Passages

[schellenbergk]

I'm sorry to say the only film by Bertrand Tavernier I've ever seen is Round Midnight, but it's probably the best narrative film I've ever seen on jazz music, though the competition isn't great. (Even Eastwood's Bird has substantial flaws, and it's a pretty good film.)

I know of at least one jazz critic who bemoaned what he viewed as a few typical jazz film clichés, but it was like someone complaining about another shoot out or another desert landscape in a Western.

I liked that film but check out A Sunday in the Country

I've seen only a few of his films, but this may be a good week to binge the "Directed by Bertrand Tavernier" series on the Criterion Channel...

[hearthesilence]

I liked that film but check out A Sunday in the Country

Thanks! Kino Lorber has it on BD - how's the color timing though? I may pick it up during the next sale.

[PfR73]

Not sure when they actually stopped publishing articles, but the website went offline on or about Tuesday (and there was much rejoicing, etc)

Must have been temporary. When I clicked the link today, the site is working. No new articles, but the site still works.

[Never Cursed]

G. Gordon Liddy

[deathbird]

G. Gordon Liddy

Damn, I've been looking for copies of his old radio shows forever, with no luck. Loved listening to those at my paranoid night job in 1990s. I must have heard him mutter the proto-Dale Gribble phrases "jackbooted thugs" and "aim for the head" ten-thousand times, entirely earnestly. It's refreshing to think there was once a type of public figure who was an unapologetic bastard. Those types are long gone. Also, un-ironic mustache.

[knives]

Ted Cruz has ever apologized for anything?

[Brian C]

Yeah, what a bizarro-world comment that is - there are more unapologetic bastards in public life than ever. And the last thing it is, is refreshing.

[PfR73]

G. Gordon Liddy

Will: The Movie

[bearcuborg]

I can never hear Liddy’s name and not laugh at E Howard Hunt’s description of him in Oliver Stone’s Nixon, “he thinks he’s Martin Bormann...”

[deathbird]

I can never hear Liddy’s name and not laugh at E Howard Hunt’s description of him in Oliver Stone’s Nixon, “he thinks he’s Martin Bormann...”

See, this guy gets it, unlike the rest of you humorless millennial scolds... "imagine" being afraid - or having any thought at all - of a sniveling, simpering, breast-having, size 6-birkenstock-wearing, paperweight like Ted Cruz. At least Liddy had a personality. That's what I'm talking about, Oh brothers and sisters.

If you opened your own wife's bedroom door to find Cruz with one pant leg down to his ankle, he'd blush like beet, tuck his bite-sized Twinkie back in his briefs, waffle some bullshit excuse and call his security detail. You come across Liddy in the same situation, he'd glare at you - as if you were imposing on him - drop the other half of his trousers, insult you in a manner second only to R. Lee Ermey, then slam the door in your face.

[Brian C]

Right, OK. You’re helping neither your case or Liddy’s.

[Mr Sausage]

I think he’s trying to make the point that most big league assholes want you to think they’re really the good guys, whereas Liddy embraced the opposite.

[domino harvey]

Whereas I naturally think of Harry Shearer as Liddy in Dick opining about “Children running wild in the night”

[colinr0380]

Kunie Tanaka at 88 back on 24th March.

Supporting roles in notable films abound throughout his career which seems to have started with a role in the second part of Masaki Koyabashi's The Human Condition trilogy (he would later appear in The Inheritance and the Hoichi The Earless segment of Kobayashi's Kwaidan). He's also in Teshigahara's Pitfall, The Face of Another and Summer Soldiers.

He also appears in Kurosawa's The Bad Sleeps Well and Sanjuro (and later Dodes'ka-den), and is in supporting roles basically everywhere from Oshima's The Sun's Burial to the Battles Without Honour and Humanity series (as well as the original Graveyard of Honour and Cops Vs Thugs); Okamoto's The Sword of Doom; Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast, Goyokin and The Wolves; Yoshitaru Nomura's The Demon; the 1979 remake of Jigoku which stars Meiko Harada,

His most recent roles were in Yoji Yamada's The Hidden Blade in 2004 (as the news article notes, he won a best supporting actor award for his role in the first film Yamada's 1993 series about students at a night school: Gakko, A Class To Remember) and The Last Ronin in 2010.

[hearthesilence]

War bassist B.B. Dickerson. His bass line defined “Low Rider” and he contributed lead vocals to one of their best tracks, “The World Is a Ghetto.”

[MichaelB]

Actor Zygmunt Malanowicz, whose best-known role outside his native Poland remains his feature debut - he was the young man in Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water, although Polanski ended up personally revoicing Malanowicz's entire part because while he was satisfied with his physical performance he thought his dialogue delivery fell well short of what he wanted. Thereafter, Malanowicz was primarily associated with the stage and television, although he would also play small parts in such major Polish features as Jerzy Skolimowski's Barrier (1966), Andrzej Wajda's Landscape After Battle (1970), Grzegorz Królikiewicz's Dancing Hawk (1977) and, much more recently, Agnieszka Smoczyńska's killer-mermaids musical The Lure (2015).

[JSC]

Actor Zygmunt Malanowicz, whose best-known role outside his native Poland remains his feature debut - he was the young man in Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water,

Gosh, and I was watching Knife in the Water last night!

[L.A.]

Paul Ritter

[Swift]

Mark Elliott, longtime movie trailer voiceover artist, primarily for Disney

[therewillbeblus]

Walter Olkewicz (Jacques Renault of Twin Peaks)

[Ovader]

James Hampton.

[MichaelB]

Vesna Ljubić, the first woman to direct a feature film in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Defiant Delta, 1980).

[Gregory]

Pioneering comedy writer Anne Beatts

[hearthesilence]

Beat me to it.

Anne Beatts, one of the original writers of Saturday Night Live. She also created the 1982 CBS sitcom Square Pegs starring Sarah Jessica Parker, and she began her career in comedy writing at National Lampoon magazine, eventually becoming its first female editor. She wrote one of the magazine’s most notorious spoofs – an ad for the Volkswagen Beetle that featured a photograph of the floating automobile with the copy line, “If Ted Kennedy drove a Volkswagen, he’d be President today.” (Volkswagen sued.)

At SNL, she created popular characters like Todd DiLaMuca and Lisa Loopner (played by Bill Murray and Gilda Radner), Laraine Newman’s Shirley Temple-like Child Psychiatrist, the lecherous Uncle Roy (Buck Henry) and the cartoonishly sleazy salesman Irwin Mainway and Fred Garvin, male prostitute, for Dan Aykroyd.

[Never Cursed]

Personal associates of DMX (specifically the comedian Luenell at least) have stated on social media that the rapper has passed away

EDIT: Luenell was apparently mistaken; DMX is per his manager in a vegetative state, but not dead