SCFZ

WHAT. they're dropping like flies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdYzVFClHyg

guitarist here is shaver's son eddie, dead of a heroin overdose at 38 in 2000

Sean Connary

Just saw that Fernando Solanas died. Time for an Hour of the Furnaces re-watch.

:'(

Trebek.

This is a sad one. Loved the man and his show deeply.

soumitra chaterjee, of ray's charulata and devi and kapurush and teen kanya and the best detective feluda.

85 of course but he died of covid and definitely contracted on a film set, he was making 3 films this year...

That's awful. What a loss. He was a favorite of mine, the second one (at least) lost to covid, after Lucia Bosè.

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.

Diego Maradona, 60

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdf6D19Etmc

RIP to a legend that was human, all too human.

RIP Flor Silvestre, probably best-known here as
the town "fancy lady" in Animas Trujano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuAXW8w2ya8

http://exclaim.ca/music/article/harold_ ... Vf9uAIlBqU

https://youtu.be/lJ3vIbFrOSs

harold budd has died of covid. he was 84

https://youtu.be/I_Nug2zXA5g

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.

Kim Ki Duk has died of COVID according to Russian and Latvian media.

MrCarmady wrote: ↑Fri Dec 11, 2020 10:56 am Kim Ki Duk has died of COVID according to Russian and Latvian media.

Now this is a shock.

I have to admit I have not seen the films he made after he drifted into obscurity, but he is certainly on my shortlist of best directors of the 00s.

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...

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...

+1

A proper wrong'un by all accounts.

umm john le carre has died? tbh i thought he died long time ago

not covid related. he was 89. RIP spymaster

he had an autobiography and a new novel out just a little while ago, seemed typically sharp in all his interviews.

it is very strange to say anyone as famous as le carre was underrated but i do think he hasn't really gotten his due as a pure stylist.

pierre lacroix died of covid

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.

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.

Angélique, marquise des anges, is crying!
and many other ladies & damsels as well.
Joffrey is dead!
this time not "as if".

MF DOOM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRHyBwNtkLA

this is really awful. i know he had a strange last few years but never expected this could happen