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MichaelB · #5451 Post by **MichaelB** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 8:19 am

There's a big retrospective of her work playing in Brussels (where I was last weekend) at the moment.

accatone · #5452 Post by **accatone** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 8:31 am

jbeall wrote:Terrible news. It doesn't appear from the news release that she was ill. RIP.

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Very sad!

aox · #5453 Post by **aox** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 9:52 am

Very sad, and far too young. I was coincidentally listening to a podcast (Cinephiliacs) two days ago where Peter is discussing her last (now: final) film, Almayer's Folly that is a Joseph Conrad adaption. I was going to order it from the NY Public Library but they don't have a copy. I don't believe I have seen many of her films besides the Eclipse set and of course Jeanne Dielman. The latter has such a profound affect on me, and still stays with me many years later. It isn't an easy film to sit through for me considering its length but I have always wanted to revisit it. While certainly not necessary to enjoy the film, I wonder if Criterion might try to upgrade Jeanne Dielman to BD in light of this sad event.

hearthesilence · #5454 Post by **hearthesilence** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 9:55 am

Actually, she has a new film called "No Home Movie" that screens this week at the NYFF. It doesn't have distribution (yet) so I highly recommend seeing it. Tickets are sold out for the first two screenings, but Sunday's may still have some.

hearthesilence · #5455 Post by **hearthesilence** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 9:56 am

jbeall wrote:Terrible news. It doesn't appear from the news release that she was ill. RIP.

No, in fact just yesterday it was announced that she was going to participate in an upcoming MoMA PS1 exhibit (I believe this month too). This was very sudden.

ellipsis7 · #5456 Post by **ellipsis7** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 10:25 am

The Guardian reports... Cause of death being put down to suicide ("Chantal Akerman s’est donné la mort"...)

The death is unexpected: the film-maker was at the Locarno film festival last month with new film No Home Movie, a video essay about her mother, Natalia, an Auschwitz survivor who died in 2014, and whose anxieties were a perennial concern in Akerman’s work.

The film was badly received, with boos at its premiere, and this negative reception is said to have “devastated” the film-maker. The New York Times reports that friends feared for Akerman, who had “previously suffered emotional breakdowns”. Her death was confirmed on Tuesday by her sister, Sylviane Akerman, and by Nicola Mazzanti, the director of the Royal Belgian Film Archive. Le Monde are reporting the death as suicide.

Rayon Vert · #5457 Post by **Rayon Vert** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 10:25 am

How awful. I've been going through her movies and beginning to really appreciate her work. I was already planning to watch the film News From Home from the Eclipse box tonight.

tenia · #5458 Post by **tenia** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 11:35 am

I guess I won't meet her at Lyon Lumière Festival then.

j99 · #5459 Post by **j99** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 11:50 am

ellipsis7 wrote:The Guardian reports... Cause of death being put down to suicide ("Chantal Akerman s’est donné la mort"...)

The death is unexpected: the film-maker was at the Locarno film festival last month with new film No Home Movie, a video essay about her mother, Natalia, an Auschwitz survivor who died in 2014, and whose anxieties were a perennial concern in Akerman’s work.

The film was badly received, with boos at its premiere, and this negative reception is said to have “devastated” the film-maker. The New York Times reports that friends feared for Akerman, who had “previously suffered emotional breakdowns”. Her death was confirmed on Tuesday by her sister, Sylviane Akerman, and by Nicola Mazzanti, the director of the Royal Belgian Film Archive. Le Monde are reporting the death as suicide.

That is tragic. Jeanne Dielman is a masterpiece.

Soothsayer · #5460 Post by **Soothsayer** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 4:23 pm

Saddened by the Akerman news, RIP to a truly brilliant artist.

flyonthewall2983 · #5461 Post by **flyonthewall2983** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 11:24 pm

Gail Zappa

bearcuborg · #5462 Post by **bearcuborg** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 11:43 pm

Chef Paul Prudhomme...who if you're a foodie, probably affects your life a whole hell of lot. He was one of the first guys to locally source his ingredients.
As a kid though-I always confused this guy with Dom DeLuise!

Numero Trois · #5463 Post by **Numero Trois** » Fri Oct 09, 2015 6:17 pm

Indie comics stalwart Dennis Eichhorn has passed.

Donald Brown · #5464 Post by **Donald Brown** » Fri Oct 09, 2015 8:49 pm

That's sad. Real Stuff was among the best of the autobiographical comix of the period.

Numero Trois · #5465 Post by **Numero Trois** » Sat Oct 10, 2015 4:35 am

Yes. Especially shocking considering his Extra Good Stuff comic came out just a few months back.

Boing Boing has a whole bunch of his stories up on their site. Here's the one where he met Hunter S. Thompson.

FrauBlucher · #5466 Post by **FrauBlucher** » Sat Oct 10, 2015 5:33 pm

Jay Gerber

doh286 · #5467 Post by **doh286** » Thu Oct 15, 2015 2:04 pm

Joan Leslie

Oedipax · #5468 Post by **Oedipax** » Fri Oct 16, 2015 7:22 pm

Don't have a link for it, but Lucy (Kelly Reichardt's dog, seen in Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy) reportedly passed away sometime in September.

pet42 · #5469 Post by **pet42** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 5:56 am

Screenwriter Christopher Wood according to a Roger Moore tweet

MichaelB · #5470 Post by **MichaelB** » Tue Oct 20, 2015 10:21 am

Eureka (and therefore MoC) head honcho Ron Benson.

perkizitore · #5471 Post by **perkizitore** » Tue Oct 20, 2015 10:26 am

How old was he? Is this likely to affect Eureka?

MichaelB · #5472 Post by **MichaelB** » Tue Oct 20, 2015 10:27 am

perkizitore wrote:How old was he? Is this likely to affect Eureka?

71 or 72, depending on when his birthday was.

And Eureka says "We'd appreciate your patience over the coming days. A huge blow to everyone here."

Forrest Taft · #5473 Post by **Forrest Taft** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 5:11 pm

MichaelB wrote:Eureka (and therefore MoC) head honcho Ron Benson.

Sad news. I used Mr. Benson's mail order service years before our family had any internet connection. I recall those full page ads in every issue of Empire, and when I placed my first order I got a "Mr. Benson"-binder along with my VHS-tapes. And from then on, every month I'd get a newsletter in the mail listing all the new releases and other good offers, and the newsletters slowly filled the binder till it nearly burst. I still have it laying around somewhere. I was also sent (or bought?) a book catalogue listing every in-print VHS release in the UK, and must have gone through it from cover to cover with a marker, highlighting every single title I wanted. The VHS selection was rather meagre in Norway at the time, so this was an endless treasure trove for me. Sometimes I couldn't believe my father would fill out his credit card info without hesitation when I sent these mail orders, and waiting for the package to eventually arrive could be unbearable at times...it could lead to disappointments too, as I'd sometimes wait for nearly a month only to get a letter from Benson with the message: "Sorry. This title has been deleted". Those were the days before e-mail

#5474 Post by **domino harvey** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 5:15 pm

Is this the Benson of Benson's World?

Forrest Taft · #5475 Post by **Forrest Taft** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 5:17 pm

Yes, the same. Took a while before I realized he was the same guy who founded Eureka.

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