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Aunt Peg
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#8701 Post by Aunt Peg » Sun Nov 08, 2020 7:56 pm

Australian icon and all round entertainer the legendary Jeannie Little. Such a shame she never made a foray into cinema:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-07/ ... s/12860638

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#8702 Post by The Fanciful Norwegian » Mon Nov 09, 2020 2:21 am

Song Jae-ho, most familiar to international audiences as the chief in Memories of Murder and as Park Chung-hee in The President's Last Bang

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#8703 Post by MichaelB » Mon Nov 09, 2020 6:46 am

Producer Philippe d'Argila, whose filmography is tiny - but when it includes things like Costa-Gavras' Z and Walerian Borowczyk's Blanche, did it really need much more?

(IMDB link because I don't think his passing has been acknowledged except by Facebook friends who knew him personally.)

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#8704 Post by Lemmy Caution » Mon Nov 09, 2020 1:35 pm

htom wrote:
Sun Nov 08, 2020 2:23 pm
Back in 2017 there were many museum exhibits here in Montreal to commemorate Expo67, the World's Fair for that year. One exhibit focused on architect Moshe Safdie's contribution, the modular housing complex Habitat 67. Among the exhibits was a TV documentary on the project aired by the CBC at the time, and narrated by Alex Trebek. This is the earliest work of his I recall ever coming across.
My parents still have an Expo '67 themed pinball machine, which my father bought used circa 1972.

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Pavel
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#8705 Post by Pavel » Mon Nov 09, 2020 7:12 pm


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Aunt Peg
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#8706 Post by Aunt Peg » Wed Nov 11, 2020 5:56 am

Director Fernando Solanas best known for The Hour of the Furnances (1968): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Solanas

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Pavel
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#8707 Post by Pavel » Wed Nov 11, 2020 7:28 am


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#8708 Post by colinr0380 » Wed Nov 11, 2020 9:15 am

Aunt Peg wrote:
Wed Nov 11, 2020 5:56 am
Director Fernando Solanas best known for The Hour of the Furnances (1968): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Solanas
As well as that excellent Argentinian-French co-production dance film: Tangos - The Exile of Gardel, which works as a kind of a loose thematic dance-political trilogy with Sur and The Voyage.

It is interesting to see from imdb that in the late 90s he moved back into documentary work and has a lot of credits for interesting-looking documentaries about the environment (The War Against Fracking, The Journey To The Fumigated Towns and Tierra sublevada, about mining), three films about the state of Argentina up to the 1998 to 2001 currency crisis and beyond (Social Genocide, The Dignity of Nobody and Latent Argentina) and a documentary re-interviewing and reassessing the legacy of Juan Domingo Perón who he has previously made a documentary about in the early 1970s. Plus a film about the history of the Argentinian railroad!
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#8710 Post by Swift » Thu Nov 12, 2020 3:36 pm


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#8711 Post by beamish14 » Thu Nov 12, 2020 6:25 pm

Swift wrote:
Thu Nov 12, 2020 3:36 pm
Israel Horovitz

My father saw The Indian Wants the Bronx during its original run, and probably a number of his other off-Broadway works.
He was a remarkable writer, and I recommend listening to L.A. Theatre Works' audio recording of Park Your Car in Harvard Yard with Jason Robards.
I knew about the #MeToo era accusations but was surprised to see that his atrocious behavior was in the press almost 25 years earlier.

I've had Author! Author! on my watchlist for a while. It's generally seen as an autobiographical script, with Al Pacino playing Horovitz.

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Swift
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#8712 Post by Swift » Thu Nov 12, 2020 6:59 pm

Looks like John Fraser was missed from this thread. He died on the 6th.

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#8713 Post by Caligula » Fri Nov 13, 2020 1:52 am

I can't find an entry in this thread for Linda Cristal, probably best remembered as Victoria Cannon from High Chaparral, died on 27 June
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Aunt Peg
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#8714 Post by Aunt Peg » Fri Nov 13, 2020 4:53 am

Nelly Kaplan probably best known for her brilliant A Very Curious Girl (1968): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelly_Kaplan

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#8715 Post by Aunt Peg » Sun Nov 15, 2020 4:50 am

Soumitra Chatterjee who played Apu in The World of Apu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soumitra_Chatterjee

(This year is reminding me of the dark days of the 1980s/1990s) The number of people within the entertainment industry alone passing away due to COVID is staggering.

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#8716 Post by dadaistnun » Sun Nov 15, 2020 9:20 am

Isabelle Weingarten, back in August.

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#8717 Post by hearthesilence » Tue Nov 17, 2020 3:34 pm

Recording engineer Bruce Swedien (best known for his work on Michael Jackson's Off the Wall, Thriller, Bad, etc.), reportedly from COVID-19

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#8718 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Thu Nov 19, 2020 9:49 pm

I just learned that John McCain's mother died last month. She was 108.

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#8719 Post by MichaelB » Mon Nov 23, 2020 5:36 pm

British documentary veteran Peter Pickering, whose filmography began in 1942 and included a huge number of films for the National Coal Board, his major employer throughout a several-decade career.

I met him when working on the BFI's great postwar documentary project of a decade or so ago (one of my specialist research areas was the Mining Review newsreel), and he was as delightfully unpretentious as his films, sounding genuinely baffled as to why anyone should want to dig them up decades later. But of course they're riveting social history now - he could never have imagined when filming them that he was documenting a way of life that would have pretty much vanished well within his lifetime.

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#8720 Post by Never Cursed » Tue Nov 24, 2020 1:46 am


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#8722 Post by Feego » Wed Nov 25, 2020 12:18 pm

Darlanne Fluegel died three years ago from Alzheimer's disease. I only discovered this today, and it appears her death was never noted here.

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#8724 Post by colinr0380 » Wed Nov 25, 2020 4:02 pm

I am getting a little worried now about who Asif Kapadia is going to do a documentary on next.

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#8725 Post by bdsweeney » Wed Nov 25, 2020 6:59 pm

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