Passages

[hearthesilence]

Dennis Farina

[flyonthewall2983]

We should all make a sandwich in his honor.

[bamwc2]

We should all make a sandwich in his honor.

I'm very sad to see him go, but I'm afraid that I don't get this statement.

[domino harvey]

Midnight Run

[stroszeck]

Aw man thats sad about Farina. If you haven't make sure you check out his awesomely understated (for him) performance in The Last Rites of Joe May.

[bamwc2]

Midnight Run

A gap in my cinematic knowledge, I'm afraid. Thanks for the clarification, though.

[colinr0380]

I'll particularly remember him as Jack Crawford, Will Graham's boss in Manhunter, calling him in to go up against Hannibal "Lecktor" again!

Plus I thought that putting him and Bette Midler together as a bickering divorcee couple in that Carl Reiner film That Old Feeling was a piece of inspired casting!

[flyonthewall2983]

I liked his brief but pivotal role in Saving Private Ryan. I would like to have seen the alternate ending he talked about on Dinner For Five where he re-appears after the final battle.

And as infamous as it now has become, he had a tremendous rapport with Dustin Hoffman on Luck.

[Professor Wagstaff]

"Get Shorty" is rich with some terrific characters actors providing some of their most nimble performances, but for me Dennis Farina stole the film as Ray Barboni.

[Moe Dickstein]

My boss directed him in a film and was very saddened when I passed the news along. He said he was a genuine, incredibly nice and funny man.

[flyonthewall2983]

Emile Griffith.

[Perkins Cobb]

Bernadette Lafont (sob!).

[knives]

Damn, and I was just singing her praises the other day. She was honestly the only consistently excellent element to Truffaut's movies.

[domino harvey]

Damn, one of the greats

[Professor Wagstaff]

Watched "Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me" for the first time the other day on TCM and she really knocked me out. Don't know why that film and performance get talked about more in the Truffaut filmography.

[Black Hat]

She was vibrant. This one hurts.

[Steven H]

Ryutaro Nakamura

[gcgiles1dollarbin]

Bernadette Lafont (sob!).

Damn. Just watched La maman et la putain again recently, and she was magnificent, so strong, sexy, heartbreaking, with a beautifully pitched performance.

[Fred Holywell]

Bernadette Lafont (sob!).

I recently watched her give a marvelous performance in a rather obscure little Chabrol film from 1961: "Les Godelureaux". She pretty much steals the film from Jean-Claude Brialy and the rest of the cast -- highly recommended if you have an opportunity to catch it.

[domino harvey]

Yes, she's fantastic in that one as she is in all of Chabrol's flicks from this period. Pity the only way for non-French speakers to see it is through back channels

[hearthesilence]

I don't think I've seen her in anything until this year, when they played The Mother and the Whore at BAM during the Cannes Film Festival. I think I posted about it on the Jean Eustache thread - just unfortunate how that film is being kept out-of-print, you'd think they'd at least try to self-distribute it and make it available in some fashion. All three leads are great, including Lafont - very sad she's gone.

[Arthur House]

Sad News about Lafont. Easily one of my favorite Nouvelle Vague stars, I even vowed to myself a few years back that if I ever have a daughter, I'd name it after her.

One cool movie of hers not yet mentioned is Nelly Kaplan's A Very Curious Girl, which is like the best Russ Meyer film he never made, Vixen! turned on it's ear. Janus had it out on VHS, where it still can be had cheaply.

Her daughter Pauline appeared in a number of French films in the '80s (including Godard's Keep Your Right Up! and Chabrol's Poulet au vinaigre) before dying at the age of 25 in a hiking accident.

[flyonthewall2983]

J.J. Cale

[MichaelB]

Henryk Baranowski, Polish actor-director, mainly active in the theatre, but with a handful of film credits including Margarethe von Trotta's Rosa Luxemburg and Andrzej Wajda's Pan Tadeusz.

But for me his most memorable performance was as the father in Krzysztof Kieślowski's Dekalog One, fatally assuming that his 1980s green-screen computer was a viable tool for mastering the universe. It contains one of the most devastating final acts of any film I can recall, and Baranowski's performance is pivotal - so much so that Kieślowski ended up cutting quite a bit of explanatory dialogue because Baranowski was so silently eloquent in his utter abjection that it must have seemed completely unnecessary.

[skuhn8]

J.J. Cale

Bummer. It brought to mind the time I saw him headline a small reggae-heavy festival in Mendocino County around '94. Bought tickets for a gal I was trying to get out of the 'friend zone', drove all the way down from Humboldt, frolicked in the Eel River and got knee deep into the show before I realized that this was not in fact the Cale of Velvet Underground fame. The gal didn't know about either of the Cales so I just kept my mouth shut about it, enjoyed the show...and vowed to cut down on my pot smoking

RIP