Diane Keaton (1946-2025)

[The Curious Sofa]

I used to own a photography book of publicity stills Keaton co-edited, which I loved, called Still Life: Hollywood Tableaux. It featured the most artificial looking, hyper-real color images from the 50s and 60s, the type of photography that inspired artists like Cindy Sherman and Gregory Crewdson. Unfortunately it fell victim to mold which took hold of a wall behind my bookshelves. It's long been OOP and is now quite expensive.

[colinr0380]

That reminds me of this Criterion forum classic moment!

[The Curious Sofa]

Also reminiscent of Cindy Sherman, when she did her series on clowns around the same time Keaton's clown book came out.

https://spruethmagers.com/exhibitions/c ... ns-munich/

[hearthesilence]

Family statement reveals Keaton died from pneumonia.

The family also suggested donations in her memory to a local food bank or an animal shelter. “She loved her animals and she was steadfast in her support of the unhoused community, so any donations in her memory to a local food bank or an animal shelter would be a wonderful and much appreciated tribute to her."

[The Curious Sofa]

A common cause of death among older people. My dad died of complications from pneumonia last December, though at least he was a decade older than Keaton.

[Beloved Aunt]

I love how ditzy this woman was. She was probably the silliest great leading lady and actress ever, and that makes her extra special.

[hearthesilence]

Al Pacino in 2014 telling a highly entertaining story about how Diane Keaton got him to break his self-imposed hiatus as he had run out of money.

[j99]

Nancy Meyers’ films are unwatchable. It was painful to experience Because I Said So in a theatrical setting. It’s a shame that she spent much of her latter career appearing in low quality material

Definitely. I couldn’t understand why she was appearing in so much fluff, considering her brilliant career in the 70s. I got the impression from an interview she did with Charlie Rose, I think it was in the 2000s, that she experienced a lot of self doubt. I actually thought she was a brilliant dramatic actress, and it’s a shame she appeared to waste her considerable talent, latterly, on rubbish. Her last film, Summer Camp, looked atrocious. And I’m not happy saying this, because she was an amazing character, and I’m gutted she has gone.

[tolbs1010]

Not here to campaign for a Nancy Meyers filmmaker thread or anything, but I thought Something's Gotta Give was fairly enjoyable. DK and Jack had good chemistry together. DK had an openness and lightness of spirit that fits Nancy Meyers' movies much better than Streep in It's Complicated. Plus, you get Keanu and Frannie McD collecting a check while being likable. Overall, it's pretty good as far as geriatric rom-coms go, which is a legit sub-genre now.

DK is also great in the Nancy Meyers-penned Baby Boom, which was a star vehicle and big hit for her. Saw it in the theater as a kid with my parents (they loved it) and again a few years back when visiting my Mom. Dated but still entertaining.

Bring on the pitchforks.

[colinr0380]

Here's an interesting curio: Michael Palin introducing a screening of Diane Keaton's 1987 documentary about the afterlife, Heaven, on BBC2's Film Club in 1988.

And here's a link to the documentary itself, which perhaps not uncoincidentally was made the same year as Keaton directed Belinda Carlisle's Heaven Is A Place On Earth music video.

[j99]

Here's an interesting curio: Michael Palin introducing a screening of Diane Keaton's 1987 documentary about the afterlife, Heaven, on BBC2's Film Club in 1988.

And here's a link to the documentary itself, which perhaps not uncoincidentally was made the same year as Keaton directed Belinda Carlisle's Heaven Is A Place On Earth music video.

I must check it out. There’s an amusing interview on the Letterman talk show, where she hasn’t appeared for 20 years, and Letterman asks why she hasn’t appeared on his show for so long, and she said she was mortified her Heaven documentary, which she was promoting on the show at the time, flopped at the box office, and she just couldn’t face him again, because it would bring back the bad memory!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3mrbzncTH8

[senseabove]

Here's an interesting curio: Michael Palin introducing a screening of Diane Keaton's 1987 documentary about the afterlife, Heaven, on BBC2's Film Club in 1988.

And here's a link to the documentary itself, which perhaps not uncoincidentally was made the same year as Keaton directed Belinda Carlisle's Heaven Is A Place On Earth music video.

Heaven is getting a new BD release in a few weeks.