Passages

[thirtyframesasecond]

The Key, with Frank Finlay, is excellent!!

[Maltic]

David Del Valle, according to FB posts by Severin and Tim Lucas.

A fine storyteller. RIP.

[colinr0380]

Mondo Digital have just updated their Salon Kitty review, which reminded me that this had sets by Ken Adam, aka the regular Production Designer for the Bond films and Kubrick's Dr Strangelove and - just before Salon Kitty - Barry Lyndon!

[Never Cursed]

Sebastián Lelio, director of Gloria, Disobedience, and A Fantastic Woman, at just 52

[thirtyframesasecond]

Sebastián Lelio, director of Gloria, Disobedience, and A Fantastic Woman, at just 52

That's a shame, Gloria and A Fantastic Woman were both excellent films. I never got round to watching The Wonder with Florence Pugh.

[Gregor Samsa]

Richard Lloyd

[tolbs1010]

RIP. One of my favorite guitarists. Alchemy is a great, overlooked album. His autobiography is also an entertaining read.

[j99]

Marquee Moon is one of the best albums of all time. RIP

[j99]

Mondo Digital have just updated their Salon Kitty review, which reminded me that this had sets by Ken Adam, aka the regular Production Designer for the Bond films and Kubrick's Dr Strangelove and - just before Salon Kitty - Barry Lyndon!

That’s incredible!

[hearthesilence]

Richard Lloyd is one of my all-time favorite guitarists. Television alone would've done it, but his work with Matthew Sweet and the re-united Rocket from the Tombs (replacing the late Peter Laughner) was also great. His first two solo albums (fairly different in style) feature excellent performances on guitar as well.

It's still a shock that he's gone. He was touring a lot, all the way up to his March diagnosis and turning up at a NYC gig every few months even though he moved to Nashville years ago. It's all the more grim considering so many of his peers have recently passed in quick succession: Verlaine in 2023, David Thomas last year, Fred Smith in February, and Cheetah Chrome (a very close friend and fellow Nashville resident) less than two months ago. Even Matthew Sweet suffered a major stroke in 2024 that left him severely debilitated.

[FrauBlucher]

I had the fortunate pleasure of seeing Television at The Academy (which is no longer around) in 92. It was a terrific show. I'll second the praise for Marquee Moon

[hearthesilence]

Was that the same show that was officially released as a live album? (I love that album - the reunion songs are even better on there than on the original album.)

[FrauBlucher]

I think it was but not 100% positive about it. I'll have to ask my buddy. He would know

Edit: My friend did confirm the show we were at was used to create the live album

[hearthesilence]

I think it was but not 100% positive about it. I'll have to ask my buddy. He would know

Edit: My friend did confirm the show we were at was used to create the live album

Cool! Interesting thing about that record, apparently a soundboard recording exists, but I don't think the band was happy with the sound. The official release that was sold at shows (IIRC a CD-R release - I don't think they ever pressed any regular CD's for it) appears to use an audience recording. When the album was reissued on vinyl after Verlaine passed away for RSD, Lloyd told someone on social media that the new edition actually mixed together the soundboard recording with presumably the same audience recording as before.

[Captain Paranoia]

Kakule William, actor portraying the title role in Who Killed Captain Alex?, per Wakaliwood's Instagram.

[Thornycroft]

Stacy Keach

[domino harvey]

Damn I was recently watching a video about Titus and thought how great he was on that show, such an atypical sitcom character and perf. Did he and Powers Booth and Richard Boone ever star together as guys I think might actually harm me

[beamish14]

Stacy Keach was gifted with an incredible range, but I especially loved him in westerns like Frank Perry and Pete Hamill’s criminally underrated, very dour western Doc. He lived a really remarkable life

He credited Titus with basically saving his career and his life when I saw him at a Q&A after The Ninth Configuration

[tolbs1010]

Hilarious in Brewster McCloud and Up In Smoke. He kind of steals the latter. Conversely, every time I watch Fat City I feel that his performance doesn’t quite ‘get there’ to catapult the movie into greatness. Loved his presence on screen in general, though. A life well-lived.

[Never Cursed]

The movie's all over the place, but it's fitting that his last film role was as Clooney's big-personality dad (an obvious borrowing from La Dolce Vita) in Jay Kelly. Felt like a celebration and a victory lap for Keach in a film that already is the same for Clooney

[colinr0380]

Horror film wise, Keach also turns up in the John Carpenter directed "Hair" segment of the Body Bags anthology film, and from there appears as the Lee Van Cleef equivalent character in Escape From L.A.. And appears in 2016 Stephen King adaptation Cell.

The big one of course is The Ninth Configuration, which itself might be a development from Keach's role in the original 1976 TV movie version of Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me.

And he is also in one of the Italian cannibal film cycle, with Ursula Andress in Sergio Martino's Mountain/Slave/Prisoner of the Cannibal God

And Criterion-wise, he turns up on their edition of The Killers, doing a reading of the original Ernest Hemingway short story.

[JamesF]

Also quite extraordinary as an alcoholic British (!) ex-cop in Michael Apted’s The Squeeze.

[Finch]

Seconding mentions of Keach in Doc and The Ninth Configuration, and he was wonderful too in Fat City, Road Games and The last Centurions.