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#9451 Post by colinr0380 » Thu Sep 23, 2021 3:12 am

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.
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#9452 Post by beamish14 » Thu Sep 23, 2021 11:10 am

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.

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#9453 Post by willoneill » Thu Sep 23, 2021 12:14 pm


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#9454 Post by colinr0380 » Thu Sep 23, 2021 12:57 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 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).
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#9455 Post by beamish14 » Thu Sep 23, 2021 1:24 pm

colinr0380 wrote:
Thu Sep 23, 2021 12:57 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.

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#9456 Post by colinr0380 » Thu Sep 23, 2021 3:37 pm

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.

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#9457 Post by zedz » Thu Sep 23, 2021 6:19 pm

Soothsayer wrote:
Wed Sep 22, 2021 4:48 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!)

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#9458 Post by Calvin » Sat Sep 25, 2021 5:50 am

Eiichi Yamamoto, who directed Belladonna of Sadness and the other Animerama films

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#9459 Post by colinr0380 » Sat Sep 25, 2021 6:05 pm

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.
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#9460 Post by blackswan » Sun Sep 26, 2021 6:50 am


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#9461 Post by Lemmy Caution » Tue Sep 28, 2021 3:12 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..

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#9462 Post by L.A. » Wed Sep 29, 2021 4:43 am

Sergei Parajanov's son director Suren Parajanov aged 63 in Kyiv.

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#9464 Post by hearthesilence » Wed Sep 29, 2021 1:05 pm

Lemmy Caution wrote:
Tue Sep 28, 2021 3:12 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.

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#9466 Post by MichaelB » Sat Oct 02, 2021 7:37 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.

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#9467 Post by hearthesilence » Sat Oct 02, 2021 10:49 am

MichaelB wrote:
Sat Oct 02, 2021 7:37 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.

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#9468 Post by colinr0380 » Sat Oct 02, 2021 12:05 pm

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!

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#9469 Post by Monkey Ballz » Mon Oct 04, 2021 11:31 am

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.

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#9470 Post by dwk » Mon Oct 04, 2021 11:41 pm

Tony Mendez, Letterman's "cue card boy" back in August, and, today Alan Kalter, Letterman's Late Show announcer.

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#9471 Post by hearthesilence » Tue Oct 05, 2021 1:41 am

dwk wrote:
Mon Oct 04, 2021 11:41 pm
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.

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#9473 Post by Feego » Sat Oct 09, 2021 9:56 am

Shane Briant, back in May.

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#9475 Post by bearcuborg » Mon Oct 11, 2021 11:42 am

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.

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