Passages

[domino harvey]

And of course now he's part of the group no one wants to belong to: the 27 Club

[Murdoch]

Very sad. He had a respectably varied career for such a young actor. Hopefully it wasn't as painful a death as the article makes it seem. Rest in peace.

[colinr0380]

That's terrible. As Murdoch says, Yelchin has had quite a career from the Stephen King adaptation Hearts In Atlantis (another film that would have been a good fit for the Films of Youth list) through to the rebooted Star Trek series and the recent Green Room. He also starred in the Joe Dante film Burying The Ex, Michael Almereyda's recent modern adaptation of Cymbeline, Paul Schrader's Nicolas Cage-starring thriller Dying of the Light, and was in Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive.

Plus he anchored that otherwise underwhelming Fright Night remake, and did a voice for the English dub of From Up On Poppy Hill.

[knives]

Don't forget his central role in Alpha Dog Nick Cassevetes adaptation of the Johnny Hollywood story.

[colinr0380]

I've seen several, but there are lots which aren't available on DVD in Australia, let alone anywhere else. I saw him interviewed by Derek Malcolm at the National Film Theatre, following a preview screening of Golden Braid. That film was the point where he fell out of favour with UK distributors, as his later films showed at the London Film Festival but were bypassed for cinema release. The only later film which did appear in UK cinemas was Innocence.

Its kind of amazing that something like Molokai never seemed to get even a cursory theatrical UK release. Just look at that cast: Derek Jacobi, Kris Kristoffersen, Alice Krige, Peter O'Toole, Sam Neill and Tom Wilkinson!

[colinr0380]

Don't forget his central role in Alpha Dog Nick Cassevetes adaptation of the Johnny Hollywood story.

That was great too! Good Lord, Yelchin seemed to be everywhere - I've just noted that he was also in Rudderless, the first feature directed by William H. Macy. And also he apparently just completed Porto, the first feature by film critic Gabe Klinger.

That's a career cut off in full flow.

[knives]

So reports are now suggesting that Yelchin's death might have been aided by a recalled gear shift in his Jeep.

[domino harvey]

Wow. I hope someone sues the shit out of Fiat Chrysler on his behalf if it turns out to be true

[Dylan]

Very sad news about Anton Yelchin. I've been intermittently following his career since I saw Hearts in Atlantis theatrically. I watch that film ever couple years and it never fails to move me tremendously, and Yelchin's sensational performance has a lot to do with that. He always struck me in interviews as a lovely person who would be a tremendous joy to work with, and I never saw a performance by him I didn't love. Though I haven't caught up with some of his latest performances, I thought he was the best part about Burying the Ex and hoped he and Joe Dante would make another film together.

[thirtyframesasecond]

Paul Cox.

Damn, I didn't realise. Man of Flowers is a great film.

[hearthesilence]

Wayne Jackson of the Memphis Horns. They provided the horn tracks on dozens of well-known songs, including Redding’s “Dock of the Bay,” Franklin’s “Respect,” Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline,” Presley’s “Suspicious Minds,” Sam & Dave’s “Soul Man,” Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together,” "Shaft," 'Dusty in Memphis,' "The Dark End of the Street," "In the Midnight Hour," "I Can't Stand the Rain," Steve Winwood’s “Roll With It,” Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer,” and U2’s “Angel of Harlem"…nearly everything on Stax/Volt and Hi Records.

[MichaelB]

Polish avant-garde humorist Andrzej Kondratiuk, probably best known outside his native country for collaborating with Roman Polanski on the short Mammals, but his masterpiece is the 1970 feature Hydro-Riddle, the first and most probably the only Polish superhero film.

[hearthesilence]

Ralph Stanley. As seen in Down from the Mountain.

[dadaistnun]

Michael Herr

[hearthesilence]

Bernie Worrell of Parliament/Funkadelic

[lacritfan]

Bernie Worrell of Parliament/Funkadelic

Also Speaking In Tongues/Stop Making Sense-era Talking Heads

[Colpeper]

Harry Rabinowitz

[Lemmy Caution]

Bluegrass Music Patriarch Ralph Stanley Dies at 89
Sang O Death in Oh Brother Where Art Thou.
Also, with his brothers popularized Man of Constant Sorrow, a song used in the Coen film as well.

[Oedipax]

Experimental filmmaker Peter Hutton (according to Cinema Scope's twitter).

[swo17]

He leaves behind a rich body of work, almost none of which can be found on home video. (Hopefully that will change.) He'd surely be mentioned alongside big names like Deakins, Doyle, and Lubezki if his interests were more commercial. He was also a mentor to Ken Burns and lensed episodes for a number of his documentaries.

[Oedipax]

He leaves behind a rich body of work, almost none of which can be found on home video. (Hopefully that will change.)

For the time being, some of it is viewable on YouTube and through the usual back channels... I hope someone (like Re:Voir) will issue Hutton's work on video eventually.

[rockysds]

Bill Cunningham.

[Tommaso]

Seminal German actor Götz George died at 77 years.

[lubitsch]

Seminal German actor Götz George died at 77 years.

That's sad. Certainly Germany's greatest post war actor.

[pet42]

Italian actor Bud Spencer