Passages

[flyonthewall2983]

Tom Clancy

[MichaelB]

Hilton A. Green, producer and assistant director, who worked in the latter capacity on Psycho (and other Hitchcock projects) and then in the former capacity on its sequels.

[rohmerin]

Carlo Lizzani, as Moninelli did, a jump from a Roman window

El director y guionista de cine italiano Carlo Lizzani ha fallecido hoy a los 91 años tras precipitarse al vacío por el patio de un edificio residencial de Roma, donde vivía.

[knives]

Damn it, what's with these guys and jumping from windows?

[ellipsis7]

It's Monicelli also back in 2010... Lizzani RIP, sad to see him go, but bloody courageous at that age (only), no?...

ROMA - Il regista Carlo Lizzani è morto oggi pomeriggio a Roma. Aveva 91 anni. Si è gettato dal balcone dell'appartamento in cui viveva, nel quartiere Prati. A dare l'allarme alla polizia, intorno alle 15, sono stati alcuni vicini che hanno visto il corpo nel cortile dell'edificio. Una fine tragica, che ricorda quella di Mario Monicelli. Un volo dal terzo piano di un appartamento per l'uno, quello dal quinto piano dell'ospedale San Giovanni di Roma per l'altro, il 29 novembre del 2010.

[Perkins Cobb]

Shocker: Patrice Chereau.

[Matt]

I was just reading about the great success of his new staging of Strauss' Elektra (which is coming to the Met in 2014). Cancer is a real motherfucker.

[George Kaplan]

Sadly, Marta Heflin's overlooked obituary from September 25.

[Gregory]

Chéreau's New York Times obit.
He'll be greatly missed. I believe his work as a film director is still underappreciated and neglected. As the NYT piece mentions, some of the films won prestigious festival awards, but still, films such as Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train, Son Frère, and Gabrielle never really got the international recognition they deserved. As a start, I hope they'll see the light of day on Blu-ray.

[rohmerin]

Chereau was not even popular in France (edit: Persecution was dreadful)

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Not a word in any English language media about Lizzani and his suicide? Sorpendente, he was a known Italian filmmaker, not Spanish or Bolivian or somewhere /thing hidden exotic.

[Matt]

Not a word in any English language media about Lizzani and his suicide?

NYT obit

[ellipsis7]

The one to watch for surely will be John Francis Lane's piece for The Guardian...

[Drucker]

Philip Chevron of The Pogues

[GaryC]

Philip Nutman

[antnield]

Mark 'Chopper' Read.

[lefeufollet]

Stanley Kauffmann

[Perkins Cobb]

Norma Bengell.

[Polybius]

Stanley Kauffmann

Always an interesting read, especially when his normal calm reserve was dropped because something really pissed him off, like The Hanoi Hilton.

[Perkins Cobb]

Daniel Duval.

[flyonthewall2983]

Kumar Pallana

[mfunk9786]

94! He will be terribly missed, as he was maybe the funniest character actor that no one knew beyond a little filmmaking universe that Anderson created, but what a long life.

[colinr0380]

I'm not a big fan of it but don't forget his role in Spielberg's The Terminal, facing down a passenger plane with a mop and bucket!

[Jeff]

Here's a nice obit of Kumar Pallana by Matt Zoller Seitz.

[antnield]

British screenwriter Brian Comport.

[ellipsis7]

Not a word in any English language media about Lizzani and his suicide?

As expected, a pretty definitive Carlo Lizzani obit by John Francis Lane in The Guardian...

Useful archive of JFL Guardian obit pieces on leading figures of Italian cinema here...