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So is he dead? They retracted the original story less than an hour later, but it's back up again on their homepage.

Cold Bishop wrote:So is he dead? They retracted the original story less than an hour later, but it's back up again on their homepage.

Yes, sadly the sister confirmed that Steward has indeed passed away.

German composer Hans Werner Henze, whose film work included Resnais' Muriel and Schlöndorff's Der junge Törless.

antnield wrote:German composer Hans Werner Henze, whose film work included Resnais' Muriel and Schlöndorff's Der junge Törless.

very sad news...he's no longer the world's greatest living composer (probably now Einojuhani Rautavaara, who's only 84)

Dave Borthwick of the Bolex Brothers (best known for The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb).

Matt Hughes, freelance video game writer, in an unexpected suicide

Shin Eun-jung — documentary filmmaker, human rights film festival organizer, and author — has died at the age of 40. Her films documented the life stories of people in her native South Korea, particularly in relation to events of the 1980 uprisings. In the US, she is better known for her film Verita$: Everybody Loves Harvard, an exposé on the hidden history of the university.
This is a great loss. There will be a public memorial service for her Monday at 5 PM at the MIT chapel.

David S. Ware, a couple weeks ago.

Elliott Carter. (According the Royal Philharmonic Society via Twitter.)

There's actually a short film on him by D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus as well.

Guardian obit for Elliott Carter. Age 103, born on the same day as Manoel de Oliveira, who is still with us.

Less culturally eminent than Carter, but much more on-topic - Swedish director/cinematographer Mac Ahlberg, who I'll remember primarily for the disproportionately stylish cinematography of ReAnimator and From Beyond.

The original Happy the Hobo, and pillar of my childhood Mike Fry.

MichaelB wrote:Less culturally eminent than Carter, but much more on-topic - Swedish director/cinematographer Mac Ahlberg, who I'll remember primarily for the disproportionately stylish cinematography of ReAnimator and From Beyond.

Not to mention the director of the other sexy Swedish film of the 1960s, one which followed on from the groundbreaking explorations of the Bergman films but which came out a couple of years before Vilgot Sjöman's more political I Am Curious duo, I, A Woman.

Both the Bergman and Criterion Collection connection here is also that Ahlberg was the cinematographer on Ingmar Bergman Makes A Movie, the five part series about the making of Winter Light that Vilgot Sjöman directed and which features on the Criterion boxset.

Clive Dunn.

Carmen Basilio

Critic and programmer Elliott Stein.

Animator Run Wrake.

Ray "3-D" Zone, 2 days ago. Just learned about it He was a great and eternally curious guy.
http://www.ray3dzone.com/
http://www.newsfromme.com/2012/11/15/ray-zone-r-i-p/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Zone
http://la3dclub.com/ray-zone-rip/
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/r ... man-391266

It's to really describe how great he was. I don't remember what Filmforum show he attended first, but I think it was Ken Jacobs's "Razzle Dazzle the Cool World " which was supposed to be 3-D, but where the 3-D didn't work (mainly due to our video projector). Not only did Ray offer to help Ken to make the film (and others) work better as 3-D and make files (with others) so that they could be shown that way, but he also decided to start learning experimental film, which he hadn't known before. He became one of the most regular attendees at Filmforum and REDCAT. At the start, he had lots of "beginner" questions, as he sought to learn about motives and techniques, and two years on, he was just a regular, seeking out new filmmakers. The whole time, he had the enthusiasm of someone 40 years younger about his own work, new 3-D cameras and projection possibilities, and was always encouraging other to explore things and make new work. He was a really important presence, and we could all hope to be living like that in our 60s. Starting to learn a new approach to media at 63? Amazing. He had no signs of illness or weakness that I saw at a Rose Lowder screening just on November 4. We'll miss him terribly.

Yukiko Inoue, 1915-2012

As far as I can tell, Inoue was the last surviving star of the pre-talkie era of Japan. She starred in many films, most of which, alas, are lost (including all those she made with Ozu). Surviving films include Shimizu's Japanese Girls at the Harbor and Naruse's Street Without End. After many decades of retirement, she made one last appearance in Shiota's 2005 Canary (I think IMDB entries for projects in 1979 and 1995 are erroneous).

http://www.asahi.com/showbiz/movie/TKY201211210344.html