RIP
a goat review, courtesy of penalosa: https://letterboxd.com/m_penalosa/film/ ... lacktop/3/
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of all the people i wanted to give a bloody nose...
https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/ ... man-career
here's a good interview w hellman, didn't realize he had passed RIP
https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/ ... man-career
here's a good interview w hellman, didn't realize he had passed RIP
his screen debut: falling from the staute of liberty in hitchcock's saboteur. he was supposed to be in citizen kane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MoEsWEcU9c
https://deadline.com/2021/05/norman-llo ... 234754280/
https://twitter.com/ScreenSlate/status/ ... 04485?s=20
https://twitter.com/m_klingensmith/stat ... 72449?s=20
grodin destroys johnny carson
https://twitter.com/joshencinias/status ... 13632?s=20
grodin calls hannity a fascist!!
https://twitter.com/m_klingensmith/stat ... 72449?s=20
grodin destroys johnny carson
https://twitter.com/joshencinias/status ... 13632?s=20
grodin calls hannity a fascist!!
composer Louis Andriessen, who composed the music for Hal Hartley's The New Math(s) and Peter Greenaway's M is for Man, Music, Mozart, and who won the Grawemeyer Award (the closest thing modern music has to a Nobel), 82 years old
Richard Donner, 91.
He was a prolific and competent director.
He was a prolific and competent director.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=218py1kN1AU
dilip kumar, the last of the great triumvirate of golden age hindi film stars; dev anand and raj kapoor died years ago. end of an era.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Mz6gUFvcg
dilip kumar, the last of the great triumvirate of golden age hindi film stars; dev anand and raj kapoor died years ago. end of an era.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Mz6gUFvcg
too sad... I met him during a blaxploitation screening, where he was the guest of honor over the course of a weekend during which three of his earlier films were shown, here in Germany in Frankfurt a few years ago (just checked, it was in 2014 actually!
How time flies...). He was a cool and relaxed old guy, and we also went around to eat and drink something later at a bar. He wasn't very talkative, but seemed to enjoy the fact that a couple dozen Germans wanted to watch his early available films from old 35mm prints over the course of a few days. I actually fell asleep during the beginning of the screening of his 16mm movie SWEET SWEETBACK’S BAADASSSSS SONG, cause I was just too fucking tired from the day before, so maybe that didn't make such a good impression on him (though I loved the other two films of his I had seen) 
Unfortunately I still haven't seen SWEET SWEETBACK’S BAADASSSSS SONG to this day, and know nothing of his filmography besides the two films I watched at the cinema, the wonderful short film "Cinq cent balles" (1963), which he made when he was living in France, as well as the incredible masterpiece that is "La permission" (1967) - better known internationally as "The Story of a 3-Day Pass" - which is surely one of the best French films of the 1960s.
Though he didn't direct that many movies, it's interesting to see that he made films from the 1950s to the 2010s, that means during 7(!) decades!
PS: "La permission/The Story of a 3-Day Pass" was also the last acting role for Nicole Berger, who played the romantic lead in this film, and died shortly afterwards in a car crash aged only 32. For me, she is (also) unforgettable as the star and focus of Helmut Käutner's possibly greatest film "Ein Mädchen aus Flandern/The Girl from Flandres" in which she is simply breathtaking! (Yes, truth be told almost all actors in most Käutner movies are phenomenal, as Käutner was also a genius with actors, but she should have been showered with awards and become an international star after this film - alas, German cinema wasn't very popular amongst international critics from circa 1933 till about 1968..).
"I too am a child burned by future experiences, fallen back on myself and already suspecting the certainty that in the end only those will prove benevolent who believe in nothing." – Marran Gosov
I see there's a 5-disc Blu-ray set with 7 of his films from the 50s, 60s and early 70s that has just been released by Criterion:
https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4787- ... four-films
https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4787- ... four-films
"I too am a child burned by future experiences, fallen back on myself and already suspecting the certainty that in the end only those will prove benevolent who believe in nothing." – Marran Gosov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8xPpIOYaR8&t=2s
nedumudi venu, from covid complications at the age of 73. probably not very famous outside of kerala, but he acted in around 500 films, with an amazing run during malayalam cinema's golden age in the late '70s through mid '90s. just one of those unique screen presences who seem to stand in for a whole era and approach to movie making.
nedumudi venu, from covid complications at the age of 73. probably not very famous outside of kerala, but he acted in around 500 films, with an amazing run during malayalam cinema's golden age in the late '70s through mid '90s. just one of those unique screen presences who seem to stand in for a whole era and approach to movie making.