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Mr Sheldrake
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#3401 Post by Mr Sheldrake » Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:18 pm

When The American Cinema came out in the 60s, I devoured it, I memorized it, I underlined all the movies in the yearly lists as I saw them. I've still got my original dog-eared copy. I collected his Voice columns, still have those too. Mostly it was his enthusiasm, and his romantic view of looking at movies (and life,too) that meant the most. A great critic from a great era!

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#3402 Post by Grand Illusion » Wed Jun 20, 2012 5:40 pm

Sarris is a huge loss. His advocacy of auteurism can be felt in details as simple as how we title our forum threads.

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#3403 Post by Jean-Luc Garbo » Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:33 pm

david hare wrote:Let's hope for the best for Molly Haskell, another very fine (and overshadowed) writer on film.
Amen. From Reverence To Rape was another big influence for me. Holding My Own In No Man's Land is a fine collection and her recent book on Gone With The Wind is an excellent introduction to Margaret Mitchell and Selznick. I can't say I'm a fan of the film, but her appreciation of Mitchell was nuanced and informative. Her retelling of the film's production history was very engaging. One of the best books that I read that year.

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Antares
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#3406 Post by Antares » Thu Jun 21, 2012 9:44 pm



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hearthesilence
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#3409 Post by mfunk9786 » Tue Jun 26, 2012 8:35 pm

A shame. She had really hit a nice stride with the underpraised Julie & Julia and Hollywood filmmaking won't be the same without her.

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manicsounds
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#3410 Post by manicsounds » Wed Jun 27, 2012 10:01 am


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Matt
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#3411 Post by Matt » Wed Jun 27, 2012 10:57 am

hearthesilence wrote:Nora Ephron
mfunk9786 wrote:A shame. She had really hit a nice stride with the underpraised Julie & Julia and Hollywood filmmaking won't be the same without her.
Regardless of the results, she was one of the very few female filmmakers who could get a film made by a studio. It's a great shame to lose one of them when so little progress has been made over the decades.

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colinr0380
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#3412 Post by colinr0380 » Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:25 pm

It is certainly good that Ephron did not bow out with that Bewitched remake. This seems like the best time to link to that episode of Where's Elvis This Week? on which Ephron appeared, hosted by a pre-Daily Show Jon Stewart!
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hearthesilence
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#3413 Post by hearthesilence » Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:41 pm

I think the A.V. Club nailed it, her movies made her much more wealthier and better known, but by far her best writing was in print, especially her earlier stuff.

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#3414 Post by MichaelB » Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:12 am

Stephen Dwoskin.

Link to follow.

What with Jeff Keen too, this has not been a good month for the British avant-garde.

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#3415 Post by Perkins Cobb » Thu Jun 28, 2012 12:49 pm

Joan Scott (wife of and front for blacklisted producer/writer Adrian Scott).

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Feego
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#3416 Post by Feego » Thu Jun 28, 2012 10:24 pm

A pair of classic sitcom stars:

Doris Singleton, best known to I Love Lucy fans as Carolyn Applebee.

Don Grady, the eldest son on My Three Sons.

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manicsounds
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#3417 Post by manicsounds » Fri Jun 29, 2012 12:20 am

Takeo Chii, at 70 years old.

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Debut film acting was "Kill!", starred in countless movies and TV shows. He had his own daily TV series "Chii Sanpo) which he walked around mostly in Tokyo, discovering places and people (he came right by my house 3 years ago). He retired from the show a few months ago due to health concerns.

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#3418 Post by colinr0380 » Fri Jun 29, 2012 12:31 pm

I remember him also as the main male character Muraki (the actors, characters and situations change for each film in the series but the names of the lead characters, Nami and Muraki, are a constant) in the best, or at least most jaw-dropping, of the Angel Guts films, Nami!

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jbeall
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#3419 Post by jbeall » Sun Jul 01, 2012 4:11 pm

Count Robert de la Rouchefoucauld. Though I can't say I agree with everything the man did, his obituary is a blast to read.

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#3420 Post by matrixschmatrix » Sun Jul 01, 2012 5:20 pm

It's depressing how many of the heroes of the Resistance turn into Colonel Mathieu figures of imperialism after the war. Still, I don't think that negates the heroism of what he did during the resistance, and it is one hell of a story.

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#3421 Post by bearcuborg » Tue Jul 03, 2012 10:25 am


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#3422 Post by bamwc2 » Tue Jul 03, 2012 10:41 am

I feel sadder about this than I normally would about someone his age dying. What a great guy who left behind some truly wonderful work. If you're one of the few members of this forum that has never seen A Face in the Crowd, then do it. Do it now.

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#3423 Post by domino harvey » Tue Jul 03, 2012 11:04 am

It is a great film and hints at dramatic possibilities unrealized by his genial work elsewhere. I grew up on the Andy Griffith Show and Matlock, so he was an ever-present personality in my childhood. RIP indeed

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#3424 Post by triodelover » Tue Jul 03, 2012 1:39 pm

My introduction to Andy as a five-year-old. I wore out at least two copies of this (with the B side No 1 Street) on my kiddie Victrola. I still think the ending is a pretty good metaphor for trying to get through life.

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#3425 Post by RagingNoodles » Tue Jul 03, 2012 2:11 pm

I absolutely loved seeing Andy Griffith with Elinor Donahue on that first season of his show. I remember reading that Elinor left cause she thought they didn't have chemistry, but I thought both had amazing chemistry with each other. Was a huge fan of his show when I was younger and I still catch it every once in a while when I'm channel surfing. Sad to see him gone. Great guy that I looked up to as a kid.

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