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Unfortunately this is unavailable to users in the U.S., presumably because Kino has the film here (though this wasn't an obstacle a few weeks back when Re:Voir offered a free rental of Meshes of the Afternoon).

Professor Wagstaff wrote: Wed Apr 22, 2020 6:49 pm Shirley Knight

Wow, I just saw Dutchman the other day and her performance knocked me out. One of the best I’ve ever seen, can’t recommend it highly enough (to the point where it placed on my horror list, primarily due to her unpredictable range!)

She’s also great in her Oscar nominated perf in Sweet Bird of Youth, which comes out next week on Blu from WA

Any Francis Ford Coppola fans should check out his underseen The Rain People for a fantastic lead performance by Knight. I was also reminded elsewhere of her excellent work in the HBO movie Indictment: The McMartin Trial.

Swedish writer Per Olov Enquist, 85, after a long period of disesease (in Swedish).
IMDb (not updated).

MichaelB wrote: Wed Apr 22, 2020 10:48 am Grey Gardens might never have been made.

If only! If I were either of the Maysleses, once I looked at the Grey Gardens footage after we shot it, I would have just thrown it in the trash.

Randall Maysin wrote: Mon Apr 27, 2020 10:50 amIf only! If I were either of the Maysleses, once I looked at the Grey Gardens footage after we shot it, I would have just thrown it in the trash.

I believe it has its fans.

(A fairly considerable understatement given the spin-offs that I listed in my piece!)

Alan Kleinberg, though there's no obituary yet. A fashion photographer and photo journalist, he was nominated for a Grammy for directing the Talking Heads compilation music video Storytelling Giant. He also produced Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law and has a cameo as a corpse.

Randall Maysin wrote: Mon Apr 27, 2020 10:50 am If I were either of the Maysleses, once I looked at the Grey Gardens footage after we shot it, I would have just thrown it in the trash.

What an odd and unsupported bit of trolling this is.

And a somewhat ironic bit of trolling since it was the Maysles brothers who discerned that there was an extraordinary film to be made about the eventual subjects of Grey Gardens that Peter Beard and Lee Radziwill weren't really capturing through their project (mainly because it had a different focus going in), and once it was clear that the earlier film was never going to be completed the Maysles went back and made their own.

Clearly, they had a somewhat keener eye for a compelling documentary subject than either Beard, Radziwill or indeed Randall Maysin.

Nancy Dawson, wife of Matt Zoller Seitz.

James Monaco, author of the seminal How to Read a Film and much else besides, died last November, news that seems to have percolated very slowly into film circles.

MichaelB wrote: Tue Apr 28, 2020 11:40 am James Monaco, author of the seminal How to Read a Film and much else besides, died last November, news that seems to have percolated very slowly into film circles.

Better known to me as the author of one of the first English language long form studies of the French New Wave, though I’m pretty sure I have a copy of How to Read a Film in a tub somewhere!

Monaco's How To Read a Film was an arbitrary choice for me when I started to get into film-- I think it was the first book on the library shelf-- but what a lucky one. I'm grateful to have had my tastes shaped by his, even if it took me 20 years to see Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000.

Prolific British television actress Jill Gascoine, who in The Gentle Touch (1980-4) starred in what I believe was the first British drama series to focus on a female police officer.

(Not Covid-19 related, and sadly not a surprise - her husband Alfred Molina confirmed in November 2016 that she was in end-stage Alzheimer's.)

Rishi Kapoor, of cancer

Maj Sjöwall, 84. Swedish writer known for her novels co-written with Per Wahlöö about criminal detective Martin Beck. Bo Widerberg's Man on the Roof is based on one of these novels.

On nother note, the first book about film I got was Monaco's How to Read a Film. An aunt had found it on a flea market in the 80s (1981 edition) and gave it to me - somehow guessing that this was to become a great interest of mine.

India Adams, "secret singer" who dubbed Cyd Charisse in The Band Wagon.

Never Cursed wrote: Thu Apr 30, 2020 4:54 amRishi Kapoor, of cancer

That's terribly sad. He actually co-starred with Irrfan Khan in D-Day.

I'm mostly familiar with Rishi Kapoor through his earlier roles. He's in a few classic Bollywood titles such as Amar Akbar Anthony, the film about three separated at birth brothers raised Hindu, Muslim and Christian and the complications that arise from that when they all meet up again as adults. He's also able support to Raj Kapoor playing the younger version of his character in 'tears of a clown' circus drama My Name Is Joker, from 1970 (he actually made his debut in another Raj Kapoor film, Shree 420, as a child actor in the mid 50s).

He's also one of the leads in crime thriller Katilon ke kaatil (The Killer's Killers), which of course has a couple of great musical numbers!

And of course he's part of the love triangle in the ultimate Bollywood film Chandni, with the late Sridevi and Vinod Khanna.

Tony Allen (casue of death unknown atm)

kuzine wrote: Fri May 01, 2020 12:34 am Tony Allen (casue of death unknown atm)

Article's been updated now - abdominal aortic aneurysm. “He was in great shape,” manager Eric Trosser said to France 24. “It was quite sudden.”

Tremendous loss, one of the great drummers, period.

Sam Lloyd of Scrubs, at 56 of a brain tumor

hearthesilence wrote: Fri May 01, 2020 7:46 pm

kuzine wrote: Fri May 01, 2020 12:34 am Tony Allen (casue of death unknown atm)

Article's been updated now - abdominal aortic aneurysm. “He was in great shape,” manager Eric Trosser said to France 24. “It was quite sudden.”

Tremendous loss, one of the great drummers, period.

And still doing interesting, searching work! That album he did with Jeff Mills just a couple years ago was great thinky stuff. Devastating.