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The Fanciful Norwegian
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#8276 Post by The Fanciful Norwegian » Wed Apr 22, 2020 11:17 am

Unfortunately this is unavailable to users in the U.S., presumably because Kino has the film here (though this wasn't an obstacle a few weeks back when Re:Voir offered a free rental of Meshes of the Afternoon).

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Professor Wagstaff
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#8277 Post by Professor Wagstaff » Wed Apr 22, 2020 2:49 pm


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#8278 Post by therewillbeblus » Wed Apr 22, 2020 3:12 pm

Professor Wagstaff wrote:
Wed Apr 22, 2020 2:49 pm
Shirley Knight
Wow, I just saw Dutchman the other day and her performance knocked me out. One of the best I’ve ever seen, can’t recommend it highly enough (to the point where it placed on my horror list, primarily due to her unpredictable range!)

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#8279 Post by domino harvey » Wed Apr 22, 2020 3:17 pm

She’s also great in her Oscar nominated perf in Sweet Bird of Youth, which comes out next week on Blu from WA

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#8280 Post by Professor Wagstaff » Wed Apr 22, 2020 6:03 pm

Any Francis Ford Coppola fans should check out his underseen The Rain People for a fantastic lead performance by Knight. I was also reminded elsewhere of her excellent work in the HBO movie Indictment: The McMartin Trial.

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#8281 Post by martin » Sun Apr 26, 2020 3:33 am


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#8282 Post by Randall Maysin » Mon Apr 27, 2020 6:50 am

MichaelB wrote:
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Grey Gardens might never have been made.
If only! If I were either of the Maysleses, once I looked at the Grey Gardens footage after we shot it, I would have just thrown it in the trash.

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#8283 Post by MichaelB » Mon Apr 27, 2020 7:59 am

Randall Maysin wrote:
Mon Apr 27, 2020 6:50 am
If only! If I were either of the Maysleses, once I looked at the Grey Gardens footage after we shot it, I would have just thrown it in the trash.
I believe it has its fans.

(A fairly considerable understatement given the spin-offs that I listed in my piece!)

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#8284 Post by hearthesilence » Mon Apr 27, 2020 4:00 pm

Alan Kleinberg, though there's no obituary yet. A fashion photographer and photo journalist, he was nominated for a Grammy for directing the Talking Heads compilation music video Storytelling Giant. He also produced Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law and has a cameo as a corpse.

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#8285 Post by Cash Flagg » Mon Apr 27, 2020 4:36 pm

Randall Maysin wrote:
Mon Apr 27, 2020 6:50 am
If I were either of the Maysleses, once I looked at the Grey Gardens footage after we shot it, I would have just thrown it in the trash.
What an odd and unsupported bit of trolling this is.

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#8286 Post by MichaelB » Mon Apr 27, 2020 4:57 pm

And a somewhat ironic bit of trolling since it was the Maysles brothers who discerned that there was an extraordinary film to be made about the eventual subjects of Grey Gardens that Peter Beard and Lee Radziwill weren't really capturing through their project (mainly because it had a different focus going in), and once it was clear that the earlier film was never going to be completed the Maysles went back and made their own.

Clearly, they had a somewhat keener eye for a compelling documentary subject than either Beard, Radziwill or indeed Randall Maysin.

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#8287 Post by Jack Kubrick » Mon Apr 27, 2020 8:14 pm

Nancy Dawson, wife of Matt Zoller Seitz.

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#8288 Post by MichaelB » Tue Apr 28, 2020 7:40 am

James Monaco, author of the seminal How to Read a Film and much else besides, died last November, news that seems to have percolated very slowly into film circles.

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#8289 Post by domino harvey » Tue Apr 28, 2020 1:35 pm

MichaelB wrote:
Tue Apr 28, 2020 7:40 am
James Monaco, author of the seminal How to Read a Film and much else besides, died last November, news that seems to have percolated very slowly into film circles.
Better known to me as the author of one of the first English language long form studies of the French New Wave, though I’m pretty sure I have a copy of How to Read a Film in a tub somewhere!

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#8290 Post by fiddlesticks » Tue Apr 28, 2020 6:49 pm


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#8291 Post by WmS » Tue Apr 28, 2020 8:42 pm

Monaco's How To Read a Film was an arbitrary choice for me when I started to get into film-- I think it was the first book on the library shelf-- but what a lucky one. I'm grateful to have had my tastes shaped by his, even if it took me 20 years to see Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000.

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#8292 Post by MichaelB » Wed Apr 29, 2020 7:16 am

Prolific British television actress Jill Gascoine, who in The Gentle Touch (1980-4) starred in what I believe was the first British drama series to focus on a female police officer.

(Not Covid-19 related, and sadly not a surprise - her husband Alfred Molina confirmed in November 2016 that she was in end-stage Alzheimer's.)
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#8293 Post by Never Cursed » Thu Apr 30, 2020 12:54 am

Rishi Kapoor, of cancer

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#8294 Post by martin » Thu Apr 30, 2020 6:05 am

Maj Sjöwall, 84. Swedish writer known for her novels co-written with Per Wahlöö about criminal detective Martin Beck. Bo Widerberg's Man on the Roof is based on one of these novels.

On nother note, the first book about film I got was Monaco's How to Read a Film. An aunt had found it on a flea market in the 80s (1981 edition) and gave it to me - somehow guessing that this was to become a great interest of mine.

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#8295 Post by Feego » Thu Apr 30, 2020 9:40 am

India Adams, "secret singer" who dubbed Cyd Charisse in The Band Wagon.

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#8296 Post by colinr0380 » Thu Apr 30, 2020 5:53 pm

Never Cursed wrote:
Thu Apr 30, 2020 12:54 am
Rishi Kapoor, of cancer
That's terribly sad. He actually co-starred with Irrfan Khan in D-Day.

I'm mostly familiar with Rishi Kapoor through his earlier roles. He's in a few classic Bollywood titles such as Amar Akbar Anthony, the film about three separated at birth brothers raised Hindu, Muslim and Christian and the complications that arise from that when they all meet up again as adults. He's also able support to Raj Kapoor playing the younger version of his character in 'tears of a clown' circus drama My Name Is Joker, from 1970 (he actually made his debut in another Raj Kapoor film, Shree 420, as a child actor in the mid 50s).

He's also one of the leads in crime thriller Katilon ke kaatil (The Killer's Killers), which of course has a couple of great musical numbers!

And of course he's part of the love triangle in the ultimate Bollywood film Chandni, with the late Sridevi and Vinod Khanna.

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#8297 Post by kuzine » Thu Apr 30, 2020 8:34 pm

Tony Allen (casue of death unknown atm)

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#8298 Post by hearthesilence » Fri May 01, 2020 3:46 pm

kuzine wrote:
Thu Apr 30, 2020 8:34 pm
Tony Allen (casue of death unknown atm)
Article's been updated now - abdominal aortic aneurysm. “He was in great shape,” manager Eric Trosser said to France 24. “It was quite sudden.”

Tremendous loss, one of the great drummers, period.

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#8299 Post by Never Cursed » Fri May 01, 2020 7:47 pm

Sam Lloyd of Scrubs, at 56 of a brain tumor

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#8300 Post by brundlefly » Fri May 01, 2020 9:19 pm

hearthesilence wrote:
Fri May 01, 2020 3:46 pm
kuzine wrote:
Thu Apr 30, 2020 8:34 pm
Tony Allen (casue of death unknown atm)
Article's been updated now - abdominal aortic aneurysm. “He was in great shape,” manager Eric Trosser said to France 24. “It was quite sudden.”

Tremendous loss, one of the great drummers, period.
And still doing interesting, searching work! That album he did with Jeff Mills just a couple years ago was great thinky stuff. Devastating.

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