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Maurice Roëves, who I'm pretty convinced is the only actor who's ever played a vision of God whose first words are "You've fucked this one up, you daft cunt". (From 1998's The Acid House.)

MichaelB wrote: Wed Jul 15, 2020 12:10 pm Maurice Roëves, who I'm pretty convinced is the only actor who's ever played a vision of God whose first words are "You've fucked this one up, you daft cunt". (From 1998's The Acid House.)

Here's that scene (NSFW: Language). I seem to remember that the year before The Acid House was released Channel 4 showed The Granton Star Cause segment by itself as its own short film. I'm not sure that has happened much before or since, but it certainly showed a confidence in that scene being able to stand out by itself.

I see from imdb that Roëves also briefly appeared as the hallucinating "First Victim" in the High Noon-but-in-space thriller Outland, which involves quite an explosive exit!

Critic and translator Paul Hammond, a specialist in Surrealism in general and Luis Buñuel in particular, although he was also one of the first English-language commentators on the work of Jan Švankmajer (and was duly featured as one of the talking heads in Keith Griffiths' groundbreaking 1984 documentary The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer, made back in the days when Channel 4 would commission an hour-long programme about a then totally unknown Czech animator - something utterly unimaginable today).

No online obituaries yet, but Tom O'Regan, best known for his book Australian National CInema. He was 64.

John Lewis

C. T. Vivian

Awful day...

Dancer Zizi Jeanmaire, who appeared in Hans Christian Andersen and other films.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/ ... e-obituary

Fred Holywell wrote: Sun Jul 19, 2020 12:39 am Brigid Berlin

Very sad to hear. Worthy checking out is Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story (2000). It was released on DVD years ago. Blu Ray upgrade somebody please [-o<

Annie Ross, British-American singer, well-known to jazz enthusiasts, but she may be more widely known for her work as an actress. Superman III of all things was my introduction to her, but the highlight of her film work is probably Robert Altman's Short Cuts where she gets to make full use of her musical talents as well.

Joni Mitchell may recognize this tune, which was originally a hit for Ross. (Ross actually cut this while she was in the vocal trio of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. Lambert may be known to direct cinema fans as the subject of D A Pennebaker's Lambert & Co., a short film that for Pennebaker laid the foundation for Dont Look Back.)

Always admired Annie Ross, especially her work with LH&R. She was legend among fans of vocalese. R.I.P.

And yes, that is the same Annie Ross who appeared in both the Basket Case sequels.

Ross wrote the clever lyrics to Twisted, set to a Wardell Gray instrumental (also worth hearing). Her parents dubbed her the Scottish Shirley Temple and had her singing by age 4; she sang Loch Lomond in an Our Gang film at age 7. Had a child with bebop drummer Kenny Clarke back in 1949, when she was still a teenager and interracial couples/bi-racial children were not accepted. Ross was also romantically involved with Lenny Bruce for a time, developed a heroin addiction, ran a jazz club in London. And of course had a long singing and acting career. Interesting life. A survivor.

There was a BBC film Annie Ross: No One But Me (2012). And here's an interview/article from that time.Jazz icon Annie Ross discusses her life and tells why she'd do it all again

Critic, author and prolific Guardian obituarist Ronald Bergan.

Sad news. His Guardian page indicates how much he will be a loss to the obituary column, while he wrote a decent biography of Jean Renoir, among others... With the passing also of John Francis Lane a couple of years back, there's quite a hole now in Cinema obituary writing...

flyonthewall2983 wrote: Sat Jul 25, 2020 4:48 pm Peter Green

Very sad news. I love the music of his Fleetwood Mac. R.I.P.

artfilmfan wrote: Sat Jul 25, 2020 6:55 pm

flyonthewall2983 wrote: Sat Jul 25, 2020 4:48 pm Peter Green

Very sad news. I love the music of his Fleetwood Mac. R.I.P.

I love Fleetwood Mac in all of its incarnations (at least before Buckingham left the first time around), and while I've always had a preference for Green's era, for no particular reason I went on a huge kick these past 6 months and listened to those early records endlessly. I got a copy of the original mono mix of their first album, as well as their first 45's - absolutely wonderful. Even their disappointing second album has its share of gems ("Love That Burns" in particular, one of their finest moments). And I love the Chicago jam sessions at Chess - never organized into a proper album, it's the type of thing I loved playing over and over in the background, as if we were in the same office building and they were recording next door.

Amazingly, there's an enormous wealth of live recordings from that brief window of time when Danny Kirwan (possibly Fleetwood Mac's greatest guitarist ever) played side-by-side with Green. I've only heard a few, but they've been pretty amazing so far. It's too bad Green didn't stick around much longer - with Kirwan, they reached what IMHO was their absolute peak, with Then Play On and "Oh Well."

John Mark Byers of the Paradise Lost films in a car crash back in June.