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dadaistnun wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 7:52 pm Nothing But a Man director Michael Roemer.

hearthesilence wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 10:49 pm Great filmmaker and wonderful human being. I wasn't enrolled at Yale, much less in one of the classes he taught there, but I did get a chance to spend one late morning at a local coffee shop with him and an employer who was a former faculty member. We basically had a long and leisurely discussion over an early lunch. I'm glad I got to say hello to him one more time at one of his recent appearances at Film Forum - he might've been a little more fail but for someone in his mid '90s he seemed to be in terrific health, both mentally and physically. I'm glad he got a chance to see his work rediscovered and preserved, and I hope the newly restored Dying gets released for home viewing (Blu-ray, streaming, etc.) very soon - it's a great film and it may be the purest expression of his thoughtful and moral approach to filmmaking.

hearthesilence wrote: Sun May 25, 2025 9:35 pm Reported by friends and associates on social media, Peter David. Possibly best-known for his work writing comic books like The Incredible Hulk, he also wrote novels and for television, films, and video games.

Never Cursed wrote: Mon May 26, 2025 1:34 am Marcel Ophuls (The Sorrow and the Pity), at the too-young age of 97

Jonathan Kandell wrote: Mr. Ophuls had directed several minor feature films before vaulting to fame in 1969 with “The Sorrow and the Pity,” his four-and-a-half-hour documentary on wartime Clermont-Ferrand, an industrial city located almost at the center of France. In a dispassionate, incisive style, he interviewed shopkeepers and farmers, bankers and entrepreneurs, teachers and lawyers who either collaborated with the Nazis and the Vichy regime or actively resisted the occupation — but who in most instances had turned a blind eye to the roundups of Jews and anti-Nazis.

When the film was first shown in Paris cinemas, it was met with shock, outrage and tears. It stripped away the myth — fostered by Charles de Gaulle when he returned to France with the victorious Allied armies in 1944 — that a vast majority of his compatriots were either open or secret supporters of his resistance movement.

Originally produced for television, “The Sorrow and the Pity” was banned from French airwaves until 1981. Conservative politicians denounced Mr. Ophuls, calling his work a “prosecutorial film” that unfairly portrayed the French as cowardly or worse. “It doesn’t attempt to prosecute the French,” Mr. Ophuls insisted in a 2004 interview with The Guardian newspaper. “Who can say their nation would have behaved better in the same circumstances?”

Buttery Jeb wrote: Tue May 27, 2025 9:31 pm Rick Derringer

PfR73 wrote: Mon May 26, 2025 12:01 am Sad news. He wrote what became my favorite single comic issue ever, X-Factor #87. I was young, so I don't have a great memory of it, but I know I met him & got his autograph at a local comic book store sometime in the early 90s.

beamish14 wrote: Thu May 29, 2025 8:11 pm Al Foster, drummer who collaborated with Miles Davis on his incredible fusion albums from the 1970’s, including On the Corner and Agharta

hearthesilence wrote: Fri May 30, 2025 4:30 am James Lowe, lead singer of The Electric Prunes (perhaps best-known for "I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)" which was immortalized on Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968), and a producer perhaps best-known for Sparks' A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing