version, George dies in the war that was already on the horizon when Forster wrote the book. That does add some poignancy, but other than that, there wasn't much reason to bother with the new version.
Nice of his friend to use the present tense when describing him.
… except once.
If solo hikers who take no precautions (bear spray, personal locator beacon, extra water, etc.) only endangered themselves, you could just shrug it off. But what about the search & rescue people who will put themselves at risk to try to rescue a person who is probably already dead?
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