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Terence Stamp (1938-2025) thread

Marcel Łoziński, a great, great filmmaker who was only ever a fraction as famous as his friend Krzysztof Kieślowski, but that's because while Kieślowski transitioned from non-fiction into increasingly widely distributed and internationally acclaimed fiction, Łoziński stuck to his first love: not just documentaries but parochially Polish documentaries at that - although the universality of such masterpieces as 89mm From Europe (1993), Anything Can Happen (1995), Poste Restante (2008) and many, many others shines through.

Brent Hinds, co-founder and for a long time one of the lead guitarists (as well as vocalists and songwriters) for the great metal band Mastodon. Confirmed by local Atlanta, GA news and well as a statement by the band announcing he had died in a motorcycle crash.

hearthesilence wrote: Thu Aug 21, 2025 5:15 pm Brent Hinds, co-founder and for a long time one of the lead guitarists (as well as vocalists and songwriters) for the great metal band Mastodon. Confirmed by local Atlanta, GA news and well as a statement by the band announcing he had died in a motorcycle crash.

This sounds like a possible suicide given that he was posting messages about being kicked out of the band and his immense anger towards them just a few days ago

The story makes it sound like the other driver was at fault, which would be odd if it were suicide.

I never really got into Mastodon, but I remember liking their album Leviathan, and it seems like they are well respected in the metal community.

Eduardo Serra, Portuguese DP whose credits include Jude, The Wings of the Dove, and What Dreams May Come

beamish14 wrote: Sat Aug 23, 2025 2:39 pm Eduardo Serra, Portuguese DP whose credits include Jude, The Wings of the Dove, and What Dreams May Come

Also a lot of late period Claude Chabrol (The Colour of Lies, The Flower of Evil, The Bridesmaid, Comedy of Power, A Girl Cut In Two, and Chabrol's final film Inspector Bellamy), Patrice Leconte's The Widow of Saint-Pierre, and the Irish film The Disappearance of Finbar.

And the rather obscure Vincent Ward film that came in between The Navigator and What Dreams May Come, 1992's Map of the Human Heart.

Plus the two Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows films, the first part of which includes that section done in the style of Lotte Reiniger's animated films.

colinr0380 wrote: Sat Aug 23, 2025 5:49 pm

beamish14 wrote: Sat Aug 23, 2025 2:39 pm Eduardo Serra, Portuguese DP whose credits include Jude, The Wings of the Dove, and What Dreams May Come

Also a lot of late period Claude Chabrol (The Colour of Lies, The Flower of Evil, The Bridesmaid, Comedy of Power, A Girl Cut In Two, and Chabrol's final film Inspector Bellamy), Patrice Leconte's The Widow of Saint-Pierre, and the Irish film The Disappearance of Finbar.

And the rather obscure Vincent Ward film that came in between The Navigator and What Dreams May Come, 1992's Map of the Human Heart.

Plus the two Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows films, the first part of which includes that section done in the style of Lotte Reiniger's animated films.

Map of the Human Heart and The Hairdresser’s Husband look incredible

beamish14 wrote: Sat Aug 23, 2025 7:00 pm The Hairdresser’s Husband look incredible

Kino put this one out on Blu recently. I don’t care for it, but it def has its fans

I adored Map of the Human Heart but I've vowed never to see it again because I strongly suspect it's the kind of film you have to be in exactly the right mood for, and I suspect lightning won't strike twice.

MichaelB wrote: Sat Aug 23, 2025 7:28 pm I adored Map of the Human Heart but I've vowed never to see it again because I strongly suspect it's the kind of film you have to be in exactly the right mood for, and I suspect lightning won't strike twice.

There is nothing like it. Ward’s first 3 features are all incredible, and it’s a shame that he has mostly focused on photography and fine art

domino harvey wrote: Sat Aug 23, 2025 7:04 pm

beamish14 wrote: Sat Aug 23, 2025 7:00 pm The Hairdresser’s Husband look incredible

Kino put this one out on Blu recently. I don’t care for it, but it def has its fans

I enjoyed this one much more than Girl On The Bridge or Man On The Train, maybe it's his involvement. The Widow of St. Pierre
is now on my list. I'd love to see Criterion release The Wings Of The Dove which makes a great double bill with A Room With A View.

Jerry Adler, 96, Hesh from The Sopranos. I may have first seen him in as the possible suspect in Manhattan Murder Mystery.

David Ketchum, best known for his role as Agent 13 on Get Smart, has died. He was 97.
I always enjoyed his Get Smart undercover appearances. Surly and dissatisfied with his assignment crammed into some ridiculous space, he'd banter unhelpfully with Max, with a great sour look on his face. I never heard of the earlier 60's series he was part of:

Ketchum also played carpenter Mel Warshaw opposite John Astin and Marty Ingalls on the 1962-63 ABC sitcom I’m Dickens, He’s Fenster and starred as Counselor Spiffy on the 1965-66 NBC comedy Camp Runamuck.

He wrote scripts for a lot of well known TV shows, as well as turning up in small roles in a heap of late 60's / early 70's shows.

Said fellow Camp Runamuck actor Dave Madden in Robert Pegg’s 2015 book, Comical Co-Stars of Television: “Dave was a naturally funny guy. He more or less idolized Danny Kaye in Danny’s earlier days, and so an awful lot of the physical things he did in terms of takes and things were very Danny Kaye-ish in their style.”

Ketchum got his first writing credit on a 1967 episode of Garry Marshall‘s Hey, Landlord, and he would write for nearly four dozen shows — other Marshall series like Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley, plus Here’s Lucy, M*A*S*H, Wonder Woman, MacGyver, Highway to Heaven and Full House among them — through 1990.

Came up through the Catskills Bortsch Belt clubs, admired Danny Kaye, got his start with various Steve Allen shows. Can't be many left from that time. A bygone era.

Frank Price, who oversaw production at Columbia Pictures and Universal/MCA during some their most profitable eras. Responsible for greenlighting films as diverse as Kramer Vs. Kramer, Back to the Future, Groundhog Day, and Boyz in the Hood

Mike de Leon, per Carlotta Films, part of the Second Golden Age of Philippine cinema, he previously co-wrote and directed films during the Philippines' martial law, such as Itim, Kisapmata, Batch '81, and Sister Stella L. He was also the cinematographer and producer of Lino Brocka's Manila in the Claws of Light.

Spanish actor Eusebio Poncela, 79, best known for Almodovar's Matador & Law of Desire as well as some films from Eloy de la Iglesia. Only last week I saw him in Ogro (1979) from Gillo Pontecorvo.

He's also in Carlos Saura's 1988 film El Dorado which is interesting in being a more 'historical'-style version of the story of search for the lost city of gold. It of course pales in comparison to Herzog's Aguirre, Wrath of God, but makes for a interesting contrasting companion piece as it throws its net wider to portray the initial leader of the expedition (played by Lambert Wilson) building multiple ships, which amusingly instantly sink on being launched, that suggests the mania was institutional and multi-generational, and turns Aguirre into being more of one more leader in succession than just a single megalomaniac. (Kind of like the Mark Anthony or Richard III figure of the semi-reluctant usurper of the reigns of power after a bloody series of coups) I wrote a bit about it here.

He is also in Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's thriller Intacto and also part of the mult-national cast of Tran Anh Hung's I Come With The Rain.

Arthur Brauss, 89, known for acting in Cross of Iron, The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty (or "...Anxiety at the Penalty Kick"), and much more (IMDb)

Canadian actor Graham Greene

willoneill wrote: Mon Sep 01, 2025 10:37 pm Canadian actor Graham Greene

An incredible screen presence. I hope more people will seek out Clearcut

Always liked him, great laid back presence

dwk wrote: Mon Sep 01, 2025 10:40 pm Evil Dead 2 co-writer Scott Spiegel

An associate with Sam Raimi, turning up for cameos in all of Raimi's films up to Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness. He's also the director of the (Raimi produced) 1989 slasher film Intruder, and for some reason My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure decades after the 1960s Joseph Losey and Monica Vitti Monica Blaise film! (The reason likely being that the film is 'presented' by Tarantino so it would tie in with Tarantino's appropriations of pop culture from previous eras). He also co-wrote the 1990 Clint Eastwood as a non-Dirty Harry cop film The Rookie (weirdly that's also a film that teams up Tom Skerritt and Lara Flynn Boyle in a film together two years after they both appeared in Poltergeist III!)

domino harvey wrote: Mon Sep 01, 2025 10:53 pm [Graham Greene] Always liked him, great laid back presence

Although not quite so laid back in the film Clearcut, which turned up on the first volume of the Severin folk horror sets. He was the go to Native American actor for years in the early 90s, what with Dances With Wolves, Thunderheart, Powow Highway, etc to the extent that it was rather surprising to see him turn up as one of the supporting cast of cops in the New York set Die Hard With A Vengeance! And he did get a great role in The Green Mile as the first of the prisoners to be executed, getting the 'standard baseline execution' where nothing goes wrong, or unexpectedly, to contrast against the fate of the other inmates.

domino harvey wrote: Mon Sep 01, 2025 10:53 pm Always liked him, great laid back presence

For me the 3rd Die Hard (and last one I saw) was a real delight. Greene as part of the detective crew in Bruce’s precinct all ooze a lived in, seen it all type of cop.