Passages

[MichaelB]

Athol Fugard, primarily one of the greatest of all South African playwrights (Václav Havel is his closest equivalent in combining artistic merit with astonishing political bravery), but he also played a small acting role in Gandhi and Gavin Hood’s film Tsotsi was adapted from his work.

[ando]

Athol Fugard, primarily one of the greatest of all South African playwrights (Václav Havel is his closest equivalent in combining artistic merit with astonishing political bravery), but he also played a small acting role in Gandhi and Gavin Hood’s film Tsotsi was adapted from his work.

Thanks. Hadn't heard. Legendary playwright. R.I.P.

[JSC]

Italian actress Eleonora Giorgi who appeared in Damiano Damiani's A Man on His Knees. She
apparently passed away on March 3rd.

https://www.ilmessaggero.it/persone/ele ... 65149.html

[colinr0380]

She's also the friend Sara who accidentally intercepts the letter for Mark from his sister near the beginning of Argento's Inferno, gets a Suspiria-style taxi ride and eventually a death scene that kind of homages the Irving August section of The Seventh Victim. She's also the lead in nunsploitation film Story of a Cloistered Nun (NSFW!)

I'm most curious about her lead role in Liliana Cavani's Beyond The Door together with Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli and Tom Berenger(!). Or starring in Bulgakov adaptation Heart of a Dog with Max Von Sydow and directed by Variety Lights co-director Alberto Lattuada!

[hearthesilence]

Critic and forum member David Ehrenstein, per social media

[colinr0380]

Critic and forum member David Ehrenstein, per social media

I'm very sorry to hear that. He was a big presence initially on the auteurist-themed a_film_by yahoo group in the early 2000s before he came to this forum briefly as that group waned. He has not been posting here at the forum for a long while but had been very active in commenting over at David Cairns' Shadowplay blog, which I think he moved across to from here around 2008 or so. When I was looking into Cairns' upcoming Three Musketeer's documentary by going to his blog a few weeks ago I was surprised to not see one of Mr Ehrenstein's comments there, and had started to worry.

[hearthesilence]

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[domino harvey]

RIP to one of our own

[colinr0380]

Here's a link to his post history on the forum

[diamonds]

Ehrenstein was a fierce, passionate critic with a unique and irreplaceable perspective, always worth reading. It's true of any death really, but felt more acutely for artists and critics: with him goes a way of seeing. Among other things, Ehrenstein's raves spurred me to seek out Jean-Claude Guiguet, a great and still undervalued filmmaker. (And it is a damn shame that none of Guiguet's films have arrived on Blu-ray in time for Ehrenstein to pen liner notes.) His thoughts and comments on cinema will be missed.

[DimitriL]

A nice way to remember him is to peruse the many insightful writings he did for Criterion, gathered here. It’s startling that his first essay went all the way back to 1986. An amazing legacy.

https://www.criterion.com/current/autho ... ehrenstein

[brundlefly]

Sofia Gubaidulina