Passages

[MichaelB]

Sad news about Makk, one of the true greats. Aside from the abortions that Facets put out and Second Run's releases, are any of his films available in English-friendly editions?

I have very good Hungarian DVDs of Love (a more recent transfer than Second Run's) and A Very Moral Night, both from MaNDA.

[djproject]

Richard Anderson

[mfunk9786]

Shelley Berman

[feketekino]

Sad news about Makk, one of the true greats. Aside from the abortions that Facets put out and Second Run's releases, are any of his films available in English-friendly editions?

I have very good Hungarian DVDs of Love (a more recent transfer than Second Run's) and A Very Moral Night, both from MaNDA.

SZERELEM has been restored in 4k, hopefully a Blu-ray from outside of Hungary will come soon.

[antnield]

Walter Becker.

[hearthesilence]

I really like Steely Dan, especially those first four albums. Saw them twice this past year (the only times I caught them live), and Becker didn't look like he was in good shape, but he was very merry.

[bearcuborg]

Donald Fagen on Walter...

We liked a lot of the same things: jazz (from the 20's through the mid-60's), W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, science fiction, Nabokov, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Berger, and Robert Altman films come to mind. Also soul music and Chicago blues.

I love almost all of those things largely in part because of Steely Dan. Their last two albums are real treasures to those who mostly know the classic stuff.

[dadaistnun]

John Ashbery

[MichaelB]

Italian actor Gastone Moschin, of The Conformist and Milano Calibro 9 fame (and much else besides).

[rohmerin]

Moschin will be forever one of the friends in Amici Miei, the Monicelli'film that won Jaws in the Italian B.O
His role in Palme d'or winner Signore e Signori is quite important.
He died in Termi, full of beauty that city.

[antnield]

Murray Lerner.

[flyonthewall2983]

His footage from the 1970 Isle of Wight festival is pretty crucial film of that era of rock music, but also how the dying hippie dream played across the pond.

[The Elegant Dandy Fop]

No link yet, but apprently Holger Czukay has passed on. There's no denying the brilliance of Can, but his solo albums are absolutely worth checking out too. A real shame.

[NABOB OF NOWHERE]

No link yet, but apprently Holger Czukay has passed on. There's no denying the brilliance of Can, but his solo albums are absolutely worth checking out too. A real shame.

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[Perkins Cobb]

Kim Ki-duk (the other one).

[pet42]

Jerry Pournelle

[dx23]

Len Wein, comic book writer, co-creator of Wolverine and Swamp Thing.

[mfunk9786]

Don Ohlmeyer

[hearthesilence]

Don Ohlmeyer

a.k.a. The Man Who Fired Norm Macdonald from 'SNL'

Ohlmeyer was a good friend of O.J.'s and went on record objecting to Norm making O.J. jokes on Weekend Update.

[antnield]

Sir Peter Hall.

[colinr0380]

Sir Peter Hall.

I hadn't made the connection until the BBC News obituary mentioned it, but as well as his theatre and opera work he directed Akenfield (which was recently released on Blu-ray and DVD by the BFI) at weekends and with amateur actors.

[Fred Holywell]

Sir Peter Hall.

Leslie Caron on her marriage to Peter Hall... here.

[GaryC]

Australian director Cris Jones, aged just 37, cause as yet unreported.

Only two months ago I was in the audience as he did a Q&A after his film The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, the closing film of the London Oz Film Festival.

[ozufils]

Frank Vincent

[bearcuborg]

Frank Vincent

His "compromise" speech in the Sporanos is one of the best things in that show.