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Re: Criterion and Buena Vista
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 3:41 am
by Jeff
knives wrote:The Narrator Returns wrote:That's too bad. I loved his score for The Informant!.
Yeah, he managed a swan song of quality few ever do.
Hamlisch
apparently completed a score for Soderbergh's
Behind the Candelabra before he died.
Re: Criterion and Buena Vista
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 6:24 am
by Kirkinson
Well, at least that's something to look forward to in the midst of this sad news. I had no idea he was working on that, but it actually seems like a perfect project for him (and his score for
The Informant! was quite superb indeed).
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 3:45 pm
by britcom68
Mel Stuart. Director of original "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 4:17 pm
by mfunk9786
Oh no
One of the best (for my money,
the best) children's films ever made.
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 4:20 pm
by lacritfan
britcom68 wrote:Mel Stuart. Director of original "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."
Obit
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:02 pm
by Matt
David Rakoff
In addition to his magnificently witty and grouchy essays, he was on the fringes of the film world as well, quite memorably appearing in Alison Maclean's short film
Intolerable.
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:08 pm
by MichaelB
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 6:06 pm
by lacritfan
Matt wrote:David Rakoff
In addition to his magnificently witty and grouchy essays, he was on the fringes of the film world as well, quite memorably appearing in Alison Maclean's short film
Intolerable.
Appreciation from Ira Glass/This American Life, inlcuding link to "Who's Canadian?"
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 12:38 am
by Perkins Cobb
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 11:53 am
by flyonthewall2983
mfunk9786 wrote:Oh no
One of the best (for my money,
the best) children's films ever made.
Absolutely no argument there.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 10:30 pm
by Polybius
A couple of things I didn't know in that obit, namely that he had played Malcolm X in
Roots: The Next Generation or that he'd been on
One Life To Live.
I know him mainly from his portrayal of the ethically questionable Deputy Commissioner James Harris on
Homicide: Life on the Street and his short but memorable role as Elijah Muhammad in
Malcolm X.
If you've never seen his electrifying work in
Dutchman, put it on your list.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 5:56 am
by manicsounds
A week late, but
Keiko Tsushima at 86, probably most famous for her role as Shino in "Seven Samurai"
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 11:58 pm
by j99
Sid Waddell the oche will never be quite the same again.
Re: Passages
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 12:55 am
by flyonthewall2983
Gregory Powell, the killer James Woods would later play in
The Onion Field.
Re: Passages
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 4:44 am
by gcgiles1dollarbin
This happened a couple weeks ago, but it's news to me, and I love his work with Olivia Tremor Control:
Bill Doss. Way too young...
Re: Passages
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 5:57 pm
by lacritfan
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 10:54 pm
by Perkins Cobb
Phyllis Thaxter. There are news reports but so far they're all headlined "Superman actress dies," so I refuse to link to them.
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 11:18 pm
by Cold Bishop
I can't say I know much about her, but I do know she holds her own against John Garfield in Michael Curtiz's fantastic The Breaking Point.
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 7:20 am
by GaryC
SF writer and editor
Harry Harrison.
His novel
Make Room! Make Room! was filmed as
Soylent Green. However, the film's twist as to what the foodstuff of the title is made from was not in the original, and Harrison regarded this as a perversion of his work.
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 10:46 am
by MichaelB
Perkins Cobb wrote:Phyllis Thaxter. There are news reports but so far they're all headlined "Superman actress dies," so I refuse to link to them.
The Sun noted John Gielgud's death under the headline DUDLEY MOORE'S BUTLER DIES.
Though in that case there's at least a passing possibility that they were deliberately taking the piss.
And a quick Google to make sure I'd got the headline right turned up
this lament by Philip Hensher about "a curse of the actor's life - fame and fortune can be guaranteed to arrive with a fatuous part".
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 9:53 pm
by j99
I wonder what The Sun had to say about The Marathon Man's Laurence Olivier?
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 9:58 pm
by knives
To be fair that's his second best role.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 4:45 am
by Polybius
j99 wrote:I wonder what The Sun had to say about The Marathon Man's Laurence Olivier?
"Horny patriarch from
The Betsy is taken to Jesus."
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 6:29 pm
by j99
Polybius wrote: "Horny patriarch from The Betsy is taken to Jesus."
Ha ha. Excellent!
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 6:01 am
by Rufus T. Firefly