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I will have to catch up later Fall records. Also, sorry for your loss Drucker.

domino harvey wrote:RIP Mark E Smith, one of the greats of indie music for decades on end. And he was great up to the end there: Our Future, Your Clutter has become my favorite Fall album

I know your brand is having the off-the-beaten-path opinions on this forum but good lord man.

Rather than recommend their music which is worthy of its own thread, I strongly recommend fans of the group check out The FALLen which is a great read, and perfectly captures the madness of being a Fall fan. Other diehards will certainly see a bit of themself in the author, I know I did.

In addition, Steve Hanley's book from last year is a bit hard to get into, but once you vibe with his writing style, it's very rewarding, and a great first-person account of time in the band. It's especially helpful and clarifying about a number of mythological Fall events (like MES insisting on using a cassette tape to serve as the master for Bend Sinister.

Howard Lew Lewis, best known as Rabies in Maid Marian and Her Merry Men (if, like me, you were a child in the UK in the early 90s).

mfunk9786 wrote:Echo Helstrom Casey, the Girl From the North Country

A longer obit/appreciation from Minny.
She also worked in the film industry some.
Btw, Howard Tate does a nice cover of the song Girl From the North Country.

Composer and regular Mel Brooks collaborator (on The Elephant Man as well as the likes of Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein) John Morris.

I think John Morris was seriously underrated by everybody other than Mel Brooks and the people in his circle. I've gotten raised eyebrows for this before, but it still makes me kind of sad that David Lynch used "Adagio for Strings" for Elephant Man's final scene instead of the music John Morris wrote, which tied in so beautifully with the Psalm 23 scene. Plus the fact that the Barber piece subsequently became so unremittingly overused, though Lynch obviously couldn't have foreseen that.

And of course Morris had a hand in one of the all-time best film music jokes in cinema, from High Anxiety.

Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA founder ... Fincher's perpetual scorn and the supporter of personal Criterion libraries everywhere

Maria Saakyan. From Second Run:

It is with great sadness and shock that we report that young Armenian filmmaker Maria Saakyan has passed away at the age of 37.

We had the pleasure of knowing her, having released her elegiac 2006 debut THE LIGHTHOUSE (Mayak) in 2011.
She leaves an impressive body of poetic works that includes I'M GOING TO CHANGE MY NAME (Alaverdi, 2012) and ENTROPIYA (2013).

That's a very sad loss. The Lighthouse was quite good and I was looking forward to what she would do in the future. I hope I get to see her other films some day.

Drucker wrote:

domino harvey wrote:RIP Mark E Smith, one of the greats of indie music for decades on end. And he was great up to the end there: Our Future, Your Clutter has become my favorite Fall album

I know your brand is having the off-the-beaten-path opinions on this forum but good lord man.

Rather than recommend their music which is worthy of its own thread, I strongly recommend fans of the group check out The FALLen which is a great read, and perfectly captures the madness of being a Fall fan. Other diehards will certainly see a bit of themself in the author, I know I did.

In addition, Steve Hanley's book from last year is a bit hard to get into, but once you vibe with his writing style, it's very rewarding, and a great first-person account of time in the band. It's especially helpful and clarifying about a number of mythological Fall events (like MES insisting on using a cassette tape to serve as the master for Bend Sinister.

I'll 'second' that vote for OFYC, whilst not my absolute favourite (Grotesque (After the Gramme) probably just pips Perverted by Language and The Light User Syndrome as my top), it is certainly a belter of a record and a great rejoinder to those who dismiss anything after the late 80s or early 90s - Real New.. / Fall Heads Roll, Reformation... & Imperial Wax... all have incredible stuff on too).

Will have to check out the Hanley book. Not sure why, but have yet to round to reading any books about The Fall, although I'm going through many of the key literary works that influenced him.

If people haven't yet read his final interview (posted at the Guardian), it's predictably hilarious, his views on Blade Runner (he hated it) and Arnie in Total Recall (he loved him) and that he wanted either Rip Torn (who's dead, apparently) or a dwarf to play him in a film of his life particularly sticking in the mind.

ex-cowboy wrote:
If people haven't yet read his final interview (posted at the Guardian), it's predictably hilarious, his views on Blade Runner (he hated it) and Arnie in Total Recall (he loved him) and that he wanted either Rip Torn (who's dead, apparently) or a dwarf to play him in a film of his life particularly sticking in the mind.

Rip Torn is not dead.

Aunt Peg wrote:

ex-cowboy wrote:If people haven't yet read his final interview (posted at the Guardian), it's predictably hilarious, his views on Blade Runner (he hated it) and Arnie in Total Recall (he loved him) and that he wanted either Rip Torn (who's dead, apparently) or a dwarf to play him in a film of his life particularly sticking in the mind.

Rip Torn is not dead.

Yes, he means Mark E Smith thinks Rip Torn is dead in the interview.

But Mark E. Smith is dead

Thanks for the clarifying everyone.

'Beetle Bailey' creator Mort Walker

Dennis Edwards of The Temptations.

Screenwriter and frequent Lindsay Anderson collaborator David Sherwin.

Experimental filmmaker Paul Clipson. I've only seen this on Twitter, but it does appear to be confirmed. Here is his Vimeo page.

Jerzy Rutowicz, a name even Polish film specialists will struggle to recognise, but as a producer he had an unusual eye for striking projects, kicking off his career with Jerzy Kawalerowicz's Night Train (1959) and Janusz Morgenstern's Goodbye, See You Tomorrow (1960), while later work includes Andrzej Kondratiuk's bonkers Polish superhero film Hydro-Riddle (1970) and the often equally deranged The Ascended (1973), hardcore avant-gardist Grzegorz Królikiewicz's commercial feature debut Through and Through (1972) and Piotr Szulkin's dystopian War of the Worlds - Next Century (1981).

dadaistnun wrote:Experimental filmmaker Paul Clipson. I've only seen this on Twitter, but it does appear to be confirmed. Here is his Vimeo page.

Confirmed via Frameworks and mutual friends. Paul was only 52 and a really nice person.
A memorial fund to help with burial expenses: https://www.gofundme.com/paul-clipson-f ... orial-fund" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;