Passages

A subforum to discuss film culture and criticism.
Post Reply
Message
Author
User avatar
MichaelB
Joined: Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:20 pm
Location: Worthing
Contact:

Re: Passages

#6676 Post by MichaelB » Fri Sep 01, 2017 6:59 am

Fiery Angel wrote:Sad news about Makk, one of the true greats. Aside from the abortions that Facets put out and Second Run's releases, are any of his films available in English-friendly editions?
I have very good Hungarian DVDs of Love (a more recent transfer than Second Run's) and A Very Moral Night, both from MaNDA.

User avatar
djproject
Joined: Sat Oct 09, 2010 3:41 pm
Location: Framingham, MA
Contact:

Re: Passages

#6677 Post by djproject » Fri Sep 01, 2017 9:38 am


User avatar
mfunk9786
Under Chris' Protection
Joined: Fri May 16, 2008 4:43 pm
Location: Philadelphia, PA

Re: Passages

#6678 Post by mfunk9786 » Fri Sep 01, 2017 1:41 pm


feketekino
Joined: Thu Jun 16, 2016 9:30 am

Re: Passages

#6679 Post by feketekino » Fri Sep 01, 2017 2:58 pm

MichaelB wrote:
Fiery Angel wrote:Sad news about Makk, one of the true greats. Aside from the abortions that Facets put out and Second Run's releases, are any of his films available in English-friendly editions?
I have very good Hungarian DVDs of Love (a more recent transfer than Second Run's) and A Very Moral Night, both from MaNDA.
SZERELEM has been restored in 4k, hopefully a Blu-ray from outside of Hungary will come soon.

User avatar
antnield
Joined: Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:59 pm
Location: Cheltenham, England

Re: Passages

#6680 Post by antnield » Sun Sep 03, 2017 9:04 am


User avatar
hearthesilence
Joined: Fri Mar 04, 2005 4:22 am
Location: NYC

Re: Passages

#6681 Post by hearthesilence » Sun Sep 03, 2017 1:05 pm

I really like Steely Dan, especially those first four albums. Saw them twice this past year (the only times I caught them live), and Becker didn't look like he was in good shape, but he was very merry.

User avatar
bearcuborg
Joined: Fri Sep 14, 2007 2:30 am
Location: Philadelphia via Chicago

Re: Passages

#6682 Post by bearcuborg » Sun Sep 03, 2017 1:08 pm

Donald Fagen on Walter...
We liked a lot of the same things: jazz (from the 20's through the mid-60's), W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, science fiction, Nabokov, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Berger, and Robert Altman films come to mind. Also soul music and Chicago blues.
I love almost all of those things largely in part because of Steely Dan. Their last two albums are real treasures to those who mostly know the classic stuff.

User avatar
dadaistnun
Joined: Thu Nov 04, 2004 8:31 am

Re: Passages

#6683 Post by dadaistnun » Sun Sep 03, 2017 5:12 pm


User avatar
MichaelB
Joined: Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:20 pm
Location: Worthing
Contact:

Re: Passages

#6684 Post by MichaelB » Mon Sep 04, 2017 2:56 pm

Italian actor Gastone Moschin, of The Conformist and Milano Calibro 9 fame (and much else besides).

User avatar
rohmerin
Joined: Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:36 am
Location: Spain

Re: Passages

#6685 Post by rohmerin » Mon Sep 04, 2017 4:43 pm

Moschin will be forever one of the friends in Amici Miei, the Monicelli'film that won Jaws in the Italian B.O
His role in Palme d'or winner Signore e Signori is quite important.
He died in Termi, full of beauty that city.

User avatar
antnield
Joined: Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:59 pm
Location: Cheltenham, England

Re: Passages

#6686 Post by antnield » Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:38 am


flyonthewall2983
Joined: Mon Jun 27, 2005 3:31 pm
Location: Indiana
Contact:

Re: Passages

#6687 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Tue Sep 05, 2017 5:42 pm

His footage from the 1970 Isle of Wight festival is pretty crucial film of that era of rock music, but also how the dying hippie dream played across the pond.

User avatar
The Elegant Dandy Fop
Joined: Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:25 am
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Re: Passages

#6688 Post by The Elegant Dandy Fop » Tue Sep 05, 2017 7:53 pm

No link yet, but apprently Holger Czukay has passed on. There's no denying the brilliance of Can, but his solo albums are absolutely worth checking out too. A real shame.

User avatar
NABOB OF NOWHERE
Joined: Thu Sep 01, 2005 12:30 pm
Location: Brandywine River

Re: Passages

#6689 Post by NABOB OF NOWHERE » Wed Sep 06, 2017 7:14 am

The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote:No link yet, but apprently Holger Czukay has passed on. There's no denying the brilliance of Can, but his solo albums are absolutely worth checking out too. A real shame.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/ ... es-aged-79" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Perkins Cobb
Joined: Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:49 pm

Re: Passages

#6690 Post by Perkins Cobb » Thu Sep 07, 2017 12:10 pm


pet42
Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2013 11:20 am

Re: Passages

#6691 Post by pet42 » Sun Sep 10, 2017 5:33 am


User avatar
dx23
Joined: Tue Nov 02, 2004 8:52 pm
Location: Puerto Rico

Re: Passages

#6692 Post by dx23 » Sun Sep 10, 2017 5:46 pm

Len Wein, comic book writer, co-creator of Wolverine and Swamp Thing.

User avatar
mfunk9786
Under Chris' Protection
Joined: Fri May 16, 2008 4:43 pm
Location: Philadelphia, PA

Re: Passages

#6693 Post by mfunk9786 » Sun Sep 10, 2017 10:33 pm

Don Ohlmeyer

User avatar
hearthesilence
Joined: Fri Mar 04, 2005 4:22 am
Location: NYC

Re: Passages

#6694 Post by hearthesilence » Mon Sep 11, 2017 4:23 pm

mfunk9786 wrote:Don Ohlmeyer
a.k.a. The Man Who Fired Norm Macdonald from 'SNL'

Ohlmeyer was a good friend of O.J.'s and went on record objecting to Norm making O.J. jokes on Weekend Update.

User avatar
antnield
Joined: Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:59 pm
Location: Cheltenham, England

Re: Passages

#6695 Post by antnield » Tue Sep 12, 2017 5:03 am


User avatar
colinr0380
Joined: Mon Nov 08, 2004 4:30 pm
Location: Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, UK

Re: Passages

#6696 Post by colinr0380 » Tue Sep 12, 2017 11:28 am

antnield wrote:Sir Peter Hall.
I hadn't made the connection until the BBC News obituary mentioned it, but as well as his theatre and opera work he directed Akenfield (which was recently released on Blu-ray and DVD by the BFI) at weekends and with amateur actors.

User avatar
Fred Holywell
Joined: Thu Jun 10, 2010 11:45 pm

Re: Passages

#6697 Post by Fred Holywell » Tue Sep 12, 2017 11:34 pm

antnield wrote:Sir Peter Hall.
Leslie Caron on her marriage to Peter Hall... here.

User avatar
GaryC
Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2008 3:56 pm
Location: Aldershot, Hampshire, UK

Re: Passages

#6698 Post by GaryC » Wed Sep 13, 2017 1:07 pm

Australian director Cris Jones, aged just 37, cause as yet unreported.

Only two months ago I was in the audience as he did a Q&A after his film The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, the closing film of the London Oz Film Festival.

ozufils
Joined: Mon Mar 20, 2017 11:30 am

Re: Passages

#6699 Post by ozufils » Wed Sep 13, 2017 4:22 pm


User avatar
bearcuborg
Joined: Fri Sep 14, 2007 2:30 am
Location: Philadelphia via Chicago

Re: Passages

#6700 Post by bearcuborg » Wed Sep 13, 2017 5:25 pm

ozufils wrote:Frank Vincent
His "compromise" speech in the Sporanos is one of the best things in that show.

Post Reply