Passages

[agnamaracs]

Emilio Delgado, Sesame Street's Luis

[hearthesilence]

Emilio Delgado, Sesame Street's Luis

Aw man, I loved Luis when I was a kid. 81's a good run though...rest easy Luis.

[hearthesilence]

Bobbie Nelson

Sister Bobbie played with her brother Willie for so much of his career, she can be heard on many of his greatest albums. I’m going to miss seeing that hat behind the piano…

[kubelkind]

Dore O.
https://elementxcinema.substack.com/p/f ... creams?s=r
Very sad story, especially as it looked like she was finally getting some attention (Re:Voir DVD just out, book forthcoming)

[domino harvey]

William Hurt discussion split off here

[flyonthewall2983]

Professional wrestling legend Scott Hall will be taken off life support today, after suffering 3 heart attacks during a hip operation. Kevin Nash made this announcement last night, as well as sending some moving words about his best friend and how they changed things together.

[CSM126]

Professional wrestling legend Scott Hall will be taken off life support today, after suffering 3 heart attacks during a hip operation. Kevin Nash made this announcement last night, as well as sending some moving words about his best friend and how they changed things together.

WWE confirms that Hall has passed. A true giant of the industry in the last 30 years. I can’t begin to express how much he (and Nash and Hogan) changed the landscape of wrestling as the nWo. All I can say is that I’m glad he conquered his addictions and got to have happy years in retirement.

To quote his speech at his WWE Hall of Fame induction:

“Hard work pays off
Dreams come true
Bad times don’t last
But bad guys do”

[JSC]

Peter Bowles. A constantly enjoyable presence on British television (The Prisoner, To The Manor Born, Rumpole of the Bailey, Lytton's Diary,
just to name a few). RIP

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-60777622

[colinr0380]

Whilst he will be most remembered for his TV work (he also appears in Stigma, one of the BBC's Ghost Stories For Christmas), it is interesting to look into Bowles's film credits where he is in the supporting cast in a lot of notable films of the 1960s and 70s. He is in Antonioni's Blow-Up and Tony Richardson's 1968 version of The Charge of the Light Brigade, also Sidney Lumet's The Offence. He is in a couple of films that Indicator have recently released: the Agatha Christie adaptation Endless Night and A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg.

I'm a particular fan of the two John Hough films he was in (albeit in minor parts): Eyewitness and The Legend of Hell House.

And I would not have noticed this without looking through imdb but apparently he was an Executive Producer on one of the best of the post-Guy RItchie British gangster films of the late 90s-early 2000s Gangster No. 1! (EDIT: According to this obituary by Mark Lawson he played what became the Malcolm McDowell role in the film in its original stage run, and bought the film rights).

His roles continued until quite recently too, making appearances in Lilting and with a particularly big starring role with Sylvia Syms in 2017's Together.

[Orlac]

Akira Takarada, star of many Toho sci-fi films including the original GODZILLA - https://www.nikkansports.com/entertainm ... 01306.html

[colinr0380]

Takarada is also in the supporting cast of Ozu's The End of Summer (which I have unfortunately not yet seen), Naruse's A Wife Remembers and A Wanderer's Notebook (ditto unfortunately, though it looks as if he is co-starring with Hideko Takamine in those films). Later on in the 1990s he is in a number of Juzo Itami's films and turns up in Takeshi Kitano's Glory To The Filmmaker! in 2007.

[Michael Kerpan]

Takarada was working until the end. He appeared for the release event of his latest film (in a wheelchair) just a week ago.

[beamish14]

John Korty

"Versatile" doesn't begin to describe the amazing scope of his body of work. An Oscar-winning documentarian (Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? is an incredible portrait of a couple who adopted over a dozen children, many of whom had physical and/or intellectual disabilities) who made a number of excellent live-action features, including one of the best American television films ever, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.

He developed a collage animation style for inserts on Sesame Street that he dubbed "lumage". After refining this process, he co-directed the absolutely gorgeous 1983 feature Twice Upon a Time with Charles Swenson, which was barely theatrically released, but has fortunately found a very appreciative cult audience.

[dwk]

John Clayton, former ESPN NFL reporter

[andyli]

Tadao Sato. Was just reading his Kenji Mizoguchi and the Art of Japanese Cinema the other day. A sad loss. So much more of his work needs to be translated.

[GaryC]

Australian screenwriter and actor Alan Hopgood

[domino harvey]

Madeleine Albright

[Never Cursed]

Absolutely nothing could have prepared me for the sight of hundreds of people, including at least three current/former nationally relevant Dem politicians, ending their Twitter obits of her with "Rest in power"

[DarkImbecile]

Shinji Aoyama

[Michael Kerpan]

Shinji Aoyama

How terribly sad. Professor Aaron Gerow says (on the KineJapan mailing list) his health had been rather poor for several years now. A major loss of a very interesting director -- way too young.

[colinr0380]

Horrible news. Eureka from 2000, the three and a half hour sepia toned (until that final shot) masterpiece of 'slow cinema' about three characters processing the aftermath of being the only survivors of a bus hijacking, each in their own manner, is his major achievement (spoiler) as far as I can tell, and desperately needs a better edition than the decades old, non-anamorphic, burnt in theatrical subtitled, washed-out, long out of print Artificial Eye DVD edition in the UK. If there is any film from the 2000s that deserves to be in the top ten of the decade alongside Mulholland Drive, In The Mood For Love, La Cienaga, Werckmeister Harmonies, Code Unknown, Memento, Yi Yi, etc its this one and its probably only its unavailability that is preventing it from attaining that status.

Back in the early 2000s the Artsmagic label put out a series of DVD's in the US of Aoyama's somewhat more conventional (at least in running time!) pre-Eureka films with 1996's Wild Life, 1997's An Obsession (which is a semi-remake of Kurosawa's Stray Dog) and the 1999 horror film Embalming. All of which deserve re-appraisal as strange, lonely films about pre-millennial anxieties and often mournful characters trying to work through their pasts and almost obsessively working to try and regain their footing in the world, all whilst wondering if the world will ever be the same or is coming towards its own end.

However I would most like to see some of his later films. Again I think Eureka is the extreme outlier in his filmography but something like Desert Moon, Lakeside Murder Case, the films he did with Tadanobu Asano as the star (the later ones appear to be the closest in style to Eureka), or Tokyo Park (which stars Haruma Miura who sadly also died terribly young, at age 30 in 2020) would be great to see Third Window tackle and do justice to.

(EDIT: Here's a 2005 Midnight Eye interview with the director)

[GaryC]

Denise Coffey

[Mr Sausage]

Taylor Hawkins discussion moved here.

[dadaistnun]

Mira Calix

[dekadetia]

Mira Calix

Awful news. Never seemed to get the attention of her male peers at Warp, but her work was full of evocation and nuance that set her apart from Aphex, Squarepusher et al.