Passages

[dwk]

An absolutely monumental talent. That opening of Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore is stunning, as is the editing of the dog fights in Return of the Jedi

Yeah, I'm glad that Criterion were able to interview her for their upcoming Alice release.

[DimitriL]

A legend and everyone in the industry knew it. Her reputation ended up "the woman who saved Star Wars," but I like the real story better - which is that they were only half done and the effects hadn't even begun to arrive, but Scorsese was so sure that Marcia was the only person who could save New York, New York that she left Star Wars (Paul Hirsch finished the film) and flew to the East Coast to dive into that.

Be the person everyone considers a miracle worker.

[beamish14]

A legend and everyone in the industry knew it. Her reputation ended up "the woman who saved Star Wars," but I like the real story better - which is that they were only half done and the effects hadn't even begun to arrive, but Scorsese was so sure that Marcia was the only person who could save New York, New York that she left Star Wars (Paul Hirsch finished the film) and flew to the East Coast to dive into that.

Be the person everyone considers a miracle worker.

Hirsch and Richard Chew edited it more or less simultaneously, but correct, Marcia Lucas laid the foundation down for them

[Gregory]

Kelly Curtis (Trading Places, The Devil's Daughter).

Pioneering Spanish director, screenwriter, multihyphenate Josefina Molina

[DimitriL]

A legend and everyone in the industry knew it. Her reputation ended up "the woman who saved Star Wars," but I like the real story better - which is that they were only half done and the effects hadn't even begun to arrive, but Scorsese was so sure that Marcia was the only person who could save New York, New York that she left Star Wars (Paul Hirsch finished the film) and flew to the East Coast to dive into that.

Be the person everyone considers a miracle worker.

Hirsch and Richard Chew edited it more or less simultaneously, but correct, Marcia Lucas laid the foundation down for them

In his book, Hirsch says that Lucas let Chew go around the time Marcia left because he wanted to work with a single editor at that point.

[DeprongMori]

Edgar Morin, age 104. Most known on the film side of things for the work he did with Jean Rouch in 1960 with Chronicle of a Summer.

[domino harvey]

Marjane Satrapi at 56

[The Curious Sofa]

I’m rarely shocked by announcements of the deaths of famous people, but this one is truly heartbreaking. She was a wonderful artist and a wonderful woman.

[beamish14]

Marjane Satrapi at 56

Oh, god. That is just horrible

[dx23]

I’m rarely shocked by announcements of the deaths of famous people, but this one is truly heartbreaking. She was a wonderful artist and a wonderful woman.

After her husband's death just a year ago. Devastating loss.

[Never Cursed]

Marjane Satrapi at 56

Some of the social media responses to this have been absolutely disgusting, and demonstrate that people neither understood Persepolis nor her quite nuanced feelings about the Iranian government. Very disheartening to see fellow leftists casually slip into rank misogyny or mockery of what kind of sounds like a case of suicide because her art didn't quite match how they feel about Iran right now

[knives]

What could possibly be objectionable about her position on Iran which always seemed the most straightforward approach possible of love and frustration for her homeland?

[MichaelB]

Some of the social media responses to this have been absolutely disgusting, and demonstrate that people neither understood Persepolis nor her quite nuanced feelings about the Iranian government. Very disheartening to see fellow leftists casually slip into rank misogyny or mockery of what kind of sounds like a case of suicide because her art didn't quite match how they feel about Iran right now

How dare Iranians have complex, nuanced views on Iran!

(Actually, every Iranian I've ever discussed Iran with—and we must be into double figures by now—has had decidedly complex and nuanced views. Wholly unsurprisingly.)

[The Curious Sofa]

Marjane Satrapi at 56

Some of the social media responses to this have been absolutely disgusting, and demonstrate that people neither understood Persepolis nor her quite nuanced feelings about the Iranian government. Very disheartening to see fellow leftists casually slip into rank misogyny or mockery of what kind of sounds like a case of suicide because her art didn't quite match how they feel about Iran right now

How were Satrapi's feelings towards the Iranian government nuanced and why should they be? She made it clear that she loved Iran, but certainly not its regime.

[Never Cursed]

Marjane Satrapi at 56

Some of the social media responses to this have been absolutely disgusting, and demonstrate that people neither understood Persepolis nor her quite nuanced feelings about the Iranian government. Very disheartening to see fellow leftists casually slip into rank misogyny or mockery of what kind of sounds like a case of suicide because her art didn't quite match how they feel about Iran right now

How were Satrapi's feelings towards the Iranian government nuanced and why should they be? She made it clear that she loved Iran, but certainly not its regime.

She can hardly be counted as a booster of the government of the Islamic Republic, but she evidently supported the overthrow of Pahlavi rule and was a strident opponent of American involvement in Iran, up to and including extending contingent critical support to the regime in the (then-hypothetical, now not so much) event that the US attacked it.

There are many things that I wish for in my country — I want my country to be free, I want my country to be democratic, I don’t want any journalists to go to jail because of an article they wrote in my country. But if the United States of America attacked my country, no matter what, I would be against the United States.

This is a line that everyone who becomes a kind of dissident has to walk: how far does opposition carry you? Satrapi adopted what I think is the correct stance; namely, that even though the regime is bad, its destruction via imperialist forces would also be bad and would probably result in a worse government and overall situation for Iranian people. Contrast this with the pathetic posturing of Reza Pahlavi, who was practically salivating at the start of the ongoing war at the thought that he might be made king of the country if it fell.