Passages
- hearthesilence
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Bassist Eugene Wright, the last surviving member of Dave Brubeck’s classic quartet (which also featured Paul Desmond on alto saxophone and Joe Morello on drums)
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Paul Heller, producer of films for a wide array of
great directors including Bruce Robinson, Ronald Neame, Frank Perry, Jonathan Kaplan, and forum favourite Bill Gunn (Stop!)
great directors including Bruce Robinson, Ronald Neame, Frank Perry, Jonathan Kaplan, and forum favourite Bill Gunn (Stop!)
- ando
- Bringing Out El Duende
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I recognized his name right away as one of two producers on Enter The Dragon. Always felt the decision to lynch Kelly a conspicuously American touch. Lee certainly didn’t write it. Need to check out more from Heller. R.I.P.beamish14 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 10:04 pmPaul Heller, producer of films for a wide array of
great directors including Bruce Robinson, Ronald Neame, Frank Perry, Jonathan Kaplan, and forum favourite Bill Gunn (Stop!)
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A legend. Hester Street is up with Killer of Sheep, Chan is Missing, and Bless Their Little Hearts as one of the great
American neorealist films, and Chilly Scenes of Winter should've made a star out of the great John Heard. She and her daughter Marissa (who is
an excellent novelist as well) are maybe the only major mother/daughter pair to become successful directors in Hollywood, too.
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Michael Allin wrote Enter the Dragon and Lee had him kicked off the production.ando wrote: ↑Fri Jan 01, 2021 11:14 pmI recognized his name right away as one of two producers on Enter The Dragon. Always felt the decision to lynch Kelly a conspicuously American touch. Lee certainly didn’t write it. Need to check out more from Heller. R.I.P.beamish14 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 10:04 pmPaul Heller, producer of films for a wide array of
great directors including Bruce Robinson, Ronald Neame, Frank Perry, Jonathan Kaplan, and forum favourite Bill Gunn (Stop!)
Heller can be seen in the film as a radio operator.
- bearcuborg
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Very sad, she seemed to be active online. Tanya was great in That 70’s Show.
- colinr0380
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Barbara Shelley appears in a lot of the best Hammer Films as well from Dracula - Prince of Darkness and The Gorgon to the threatened love interest of Rasputin - The Mad Monk and perhaps her finest hour being buffeted around by invisible forces in the 1967 film version of Quatermass and the Pit.
But she also had form outside of Hammer too, starring in the 1960 Village of the Damned and 1958's Blood of the Vampire.
(Along with The Gorgon she also appears in another of the Hammer Films in the recent Indicator box sets with The Camp on Blood Island)
- CSM126
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- Dylan
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What a strange story, but how wonderful that she is still alive.
- bearcuborg
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2021 wants no part of 2020.Dylan wrote: ↑Mon Jan 04, 2021 6:57 pmWhat a strange story, but how wonderful that she is still alive.
- hearthesilence
- Joined: Fri Mar 04, 2005 4:22 am
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I actually remember some fans online hoping the same mistake was made with Prince. It seemed stupid at the time, but I guess it does happen.
- Brian C
- I hate to be That Pedantic Guy but...
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Tom Petty’s death was announced prematurely too, wasn’t it? Of course he died then anyway ... hopefully that doesn’t end up being the case here, but apparently she’s not doing well.
- senseabove
- Joined: Wed Dec 02, 2015 3:07 am
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A film friend of mine mentioned another one that flips the script a little bit: Eric Blore died just hours before an issue of the New Yorker streeted that contained the famously fastidious magazine's first ever retraction, correcting a prior, incorrect reference to him by Kenneth Tynan as 'the late Eric Blore'—so the same day people read the magazine's retraction, they were also reading his New York Times obituary.
- domino harvey
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- MichaelB
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My great-great-uncle by marriage, as it happens.senseabove wrote:A film friend of mine mentioned another one that flips the script a little bit: Eric Blore died just hours before an issue of the New Yorker streeted that contained the famously fastidious magazine's first ever retraction, correcting a prior, incorrect reference to him by Kenneth Tynan as 'the late Eric Blore'—so the same day people read the magazine's retraction, they were also reading his New York Times obituary.
In fact, it was the death of my great-great-aunt Violet that impelled him to cross the Atlantic in the first place, as he said he didn’t want to live in England any more.
(I don’t know why she died so young - she was only in her mid-twenties - but given that it was early 1919 it could have been pandemic-related.)
- yoloswegmaster
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I saw this as well and I just ordered a copy of Savage Cinema on monday.yoloswegmaster wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 7:26 amCan't find any other sources besides this Reddit post but Stephen Prince passed away on December 30
- colinr0380
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That's very sad. His commentaries on Kurosawa (particularly Kagemusha and Ran. I had listened to Ran so much that at one point I could actually tell which sections from his original 2003 Wellspring DVD commentary that he amended and added more context to with the 2005 Criterion release! Mostly about homosexuality in the period. Kagemusha, the release of which came in between the two Ran releases, and which he went into much more detail about this aspect, seemed to have inspired him to go back and add a line or two into the Ran commentary about that same aspect for its Criterion reissue) and especially over Straw Dogs, where he does a lot to reclaim that film from its notoriety, are some of the best commentaries that Criterion have ever put out.
- whaleallright
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His Peckinpah book is phenomenal—a very focused argument about Peckinpah's treatment of violence—and his essay "Psychoanalytic Film Theory and the Problem of the Missing Spectator" is one of the best (I'd say nearly definitive) critiques of the Freudian tendency in film theory.
He was also a major driving force of the Society for the Cognitive Study of the Moving Image and a very nice guy. He was only about 65. It's really awful.
He was also a major driving force of the Society for the Cognitive Study of the Moving Image and a very nice guy. He was only about 65. It's really awful.
- captveg
- Joined: Wed Sep 02, 2009 7:28 pm
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Tommy Lasorda
Considering how long he had suffered from heart issues it's a credit to him for making it so long.
Considering how long he had suffered from heart issues it's a credit to him for making it so long.