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Aunt Peg
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#12076 Post by Aunt Peg » Tue Dec 17, 2024 5:39 am

Marisa Paredes, 78, one of Spains greatest actresses.

Unforgettable performances in The Flower of My Secret, All About My Mover, The Devil's Backbone and many more.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/2 ... dies-at-78

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#12077 Post by colinr0380 » Tue Dec 17, 2024 5:49 pm

Beyond her starring roles in Almodovar films and The Devil's Backbone she appears in a number of important supporting roles, particularly the astonishing Augusti Villaronga film In A Glass Cage and in 1996's Deep Crimson, which is the Mexican remake of The Honeymoon Killers. Plus apparently according to imdb, one of her earliest roles was in Jess Franco's gothic remake of Eyes Without A Face, The Awful Dr Orloff!
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#12078 Post by GaryC » Wed Dec 18, 2024 5:06 am

Australian children's/young-adult writer John Marsden, aged 74. Tomorrow, When the War Began, the first of his Tomorrow series (seven novels, with a spin-off series of three, The Ellie Trilogy) was filmed in 2010 and became a TV miniseries in 2016.

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#12079 Post by MichaelB » Wed Dec 18, 2024 7:10 pm

Leading British experimental filmmaker Malcolm Le Grice is recalled in this affectionate obituary by the BFI's William Fowler.

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#12080 Post by hearthesilence » Thu Dec 19, 2024 2:02 am

Bob "Slim" Dunlap, a beloved musician in Minneapolis's indie rock scene who played on and off with Curtiss A before joining the Replacements as their new lead guitarist after founding member Bob Stinson was notoriously fired due to various personal issues. (IIRC Bob Stinson himself supposedly gave Dunlap his blessing when both of them reportedly worked briefly at the same time at First Avenue as janitors.)

By the time he joined, the Replacements had already recorded their last "classic" album as a trio, so his tenure with the band is often associated with the group's decline, but that doesn't do justice to what he did for them - he brought them much needed stability and could perform their most raucous material in concert while fitting in easily with the quieter, country-inflected direction Westerberg was taking his songwriting. There's no denying the group was disintegrating, but it was kind of like having a backup pilot jump in and take a plane for a soft landing rather than letting it immediately crash and burn.

Several years after they called it a day, he wrote, sung and recorded a pair of all-original albums that surprised everyone following the band - no less than Bruce Springsteen praised them in 2015, by which time Dunlap was already living with the debilitating effects of a massive stroke. Meanwhile, thanks to Slim, Don't Tell a Soul would be rehabilitated decades after the fact as Dead Man's Pop - unbeknownst to anyone, he saved the rough mixes that would serve as the blueprint for a vastly improved mix - and he was also the reason for the band's brief reunion, which gave a new generation of fans (including myself) perhaps their only chance to see Westerberg and Tommy Stinson dive into the band's catalog and perform a series of full-band shows together.

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#12081 Post by hearthesilence » Thu Dec 19, 2024 2:09 am

Alfa Anderson, a founding member of Chic, one of the greatest and most influential dance groups of all-time, per Nile Rodgers's Instagram account.

She performed backing vocals on the hits “Dance, Dance, Dance” and “Everybody Dance” before being promoted to co-lead vocalist in 1978, singing lead on tracks like "I Want Your Love" (1978) and "At Last I Am Free" (1978).

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#12082 Post by beamish14 » Thu Dec 19, 2024 4:17 am

Animator Yōji Kuri back in November, but not publicly disclosed until 14 December

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#12083 Post by DeprongMori » Thu Dec 19, 2024 4:53 am

No film associations, but a passage of personal import. Bassist Jon Camp of the symphonic prog-rock band Renaissance passed this week.

Camp was inspired by Yes’ bassist Chris Squire, and his musical role in Renaissance was as key as their vocalist Annie Haslam, pianist John Tout, and acoustic guitarist Michael Dunford. The only surviving members of the band are Haslam and drummer Terry Sullivan. The song that introduced me to the band on a late night long ago when FM radio would play such things is still a fine introduction to the band and Jon Camp’s musicianship — Things I Don’t Understand

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#12084 Post by GaryC » Thu Dec 19, 2024 3:22 pm

Australian cartoonist Michael Leunig, aged 79. He had been on the National Trust of Australia's Living Treasures list since 1999. In 2019 he was the subject of the documentary The Leunig Fragments.

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#12085 Post by MichaelB » Fri Dec 20, 2024 5:34 am

Film historian and virtuoso subtitle translator Lenny Borger.

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#12086 Post by pistolwink » Fri Dec 20, 2024 2:53 pm

That's very sad. Lenny was very kind to me when I was a young researcher. He was a bit of a mysterious guy, I found. I'm not sure how he came by his immense knowledge, not just of the French language in general, but of the byways and intricacies of different regional dialogues and professional argots, which he did a heroic job translating into English.
As a subtitler of older French films, I suspect he's irreplaceable.

BTW, the link you posted seems to be restricted.

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#12087 Post by Fred Holywell » Sat Dec 21, 2024 4:22 pm


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#12088 Post by captveg » Sat Dec 21, 2024 8:13 pm

MLB great Rickey Henderson, 65. One of my favorite players ever. The guy was so unique in his speed and power, and while his stolen base record is unlikely to be broken unless the game shifts strategy immensely, it's actually his record of most non-intentional walks that really impresses me. The most dangerous man ever on the basepaths and yet forced pitchers to put him on base free when they least wanted more than anyone else.

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#12089 Post by Matt » Sat Dec 21, 2024 11:21 pm

Fred Holywell wrote:
Sat Dec 21, 2024 4:22 pm
TCM Remembers 2024 | TCM
These always sock me right in the gut and this year's is no exception. Very expansive in scope, including foreign actors, stunt performers, and a scholar like David Bordwell.

Five minutes long and yet still most people get 1-2 seconds. Astounding how much history and memory we're losing with the deaths of some of these figures.

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#12090 Post by hearthesilence » Sun Dec 22, 2024 2:45 pm

captveg wrote:
Sat Dec 21, 2024 8:13 pm
MLB great Rickey Henderson, 65. One of my favorite players ever. The guy was so unique in his speed and power, and while his stolen base record is unlikely to be broken unless the game shifts strategy immensely, it's actually his record of most non-intentional walks that really impresses me. The most dangerous man ever on the basepaths and yet forced pitchers to put him on base free when they least wanted more than anyone else.
Definite legend, one who exemplified how the combination of intellect and athletic talent was key to separating the true greats from the rest. He knew what to look for when he was running the bases, a key to his unequaled success at stealing bases, and even though he claimed he had no talent in determining which pitch was coming to him, he knew how to tip the odds in his favor whenever he was at the plate, doing things like crushing the strike zone with his unique batting stance. The bar for the Hall of Fame has been lowered substantially over the years, but he's someone that has met the most stringent standards of baseball greatness - you don't even take a second to think about it, as soon as you hear his name, you know he's up there. 65 is way too young for someone like him.

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#12091 Post by beamish14 » Sun Dec 22, 2024 6:32 pm

Character actor Art Evans, who appeared in a slew of diverse films such as Christine (
SpoilerShow
where he gets killed on the assembly line at the start
A Soldier’s Story, and recent Criterion title Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling

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#12092 Post by colinr0380 » Sun Dec 22, 2024 8:06 pm

The big ones for me are his two weirdly sympatico ineffectual Police Detective supporting characters in 1985's Fright Night and 1987's White of the Eye (and he turns up again as a police role in Ruthless People in between those two films). Sympatico because his character gets sidelined because those films are about how the main characters eventually have to resolve the issues for themselves rather than hoping that the authorities can step in and protect them from what is going on, mostly because the events are hitting too close to home for them to be able to cede control of the situation to others.

And I was only re-watching Die Hard 2 on television a couple of evenings ago, where he appears as one of the aiport control room guys who, after his initial plan fails, lets John McClane do the hero stuff instead and provides him with major clues towards catching up with and defeating the bad guys. Perhaps the most interesting thing about Die Hard 2 is how the Reginald VelJohnson character from the first film, who is the only one who really 'appreciates' McClane's plight, kind of gets spread apart in the sequel across multiple supporting characters who are going from complete strangers before coming to warm up to John McClane, from the overlooked guy in the bowels of the airport, to Art Evans' control room operative, to eventually the Dennis Franz cop character teaming up, and even the female journalist actually displaying a bit of tact and discretion at the end of the film in stark contrast to the slimy journalist character!

Art Evans is also in Walter Hill's urban remake of The Treasure of Sierra Madre (along with William Sadler from Die Hard 2!), 1992's Trespass, as the Walter Huston-equivalent homeless guy who acts as the voice of wisdom between the two gangs fighting it out.

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#12093 Post by colinr0380 » Mon Dec 23, 2024 2:36 pm

Director Shyam Benegal at 90. I'll quote myself from last year in the Sight & Sound: 101 Hidden Gems thread:
The other [director] I would like to highlight as being worthy of a Criterion/BFI etc boxset is Shyam Benegal who is a filmmaker in desperate need of more exposure in the West and is important as Indian filmmaker as Satyajit Ray (he even directed a two hour documentary interviewing Ray in 1982). Channel 4 in the UK devoted one of their annual Indian film seasons to a number of Benegal's works ten to fifteen years ago - Ankur (aka The Seedling) is his early classic but the rest of his big films from the 70s (Nishant, Manthan and Junoon), plus Mandi from 1983, are just as worth tracking down and really need to be more widely distributed in some fashion. I have not seen anything more recent than Mandi as yet, but I'd love to see what his three hour 1984 biographical film of Nehru is like! And apparently he just released a new film this year, another historical biopic film.

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#12094 Post by Aunt Peg » Tue Dec 24, 2024 9:55 pm

Jack Bond, director, 90. Director of It Couldn't Happen Here for the Pet Shops Boys and other sterling English independent films of the 1960s & 1970s amongst his credits: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/d ... rator-dies

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#12095 Post by swo17 » Tue Dec 24, 2024 10:18 pm

BFI has released much of it:

Separation
The Other Side of the Underneath (actor/producer/cinematographer)
Anti-Clock
It Couldn't Happen Here

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#12096 Post by MichaelB » Wed Dec 25, 2024 6:50 am

I spent a chunk of 2009 hanging out with Jack Bond during production of those BFI releases, as he personally sat in on the scanning and grading sessions; he'd already have been well into his seventies but aside from the shock of white hair it certainly didn't seem like it.

I think it was quite an emotional experience for him - these films had been literally impossible to see since a Jane Arden memorial screening in 1983, because they'd never been shown on TV or released on home video and he'd vetoed all screening requests, and I imagine he didn't watch them himself for similar reasons (too emotionally shaken by Arden's suicide in 1982), and here they were being prepped for high-definition at a time when this was still a comparative rarity in home video - especially for films like this; the BFI was something of a pioneer there.

He once bet me a tenner that Zbigniew Cybulski fell under a train at St John's Wood station in north London, and I said "I know for a fact that that's wrong, Jack, so I'm really not sure I want to take that bet" - but he insisted, I duly won, and he paid up immediately. (This is the kind of thing that often happens during scanning and grading sessions, where there's a lot of sitting around and chatting while waiting for the technicians to do their thing.)

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#12097 Post by hearthesilence » Thu Dec 26, 2024 3:08 pm

Record producer Richard Perry, perhaps best-known for producing Carly Simon's best record, "You're So Vain" (for which he recorded 100 takes and tried out three different drummers), Ringo Starr's most enduring solo album, and above all two of Harry Nilsson's best albums, including the one that's arguably his greatest (certainly his most popular and acclaimed by the industry).

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