Rolling Obituary Thread 2014

Oscar winner Maximilian Schell... apparently directed quite a few decent things, and his Dietrich doc Marlene (an interview in which she refused to be filmed) is my favorite thing he did.

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-maximilian-schell-1930-2014

Yeah, that doc is very good. RIP.

Mr. Fine WIne posting lots of Hannibal memories on his FB page.

i enjoyed some jancso films last year. must get around to 'red palm'.

Anna Gordy
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/anna-gordy-gaye-ex-wife-of-marvin-gaye-dead-at-92-20140131
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6aXP4FYuIw

jancso was one of the greats and foremost exponents of the long take / choreographed mis en scene idiom

the red and the white is one of my favourite films, he was making films in his old age that never got much attention so who knows

RIP jancso - i have xyzzzz to thank for previously linking to this excellent final essay by raymond durgnat on red psalm (which looks stunning on the second sight region 2 dvd):

http://www.rouge.com.au/8/red_psalm.html

durgnat calls it 'processional cinema', which strikes me as exactly right.

Arthur Rankin of Rankin-Bass animation fame, age 89

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/animation-legend-arthur-rankin-jr-676275

Philip Seymour Hoffman http://t.co/hNaBnT26jX

Working links from the c/d thread :
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304626804579358943360702878
http://nypost.com/2014/02/02/philip-seymour-hoffman-found-dead-in-his-apartment/

:( Was away this weekend and missed Jancso's passing. RIP. Lots of his stuff I haven't seen, but would always go out of my way if something of his was showing.

Joan Mondale, the former veep's wife

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/joan-mondale-political-wife-and-culture-maven-dies-at-83/2014/02/03/50398e42-8d29-11e3-833c-33098f9e5267_story.html

Christopher Jones, of the films Wild in the Streets and Ryan's Daughter

http://www.avclub.com/article/rip-christopher-jones-actor-of-the-legend-of-jesse-107461

14 OR FIGHT

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEqWCH_4srU

(as u might guess, he didn't sing it)

Yeah, it was all L.A. session dudes. I can't find it now, but there was a ILM thread on the song and a googler who happened to be in one of the Max Frost 'road bands' to promote the single popped in to say 'hi'.

Wait, here it is.

ralph kiner

oh shit.

Spent a good 40 years or so listening to that guy on the radio and teevee. Not seeing it anywhere, but i assume mook has his sources.

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/24433472/hall-of-famer-ralph-kiner-passes-away-at-91

http://www.freep.com/article/20140131/ENT04/301310148/Detroit-pianist-arranger-Johnny-Allen-dies-at-96

Shared a Grammy with Isaac Hayes for "The Theme from Shaft"

Maicon killed in a car crash.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/feb/08/shakhtar-donetsk-maicon-dies-car-accident

There are two Maicons. That was the one at Shaktar, not the more famous one who played at Inter & Roma.

twitter says Stuart Hall. :(

(the cultural theorist, not the paedophile)

Damm, RIP Stuart Hall. This works as a pretty fitting tribute:

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/bfi-film-releases/stuart-hall-project

RIP dude, can't overstate how important your work is

that documentary is excellent, in a way that seems quite effortless - with someone as interesting and exciting at Hall all they had to do was show him doing his thing.

this article coinciding with its release is good too http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/aug/18/professor-stuart-hall-multiculturalism-film

What a shame. RIP.

On a personal note, I remember very vividly listening to Stuart Hall's Desert Island Discs - the man had one of the great broadcast voices - and being struck by his passion for Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, which superficially seemed to be a million miles away from his own experience and values. It was this that led me to read POAL - and it would now be my own desert island book, too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/caed0ab9#p0094b6r

http://newleftreview.org/II/61/stuart-hall-life-and-times-of-the-first-new-left

good partial bio, partial political history

God, just a few weeks ago I was thinking of watching the Stuart Hall Project. What a startling and major loss ;_;

excellent article NV, thanks for posting.

Guardian obit lays the blame for the G2 at Hall's door, which seems a bit unfair:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/10/stuart-hall

think they've mistook "writing about popular culture" for "thinking about popular culture" but let's not have that argument here. i feel like i'm gonna be reading as much of him as i can get hold of for the next few weeks

Patricia Waters, mother of John Waters

Erik Blegvad, children's book illustrator and father of Peter Blegvad.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/arts/design/erik-blegvad-childrens-book-artist-dies-at-90.html

xxp - his writing was such a major part of my college education. I want to post/discuss it more on the semiotics thread.

Leonard Knight, artist of Salvation Mountain in So Cal.

http://www.ivpressonline.com/news/local/quicknews/leonard-knight-of-salvation-mountain-fame-dies-at/article_ceb43720-92b2-11e3-9d6f-001a4bcf6878.html

Shirley Temple! She was 85.

I was amazed to hear she was only 85. Child-star notwithstanding, she exists in my mind alongside Chaplin and Al Jolson. She seemed to come out of another world even when I was kid--yet she was only 33 when I was born.

She saved what became 20th Century Fox studios from bankruptcy and made more than 40 movies before she turned 12.

Her most memorable performances included four films she made with Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, a black dancer 50 years her senior and a favorite co-star, she later said.

They were first paired as foils for cantankerous Lionel Barrymore in 1935’s “The Little Colonel,” in which 7-year-old Shirley tap dances up and down the staircase, remarkably matching the veteran Robinson step for step.

“I would learn by listening to the taps,” Temple told the Washington Post in 1998. “I would primarily listen to what he was doing and I would do it.”

http://www.latimes.com/la-me-shirley-temple-black-20140211,0,7475592.story#ixzz2t1DjyAV3

RIP Shirl

I'm not sure I'd ever read Graham Greene's notorious review of Wee Willie Winkie before today - it seems unbelievably creepy, now:

http://fablog.ehrensteinland.com/2013/04/23/shirley-temple-and-the-greatest-piece-of-film-criticism-ever-written/

heh, i just found that too. Then again, i had no idea that ST did a Dietrich parody, named as ‘Morelegs Sweet-trick’.

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-shirley-temple-black-1928-2014

yikes!

Also "Madame Cradlebait," per that fandor article.

Also noticed that Ehrenstein is solidly pro-Woody (compares Dylan to Tawana Bradley).

apparently maggie estep? hasn't broken on major news sources that I can see.

Sid Caesar

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26162316

sheeit. A great clown.