Passages

[Orlac]

The 'other' George Miller (i.e. not the Mad Max one), Australian film director (Man From Snowy River, Les Paterson Saves the World) has passed away:

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/movies/a ... 5clkz.html

Plus the post-Free Willy but with a sealion film Andre! (With Chelsea Field from Dust Devil as the mom!) Which I seem to remember being better than the Flipper theatrical film a year or two after (that one came a bit late to the party and sort of showed the trend was getting long in the tooth. But which also has Chelsea Field in it!), if we are ranking that weirdly specific 'kids interacting with aquatic creatures' trend of the mid-90s.

Although the best of that subgenre is Fly Peek! Peek The Baby Whale, which came out years before Free Willy!

To be, Chelsea Field will always be Teela from MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE!

[willoneill]

Richard Belzer

[knives]

Can’t have Law and Order anymore.

[hearthesilence]

I didn't realize he had retired back in 2016. It's hilarious how he developed into a running gag that seemed to unite every single television show into the same world.

[Saturnome]

Leiji Matsumoto (Space Battleship Yamato, Galaxy Express 999, supervisor on Interstella 5555). Well known mangaka in the french-speaking world, mostly for Captain Harlock.

[hearthesilence]

Richard Belzer

His last words.

[otis]

Michel Deville

[Calvin]

Michel Deville

A true great who I have to thank this forum (especially domino and TWBB) for turning my attention to. I know that Radiance have made their enquiries, so hopefully something comes of that and his work gets a wider audience in the future.

[therewillbeblus]

Michel Deville holds a very special place in my heart. After lurking for years, domino's raves and detailed descriptions of films that sounded tailor-made for me finally prompted me to anxiously reach out about access, which I was granted under the condition that I had to post my thoughts about them publicly on the board. I was incredibly fearful and self-conscious about sharing my writing in a space with so many people I respected and who I didn't think I could intellectually engage with in a discussion. I'll be forever grateful to domino for his discovery (probably the best outcome of his wide-net-casting on back channels), and directly encouraging me to participate in a place I loved but was afraid to without that push. Since then, I've tried to share the films of Michel Deville with as many people in my private life as possible, and I think any broad exposure of Deville is a trickle-down effect credited in large part to this board and domino in particular (who once said that our thread probably had the most writing about him of any place on the internet, which is both sad and kinda nice to think about!) In honor of his memory, in the spirit of the gift that was given to me, and selfishly because L'Ours et la poupée is eligible for our current 1970 year mini-list and secured in my top spot on that list, I'm happy to share a digital file of that film (which was fittingly my introduction to Deville) with anyone who doesn't have back channel access and wants the chance to see it. Just PM me

One of the greatest underrated artists ever. RIP

[hearthesilence]

Chuck Jackson, perhaps best known for his great hit single "Any Day Now" which was written by the recently departed Burt Bacharach and the late Bob Hilliard.

[Calvin]

The great Senegalese filmmaker, Safi Faye.

[hearthesilence]

The great Senegalese filmmaker, Safi Faye.

Embarrassed to say I know nothing of her work - any recommendations?

[swo17]

I only recently heard of her through cleaning up my film database sourced from a TSPDT list of worthwhile films. For what it's worth, the two they list there are Letter from My Village and Mossane (same as the article)

[Saturnome]

I've seen both and Letter from My Village is real great if you like the idea of a senegalese Agnès Varda, something warm, very human and personal.

[theflirtydozen]

Juraj Jakubisko, Slovak filmmaker of Birds, Orphans, and Fools

[colinr0380]

Hugh Hudson, director of Chariots of Fire, as well as Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (aka Andie MacDowell's first film, in which she was notoriously over-dubbed by Glenn Close) and the Al Pacino film Revolution.

As well as adverts for the Labour party in the 1987 election, the iconic campaign for British Airways, and perhaps most significantly (and ironic in the current climate), the advert for British Rail scored by Vangelis, narrated by Tom Courtenay and riffing off of the old Night Mail film from the 1930s.

A wonderful television advert director, but what he did to Robert Towne’s incredible Greystoke script was unforgivable

And here's Matthew Harris' Hard Sell episode devoted to Hudson's commercial work, including some interesting variations on the British Airways ad!

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

Walter Mirisch, at 101

[willoneill]

Gordon Pinsent

[colinr0380]

Gordon Pinsent

His big late film is probably as the husband to Julie Christie's ailing wife in Sarah Polley's film Away From Her. He is also amongst the supporting cast in the *ahem* Kevin Spacey starring Miramax produced film The Shipping News which came near to the end of Miramax's prestige drama awards dominating period.

His 70s roles in the US are quite interesting. He turns up in both Blacula and as the President in Colossus: The Forbin Project.

And of course he was the voice of King Babar in the Babar series!

[Matt]

Gordon Pinsent

His big late film is probably as the husband to Julie Christie's ailing wife in Sarah Polley's film Away From Her.

THAT’S where I remember him from. He was extraordinary in that.

[beamish14]

Burny Mattinson, Disney animator/director who worked at the company for nearly 70 years. The man worked on Lady and the Tramp in 1955 and Strange Planet in 2022

[flyonthewall2983]

Tom Sizemore’s family is “deciding end of life matters”, after his hospitalization from a brain aneurysm.

[Lemmy Caution]

Not sure why an article about an actor having a ruptured aneurysm and being in an irreversible coma feels compelled to discuss his domestic violence and drug use history. Apparently they treated it as a quasi-obituary, but it seems in poor taste. Better to report the news of his medical condition and run a proper obit when the inevitable happens soon enough.

[flyonthewall2983]

Feels like it betrays the family a bit to include it at this precarious point in what is going to be an arduous process for them anyway.

The really cynical side of me counters that the awful truth is he’s probably more generally famous for his downfall then the work, which is quite typical of the Hollywood machine.

[dadaistnun]

François Hadji-Lazaro

Guessing from the obituary that he was best known in France as a musician, he also acted, notably as Gnaghi Dellamorte Dellamore.