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- domino harvey
- Dot Com Dom
- Joined: Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:42 pm
- Rufus T. Firefly
- Joined: Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:24 am
- Location: Sydney, Australia
Minoru Inuzuka died on September 17 at the age of 106. Apart from working on the screenplay of Kinugasa's A Page of Madness, he wrote screenplays for several of the Zatoichi series. He also directed a few silent and sound films starring Tsumasaburo Bando. He was possibly the last person alive to have directed a silent feature film.
- zedz
- Joined: Sun Nov 07, 2004 11:24 pm
Somewhat mind-blowing. You're probably right: De Oliveira started directing in the silent era, but was working in short documentaries at the time.Rufus T. Firefly wrote:Minoru Inuzuka died on September 17 at the age of 106. Apart from working on the screenplay of Kinugasa's A Page of Madness, he wrote screenplays for several of the Zatoichi series. He also directed a few silent and sound films starring Tsumasaburo Bando. He was possibly the last person alive to have directed a silent feature film.
- Rufus T. Firefly
- Joined: Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:24 am
- Location: Sydney, Australia
Lois Maxwell has diedat 80. Miss Moneypenny in many Bond films.
- colinr0380
- Joined: Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:30 pm
- Location: Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, UK
A sad one for fans of the original Night of the Living Dead - Kyra Schon has posted on her blog about her father Karl Hardman passing away.
- kinjitsu
- Joined: Sat Feb 12, 2005 5:39 pm
- Location: Uffa!
Actor George Grizzard & screenwriter Charles B. Griffith
- Caligula
- Carthago delenda est
- Joined: Wed Nov 03, 2004 6:32 am
- Location: George, South Africa
- MichaelB
- Joined: Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:20 pm
- Location: Worthing
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Rudolf Arnheim, author of the seminal The Film as Art (1932) - he actually died in early June, but the Independent only ran an obit today.
Be honest - how many of you thought he'd died several decades ago? (He was nearly 103!)
Be honest - how many of you thought he'd died several decades ago? (He was nearly 103!)
- justeleblanc
- Joined: Wed Nov 03, 2004 10:05 pm
- Location: Connecticut
Not nearly as bizarre as this: Eisenstein is still alive.MichaelB wrote:Rudolf Arnheim, author of the seminal The Film as Art (1932) - he actually died in early June, but the Independent only ran an obit today.
Be honest - how many of you thought he'd died several decades ago? (He was nearly 103!)
And Jacques Feyder!
- Matt
- Joined: Tue Nov 02, 2004 4:58 pm
I'm so happy I finally got Rick rolled, and how much more hilarious that it happened in this most solemn of threads.
When I was in grad school, we always talked about driving up to Michigan to visit Arnheim in his nursing home. Someone in a later class actually did it.
When I was in grad school, we always talked about driving up to Michigan to visit Arnheim in his nursing home. Someone in a later class actually did it.
- Michael Kerpan
- Spelling Bee Champeen
- Joined: Wed Nov 03, 2004 5:20 pm
- Location: New England
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Also in the Guardian, a picture gallery.FSimeoni wrote:Guardian. Very sad indeed.
- HerrSchreck
- Joined: Sun Sep 04, 2005 3:46 pm
Such an on-the-money personality, Kerr was, even at such a young age. So true, watching BLIMP, listening to Powell remark on the commentary track about how astounding she was in always making the right choice, choices regarding the vastly different roles, taken so excellently by a young girl hardly out of adolescence.
I always felt the casting of Kim Hunter in LIFE & DEATH/STAIRWAY was based a bit on his longing for Kerr after their failed engagement; the two, while not dead ringers, were very similar in physical type as well as emotional presence. Soft, acutely feminine, but with a whipsmart sternness firing out from a huge intelligence underneath.
If the woman never did another part save for BLIMP she'd be immortal. Add the beautiful performance in INNOCENTS and that's all she wrote. Look at the rest of her resume and bend the knee. A sublime actress... they don't manufacture her stripe often.
Cheers to her memory.
I always felt the casting of Kim Hunter in LIFE & DEATH/STAIRWAY was based a bit on his longing for Kerr after their failed engagement; the two, while not dead ringers, were very similar in physical type as well as emotional presence. Soft, acutely feminine, but with a whipsmart sternness firing out from a huge intelligence underneath.
If the woman never did another part save for BLIMP she'd be immortal. Add the beautiful performance in INNOCENTS and that's all she wrote. Look at the rest of her resume and bend the knee. A sublime actress... they don't manufacture her stripe often.
Cheers to her memory.
- domino harvey
- Dot Com Dom
- Joined: Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:42 pm