Mike Hodges, best known as the director of gritty, stylish thrillers like Get Carter — the original — Croupier, The Terminal Man and I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead has died, accor…
, which also starred Charlotte Rampling, Malcolm McDowell and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
, legendary New York Observer critic Andrew Sarris called Hodges, “One of the most under-appreciated and virtually unknown masters of the medium in the last 30 years.”Hodges took a broader approach to comedy with his 1980 camp classic, which was powered by a title tune from Queen, for whom Hodges went on to direct several music videosthat made him take films seriously.
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