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colinr0380
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#6901 Post by colinr0380 » Sat Dec 09, 2017 8:46 am

MichaelB wrote:More than one. I remember watching Radley Metzger’s Maraschino Cherry and thinking that there was someone in it that looked startlingly like him - so I looked up the cast list, and...

...well, I was right.
And Synapse Films released the other film Spalding Gray was in a couple of years ago: The Farmer's Daughters. There's one of the few SFW clips of the film here.

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#6902 Post by Lemmy Caution » Sun Dec 10, 2017 6:32 am

An English lang obit for Sunny Murray, with a link to an interview, A French doc on his career, and containing some embedded clips.
Not the easiest task to play drums for Cecil Tyalor and Albert Ayler in the '60's.
I'm not familiar with his recordings as a leader, so if anyone has any recs for that, it'd be appreciated.

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#6903 Post by hearthesilence » Sun Dec 10, 2017 12:40 pm

Lemmy Caution wrote:
An English lang obit for Sunny Murray, with a link to an interview, A French doc on his career, and containing some embedded clips.
Not the easiest task to play drums for Cecil Tyalor and Albert Ayler in the '60's.
I'm not familiar with his recordings as a leader, so if anyone has any recs for that, it'd be appreciated.
An Even Break (Never Give A Sucker) is probably the best one to get. It's out-of-print, but it's not hard to find inexpensive used copies, especially the CD that was paired with Sunshine (which isn't on par with An Even Break but certainly worth hearing).

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#6905 Post by rohmerin » Tue Dec 12, 2017 7:04 am

Juan Luis Buñuel, son and filmmaker.
Paris, 6 december, 83 years. I remember some images of Catherine Deneuve in Madrid in La Femme aux bottes rouges but I've never seen a film made by him.
Leonor, is it good? Liv Ullman, Ornella Muti in Middle Age ?

The whole film The Lady with Red Boots English dubbed here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk3ob3XDc_M" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Fernando Rey dubbed himself.

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#6906 Post by rohmerin » Tue Dec 12, 2017 7:36 am

Another Spain-related death announced today.
Aline Griffith, OSS- CIA spy, author, Countess of Romanones, jet set member, 94 years.

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#6907 Post by Aunt Peg » Wed Dec 13, 2017 7:57 am

Suzanna Leigh

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#6909 Post by colinr0380 » Wed Dec 13, 2017 2:23 pm

UK children's TV presenter, big in the 1970s and 80s Keith Chegwin. Though in film he turns up briefly as the end point of the mirror dream sequence as Fleance, the end of Banquo's line desined to become King in Polanski's version of Macbeth.

He also appears to have had a brief run of almost totally forgotten British films in the early 2000s, none of which I have seen: Whatever Happened To Harold Smith? (directed by Peter Hewitt, continuing his slide from Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey through this into Thunderpants and Zoom with Adam Sandler), House! (one of those post-Full Monty/Little Voice films set in the regions and dealing with 'regional quirky issues' - in this case a bingo hall in Wales run by Kelly MacDonald, periodically getting visited by characters like Keith Chegwin and Bruce Forsyth playing themselves) and perhaps most bizarrely in Tabloid in which UK TV names like Stephen Tomkinson and TV presenters like Gail Porter, Dani Behr and 'Ready, Steady, Cook!' chef Ainsley Harriott(!) apparently rub shoulders with Art Malik, John Hurt, David Soul (!!) and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio(!!?!). Its also a 'comedy/drama/thriller' early on in Danny Dyer's lad-film ascendancy, so its probably one of many UK films following in the footsteps of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (films like Circus, which features a similarly bizarre castlist of names like Famke Jannsen, Fred Ward and Peter Stormare rubbing shoulders with "It's a puppet!" comedian Brian Conley trying to go serious, and Christopher Biggins playing it straight for once)

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#6910 Post by MichaelB » Wed Dec 13, 2017 2:38 pm

Paul Taylor, probably best known to the public as a regular critic for Time Out in the 1970s and 80s, notable for his sweeping enthusiasms - he later conceded that maybe he went a bit over the top on Once Upon a Time in the West, but as he put it in the original full-length review "we're talking favourite films here, so only superlatives will do":
The Western is dead, they tell us, so long live Leone's timeless monument to the death of the West itself, rivalled only by Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid for the title of best ever made. We're talking favorite films here, so only superlatives will do. Worth starting at the beginning: a stakeout at a deserted station, Jack Elam and a fly - the most audacious credit sequence in film history. A soundtrack never bettered by any Dolby knob-twiddlers - unnatural sounds of 'silence' and Morricone's greatest score, handing Bronson his identity with a plangent, shivery harmonica riff, carrying Leone's crane shots upwards over a railhead township, clip-clopping Robards into the rigorous good/bad/ugly schema. Countercasting (sadist Fonda) and location choice (Monument Valley) that render an iconic base for Leone and collaborators (Bertolucci and Argento, no less) to perform their revisionist/revolutionary critique of the Classic American (i.e., Fordian) Creation Myth. And more, too. Critical tools needed are eyes and ears - this is Cinema.
But people in the industry also knew and loved him for his indefatigable energy and enthusiasm at the ICA and later the BFI, where he had numerous programming-related jobs, culminating with being editor of the BFI Southbank programmes. He also had a famously encyclopaedic knowledge of Leicester City Football Club, claimed never to have missed a match (no matter where it was held) and co-wrote what is generally regarded as the definitive book on the subject.

And, speaking personally, he was also a properly lovely bloke: I'd known him on and off since the late 1980s and he was a colleague for nearly a decade in the early 2000s. To my shame, I hadn't seen him since I went freelance, but before then I loved working with him on all manner of projects, and once alarmed him by referring to an early-80s review that I'd long treasured (it was of the Hungarian anti-Stalinist comedy The Witness) but which he had no conscious memory of ever having written - although it was definitely his: that distinctively chatty style leaped off the page.


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#6912 Post by dx23 » Thu Dec 14, 2017 10:53 pm

Porn Star Yurizan Beltran. What the hell is going in this industry? Isn't she like the 5th pornstar to die this year?

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#6914 Post by thirtyframesasecond » Fri Dec 15, 2017 6:54 am

MichaelB wrote:Paul Taylor, probably best known to the public as a regular critic for Time Out in the 1970s and 80s, notable for his sweeping enthusiasms - he later conceded that maybe he went a bit over the top on Once Upon a Time in the West, but as he put it in the original full-length review "we're talking favourite films here, so only superlatives will do":
The Western is dead, they tell us, so long live Leone's timeless monument to the death of the West itself, rivalled only by Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid for the title of best ever made. We're talking favorite films here, so only superlatives will do. Worth starting at the beginning: a stakeout at a deserted station, Jack Elam and a fly - the most audacious credit sequence in film history. A soundtrack never bettered by any Dolby knob-twiddlers - unnatural sounds of 'silence' and Morricone's greatest score, handing Bronson his identity with a plangent, shivery harmonica riff, carrying Leone's crane shots upwards over a railhead township, clip-clopping Robards into the rigorous good/bad/ugly schema. Countercasting (sadist Fonda) and location choice (Monument Valley) that render an iconic base for Leone and collaborators (Bertolucci and Argento, no less) to perform their revisionist/revolutionary critique of the Classic American (i.e., Fordian) Creation Myth. And more, too. Critical tools needed are eyes and ears - this is Cinema.
I used to have some of the TO guides in the late 90s/early 00s. As it was a pretty formative time for me with more serious films let's say, these were brilliant primers. And this was absolutely one of the reviews I remembered so well because it seemed so personal. And to my shame I've never seen OUATITW - it is on Sky On Demand so I will remedy that!

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#6915 Post by Sloper » Fri Dec 15, 2017 11:53 am

I also remember reading that review when I was a teenager - it was before we had the internet, and things like the Time Out film guide were essentially bibles for me.

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#6916 Post by Feego » Sat Dec 16, 2017 11:08 pm

TCM's annual memorial tribute.

Edit: The link no longer seems to work and the video appears to have been removed from TCM's website. Perhaps they're making some last-minute additions.
Edit 2: The video is back with a new link. The only difference I could perceive is that they changed the clip for actor Robert Hardy.

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#6917 Post by dadaistnun » Sun Dec 17, 2017 5:58 pm

Ralph Carney Worked with so many people, notably Tom Waits (including the tour that generated Big Time) and the David Thomas/CLE scene.

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#6920 Post by Big Ben » Mon Dec 18, 2017 3:14 pm

Not a fan of K-Pop at all (I think the only music I've ever seen out of South Korea was Gangnam Style like everyone else) but I know people who are. The K-Pop "scene" is absolutely awful. Imagine every abuse you can think of and the executives do it. Theft of wages, forced prostitution, propaganda, you name it. I am unfortunately not shocked this has transpired and it saddens me deeply.


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#6923 Post by Perkins Cobb » Wed Dec 20, 2017 1:10 pm

Hiep Thi Le, the star of Oliver Stone's Heaven and Earth.

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#6924 Post by mfunk9786 » Wed Dec 20, 2017 3:49 pm

Immensely talented production designer Thérèse DePrez, at 52

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