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Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 7:12 am
by colinr0380
Here's the Guardian article on Melvin Van Peebles
EDIT: And the great reelblack YouTube channel has the
Classified X documentary narrated by Melvin Van Peebles about the history of black representation in Hollywood.
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 3:10 pm
by beamish14
Andrzej Zulawski also passed away in the aftermath of a touring retrospective (which he was initially pencilled in to make speaking engagements at) hit NYC and LA.
I bought a beautiful Polish poster for On the Silver Globe that I'd hoped to get him to sign.
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 4:14 pm
by willoneill
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 4:57 pm
by colinr0380
Roger Michell at 65, probably most famous as director of Notting Hill.
But also Enduring Love (based on the Ian McEwan novel); the 2017 Rachel Weisz-starring version of My Cousin Rachel (based on the Daphne Du Maurier novel); Morning Glory (the TV newsroom film with Harrison Ford vying with Diane Keaton); the early 90s BBC The Buddha of Suburbia TV series based on Hanif Kureishi's novel and providing a big role for Naveen Andrews; The Mother from 2003 with a pre-Bond Daniel Craig; 2006's Venus, which led to Peter O'Toole's last Oscar nomination; Hyde Park On Hudson (with Bill Murray as FDR), and Changing Lanes (with Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Affleck in a commuter conflict against each other).
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 5:24 pm
by beamish14
colinr0380 wrote: Thu Sep 23, 2021 4:57 pm
Roger Michell at 65, probably most famous as director of Notting Hill.
But also Enduring Love (based on the Ian McEwan novel); the 2017 Rachel Weisz-starring version of My Cousin Rachel (based on the Daphne Du Maurier novel); Morning Glory (the TV newsroom film with Harrison Ford vying with Diane Keaton); the early 90s BBC The Buddha of Suburbia TV series based on Hanif Kureshi's novel and providing a big role for Naveen Andrews; The Mother from 2003 with a pre-Bond Daniel Craig; 2006's Venus, which led to Peter O'Toole's last Oscar nomination; Hyde Park On Hudson (with Bill Murray as FDR), and Changing Lanes (with Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Affleck in a commuter conflict against each other).
Buddha of Suburbia and
Venus are really extraordinary works. He was a great match for Hanif Kureishi.
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 7:37 pm
by colinr0380
Absolutely! It had never really properly sunk with me before now that Michell's collaborations with Kureishi as writer also covered the previously mentioned
The Mother as well as the great Lindsay Duncan and Jim Broadbent film
Le Week-End.
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 10:19 pm
by zedz
Soothsayer wrote: Wed Sep 22, 2021 8:48 pm
Along with Cabaret Voltaire being early adopters of making music videos. The “Doublevision” dvd Mute Records put out is great if you’re a Cabs fan.
The Red Mecca album was one of my most sought after records for a large part of my teenage years (90’s, in the U.S.). Ultimately found it and well worth the hunt!
RIP Richard H Kirk
The latest rash of Cabaret Voltaire albums (which were actually just Kirk albums) from late last year / early this year were a really solid career climax, looking back to all the eras of the band's sound.
Red Mecca is a wonderful album, but I think 2 x 45 is my favourite. Following the band in the 80s and 90s was a continuous adventure. They followed their own path with their own logic, and it intersected briefly with the path of pop music around 1990 ('Hypnotized') before they both carried on their merry ways.
Their lone single on Factory, a remix of 'Yashar', is one of the best things they ever did:
Yashar (this isn't it, but it's close!)
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2021 9:50 am
by Calvin
Eiichi Yamamoto, who directed Belladonna of Sadness and the other Animerama films
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2021 10:05 pm
by colinr0380
I had not realised that he had written the screenplay adaptation of the 1991 film
The Sensualist before now, but it kind of make sense now in fitting in thematically with those early 70s erotic animations. Apparently one of his last credits is co-directing a 30 minute short film One Arm in 2019 (with the director who made the Street Fighter II anime!), based on the
Yasunari Kawabata story.
Yamamoto spend most of the latter half of the 1970s and first half of the 1980s working as one of the co-creators on the original Space Battleship Yamato series. His 1985 feature film
Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight is pretty much in the same territory of 'spaceship as futuristic sailing vessel' as well.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2021 10:50 am
by blackswan
Autodidacticism
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 7:12 pm
by Lemmy Caution
Pee Wee Ellis, James Brown’s Partner in Funk, Dies at 80
Was The Godfather's long time bandleader and co-wrote such seminal songs as
Cold Sweat and
Say It Loud I'm Black and I'm Proud. Pareles' obit includes a story where a 16 year old Ellis ran into Sonny Rollins in 1957 and asked if he would give him sax lessons. Sonny agreed.
I saw Ellis with Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley at SOB's in NYC circa 1987. Talented musicians who played together for decades. And earlier when I caught James Brown live at the old 5th Avenue Lone Star Cafe. Pee Wee Ellis was an essential component of the James Brown phenomena/experience. Writing, arranging, directing, playing, helping to craft kernels of ideas into songs that helped define an era..
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2021 8:43 am
by L.A.
Sergei Parajanov's son
director Suren Parajanov aged 63 in Kyiv.
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2021 3:58 pm
by dadaistnun
Re: Autodidacticism
Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2021 5:05 pm
by hearthesilence
Lemmy Caution wrote: Tue Sep 28, 2021 7:12 pm
Pee Wee Ellis, James Brown’s Partner in Funk, Dies at 80
Was The Godfather's long time bandleader and co-wrote such seminal songs as
Cold Sweat and
Say It Loud I'm Black and I'm Proud. Pareles' obit includes a story where a 16 year old Ellis ran into Sonny Rollins in 1957 and asked if he would give him sax lessons. Sonny agreed.
I saw Ellis with Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley at SOB's in NYC circa 1987. Talented musicians who played together for decades. And earlier when I caught James Brown live at the old 5th Avenue Lone Star Cafe. Pee Wee Ellis was an essential component of the James Brown phenomena/experience. Writing, arranging, directing, playing, helping to craft kernels of ideas into songs that helped define an era..
I remember my bewilderment that the same guy I knew from James Brown's records was also one of the horn players featured in Van Morrison's "New Age" phase. It's not so bewildering when you hear those solos, but the music overall seemed worlds away from the epochal stuff Brown and his band was creating at their '60s peak. (It says Ellis started on
Into the Music, which I prefer over anything Morrison released in the '80s.) But those are two extremely tough band leaders to work for - to flourish under those circumstances is especially impressive.
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2021 2:40 am
by Feego
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2021 11:37 am
by MichaelB
British film editor
Jon Gregory - if you don't know the name, you'll certainly know the work; the attached obit is by Mike Leigh, quite a few of whose films Gregory cut.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2021 2:49 pm
by hearthesilence
MichaelB wrote: Sat Oct 02, 2021 11:37 am
British film editor
Jon Gregory - if you don't know the name, you'll certainly know the work; the attached obit is by Mike Leigh, quite a few of whose films Gregory cut.
FWIW, a friend of a friend who's in the movie business worked with him on at least one occasion. Typically whenever I talked to them about what it's like to be in the movie business, they inevitably complain about such-and-such individual being a jerk, but Gregory was one of the rare occasions where they had nothing but warm memories.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2021 4:05 pm
by colinr0380
It looks like he was involved with a lot of Mike Newell's films as well including Four Weddings and a Funeral (which coincidentally is showing this coming Wednesday on Film4), An Awfully Big Adventure, Donnie Brasco and Pushing Tin. Along with John Hillcoat's The Proposition and The Road. And Martin McDonagh's In Bruge and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Also the original Channel 4 mini-series of Traffik, and Chen Kaige's ill-fated Hollywood erotic thriller Killing Me Softly!
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2021 3:31 pm
by Monkey Ballz
J. W. Rinzler died July 28. He assembled three thorough and massive "making-of" books about the original Star Wars trilogy, as well as similar volumes for Alien, Raiders of the Lost Ark, etc. And his astonishing, back-breaking two-volume set about the great Rick Baker might be the most impressive book ever dedicated to a below-the-line crew member.
Rinzler was a Lucasfilm employee, so the SW books aren't necessarily as critical or exhaustive as they could be, but they're still a delight, and anyone who was a youngster when the original films were released will recognize that they share at least some of the same qualities that made earlier, nascent "making-of" books so charming.
Re: Passages
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2021 3:41 am
by dwk
Tony Mendez, Letterman's "cue card boy" back in August, and, today
Alan Kalter, Letterman's
Late Show announcer.
Re: Passages
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2021 5:41 am
by hearthesilence
dwk wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 3:41 am
Tony Mendez, Letterman's "cue card boy" back in August, and, today
Alan Kalter, Letterman's
Late Show announcer.
This is telling:
In 1984, nearing 40, he returned to flipping cards, this time for “Saturday Night Live,” where he stayed for nine years.
“It was the most stressful job I ever had,” he told The New Yorker. “The hosts were totally freaked out. They would all try to memorize, and I would tell them that the script was going to be changing until the last minute, so they had to follow me [and read off the cards].”
This may be one of the most common complaints about SNL, but I guess it's a necessity.
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 8:49 pm
by fdm
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2021 1:56 pm
by Feego
Shane Briant, back in May.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2021 8:48 pm
by Kauno
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2021 3:42 pm
by bearcuborg
Granville Adams of Oz fame, after a lengthy battle with cancer.
One of the great benefits of Tom Fontana, and David Simon’s work was their ability to create roles for people of color. Granville was one of those guys who was magnificent on Oz, and Homicide but didn’t get the opportunity to do more.