Some more film people that have died of it so far:
Jiri Menzel (director, Closely Watched Trains)
Fernando Solanas (director, The Hours of the Furnaces)
Nelly Kaplan (director, A Very Curious Girl)
Hélène Châtelain (The woman in La Jetee)
Sven Wollter (Swedish actor and communist)
The cause of Max von Sydow's death back in March was never disclosed, one wonders if it could have been covid as well.
Listened to this about 250 times in computer cafes in Guatemala while writing essays... thank you to HB for helping make the only Cocteau Twins song I could ever stand
richard corben, one of the most underrated and misunderstood of the underground (or is it post-underground in his case?) american cartoonists. just totally weird, singular talent. the late work, incredibly gifted but at the same time wedded to a kind of out of time painted on the side of a van american counter culture that has never quite gone away.
thoxans wrote: ↑Fri Dec 11, 2020 1:49 pm
wow. didn't like the very little bit of his work that i've seen. it's just crazy as yet another reminder that this is some devastating shit...
for those who are only casual hockey fans, he was general manager of the nordiques/avalanche for 12 years, perhaps most famously acquiring patrick roy in the 1995-96 season and winning the franchise's first stanley cup that season
made a lot of other shrewd trades too. in 1995 traded wendel clark (a former #1 overall pick, who'd just been acquired for former #1 overall pick, mats sundin, the year before) for "playoff specialist" claude lemieux (winning the cup, with lemieux playing a big role). also in 1995 traded star forward and former #1 overall pick owen nolan for relatively unheralded d-man sandis ozolinsh who led d-men in playoff scoring that year (winning the cup). not many managers would have the gall to trade three #1 overall picks in a span of 12 yrs...or the acuity to win the cup at the end of it all
was also key in the team's 2001 cup win. acquired an old-ass ray bourque in 2000, and rob blake in 2001, who both played huge roles in the ensuing cup win
for some reason he's not as celebrated as a lot of other managers, but he might be the most underrated in league history
probably the highest-profile covid death in the hockey world so far. the league's first ever indigenous player (fred sasakamoose) died last month too, which was fairly high-profile in canada anyway
I very much liked Le Carre's autobiography THE PIGEON TUNNEL. His output can be hit or miss, with TINKER TAILOR and SMILEY'S PEOPLE being for me his most palpable hits. I was sorry to read of his passing.
These matters are best disposed of from a great height. Over water.
i watched and loved george roy hill's adaptation of the little drummer girl just a month ago... from comments here, it seems i should give one of the man's books a try at some point
Karel Vachek (1940-2020) https://letterboxd.com/director/karel-vachek/
From my perspective the crucial, essential, pivotal Bohemian filmmaker.
The supreme ironist and sarcast (the inner laughter theorist).
Fortunately, he taught at FAMU long enough (2002-2018) to leave behind many heirs.
Thus (I am convinced) his spirit won't stop haunting Bohemian essay film.