Passages

[FrauBlucher]

Anthony James...Unforgiven and In the Heat of the Night

[colinr0380]

Anthony James...Unforgiven and In the Heat of the Night

Lots of bad guy roles in there! He is also in the astonishing In The Heat of the Night-esque racial tensions drama ...tick ...tick... tick.... Although I have to admit that I really know him the best for his musically-inclined assassin in The Naked Gun 2 1/2!

[Ovader]

I read from a FB post by Howard S. Berger that character actor Dan van Husen passed away. I could not find any articles of his passing as of yet.

[agnamaracs]

Elsa Dorfman, portrait photographer, subject of Errol Morris's The B-Side

[bearcuborg]

environmental artist Christo, dead at 84

If memory serves he did New York about 15 years ago. I was really fortunate to see it in person. The pictures never did the draping work justice.

It’s as good a time as any to recommend Five Films About Christo and Jeanne-Claude by the Maysles brothers.

[Altair]

Wow this is tragic, really one of the finest, most exciting artists of his generation.

[GaryC]

No online obituaries yet that I can find, but John B. Murray (director of The Naked Bunyip and one segment of Libido, producer of Lonely Hearts and We of the Never Never) has passed away. A pioneer in the 1970s revival of Australian cinema. Born in 1931 so he was 88 or 89.

I had a brief pleasant email correspondence with him, shortly after I'd reviewed the DVD of Libido.

ETA: An obituary here, and he was 88.

[flyonthewall2983]

Alto saxophonist and longtime composer for Clint Eastwood Lennie Niehaus

[sienel]

Film critic James Harvey

[okcmaxk]

Bruce Jay Friedman

[zedz]

Irm Hermann

She stole many a Fassbinder film, scowling from the wings. R.I.P.

[Feego]

Mary Pat Gleason

[beamish14]

Bruce Jay Friedman

What an incredible talent. Scuba Duba and Steambath are two of the finest, funniest American plays of the last 50 years.
I implore you to watch the PBS shot-on-video production of Steambath.

[L.A.]

Bonnie Pointer, founding member of The Pointer Sisters

[MichaelB]

Slovak cinematographer Igor Luther (The Tin Drum).

[gyorgys]

Marion Hänsel

[flyonthewall2983]

Rupert Hine

[Fiery Angel]

Rupert Hine

Versatile music producer, from the Fixx and Tina Turner to Rush rapping!

[MichaelB]

Denise Cronenberg, sister of and regular costume designer for her more famous brother David.

[dwk]

Denny O'Neil

[flyonthewall2983]

Keith Tippett

[Aunt Peg]

Singing legend Vera Lynn aged 103: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/ ... s-aged-103

[hearthesilence]

Luther Price, "whose intense, haunted assemblages of found footage made him a key figure in the experimental film scene."

[MichaelB]

David E. Gluck, the previously anonymous performer of a, erm... somewhat unorthodox musical number in John Waters' Pink Flamingos (and if you've seen the film - and possibly even if you haven't - you'll know exactly what I'm talking about).

Waters kept Gluck's identity secret for 48 years - presumably not hard to do since it wasn't his face you were looking at - but since his passing his widow has granted permission for his indelible contribution to film culture to be revealed.

[domino harvey]

Ian Holm discussion moved here