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5/24/2023 12:08 pm  #61


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Gotta say.  I thought he was dead a long time ago.


 

5/24/2023 12:09 pm  #62


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crumbsroom wrote:

One of the greatest. One of the ones responsible pushing cinema towards something purely impressionistic. Without guys like him, I don't know film would have found the vitality it needed to survive as a relevant artform (at least relevant to me)



 

Didn't mean to bury that in a page turnover.


 

5/24/2023 1:55 pm  #63


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Jinnistan wrote:

Gotta say.  I thought he was dead a long time ago.

I saw him presenting all of his significant works in person about 10 ((15???) years ago, so I knew he was likely still around.

He hardly seemed like an 80 year old man at that event. He was running around and being weirdly charming even though he had this undeniable ugly energy about him. It hardly surprised me when I read what a monster he could be in real life.

But as usual to this kind of thing, so fucking what? The inclusivity as well as innovation he brought to film has mostly been a power of great good.

His Hollywood Babylon shit on the other hand, maybe the beginning of our current cultural doom

 

5/24/2023 1:55 pm  #64


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5/24/2023 2:09 pm  #65


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5/25/2023 9:26 am  #66


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Queen of Nutbush






 


 

5/26/2023 6:02 pm  #67


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Gary Kent, legendary stuntman.

https://deadline.com/2023/05/gary-kent-dead-stuntman-quentin-tarantinos-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-1235381093/

Most know him as the inspiration for Cliff Booth in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but I would recommend seeing his roles in the Ray Dennis Steckler films Body Fever and The Thrill Killers.


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6/06/2023 5:10 pm  #68


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6/13/2023 7:46 am  #69


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"Prince of the City" Treat Williams, in what I hope, under the circumstances, was a flaming motorcycle mishap.


 

6/13/2023 8:42 pm  #70


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No Country For Old Cormac


 

6/14/2023 5:47 am  #71


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6/14/2023 11:56 am  #72


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Jinnistan wrote:

No Country For Old Cormac

So I guess there is now just one living author I care about now.

 

6/15/2023 12:53 pm  #73


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crumbsroom wrote:

]So I guess there is now just one living author I care about now.

I was fully prepared to take this as a compliment until I remembered that Pynchon was still alive.


 

6/15/2023 1:56 pm  #74


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Glenda Jackson seems to get forgotten among talk of her brilliant generation's peers of British actresses (Julie Christie, Charlotte Rampling, Vanessa Redgrave, Helen Mirren).

Two films I would immediately recommend are Women in Love and the 1967 Marat/Sade.  There are plenty of others.
 


 

6/17/2023 8:25 am  #75


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Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower.

For those who haven't watched it, the Ken Burns 2017 Vietnam War documentary series is well worth your time and may be available to view on the PBS website (may not work in Canada), and while it only deals peripherally with the Ellsberg case during the final episode, it incorporates essential information from his Pentagon Papers release throughout the series.

I've told this story before on previous forums.  My dad was a Vietnam veteran.  An older boomer from rural Kentucky, a high school graduate (without the best grades) who was spending 1967 taking nursing classes at community college, he was a prime candidate for getting picked in the draft "lottery", which in actuality overwhelmingly picked working-class non-academic men.  But my dad wasn't that dumb, and had the bright idea to pre-emptively join the Navy, which had a relatively milder boot camp and training regimen, and floating in the Gulf of Tonkin seemed like a vastly superior option to squatting in the Bush with Charlie.  Shortly after his first mandatory sea deployment (circa 1969), my dad's superior officers noticed his interest in nursing classes, and offered him an opportunity to become a Navy medic, or a corpsman (interesting pun, eh?).  My dad thought, "Great!  I'd rather work to save lives than take them."  But what my dad didn't quite understand yet was that the Marine Corps. uses Navy corpsmen to serve with their platoons, and so my dad instead soon found himself embedded along the frontlines of Khe Sanh.  As a corpsman, my dad was an intimate witness to the senseless corporeal costs of the war.  And my dad would also soon learn that it was the VietCong strategy to aim first for the corpsmen so that any future casualties will go unaided.  But luckily, he managed his tour without earning a purple heart.

My dad didn't care much for Daniel Ellsberg.  It's not that he found him to be a traitor or anything, rather, like a number of veterans, he was never entirely willing to process the anger that resulted in his war experience, and Ellsberg was simply a messenger of the worst news, the scarring insult that all of that blood and sacrifice was not only useless and unnecessary but that those at the top knew it and sent these young men to their deaths anyway.  (Classic Paths of Glory pathos.)  My dad also never expended much fondness on Henry Kissinger or Robert McNamara either.

In 2017, when I watched the Burns Vietnam doc, I was eager to recommend it, but my dad wanted nothing to do with it.  "I was there".  I was aware, but I felt that there's a trough of facts and details and historical context that, given the deception exposed by Ellsberg, are exactly the kinds of things for those who were there were deprived of and could be useful to understand in hindsight.  But I didn't push the matter.  In many ways it's also unnecessary to do so.  Ellsberg's service is for those of us who weren't there, and for the children of its history.  My dad was not in denial about the farce of the cause.  That's knowledge that those who were there know all too well.  My dad felt like he'd earned the right to not be reminded of this fact by those who weren't.
 


 

6/17/2023 12:58 pm  #76


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Jinnistan wrote:

My dad thought, "Great!  I'd rather work to save lives than take them."  But what my dad didn't quite understand yet was that the Marine Corps. uses Navy corpsmen to serve with their platoons, and so my dad instead soon found himself embedded along the frontlines of Khe Sanh.

Isn't it always the way. Step up for what sounds like the better thing to do, and ultimately, fuck yourself.



My dad felt like he'd earned the right to not be reminded of this fact by those who weren't.
 

Seems fair enough.

 

 

6/24/2023 2:23 pm  #77


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Found out that Peter Brotzmann died this week, a German free jazz saxophonist who worked with Don Cherry, Cecil Taylor, Derek Bailey.  But I'm most familiar with him from his work in the 80s with Bill Laswell and Sonny Sharrock in the group Last Exit.  Here's a small sampling of his work.









 


 

6/26/2023 7:13 pm  #78


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Frederic Forrest, age 86.  Go watch (or rewatch) One From the Heart in his honor.

Julian Sands, unofficial, but it appears likely his remains have been found.  A number of cult films under his belt (Gothic, Siesta, Naked Lunch, Boxing Helena), but best known for his hammy camp in films like Warlock.
 


 

6/30/2023 10:03 am  #79


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R.I.P. Alan Arkin, who so memorably had flames on his car.


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6/30/2023 11:37 am  #80


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Rock wrote:

R.I.P. Alan Arkin, who so memorably had flames on his car.

Lots of essential performances - Wait Until Dark, Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Catch 22, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, In-Laws, Glengary Glenn Ross (as well as a couple of non-essential roles that I love, like Freebie and the Bean and Big Trouble) - is enough to make me disgusted at how many obituaries are leading by calling him the actor of Little Miss Sunshine or Argo.


 

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