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Barmy · #301 Post by **Barmy** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 12:27 am

Hope this isn't copyrighted:

tavernier · #302 Post by **tavernier** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:34 am

Barmy wrote:Hope this isn't copyrighted:

So that's what he died of. To quote Woody in Love & Death: "Died smiling, I bet."

justeleblanc · #303 Post by **justeleblanc** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 4:29 am

Nikki is waaaay hotter than Paris -- it isn't even close.

tryavna · #304 Post by **tryavna** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:43 pm

A little o.t., but a sad loss nonetheless:

Rostropovich is dead at age 80.

PhilipS · #305 Post by **PhilipS** » Wed May 02, 2007 9:52 am

Dabbs Greer, Tom Poston and Gordon Scott. Dead at 90, 85 and 79 respectively.

feckless boy · #306 Post by **feckless boy** » Mon May 07, 2007 2:22 pm

Imamura regular Kazuo Kitamura (Black Rain, Vengeance is Mine, The Insect Woman) dies at 80. Very sad, first rate actor.

dadaistnun · #307 Post by **dadaistnun** » Tue May 08, 2007 1:04 pm

Curtis Harrington

Caligula · #308 Post by **Caligula** » Wed May 23, 2007 11:05 am

According this French press release, Kei Kumai has died at age 76.

#309 Post by **domino harvey** » Mon May 28, 2007 6:25 am

the great one, CHarles Nelson Reilly

tavernier · #310 Post by **tavernier** » Mon May 28, 2007 12:33 pm

domino harvey wrote:the great one, CHarles Nelson Reilly

He had a "partner"? I'm SHOCKED!

#311 Post by **Matt** » Mon May 28, 2007 2:56 pm

domino harvey wrote:the great one, Charles Nelson Reilly

That's it. I'm going home and going back to bed.

tryavna · #312 Post by **tryavna** » Mon May 28, 2007 4:37 pm

A fitting tribute to the scrumtrulescence that was Charles Nelson Reilly.

devlinnn · #313 Post by **devlinnn** » Thu May 31, 2007 5:09 am

Oh, bugger.

Norman Kaye, forever in our hearts

Arn777 · #314 Post by **Arn777** » Thu May 31, 2007 7:44 am

Just heard the news on French radio that Jean-Claude Brialy passed away.

GringoTex · #315 Post by **GringoTex** » Thu May 31, 2007 2:23 pm

Arn777 wrote:Just heard the news on French radio that Jean-Claude Brialy passed away.

Was there ever a more likable screen presence? He was the New Wave's Cary Grant.

#316 Post by **domino harvey** » Thu May 31, 2007 4:51 pm

Someone posted about this in the A Women is a Woman thread last night, tragic loss. Guy was one of the greats.

skuhn8 · #317 Post by **skuhn8** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 4:59 pm

Ivan Darvas, the star of Karoly Makk's Love, Weekend in Pest and Buda, Lilliomfi and about a million other Hungarian films, died just a few hours ago according to the news here. He'll be missed.

tavernier · #318 Post by **tavernier** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 6:30 pm

skuhn8 wrote:Ivan Darvas, the star of Karoly Makk's Love, Weekend in Pest and Buda, Lilliomfi and about a million other Hungarian films, died just a few hours ago according to the news here. He'll be missed.

A great actor....big loss.

colinr0380 · #319 Post by **colinr0380** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 10:59 pm

tavernier wrote:
skuhn8 wrote:Ivan Darvas, the star of Karoly Makk's Love, Weekend in Pest and Buda, Lilliomfi and about a million other Hungarian films, died just a few hours ago according to the news here. He'll be missed.
A great actor....big loss.

I'm very sad to hear this (and the news about Brialy). I'll have to finally watch Weekend In Pest and Buda as a small tribute.

shumpy · #320 Post by **shumpy** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 5:03 pm

RIP Sembene Ousmane
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6738949.stm

One of the pioneers of African film-making - Senegalese writer Sembene Ousmane - has died after a long illness at the age of 84.

Ousmane is credited with making the first feature film by a director from sub-Saharan Africa, 'The black girl from....' in 1966.

His latest work, Moolaade, won awards at the Cannes and Ouagadougou festivals and he has won two prizes at Venice.

He was born in the Casamance region of Senegal and went to an Islamic school.

Later he fought for the Free French forces in World War II.

Before the publication of his first novel, The Black Docker, in 1956, he worked in a car plant in Paris and was a trade union activist.

He made a total of 10 films during his career.

Much of his work focused on the effects of colonialism and religion, as well as the rise of the African middle class.

He was also a co-founder of the biennial Pan-African festival of film and television of Ouagadougou (Fespaco).

tavernier · #321 Post by **tavernier** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 5:19 pm

That's sad news, but "Moolaade" was a great way to go out.

portnoy · #322 Post by **portnoy** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 4:43 am

Really sad news. Sembene is one of my favorite filmmakers, a humanist whose talents and generosity reach so far past the niche title of 'African filmmaker' - he was a major talent, consistently underappreciated (his Camp de Thiaroye is maybe the great unheralded classic of the 1980s). It was good to see Moolaade hit a high watermark of international acclaim so recently.

colinr0380 · #323 Post by **colinr0380** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:26 pm

Some tributes to Sembene here

#324 Post by **Jeff** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:01 pm

Mr. Wizard

Caligula · #325 Post by **Caligula** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:00 pm

Alex Thomson has apparently died.

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