Passages

[Matt]

Christopher Cazenove

I guess it's obvious now that the Grim Reaper is in cahoots with Alexis Colby.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Two more Japanese film directors:

Director and screenwriter Tetsuya Yamanouchi died of heart failure at his home in Hiroshima on the morning of April 2. He was 75.

Yamanouchi made his debut under Toei in 1964 with the movie "Ninja Gari," and his other notable works during the '60s include "Kairyu Daikessen" and "Gion Matsuri." He also worked on television jidaigeki dramas such as "Mitokomon" and "Ooka Echizen."

Veteran filmmaker Katsumi Nishikawa died of pneumonia on Tuesday morning at a Tokyo hospital. He was 91 years old.

Nishikawa started his career as an assistant director for Shochiku in 1939. Fifteen years later, in 1954, he moved to Nikkatsu, where he directed films such as "Wakai Hito" (starring Yujiro Ishihara) and several Sayuri Yoshinaga vehicles like "Izu no Odoriko" and "Aoi Sanmyaku." During the 1970s, his major works included "Shiosai" and "Shunkinsho," which both starred the "golden couple" of Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura. His last film was "Ippai no Kakesoba" in 1992.

[Ovader]

Shirley Mills Hanson of The Grapes of Wrath.

[MichaelB]

Lech Kaczynski, the Polish president whose main contributions to cinema were:

(a) being a child actor with his brother Jarosław in the early 1960s, and;
(b) hijacking Wajda's Katyń as part of his ultra-nationalist election campaign in 2007 - to Wajda's horror.

Ironically, he was flying back from a Katyń memorial ceremony in Russia when his plane crashed - it's almost certainly a genuine accident, but I suspect conspiracy theorists will have a field day.

[Feego]

James Aubrey, child star of Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Also killed in the Polish plane crash was actor Janusz Zakrzenski, who played Napoleon in Wajda's Popioly.

[dad1153]

Dixie Carter, aka Julia Sugarland from "Designing Women" (and Hal Holbrook's significant other).

[MichaelB]

Also killed in the Polish plane crash was actor Janusz Zakrzenski, who played Napoleon in Wajda's Popioly.

And Anna Walentynowicz, heroine of the Solidarity movement, who appeared in Wajda's Man of Iron and was the subject of a biopic in 2006.

[perkizitore]

Lech Kaczynski, the Polish president whose main contributions to cinema were:

(a) being a child actor with his brother Jarosław in the early 1960s, and;
(b) hijacking Wajda's Katyń as part of his ultra-nationalist election campaign in 2007 - to Wajda's horror.

Ironically, he was flying back from a Katyń memorial ceremony in Russia when his plane crashed - it's almost certainly a genuine accident, but I suspect conspiracy theorists will have a field day.

His brother Jarosław Kaczyński was defeated in 2007, the President was elected in 2005.

[MichaelB]

When I said "his", I was referring to the Law and Justice Party led by both the Kaczyńskis and their 2007 election campaign - in fact, if I remember rightly, part of Wajda's concern was the way a sitting president was clearly complicit in using his film as an anti-Russian political football. Or are you claiming that this was done against Lech Kaczyński's wishes?

(Ironically, in your eagerness to score cheap points, you managed to miss a genuine factual error later on in my post - contrary to initial reports, the plane was flying to, rather than returning from, Smolensk)

[perkizitore]

Of course he was involved, but you used the emphatic 'his'. I wasn't searching for errors, i just happened to know about Polish elections and i mentioned it. If you consider every post of mine deliberately contradicting you, you really are prejudiced

[MichaelB]

Please rest assured that when I said that conspiracy theorists would have a field day, I wasn't actually referring to you.

[perkizitore]

Do you think it is commendable using the Passages thread to make personal attacks using your sophi-sarcastic British wit?

[MichaelB]

Hugely commendable.

[perkizitore]

=D>

[MyNameCriterionForum]

This thread is killing me

[jbeall]

Dixie Carter

[Donald Brown]

Dixie Carter

Mentioned on the previous page.

[jbeall]

Oops--sorry. I scanned the previous page, but missed the relevant post.

[CSM126]

Meinhardt Raabe, the coroner of Munchkinland, is really most sincerely dead

[Ovader]

Werner Schroeter

[Matt]

I wish I were naive enough to believe that his death would prompt a R1 release of at least ONE of his films.

[Tommaso]

It may not be of much help for R1-land (though I suppose the discs are codefree), but Filmmuseum has - coincidence or not - just announced the release of a new Schroeter 2-disc-set for June. See here.

[dad1153]

Daryl F. Gates.

[Polybius]

I'll be filing that under the "If you can't say something nice..." rubric.