Passages

[domino harvey]

Sally Kirkland, Oscar nominated for Best Actress in Anna

A case that came up a bit after the shock Riseborough nomination. Kirkland was a bit player who figured out the awards system and held countless private parties and screenings and appealed to voters directly and more or less gamed her way into the nom (and actually won the Globe, but Pia Zadora was fresh enough in memory for that to not be as big as deal as it sounds)

[JSC]

Tatsuya Nakadai:
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/8f6a6 ... affcf7a4d4

The fact that he essentially shoulders the burden of the entire nine+ hour running time of The Human Condition is a
testament to his skills as an actor.

[thirtyframesasecond]

If I remember Sally Kirkland from anything I think it's the Eric Roberts martial arts movie, The Best of the Best.

[thirtyframesasecond]

Director Lee Tamahori, 75, best known for his blistering Once Were Warriors https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/07/once ... hori-dies/

I watched Once Were Warriors as a teenager and it was probably the rawest, most powerful film I'd seen at that point. He never really followed it up with anything decent, though I don't recall The Edge but it has Mamet as a writer when he was still relatively at his peak.

[beamish14]

Sally Kirkland, Oscar nominated for Best Actress in Anna

A case that came up a bit after the shock Riseborough nomination. Kirkland was a bit player who figured out the awards system and held countless private parties and screenings and appealed to voters directly and more or less gamed her way into the nom (and actually won the Globe, but Pia Zadora was fresh enough in memory for that to not be as big as deal as it sounds)

Is the film itself any good? I’ve always been curious about it. I think Paramount has it, but it isn’t streaming

She was very notable as an acting teacher/coach

[beamish14]

Director Lee Tamahori, 75, best known for his blistering Once Were Warriors https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/07/once ... hori-dies/

I watched Once Were Warriors as a teenager and it was probably the rawest, most powerful film I'd seen at that point. He never really followed it up with anything decent, though I don't recall The Edge but it has Mamet as a writer when he was still relatively at his peak.

The Edge is fun. I wish they’d used Mamet’s preferred title, Bookworm, as it really is an interesting look at whether an autodidact can apply their skills in the real world. Another great role for the much-missed Bart the Bear, arguably the greatest non-human performer ever

[domino harvey]

Sally Kirkland, Oscar nominated for Best Actress in Anna

A case that came up a bit after the shock Riseborough nomination. Kirkland was a bit player who figured out the awards system and held countless private parties and screenings and appealed to voters directly and more or less gamed her way into the nom (and actually won the Globe, but Pia Zadora was fresh enough in memory for that to not be as big as deal as it sounds)

Is the film itself any good? I’ve always been curious about it. I think Paramount has it, but it isn’t streaming

She was very notable as an acting teacher/coach

Never got around to it. I used to have the DVD though and I think it was via Artisan?

[Buttery Jeb]

Richard Darbyshire, lead singer from the band Living in a Box.

[flyonthewall2983]

Their song of the same name has been stuck in my head since playing GTA5

[colinr0380]

This is another music figure that I mostly know through their Todd In The Shadows video.

[dwk]

Cleto Escobedo III, Jimmy Kimmel Live's bandleader.

[Gregory]

Hark Bohm, actor (who appeared in a dozen Fassbinder films), screenwriter, and director

[Lowry_Sam]

Alt Folk/Country singer Todd Snider

[Aspect]

Hark Bohm, actor (who appeared in a dozen Fassbinder films), screenwriter, and director

Severin Films just announced a North American blu-ray release of his North Sea is Death Sea (1976). Interestingly, it stars his adopted sons as two teens that attempt to sail away from an oppressive 70s Hamburg suburb.

[Gregory]

Jards Macalé, 82, Brazilian singer-songwriter, who composed for the soundtracks of Macunaíma by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Antonio das Mortes by Glauber Rocha, and others. He also participated as an actor and composer of the soundtracks of the films The Amulet of Ogum and Tent of Miracles by Nelson Pereira dos Santos.
He also collaborated with Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Maria Bethânia, et al.

[GaryC]

Charlotte Bingham, 83, screenwriter (with her husband Terence Brady, who died in 2016), playwright and novelist. What I didn't know was that her father worked for MI5 and was apparently the model for John le Carré's George Smiley. The obit is a bit misleading: Brady and Bingham didn't co-write the first two series of Upstairs, Downstairs, just two episodes in the first and one in the second, amongst many other credits on British television from the later 1960s to the early 1990s.

[agnamaracs]

Stone Roses bassist Gary "Mani" Mounfield

Squeeze drummer Gilson Lavis

Interplay cofounder Rebecca Heineman

The Kessler Twins (Alice and Ellen) went out together

[hearthesilence]

Jellybean Johnson, the drummer for the Time, he was also a significant figure of the Minneapolis Sound, producing and sometimes co-writing key records like Alexander O'Neal's "Criticize" and Janet Jackson's #1 hit "Black Cat." Often seen around Minneapolis, he apparently collapsed in his home in Brooklyn Park and was rushed to a local hospital where he passed away.

Prince often played ALL the instruments on the records he made in the 1980s, including those he produced for other acts he helped create - this was true for the Time, but the group was a formidable act onstage where they did indeed play everything themselves. They're seen in Purple Rain, most notably on "The Bird" which actually appeared on their album as a live, group performance rather than another all-Prince recording behind Morris Day.

[yoloswegmaster]

Udo Kier

[beamish14]

Udo Kier

He seemed immortal. I think he and Gus Van Sant actually had homes on the same street in Palm Springs

[Finch]

Oh man.

[thirtyframesasecond]

Udo Kier probably had the most idiosyncratic career of any actor I can think of. He was a very striking actor, for one. But he just seemed to work with everyone - von Trier, van Sant, his friend Fassbinder, Borowczyk, Warhol and Paul Morrissey, Argento, but also worked across Hollywood in a very random set of films from Ace Ventura to the recent films of S Craig Zahler. And he turned up even more randomly in the Eve music video for Let Me Blow Ya Mind.

[agnamaracs]

Jimmy Cliff

[MichaelB]

Obviously vastly more important as one of Jamaica's key musical figures, but starring in The Harder They Come didn't exactly do his career any harm. And it's still arguably the greatest Jamaican film ever made.

[Lemmy Caution]

H Rap Brown. A pretty incendiary figure back in the day. His famous quote that violence was as American as cherry pie. Certainly violence was inherent in race relations throughout American history. He also advocated blacks exercise their 2nd Amendment rights, which no doubt scared the bejesus out of the establishment. Another provocative Brown statement: If you're gonna loot, loot a gun shop. He became a religious and community figure in ATL, but was convicted of murder in 2000 after a shootout with police, and died in jail.