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TCM Remembers 2008
I think TCM does a great job with these, and this year's may be both the best and most depressing.

fiddlesticks wrote:TCM Remembers 2008
I think TCM does a great job with these, and this year's may be both the best and most depressing.

Did anyone see if Alain Robbe-Grillet was in there? The screenplay for Marienbad alone would warrant inclusion, though he also directed several films himself, so it's not like his connection to the film world was tenuous. Other than that omission, they've definitely improved in terms of remembering names from the international scene. In the past, they've been guilty of some embarrassing lacunae (i.e., Shohei Imamura and Ousmane Sembene), so it's nice to see names like Ken Ogata, Kon Ichikawa and Dino Risi on there. I only mention this because TCM obviously puts way more effort into these things than the Oscars and whatnot do, so it's only right that we should hold them to a higher standard.

Lance is my favorite character in Apocalypse Now.

Christomighty what a run of loss this is.

A hero falls.

Did we cover Gerard Damiano earlier?

Another Carry On film actor dies: Jack Douglas

Whether we did or not, I will say Damiano was the most level headed guy throughout the whole Deep Throat (the film lol) controversy. Interested parties are directed to Inside Deep Throat, the wink-winky doc from Universal a year or two ago, which isn't all that bad. I confess I enjoyed it immensely.

I'm going to save a puppy and drop acid today in honor of Bottoms.

Alain Renoir, the son of Jean Renoir and grandson of the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, died on Dec 12. Renoir who worked as a focus-puller on his father's The Rules of the Game appears in an interview on the Criterion release of that film.

Recent interview with Pinter here, including his thoughts on Un Chien Andalou, The Lives of Others and The Bourne Ultimatum...

Somebody always has to be a Christmas-ruiner, and I would expect nothing less from the great Pinter.

Bete_Noire wrote:Harold Pinter

Fuck. I've just finished watching both The Go-Between and Accident from receiving the Joseph Losey Optimum Collection as a Christmas gift from me to myself and now this. Fuck.

By the way, The Go-Between is now in its correct AR and it looks superb.

Eartha Kitt. And, in other news....

Oh man, that's two...

Matt wrote:Somebody always has to be a Christmas-ruiner, and I would expect nothing less from the great Pinter.

...which is why I've had to spend much of this evening cleaning up and updating his Screenonline filmography. Cheers, Harold.

Doesn't Synecdoche, New York begin on the day Harold Pinter dies? So I guess, post-release of the film, the actual time period of the film is now set.

Grand Illusion wrote:Doesn't Synecdoche, New York begin on the day Harold Pinter dies? So I guess, post-release of the film, the actual time period of the film is now set.

Caden is reading the newspaper over breakfast & says [paraphrasing here], "Harold Pinter died. No, wait. He won the Nobel Prize."

dadaistnun wrote:Caden is reading the newspaper over breakfast & says [paraphrasing here], "Harold Pinter died. No, wait. He won the Nobel Prize."

Was that meant to reference the infamous Sky News blooper?

Excellent eulogy by Geoffrey Macnab in today's Independent, specifically about Pinter's considerable talents as a screenwriter.

Michael Kerpan wrote:

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:Xie Jin

More about XIE Jin.

His Two Stage sisters was a remarkable film. His Penitentiary Angel launched the career of Vicki ZHAO Wei (an interesting look behind the walls of a prison for young women). I've never been able to see his famed Hibiscus Town.

Afraid that I've only just noted this. Sadly I've not had the opportunity to see any of this director's films yet, though I do remember that clips from his film of The Opium Wars was often used on news reports in Britain, due to the timing of its release during the year of the handover of Hong Kong back to China. I'm not sure if it ever received a cinema release here though.

I suppose since he is still credited on imdb that he managed to complete his segment of One 2008th?