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Big Ben
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#13601 Post by Big Ben »

To say that Jeremy Thomas was responsible for some of the most formative films I saw when I was younger is an understatement. He was directly responsible for helping shape my taste in films. I concur with the sentiment that he was one of the best to ever do it.
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#13602 Post by j99 »

thirtyframesasecond wrote: Sat Sep 12, 2026 2:10 pm Jeremy Thomas, one of the greatest producers in film history - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/s ... beast-dies

A quite frankly ridiculous collection of production credits for Roeg, Bertolucci, Cronenberg, and more.
Incredible. I was just watching an appreciation of Nagisa Oshima, and Jeremy Thomas helped him when he had his stroke in London. He came across as a really decent man, and the films he was involved in are some of my favourites of all time. A huge loss. RIP.
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#13603 Post by beamish14 »

Big Ben wrote: Sat Sep 12, 2026 4:30 pm To say that Jeremy Thomas was responsible for some of the most formative films I saw when I was younger is an understatement. He was directly responsible for helping shape my taste in films. I concur with the sentiment that he was one of the best to ever do it.
You could honestly call him the patron saint of Criterion’s MO
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hearthesilence
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#13604 Post by hearthesilence »

This was the trailer to a Quad Cinema retrospective held almost exactly three years ago. It coincided with the opening of Cousins's documentary on him, and Thomas even made a few appearances to discuss some of the films.
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#13605 Post by hearthesilence »

Per official social media accounts, Eugene Richard O'Connor, a.k.a. Cheetah Chrome, has died.

A member of the legendary proto-punk group Rocket from the Tombs, he went on to form the Dead Boys, which was best heard on its debut album Young, Loud and Snotty. That album opens with the classic "Sonic Reducer," written by Cheetah Chrome and David Thomas (most famously of Pere Ubu) during their tenure in Rocket from the Tombs. Incredibly Rocket from the Tombs reunited to much acclaim in the 2000s with Richard Lloyd taking the place of the late Peter Laughner - one of my biggest regrets was missing those tours altogether, but luckily video recordings survive and the performances are tremendous.
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