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#7627 Post by mfunk9786 » Tue Feb 12, 2019 6:52 pm

Lyndon LaRouche, although the mainstream media isn't really reporting it beyond discussion on Twitter. Fitting

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#7628 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Thu Feb 14, 2019 11:56 am

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Producer Andrew G. Vajna, whose Hollywood success with such films as the Rambo franchise, Angel Heart and Total Recall culminated with him returning to his native Hungary where he became pretty much the single most powerful industry figure for the past decade and a half or so.
John McTiernan on working and becoming friends with him

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#7630 Post by GaryC » Thu Feb 14, 2019 2:10 pm

Nothing online yet other than social media posts (by Toby Hadoke and others) - Pat Gorman, prolific actor in bit parts or small speaking roles throughout much of the 1960s to early 80s. Apparently he died in October but his death has only just been announced. Also, nobody knows how old he was, though a good guess would be that he was in his eighties.

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#7631 Post by swo17 » Sat Feb 16, 2019 1:23 pm

Bruno Ganz discussion moved here

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#7633 Post by The Fanciful Norwegian » Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:22 am

Japanese director Satō Junya. (No English-language news sources on this yet—Chinese media has reported it extensively, as Satō has been a fairly well-known figure there ever since Manhunt became one of the first imported films released in mainland China during the post-Cultural Revolution thaw. Later he co-directed The Go Masters, the first Japan-PRC co-production.)

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#7635 Post by Dylan » Tue Feb 19, 2019 12:08 am

The great Ethel Ennis, whose sole film credit was singing the wonderful title song for Mad Monster Party.

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#7637 Post by beamish14 » Thu Feb 21, 2019 2:13 am

Disney CEO and cofounder of the Walt Disney Family Museum Ron Miller. Like Gerald Ford, he was often criticized for falling into a position of immense power and perceived as being a "dumb jock" due to being a university football player, but he was an incredibly shrewd and longitudinal-minded player in the business who the years have really vindicated. Under his aegis, the Disney Channel was created, Disney began to produce more adult fare, and the company took tentative steps towards investing in Broadway shows. Many of the films he greenlit are immensely underrated, such as Return to Oz, The Black Cauldron and Something Wicked This Way Comes.

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#7638 Post by Aunt Peg » Thu Feb 21, 2019 9:44 am

Claude Goretta, Swiss film director best known for The Invitation (which scored a Best Foreign Language Film nomination), The Lacemaker (which launched Isabelle Huppert's career) & The Wonderful Crook has passed away. I could not find any obituaries. He was 89.

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#7639 Post by Fiery Angel » Thu Feb 21, 2019 10:33 am

A great filmmaker who never got his due. RIP.

EDIT: Just saw that FIAF in Manhattan is showing The Lacemaker next month as part of an Isabelle Huppert retro: http://events.fiaf.org/event/2019-03-cs-the-lacemaker/

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#7641 Post by hearthesilence » Fri Feb 22, 2019 10:03 am

Fred Foster

Announced on social media accounts for Roy Orbison's estate: " We are so sad to learn of the passing of Fred Foster. Fred was a legendary producer and songwriter and the founder of Monument Records. He produced many of Roy's biggest hits, including "Oh, Pretty Woman", "It's Over", "Crying", "Only The Lonely", and more. Fred will be greatly missed, but his memory will continue on in the beautiful music he helped to create. "

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#7643 Post by Kirkinson » Fri Feb 22, 2019 8:46 pm

Ross Lowell, founder of the Lowel-Light company and the creator of gaffer tape.

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#7645 Post by bearcuborg » Sat Feb 23, 2019 10:58 am

He’s definitely gonna be one of those guys people didn’t know was still alive, but damn-he was a huge talent, and certainly under appreciated. Best wishes for Elaine May...

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#7646 Post by FrauBlucher » Sat Feb 23, 2019 11:28 am

You're exactly right. I said that to myself when I heard he passed.

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#7648 Post by colinr0380 » Sun Feb 24, 2019 5:14 am

Calvin wrote:
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Stanley Donen
Whilst Donen is of course being remembered mostly for the wonderful Singin' In The Rain and Charade, I will also forever be grateful for the wonderfully bizarre and uncharacteristic Saturn 3. It of course bears no comparison to the previous year's Alien (though even modern sci-fi films have trouble with that comparison!) but it is a real gift for anyone who loves people running down sci-fi corridors, molesting robots and Harvey Keitel being a baddie!

Donen is also the wonderful, more down to earth and pragmatic voice that Mark Cousins uses in the middle portion of his Story of Film: An Odyssey series to almost respond to some of Cousins' bigger flights of fancy, before Paul Schrader seemingly takes over that similar counterpointing role from episode 7 onward.

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#7649 Post by colinr0380 » Sun Feb 24, 2019 9:58 am

Literary scholar Donald Keene at 96, who translated works of many Japanese authors into English. He appears in an interview talking about translation issues in the Arena documentary on Yukio Mishima which is on the Criterion edition of the Paul Schrader film.

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