Passages

[hearthesilence]

Documentary filmmaker and social activist Julia Reichert

“She took home, to Ohio, a 2019 Oscar for American Factory, and in a long career teaching and making films, she paid special attention to working women.”

[colinr0380]

Issei Sagawa, famous cannibal and subject of the film Caniba

If anyone wants more of a history on this figure, I made a post a few months back with links to the Cinemas Underbelly discussion (very NSFW!) of the person and the associated films he made appearances in after becoming a media figure on his release from jail, as well as the rather romanticised-looking film that was made of his notorious crime by Italian director Aldo Lado, 1989's Love Ritual, which I am very curious about seeing at some point.

[Fred Holywell]

Mylène Demongeot, who is perhaps best known outside of Europe for her role in Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse.

A sensitive actress with a talent for comedy. Like Bardot, she was known for freely displaying her beautiful body in front of the camera.

With Henri Vidal in a NSFW scene from Verneuil's Une manche et la belle (1957):

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[Big Ben]

Al Strobel, the One Armed Man from Twin Peaks.

[hearthesilence]

Bob McGrath, or just "Bob" as most people know him from Sesame Street

Bob actually had a public Facebook page and it's bittersweet to look at his recent posts. At the beginning of this year, he was part of a virtual meet and greet that included Emilio Delgado (aka "Luis") and only a short time later, Bob would be mourning his close friend and colleague with warm memories. He'd also turn 90 and a few months ago in September he actually stopped by MoMI for an event related to Sesame Street. Next door is Kaufman Astoria where they actually film the show - Bob even posted a photo of himself in front of the studio lot. Seems like he was pretty happy in his last year.

[CSM126]

Kirstie Alley

[beamish14]

Kirstie Alley

Wow. I didn’t really watch Cheers much until the end of its run, but I religiously saw Veronica’s Closet

[zedz]

Flying Nun legend Hamish Kilgour, founder of The Clean, Bailter Space, The Mad Scene.
Details still vague.

[hearthesilence]

Legendary Stax Records producer and co-founder Jim Stewart

[lacritfan]

Brad William Henke at 56. Apparently he's well known for Orange is the New Black, but I'll always remember him as Coover Bennet from Justified.

He will always be the neighbor from Me and You and Everyone We Know to me.

[jazzo]

Flying Nun legend Hamish Kilgour, founder of The Clean, Bailter Space, The Mad Scene.
Details still vague.

This is a hard one for me. David and Hamish changed my musical world with The Clean.

[therewillbeblus]

Surreal. I was just introducing my girlfriend to The Clean an hour ago, and then check this thread…

[bearcuborg]

Kirstie Alley

I caught Deconstructing Harry in the theater, and her cameo was the only part that made me laugh out loud. Not sure I've seen the movie since then, and I don't remember much from Look Who's Talking, but she fit in perfectly with the Cheers cast, and all their comic misery. She's an absolute knockout in Summer School.

[colinr0380]

Kirstie Alley

I caught Deconstructing Harry in the theater, and her cameo was the only part that made me laugh out loud. Not sure I've seen the movie since then, and I don't remember much from Look Who's Talking, but she fit in perfectly with the Cheers cast, and all their comic misery. She's an absolute knockout in Summer School.

In terms of her film roles, I remember being really traumatised as a kid by her role in Michael Crichton's sci-fi film Runaway.

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where she is quite brutally killed off. I have not seen the film in decades so it may be really tame now, but I think that was my first encounter with the notion of a hero simply not being able to save the woman in his charge!

And she gets another brutal death in John Carpenter's remake of Village of the Damned in which her childless brusque investigator into the mysterious children:

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gets forced by them as punishment for performing medical experiments on one of their kindred into performing a self-autopsy/hysterectomy

, which is quite a statement for someone coming off of the Look Who's Talking movies!

(And she is also in that great beauty pageant satire film Drop Dead Gorgeous - kind of the driven mother equivalent to the Debbie Harry part in Hairspray)

[MichaelB]

Jan Nowicki, one of the great Polish leading men of his generation (Jerzy Skolimowski's Barrier, Wojciech Has's The Hourglass Sanatorium, loads more), and not just in Polish films - his long relationship with Márta Mészáros saw him as her preferred male lead in quite a few of her Hungarian films.

[Calvin]

Yoshishige 'Kiju' Yoshida

[Mr Sausage]

Yoshishige 'Kiju' Yoshida

I never could get into his films, but he was a genuinely radical filmmaker with a sensibility all his own.

[zedz]

Yoshishige 'Kiju' Yoshida

One of the all-time greats, even though his films are scarcely available in English-friendly editions. (Major props to Arrow for getting three films out there!)

I've been dipping back into those incredible French box sets recently, and was reminded how concise and enlightening his intros were for each film.

Paging any UK or US label with a spine!

[swo17]

Yoshishige 'Kiju' Yoshida

One of the all-time greats, even though his films are scarcely available in English-friendly editions. (Major props to Arrow for getting three films out there!)

I've been dipping back into those incredible French box sets recently, and was reminded how concise and enlightening his intros were for each film.

Paging any UK or US label with a spine!

Very sad, I emailed him the minute I started Radiance. I guess now I know why he never responded. Would love to release his other features. Many are owned by Shochiku but they're having their own problems right now.

[hearthesilence]

This one (a single package collecting three films)? Good tip, I didn't know this had been released.

[swo17]

Yes, that's a slimmed down edition without the booklet but all the films are there

[therewillbeblus]

This one (a single package collecting three films)? Good tip, I didn't know this had been released.

Arguably his most popular film, Eros + Massacre, is eligible for the 1969 list project currently underway. It's fantastic

[Peacock]

Damn, last of the great living J-New Wave filmmakers.

As zedz mentions some of us have been hoping someone would port the many Carlotta releases to the English-speaking world but Arrow probably didn’t do that well with their boxset as it remained limited edition for quite a long time. I’m sure single title releases would sell a bit though! Reassuring to read Fran is very interested.

Anyway, RIP! Such an interesting filmmaker.

[Michael Kerpan]

Yoshida is one of the film makers I got to hear/see when he came to the Harvard Film Archive several years ago. Unlike Shinoda (who was very voluble and pretty down to earth), Yoshida was pretty abstract in most of his answers. Still it was a privilege to get to see him in person.

BTW -- Shinoda is now 91 -- but still among the living, I believe.

[Pavel]

Angelo Badalamenti