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i think hellman is one of a very small number of directors that i feel like i can actually "identify" with: wenders, ozu, nick ray, akerman, hellman... might be it

a goat review, courtesy of penalosa: https://letterboxd.com/m_penalosa/film/ ... lacktop/3/

One hell of a man. He will be missed.

The Academy Awards 'In Memoriam' moved so fast it was like watching a flip book.

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

Michael Collins, the astronaut.

Olympia Dukakis, 89

Norman Lloyd, 106

greennui wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 10:22 pm Norman Lloyd, 106

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!!

Kentaro Miura, 54. Author of long running manga Berserk.

buddhadeb dasgupta

there are other directors from the great period of indian parallel cinema still alive, but they weren't really working, certainly not making anything at the level of their peak. end of an era.

john mcafee is dead. maybe

Was it a virus?

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.

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

roberto calasso

lee scratch perry RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8cXSqB5j0M

Jean-Paul Belmondo.

omar's comin...

pabs wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 3:11 pmJean-Paul Belmondo.

Asphyxiation?

norm macdonald

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEghu90QJH4&t=403s

norm was cool for a canadian

melvin van peebles - 89

didn't den use him in DC once at mubi - i remember that motorcycle one kanye ripped off

story of a three day pass was much better. RIP

rischka wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 10:27 pm melvin van peebles - 89

didn't den use him in DC once at mubi - i remember that motorcycle one kanye ripped off

story of a three day pass was much better. RIP

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 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.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.