Passages

[GaryC]

David G. Hartwell

He has an IMDB entry (for an appearance as himself) but mentioned here as we have a thread for SF of the written variety: a very important figure as an editor and anthologist in SF, fantasy and horror for over forty years.

[FrauBlucher]

Hah! I saw Lebowski soon after Boogie Nights, and between the two, I remember thinking "was country music ever big with black audiences?"

Only when Ray Charles crossed over.

[Drucker]

Hah! I saw Lebowski soon after Boogie Nights, and between the two, I remember thinking "was country music ever big with black audiences?"

Only when Ray Charles crossed over.

Hey now.

[dadaistnun]

Sheila Sim

The whole film is wonderful of course, but two of my favorite moments in A Canterbury Tale belong to her: the shot of her standing in the field (looped for that installation piece in the CC extras) and the ending,

Spoiler

when she discovers her boyfriend is still alive and she pulls open the curtains and windows in a torrent of dust.

[giovannii84]

Abe Vigoda

[knives]

I wonder, if this is true if his website will be updated: http://www.abevigoda.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[domino harvey]

Will always think of him for his numerous walk-on non sequitur cameos on Conan O'Brien's show in the 90s

[PfR73]

This moment in Good Burger will always make me laugh.

PS. I love Good Burger

[mfunk9786]

I was really amazed when watching it with my irony/nostalgia level ratcheted up to 10 a couple of years ago how charming it is. It's not at all the awful, scrappy Only 90s Kids Could Possibly Enjoy This type of film that I remembered it being.

[bearcuborg]

Yeah, you gotta think Conan will pay tribute. For those who mostly know him from that show, or The Godfather...Barney Miller was a great show. He and Steve Landesberg were some of the greatest TV Sitcom performers.

[L.A.]

Colin Vearncombe, the singer of Black.

[flyonthewall2983]

Paul Kantner

[dx23]

Yeah, you gotta think Conan will pay tribute.

He did.

[Numero Trois]

Paul Kantner

Sad news. The classic guys are going out one by one. I always loved the Airplane's early 70s period right before they grew more commercial. Especially albums like Kantner & Grace Slick's Sunfighter disc. Tracks like Silver Spoon with Grace's cutting vocals or Million with that heavy fuzz guitar never fail to give me goosebumps. RIP

[TMDaines]

Rivette won't be around to see us enjoying his new boxset.

[MichaelB]

Le Monde's obituary, which I suspect they've had on file for some time now given his reported health.

[Charles]

Oh, this one hurts.

[Michael Kerpan]

Sort of like with Setsuko Hara, this is something I sort have been expecting (but dreading) to hear for ages. If there is an after life, I hope it includes movie theaters and our dear Jacques can once again enjoy watching movies.

[MichaelB]

British director Anthony Simmons (Four in the Morning, The Optimists of Nine Elms, Black Joy), about whom I wrote a chapter for the BFI's Shadows of Progress book, and met him several times as a result.

He was a genuinely lovely bloke, happy to talk at length about a career that he clearly regarded as unfulfilled - but in many ways it's sad a testament to the way that talented British filmmakers often had to scrabble around for job opportunities, even if it meant having to shoot travelogues about Greenwich in between feature film projects. RIP.

[Dr Amicus]

I've only just read the piece about Anthony Simmons by Josie Dolan and Andrew Spicer in Don't Look Now: British Cinema in the 1970s and was sorely tempted to get the DVD release of Black Joy - indeed, my copy of the Shadows of Progress DVD arrived only a couple of days ago, so maybe a viewing of 'Sunday By The Sea' is on the cards tonight.

[MichaelB]

When I interviewed cinematographer Phil Meheux recently, I was delighted to discover that his debut feature was Black Joy, as that was an excellent icebreaker - and he told me that Simmons always had a special place in his heart for giving him the break that allowed him to transition into features. Just two years later he shot Scum and The Long Good Friday back to back.

[Forrest Taft]

Rivette won't be around to see us enjoying his new boxset.

And today I received the Arrow set. I'll hopefully find time to make my way through Out 1 this weekend.

[domino harvey]

Damn. Who's even left anymore of the Young Turks, Godard and Moullet?

[bearcuborg]

Varda... Who was the first to make a film by my reasoning. I guess you could make a case for Jean-Marie Straub

[jdcopp]

Damn. Who's even left anymore of the Young Turks, Godard and Moullet?

Jacques Rozier.

If you include those who were primarily critics at Cahiers: Jean Douchet and A S Labarthe.