RIP

[cinesmith]

Merely an observation but the way wiki lists important deaths is kind of weird sometimes. It lists the would be assassin of Trump even though he didn't actually kill him and it will also name animals if they are of some significance. This seems to be mostly racing horses.

[MrCarmady]

Bill Viola, 73

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... a-obituary

[greennui]

Bob Newhart

[rischka]

bye bob :'(

[rischka]

https://focustaiwan.tw/culture/202407190018

cheng pei pei



i'll watch this today thx nrh also

[ofrene]

corey yuan
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/core ... 236104907/

[Lencho of the Apes]

David Bordwell
https://commarts.wisc.edu/2024/03/remem ... -bordwell/

[ofrene]

Gena Rowlands

[greennui]

Alain Delon

[rischka]

and i just watched borsalino (and le samourai a few months ago?) and had checked if he was still with us. he was 88

this photo from cannes 2019 - he'd been turning down movie roles for years since he'd lost his beauty



a misogynist asshole who supported jean le pen, he's been a virtual recluse for years while his children battle in the press. i didn't even know he had a son with nico that he never acknowledged who died of an overdose last year. i hope his children find peace

Delon also made headlines in February of this year when French police seized 72 firearms and 3,000 rounds of ammunition from his home. Prosecutors said he did not have a gun licence.

[Monsieur Arkadin]

An icon who starred in several personal favorites. Fitting though that he died in the town of Douchy.

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

One of my favourite Letterboxd reviews: "It's a shame [that] Alain Delon is alive and fascist when he could be sexy and dead."

[rischka]

my dream man is dead

[Lencho of the Apes]

Silvia PInal.
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/03/nx-s1-52 ... l-has-died

[cinesmith]

THE TCM homage to people in the film industry is so much better than the way the Oscars has essentially degraded to time constraints

[culinan881]

THE TCM homage to people in the film industry is so much better than the way the Oscars has essentially degraded to time constraints

Totally agree! The TCM tribute feels so much more genuine and thoughtful. It actually takes the time to highlight people who made a real impact, while the Oscars often seem rushed and more focused on spectacle.

[rischka]

RIP Jimmy Carter- who caused a huge scandal in 1976 by telling playboy he had lusted in his heart. America has come a long way. we're much less judgemental of sex offenders

jimmy spent his post presidency working for habitat for humanity. he turned 100 in october

he sold his peanut farm on assuming the presidency to avoid any conflicts of interest, another quaint idea we've outgrown in the trump era

forgot to mention - he had solar panels installed at the white house. reagan had them removed

imagine if we'd moved toward renewables -- 50 years ago a good and decent man from a time when we used to care about such things



i just tried to imagine trump doing charity work oh wait...

In June 2016, in response to criticism, Trump asserted publicly that he had given about $102 million to charitable causes from 2009 through 2015 and released a 93-page list of more than 4,800 donations. Just under $90 million of the total was in the form of conservation easements on Trump properties or land donations to the State of New York; the list also contained more than 2,900 donations of free rounds of golf. Further investigations led to an increasing list of allegations of abuse inside the foundation since its creation.

his foundation was shut down and he was ordered to pay 2 million dollars in fines to various charities.

musk is accused of misusing his own charitable foundation -- which is really just a tax dodge for these guys

the money elon has made since the election alone is enough to donate $250,000 to every homeless person in the US

RIP jimmy ♥ we didn't deserve you





part of a trend of GOP stealing elections. imagine where we could be if we hadn't elected the bush dynasty. history is fun!

[rischka]

ok yes i have to do it - burn in hell jean le pen - in many ways the original trump.

at 96 he's lived to see his populist brand of hate grow from a fringe extreme to the verge of power and not just in france

god help us all

[cinesmith]

I just don't have a good place to put this but it's more of an homage to someone who died 70 years ago on January 4th and his standing in the cinematic world of comedy and how he was essentially destroyed. I wasn't aware of this guy beforehand but this short doc does him justice. (I think)
Not so sure how I feel about Harold Lloyd anymore based on his actions in this either. I'll have to look at the films to compare them

Buster Keaton and the Death of Clyde Bruckman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqiX_BDRiGE

[greennui]

Malcolm Le Grice

[ofrene]

David Lynch ;(

[Monsieur Arkadin]

That's a tough one for me. He's the first filmmaker who truly expanded my ideas of what film was when I was 14 years old, and unlike the other filmmakers I got obsessed with in those years, he's remained just as engaging and unique as I've aged.

I did break into his garage once when I was 18. Just to take a look.

RIP to one of the greats.

[rischka]

RIP to a one of a kind

I did break into his garage once when I was 18. Just to take a look.

what was in there i'd be too scared of the dumpster guy

[Monsieur Arkadin]

Lol. An old pickup truck and some empty cans of paint. I think he had a second better garage somewhere else.

[rischka]

RIP garth hudson - last living member of the band

[rischka]

and jules feiffer, 95

[cinesmith]

Jan 20th Bertrand Blier age 85. Son of the Bernard Biier and absurdist French film director.

[rischka]

RIP marianne faithfull

[Lencho of the Apes]

Oh, fuck. Almost unthinkable.

[nrh]

among so many other things, just one of the most incredible second acts in all of popular music