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Post by petrolino on Nov 19, 2018 21:45:59 GMT
Witold Sobocinski (15 October 1929 – 19 November 2018) Acclaimed Polish cinematographer, film producer and academic teacher, Sobocinski was also a talented jazz musician. As a cinematographer Sobocinski worked with with several notable directors, including Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Zanussi and Roman Polanski. Some of his best known work is in the excellent period drama The Promised Land (1975) and compelling crime drama Frantic (1988). R.I.P Witold Sobocinski
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Great cameraman. Witold Sobocinski also worked with Jan Rybkowski, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Wojciech Has, Sylwester Checinski, Andrzej Zulawski, Edward Zebrowski and Jerzy Skolimowski, leading figures in the national Polish cinema.
R.I.P.
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 24, 2018 14:10:37 GMT
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Post by petrolino on Nov 24, 2018 14:28:49 GMT
Nicolas Roeg was one of Britain's greatest filmmakers. Sad to see him go but glad he lived a long, productive life. And thankfully, we have his movies.
"There is something rather bloody-minded and heroic about Nicolas Roeg’s films with their fractured narratives, macabre imagery and extremes of sex and violence which place him, along with film-makers such as Ken Russell and Roger Corman, within a very particular but thrilling seam of dark English Romanticism."
- Hilary Whitney, The Arts Desk
"The thing about Nic Roeg’s cinema is that its subject matter is always psychic phenomena. A lot of people have credited Nic with the invention of cross-cutting, as if this was some great new invention. Of course there’s cross-cutting in D.W. Griffith, but cross-cutting traditionally in a film is two things happening in parallel that are played off against each other. Even in, say, 'Intolerance', where something’s happening in ancient Babylon and something’s happening in 1916 America and something’s happening in sixteenth-century France, these events are intercut with each other in a way that they very directly mirror and run parallel to each other. The idea that Nic invented that is nonsense, but what Nic does is something much more interesting. He connects the shots on a psychic basis. Look at the opening sequence of 'Don’t Look Now'. Everyone remembers it as happening in Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie’s house, while the children are outside playing by a pond. In the middle of that sequence he’s looking at slides from the church in Venice which he’s going to renovate. But right before the film even gets going there’s a shot of the light reflecting through a louvered blind in a hotel room, and it’s completely out of context. But if you look you’ll see that it’s actually the window of the hotel room where they’re staying much later in the film. So why is this shot of the hotel room just sitting there? To me it’s because there’s a psychic connection between what’s going to happen in the hotel and what’s happening by the pond. He’s laying clues. He’s saying that, if there is a psychic connection between things, it’s not going to happen dramatically. You’re not going suddenly to have this vision of a child dying. It’s going to be this vision of the light playing on a window. There’s something very poetic and wonderful about the way he throws in things which seem completely random like that, but they’re not random. They’re very thought through and beautifully placed. 'Don’t Look Now' is so perfect, the way the whole thing builds to the sequence at the end where Donald Sutherland is dying. And suddenly his life flashes in front of his eyes. And at that point the movie makes sense, and it makes sense in retrospect."
- Bernard Rose speaking in Los Angeles, California in 2014, Arena
"We are only halfway through our allotted hour together but already I have set aside my notebook, bidding farewell to the subjects I naively thought we might cover. Make no mistake: no one steers Nicolas Roeg. A conversation with him is a dot-to-dot puzzle in verbal form, with the interviewer left to fathom the far-flung connections between disjointed words and phrases. In the course of our meeting, he ranges over the Rockefellers, Anne Boleyn, the silent-movie era, Wild Strawberries and in-flight entertainment, among other things. But as with the higgledy-piggledy structures of his films – including Walkabout (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), Bad Timing (1980) and Eureka (1983) – there is every likelihood that an internal logic persists, even if it's not immediately accessible to the conscious mind. These would seem to be happy days for Roeg. His workrate may have decelerated (his most recent picture, the Irish voodoo horror Puffball, was made four years ago) but his stock is higher than ever. A retrospective is underway at the BFI in London, stretching back to his early work as a cinematographer, which includes credits as varied as the Roger Corman-directed The Masque of the Red Death and François Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451. A recent poll by Time Out magazine to find the best British films of all time settled on Roeg's psychological horror Don't Look Now as the winner, with three more of his movies in the top 100 (alongside Lawrence of Arabia, on which he shot second unit). His influence is everywhere. Among those who have taken their cue from his complex editing patterns and narrative conundrums are Todd Haynes, Steven Soderbergh, Wong Kar-Wai and Charlie Kaufman. Christopher Nolan has said Memento would have been "pretty unthinkable" without Roeg, and drew on the explosive ending of Roeg's 1985 film Insignificance when making Inception. Not that Roeg gives a hoot about any of this. "I don't think about it," he says, sniffily. "We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room." Retrospectives are neither here nor there, since he doesn't watch his old movies; awards merely leave him bemused. "How can you judge one film against another?" he asks, shaking his head. Shockingly, he has never had to clear much shelf-space for prizes, but when he received an honorary Bafta in 2009, he looked distinctly nonplussed, telling the audience: "I'm not dead yet."
- Ryan Gilbey attends a retrospective of Nicolas Roeg's work launched by the British Film Institute in March 2011, The Guardian
Nicolas Roeg & Theresa Russell
R.I.P.
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Post by teleadm on Nov 24, 2018 16:05:57 GMT
R.I.P Nicolas Roeg
![](https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2013/07/27/18/58-Nicolas-Roeg.jpg?w968h681)
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Post by mikef6 on Nov 25, 2018 3:05:25 GMT
Illusionist and actor Ricky Jay dead at 70 or 72 – news stories conflict on his age. I first encountered Ricky Jay in David Mamet’s “House Of Games” as one of the con men. I learned later that Jay, a great magician, had been the consultant on the cons performed. He was an expert on distraction and a scholar on the history of magic. Jay was the subject of the documentary “Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay” (2012). Ricky Jay obit
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Post by petrolino on Nov 25, 2018 3:42:15 GMT
Stage star Dominique Blanchar has passed away aged 91.
R.I.P.
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 25, 2018 3:48:50 GMT
Illusionist and actor Ricky Jay dead at 70 or 72 – news stories conflict on his age. I first encountered Ricky Jay in David Mamet’s “House Of Games” as one of the con men. I learned later that Jay, a great magician, had been the consultant on the cons performed. He was an expert on distraction and a scholar on the history of magic. Jay was the subject of the documentary “Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay” (2012). Ricky Jay obitI always enjoyed seeing him do magic and play seedy character in film, as in Boogie Nights and the aforementioned House of Games.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Nov 25, 2018 19:29:20 GMT
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Post by petrolino on Nov 26, 2018 18:46:37 GMT
Filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci has died at the age of 77. Bertolucci was a poet who turned to making complex and challenging films, like his friend and collaborator Pier Paolo Pasolini.
'This is a year of poppies: our land was brimming with them as May burned into June and I returned— a sweet dark wine that made me drunk. From clouds of mulberry to grains to grasses ripeness was all, in the fitting heat, in the slow drowsiness spreading through the universe of green. My life half over I saw grown sons setting off alone and vanishing from sight beyond the prison the flight of the swallow makes in the spent glow of a stormy evening, but the pain gave way humanely to the light coming on inside the house for another meal in air made cooler by hail letting off steam in the distance.'
- Attillio Bertolucci, 'Poppies'
Thanks for the movies.
Bernardo Bertolucci & Vittorio Storaro
Bernardo Bertolucci Rest in Peace
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Post by petrolino on Nov 29, 2018 18:31:56 GMT
Filmmaker Gloria Katz has passed away at the age of 76. Katz formed a formidable creative partnership with Willard Huyck. Together, they co-directed the hypnotic midnight movie 'Messiah Of Evil' (1973). They also wrote, produced and directed 'French Postcards' (1979) and the influential comic book adaptation 'Howard The Duck' (1986).
Thanks for the movies.
Gloria Katz & George Lucas
Gloria Katz Rest in Peace
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Post by petrolino on Nov 29, 2018 18:55:59 GMT
Character actress Giuliana Calandra has passed away at the age of 82. Calandra learnt her trade in theatre, enrolling at a young age in an artistic company that included Giorgio Albertazzi and Anna Proclemer. She worked with some of Italy's most subversive comedy filmmakers including Alberto Lattuada, Mario Monicelli, Dino Risi, Luciano Salce, Alberto Sordi, Tonino Cervi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Marco Ferreri, Mariano Laurenti, Sergio Martino and Lina Wertmuller. She made a few motion pictures with her friend Sergio Corbucci, also appearing for his brother Bruno Corbucci, and enjoyed a long-running collaboration with Pasquale Festa Campanile. Calandra was also a fine dramatic actress who maintained a parallel career as a risk-taking stage performer.
Thanks for the movies, Ms. Calandra.
Giuliana Calandra Rest in Peace
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Post by petrolino on Nov 29, 2018 19:02:19 GMT
Eva Probst has passed away aged 88. Probst was a leading performer in German romantic cinema of the 1950s.
R.I.P.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Nov 29, 2018 19:25:40 GMT
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Post by manfromplanetx on Dec 1, 2018 20:47:14 GMT
Japanese actress Harue Akagi (1924 – Nov.29, 2018) Harue Akagi made her debut in the mid 50s and throughout her career worked with many of the legendary classic Japanese directors such as Tomu Uchida and Tadashi Imai. Playing many character roles she also starred in a number of excellent classics, a wonderful example of her enchanting presence as Okaya in, Masahiro Makino's Pathway to Hell (1960) pictured below. R.I.P. Harue Akagi
![](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/tenpo_rokkasen_jigoku_no_hanamichi-950992276-mmed.jpg)
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Post by teleadm on Dec 1, 2018 23:23:36 GMT
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Post by petrolino on Dec 2, 2018 14:44:00 GMT
Comedienne Maria Pacome has passed away aged 95. Pacome was a popular member of Jean Girault's stock company. She also starred in Philippe De Broca's 'Up To His Ears' (1965), Pierre Richard's 'Distracted' (1970) and Michel Audiard's 'Kisses Till Monday' (1974).
R.I.P.
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Post by petrolino on Dec 4, 2018 18:32:45 GMT
Filmmaker Geoff Murphy has died aged 80. Murphy directed two of my favourite westerns, 'Young Guns II' (1990) and 'The Last Outlaw' (1994).
R.I.P.
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Post by petrolino on Dec 6, 2018 22:18:26 GMT
Character actor Philip Bosco has died at the age of 88. Bosco had a tremendous career in theatre.
Thanks for the movies.
Philip Bosco R.I.P.
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Post by petrolino on Dec 6, 2018 22:23:24 GMT
Screenwriter John D.F. Black has died aged 85. Black co-wrote the detective film 'Shaft' (1971) with novelist Ernest Tidyman. He also wrote the screenplay for the detective thriller 'Trouble Man' (1972).
R.I.P.
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Post by petrolino on Dec 8, 2018 19:01:20 GMT
Tim Rossovich has died aged 72. Rossovich played linebacker in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles, San Diego Chargers and Houston Oilers. He became a respected character actor, appearing in Howard Zieff's boxing movie 'The Main Event' (1979), Walter Hill's period western 'The Long Riders' (1980), Michael Crichton's science-fiction fantasy 'Looker' (1981), Matt Cimber's crime thriller 'Fake-Out' (1982), Ron Howard's black comedy 'Night Shift' (1982) and Burt Reynolds' action drama 'Stick' (1985). Rossovich was hilarious as Detective Noodles in the Cheech & Chong picture 'Nice Dreams' (1981). He also appeared in the 'Angel' crime series.
R.I.P.
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