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Re: Passages

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2017 10:59 am
by MichaelB
Fiery Angel wrote:Sad news about Makk, one of the true greats. Aside from the abortions that Facets put out and Second Run's releases, are any of his films available in English-friendly editions?
I have very good Hungarian DVDs of Love (a more recent transfer than Second Run's) and A Very Moral Night, both from MaNDA.

Re: Passages

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2017 1:38 pm
by djproject

Re: Passages

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2017 5:41 pm
by mfunk9786

Re: Passages

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2017 6:58 pm
by feketekino
MichaelB wrote:
Fiery Angel wrote:Sad news about Makk, one of the true greats. Aside from the abortions that Facets put out and Second Run's releases, are any of his films available in English-friendly editions?
I have very good Hungarian DVDs of Love (a more recent transfer than Second Run's) and A Very Moral Night, both from MaNDA.
SZERELEM has been restored in 4k, hopefully a Blu-ray from outside of Hungary will come soon.

Re: Passages

Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2017 1:04 pm
by antnield

Re: Passages

Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2017 5:05 pm
by hearthesilence
I really like Steely Dan, especially those first four albums. Saw them twice this past year (the only times I caught them live), and Becker didn't look like he was in good shape, but he was very merry.

Re: Passages

Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2017 5:08 pm
by bearcuborg
Donald Fagen on Walter...
We liked a lot of the same things: jazz (from the 20's through the mid-60's), W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, science fiction, Nabokov, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Berger, and Robert Altman films come to mind. Also soul music and Chicago blues.
I love almost all of those things largely in part because of Steely Dan. Their last two albums are real treasures to those who mostly know the classic stuff.

Re: Passages

Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2017 9:12 pm
by dadaistnun

Re: Passages

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 6:56 pm
by MichaelB
Italian actor Gastone Moschin, of The Conformist and Milano Calibro 9 fame (and much else besides).

Re: Passages

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 8:43 pm
by rohmerin
Moschin will be forever one of the friends in Amici Miei, the Monicelli'film that won Jaws in the Italian B.O
His role in Palme d'or winner Signore e Signori is quite important.
He died in Termi, full of beauty that city.

Re: Passages

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2017 3:38 pm
by antnield

Re: Passages

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2017 9:42 pm
by flyonthewall2983
His footage from the 1970 Isle of Wight festival is pretty crucial film of that era of rock music, but also how the dying hippie dream played across the pond.

Re: Passages

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:53 pm
by The Elegant Dandy Fop
No link yet, but apprently Holger Czukay has passed on. There's no denying the brilliance of Can, but his solo albums are absolutely worth checking out too. A real shame.

Re: Passages

Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2017 11:14 am
by NABOB OF NOWHERE
The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote:No link yet, but apprently Holger Czukay has passed on. There's no denying the brilliance of Can, but his solo albums are absolutely worth checking out too. A real shame.
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Re: Passages

Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2017 4:10 pm
by Perkins Cobb

Re: Passages

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2017 9:33 am
by pet42

Re: Passages

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2017 9:46 pm
by dx23
Len Wein, comic book writer, co-creator of Wolverine and Swamp Thing.

Re: Passages

Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2017 2:33 am
by mfunk9786
Don Ohlmeyer

Re: Passages

Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2017 8:23 pm
by hearthesilence
mfunk9786 wrote:Don Ohlmeyer
a.k.a. The Man Who Fired Norm Macdonald from 'SNL'

Ohlmeyer was a good friend of O.J.'s and went on record objecting to Norm making O.J. jokes on Weekend Update.

Re: Passages

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 9:03 am
by antnield

Re: Passages

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 3:28 pm
by colinr0380
antnield wrote:Sir Peter Hall.
I hadn't made the connection until the BBC News obituary mentioned it, but as well as his theatre and opera work he directed Akenfield (which was recently released on Blu-ray and DVD by the BFI) at weekends and with amateur actors.

Re: Passages

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 3:34 am
by Fred Holywell
antnield wrote:Sir Peter Hall.
Leslie Caron on her marriage to Peter Hall... here.

Re: Passages

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 5:07 pm
by GaryC
Australian director Cris Jones, aged just 37, cause as yet unreported.

Only two months ago I was in the audience as he did a Q&A after his film The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, the closing film of the London Oz Film Festival.

Re: Passages

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 8:22 pm
by ozufils

Re: Passages

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 9:25 pm
by bearcuborg
ozufils wrote:Frank Vincent
His "compromise" speech in the Sporanos is one of the best things in that show.