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I know Leonard will overshadow Post and 95 is nothing to sneeze at, but that's a real crying shame. Not the most talented directed, but he was damned ballsy with the tools he had.

Allan Sekula.

rockysds wrote:Allan Sekula.

Another unsung passing...sad but enlightening.

Marian McPartland, pianist, composer and host of 'Piano Jazz' on NPR, dies at 95.

Cinematographer Vadim Yusov (best known for his work with Tarkovsky).

[No English-language link at the moment. Will update.]

antnield wrote:Cinematographer Vadim Yusov (best known for his work with Tarkovsky).

[No English-language link at the moment. Will update.]

A brilliant cinematographer; his images in IVAN'S CHILDHOOD and ANDREI RUBLEV are breathtaking. You could tell from his interviews that he shared Tarkovsky's poetic vision. There was some news a couple of years back that he was involved with a restoration (possible reconstruction?) of RUBLEV; I wonder if that project was concluded?

Gilbert Taylor, who shot Repulsion, Dr. Strangelove, Star Wars and many others.

Looking on IMDB, he was also J. Lee Thompson's cinematographer on Yield to the Night, Woman in a Dressing Gown, Ice Cold in Alex and 6 others.

antnield wrote:Gilbert Taylor, who shot Repulsion, Dr. Strangelove, Star Wars and many others.

Great guy with whom I had the great fortune to work in the mid 90's . Adored Polanski, admired Kubrik ambivalent towards Hitchcock and unfairly hounded by Lucas in his old age. Had fantastic stories that would fill up the internet a thousand times over. Started his career as a clapper loader on Hitchcock's Number 17

George Kaplan wrote:Marian McPartland, pianist, composer and host of 'Piano Jazz' on NPR, dies at 95.

It only seemed like she could go on forever.

If anyone has any favorite Piano Jazz shows, list them here.
She had amazing guests and it was a pretty unique show with the playing -- solos and duets -- and conversation. I seem to fondly recall the show with Dave Brubeck. I think I'll try to dig up Cecil Taylor on Piano Jazz.

Feego wrote:Julie Harris

Wow, just watched her (again) give a superb performance in "Reflections in a Golden Eye" on TCM, very early this morning. In hindsight, a beautifully uncanny tribute on their part. Saw her on stage many years ago, too. A very, very great actress.

Jean Hill, whom John Waters described as "my only African-American star" (she made three films with him).

What amazing scene to choose? "Down, down, down" from the opening of Desperate Living, or commandeering a bus in Polyester?

He had no connection with the cinema that I can see, but it seems remiss not to acknowledge the passing of a writer as great as Seamus Heaney, Ireland's fourth Nobel Literature laureate after W.B.Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett.

Wow. That's unexpected. In addition to his poetry, if you've never read his translation of Beowulf (pictured in the link above), I highly, highly recommend it.

Mr Sausage wrote:Wow. That's unexpected. In addition to his poetry, if you've never read his translation of Beowulf (pictured in the link above), I highly, highly recommend it.

...and I equally highly recommend the audiobook version (read by the author). Fortunately, it seems that I never got round to returning my mother's copy, so I'm ripping it to my iPod right now.

Very sad. I've been teaching the Glanmore sonnet sequence to my students, and they love his work.

For those of us embarrassingly unfamiliar with his work, is there a single best collection to get?

Matt wrote:For those of us embarrassingly unfamiliar with his work, is there a single best collection to get?

Probably Opened Ground, if only because it's a Heaney-selected "best-of" compilation ranging over several decades.

MichaelB wrote:

Mr Sausage wrote:Wow. That's unexpected. In addition to his poetry, if you've never read his translation of Beowulf (pictured in the link above), I highly, highly recommend it.

...and I equally highly recommend the audiobook version (read by the author). Fortunately, it seems that I never got round to returning my mother's copy, so I'm ripping it to my iPod right now.

It's an interesting listen, to be sure, but one should note that it's abridged.

I second the recommendation of Opening Ground as the best introduction to Heaney's work.

The searching for a pulsebeat was abandoned
And we all knew one thing by being there.
The space we stood around had been emptied
Into us to keep, it penetrated
Clearances that suddenly stood open.
High cries were felled and a pure change happened. (Clearences, VII. 9-14).

Sir David Frost.

Boxer Tommy Morrison, who played the part of Rocky's pupil in the infamous Rocky V.