Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 6:44 pm
I guess it's obvious now that the Grim Reaper is in cahoots with Alexis Colby.antnield wrote:Christopher Cazenove
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Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 8:58 am
Two more Japanese film directors:
Director and screenwriter Tetsuya Yamanouchi died of heart failure at his home in Hiroshima on the morning of April 2. He was 75.
Yamanouchi made his debut under Toei in 1964 with the movie "Ninja Gari," and his other notable works during the '60s include "Kairyu Daikessen" and "Gion Matsuri." He also worked on television jidaigeki dramas such as "Mitokomon" and "Ooka Echizen."
Veteran filmmaker Katsumi Nishikawa died of pneumonia on Tuesday morning at a Tokyo hospital. He was 91 years old.
Nishikawa started his career as an assistant director for Shochiku in 1939. Fifteen years later, in 1954, he moved to Nikkatsu, where he directed films such as "Wakai Hito" (starring Yujiro Ishihara) and several Sayuri Yoshinaga vehicles like "Izu no Odoriko" and "Aoi Sanmyaku." During the 1970s, his major works included "Shiosai" and "Shunkinsho," which both starred the "golden couple" of Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura. His last film was "Ippai no Kakesoba" in 1992.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 8:33 am
Lech Kaczynski, the Polish president whose main contributions to cinema were:
(a) being a child actor with his brother Jarosław in the early 1960s, and;
(b) hijacking Wajda's Katyń as part of his ultra-nationalist election campaign in 2007 - to Wajda's horror.
Ironically, he was flying back from a Katyń memorial ceremony in Russia when his plane crashed - it's almost certainly a genuine accident, but I suspect conspiracy theorists will have a field day.
(a) being a child actor with his brother Jarosław in the early 1960s, and;
(b) hijacking Wajda's Katyń as part of his ultra-nationalist election campaign in 2007 - to Wajda's horror.
Ironically, he was flying back from a Katyń memorial ceremony in Russia when his plane crashed - it's almost certainly a genuine accident, but I suspect conspiracy theorists will have a field day.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 9:31 am
James Aubrey, child star of Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 4:37 am
Also killed in the Polish plane crash was actor Janusz Zakrzenski, who played Napoleon in Wajda's Popioly.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 4:40 am
Dixie Carter, aka Julia Sugarland from "Designing Women" (and Hal Holbrook's significant other). 
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 5:36 am
And Anna Walentynowicz, heroine of the Solidarity movement, who appeared in Wajda's Man of Iron and was the subject of a biopic in 2006.Rufus T. Firefly wrote:Also killed in the Polish plane crash was actor Janusz Zakrzenski, who played Napoleon in Wajda's Popioly.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 8:30 am
His brother Jarosław Kaczyński was defeated in 2007, the President was elected in 2005.MichaelB wrote:Lech Kaczynski, the Polish president whose main contributions to cinema were:
(a) being a child actor with his brother Jarosław in the early 1960s, and;
(b) hijacking Wajda's Katyń as part of his ultra-nationalist election campaign in 2007 - to Wajda's horror.
Ironically, he was flying back from a Katyń memorial ceremony in Russia when his plane crashed - it's almost certainly a genuine accident, but I suspect conspiracy theorists will have a field day.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 9:48 am
When I said "his", I was referring to the Law and Justice Party led by both the Kaczyńskis and their 2007 election campaign - in fact, if I remember rightly, part of Wajda's concern was the way a sitting president was clearly complicit in using his film as an anti-Russian political football. Or are you claiming that this was done against Lech Kaczyński's wishes?
(Ironically, in your eagerness to score cheap points, you managed to miss a genuine factual error later on in my post - contrary to initial reports, the plane was flying to, rather than returning from, Smolensk)
(Ironically, in your eagerness to score cheap points, you managed to miss a genuine factual error later on in my post - contrary to initial reports, the plane was flying to, rather than returning from, Smolensk)
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 9:58 am
Of course he was involved, but you used the emphatic 'his'. I wasn't searching for errors, i just happened to know about Polish elections and i mentioned it. If you consider every post of mine deliberately contradicting you, you really are prejudiced 
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:07 am
Please rest assured that when I said that conspiracy theorists would have a field day, I wasn't actually referring to you.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:12 am
Do you think it is commendable using the Passages thread to make personal attacks using your sophi-sarcastic British wit?
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:20 am
Hugely commendable.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:23 am
=D>
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 12:22 pm
This thread is killing me
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 1:34 pm
Mentioned on the previous page.jbeall wrote:Dixie Carter
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 2:32 pm
Oops--sorry. I scanned the previous page, but missed the relevant post.
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 4:48 pm
Re: Passages
Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 2:37 pm
I wish I were naive enough to believe that his death would prompt a R1 release of at least ONE of his films.
Re: Passages
Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 9:43 pm
It may not be of much help for R1-land (though I suppose the discs are codefree), but Filmmuseum has - coincidence or not - just announced the release of a new Schroeter 2-disc-set for June. See here.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 8:02 am
I'll be filing that under the "If you can't say something nice..." rubric.