Passages

[antnield]

Haskell Wexler.

[Ribs]

This one stings. Of course he'll be best remembered for good reason for Days of Heaven but his work with Jewison and Ashby throught the 60s and 70s was never less than sensational. Been seriously looking forward to revisiting Bound for Glory (probably the best-looking of his films other than Days of Heaven) next month as it finally gets released on BD. One of the greats for sure.

[Lemmy Caution]

George Clayton Johnson
Co-wrote Logan's Run; wrote Ocean's 11, the first Star Trek episode and some Twilight Zone episodes:

They [TZ episodes] included Kick the Can, where a group of elderly care home residents turn back their biological clocks and relive their childhoods by playing a children's game, and Nothing in the Dark, which starred a young Robert Redford as a kindly version of the Grim Reaper.

[lacritfan]

Haskell Wexler.

Interesting documentary about Haskell Wexler is Tell Them Who You Are which was made by his son Mark. Much the film deals with their contemptuous relationship since Haskell was very liberal and Mark was very conservative. Two touching moments are Haskell visiting his ex-wife (Mark's mother) who now has Alzheimer's. The second is not actually in the film but in the extras where Mark shows Haskell the finished film.

[charal]

Stevie Wright ex-frontman of the wonderful Easybeats.

[flyonthewall2983]

CBS Sunday Morning remembers

[Polybius]

Haskell Wexler.

Interesting documentary about Haskell Wexler is Tell Them Who You Are which was made by his son Mark. Much the film deals with their contemptuous relationship since Haskell was very liberal and Mark was very conservative. Two touching moments are Haskell visiting his ex-wife (Mark's mother) who now has Alzheimer's. The second is not actually in the film but in the extras where Mark shows Haskell the finished film.

Conrad Hall is a rather pivotal presence in that film, as a friend of Haskell's and something of a surrogate father for Mark.

[mfunk9786]

Meadowlark Lemon

[Drucker]

Lemmy from Motorhead. Eddie Trunk on Twitter is source.

[flyonthewall2983]

From the band's official Facebook

There is no easy way to say this…our mighty, noble friend Lemmy passed away today after a short battle with an extremely aggressive cancer. He had learnt of the disease on December 26th, and was at home, sitting in front of his favorite video game from The Rainbow which had recently made it’s way down the street, with his family.

We cannot begin to express our shock and sadness, there aren’t words.

We will say more in the coming days, but for now, please…play Motörhead loud, play Hawkwind loud, play Lemmy’s music LOUD.
Have a drink or few.

Share stories.

Celebrate the LIFE this lovely, wonderful man celebrated so vibrantly himself.

HE WOULD WANT EXACTLY THAT.

Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister

1945 -2015

Born to lose, lived to win.

[George Kaplan]

Noboru Ando, Mobster Film Star in Japan, Dies at 89

[flyonthewall2983]

Lemmy going is much the same for the hard rock/metal crowd as B.B. King's death was to the blues this year. I'm not a huge Motörhead fan but there are several of his songs that I love. He had a way to turn a phrase that pushed his music beyond cliche sometimes.

[Roger Ryan]

I was not much of a fan either, but had the opportunity to interview Lemmy three or four times some thirty years ago. His initial brusqueness always made room for charm and he was great fun to spend some time with. During one North American tour in 1985, he bemoaned that management was continually promising an elaborate lighting grid in the shape of a "bomber" would be arriving in time for the next gig, only it never did. Pure Spinal Tap!

[doh286]

Specials drummer John Bradbury

[L.A.]

Guru Josh

[hearthesilence]

Specials drummer John Bradbury

I was just listening to them all week. Bummer.

[hearthesilence]

Ellsworth Kelly

[dx23]

Wayne Rogers, aka, Trapper John MD

[hearthesilence]

Suddenly I'm in the mood to see The Phantom Carriage.

[flyonthewall2983]

Natalie Cole

[dx23]

Jason Wingreen, Voice Of Boba Fett, among other roles.

[MichaelB]

Vilmos Zsigmond.

[hearthesilence]

Took a while for the news to spread, I almost wondered if it was a hoax. Another great cinematographer gone, though both lived long lives that were certainly full ones. His work is a significant reason why I would call McCabe & Mrs. Miller Robert Altman's greatest film (he shot The Long Goodbye as well, my other favorite). I'm still not sold on Heaven's Gate, but his work is drop dead gorgeous in that one. And I would even give his work in Close Encounters an edge over Janusz Kamiński's great work with Spielberg.

[Feego]

Zsigmond also did beautiful work on Altman's Images. And his cinematography is one of the major reasons the 1963 low-budget shocker The Sadist is greater than it has any right to be.

[Altair]

What a terrible way to start the year: Zsigmond was an incredible cinematographer, almost an auteur in that, in the mid-70s, he had a unique look all of his own with his 'flashed' photography, used to great effect in The Long Goodbye.