RIP thread for people involved in film

14-05-2014 8:59am

Thats really quite incredible. One of the reasons that films stands out still today and everybody remembers it. Makes me hate the CGI of today even more.

dark crystal · 14-05-2014 11:12am

Malik Bendjelloul, the Oscar winning director of Searching For Sugar Man, as died aged 36

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/may/14/searching-for-sugar-man-director-malik-bendjelloul-dies-aged-36

RIP.

Duggy747 · 14-05-2014 1:12pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Thats really quite incredible. One of the reasons that films stands out still today and everybody remembers it. Makes me hate the CGI of today even more.

They got their children to wear spacesuits in some shots to make it look even larger :pac:

Yeti Beast · 14-05-2014 4:39pm

dark crystal wrote: »

Malik Bendjelloul, the Oscar winning director of Searching For Sugar Man, as died aged 36

Jesus, no age at all. RIP.

Skerries · 15-05-2014 8:31pm

that second Giger picture was my pc background for ages

FortuneChip · 16-05-2014 10:00am

dark crystal wrote: »

Malik Bendjelloul, the Oscar winning director of Searching For Sugar Man, as died aged 36

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/may/14/searching-for-sugar-man-director-malik-bendjelloul-dies-aged-36

RIP.

Awful news. Searching for Sugarman really was brilliant.

JohnFalstaff · 19-05-2014 9:36am

Gordon Willis, the legendary cinematographer of films such as The Godfather, Manhattan and Klute has died at the age of 82.

RIP

mike65 · 19-05-2014 11:28am

JohnFalstaff wrote: »

Gordon Willis, the legendary cinematographer of films such as The Godfather, Manhattan and Klute has died at the age of 82.

RIP

A true classicist of the New Hollywood era and also one of its top stylists - you knew a Willis film when you were looking at one. More low key than some others of that era - he dealt in subtle shades rather than "dramatic" colour and lighting but no less talented clearly.

Agent Coulson · 09-06-2014 4:19pm

Rik Mayall has died at the age of 56.

IrishTimes

JP Liz V1 · 12-06-2014 11:20pm

Ruby Dee (A Raisin in the Sun and American Gangster) has died - RIP

MfMan · 25-06-2014 9:02am

The great Eli Wallach.

"When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk!"

mike65 · 25-06-2014 9:59am

So thats the bad and the ugly both gone.

quickbeam · 25-06-2014 10:54am

He was also older than all but one (Brynner) of the Magnificent Seven, but survived all but one of them (Vaughan).

Total legend. He cropped up totally unrecognisable to me in How To Steel A Million too. He's actually a real chameleon.

25-06-2014 11:26am

Pretty much the last of the old great cinema stars, bar Kirk Douglas there's no one of any real note left. He was one of cinemas finest actors whom never really received the recognition he deserved. Think I'll throw on the Magnificent Seven later on today, been meaning to rewatch it for awhile but the mood hasn't hit me. Think that followed by the episode of Murder She Wrote that he was in.

beauf · 25-06-2014 11:30am

Eli Wallach a great actor.

JP Liz V1 · 25-06-2014 3:23pm

RIP Eli Wallach - I thought he was already dead tbh

JP Liz V1 · 02-07-2014 12:18am

Paul Mazursky (Down and Out in Beverly Hills) has died - RIP

JP Liz V1 · 17-07-2014 10:15pm

Elaine Stritch has died RIP

Harry Palmr · 18-07-2014 11:03am

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Paul Mazursky (Down and Out in Beverly Hills) has died - RIP

Didn't know that! Guardian film pages (my usual haunt) are so full of fanboy superhero crap these days actual hard news slips by.

He directed one of my favourite films - Harry and Tonto (1974) about an elderly man (and his cat) in New York who embark on a winding journey to see his son (Larry Hagman) in California. He really should have become a solid A grade director but hit the buffers after An Unmarried Woman apart from "Down and Out..."

FunLover18 · 18-07-2014 11:33am

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Elaine Stritch has died RIP

She did an episode of Just A Minute back in the way with Kenneth Williams and the gang, it was absolutely hilarious.

rednik · 20-07-2014 8:29am

Just hear James Garner has died, RIP. Grew up with The Rockford Files. Many great roles in a long career.

beauf · 20-07-2014 9:14am

Same here re Rockford files. I really liked James in a lot of roles. Grand Prix is a classic for car nuts

Harry Palmr · 20-07-2014 9:19am

Away from Rockford Files Support Your Local Sheriff was a Garner favourite, very funny.

rednik · 20-07-2014 10:47am

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Away from Rockford Files Support Your Local Sheriff was a Garner favourite, very funny.

It was very funny in contrast to Hour of the gun in which Garner gave a very good performance of Wyatt Earp.

JP Liz V1 · 20-07-2014 9:36pm

rednik wrote: »

Just hear James Garner has died, RIP. Grew up with The Rockford Files. Many great roles in a long career.

RIP

Watched again recently The Notebook, he was great in that

krudler · 20-07-2014 11:56pm

He was great in Maverick too, which is silly but really fun. Great cast too, James Coburn, Alfred Molina to name but a few.

22-07-2014 4:26pm

Panna Ritthikrai who directed the Ong-Bak sequels and was a renowned stunt man died/fight coordinator died from Liver cancer over the weekend

Tipsy McSwagger · 29-07-2014 9:57pm

James Shigeta Dead at 81: Character Actor and Singer Had Memorable Roles in Die Hard and Flower Drum Song

James Shigeta started off by conquering the American Idol of his day. The singer and character actor won first place on the 1950s staple The Original Amateur Hour, and that proved to be a launching pad for a career on stage and screen. Shigeta, whose long career allowed for memorable appearances in the likes of the 1961 musical Flower Drum Song and then 1988's Die Hard, has died. He was 81. "It is with great sadness that I report the loss of my long time friend and client James Shigeta," his agent said in a statement to E! News Monday. "James was the biggest East Asian U.S. star the country had known.

JoeA3 · 30-07-2014 8:59am

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

James Shigeta Dead at 81: Character Actor and Singer Had Memorable Roles in Die Hard and Flower Drum Song

James Shigeta started off by conquering the American Idol of his day. The singer and character actor won first place on the 1950s staple The Original Amateur Hour, and that proved to be a launching pad for a career on stage and screen. Shigeta, whose long career allowed for memorable appearances in the likes of the 1961 musical Flower Drum Song and then 1988's Die Hard, has died. He was 81. "It is with great sadness that I report the loss of my long time friend and client James Shigeta," his agent said in a statement to E! News Monday. "James was the biggest East Asian U.S. star the country had known.

Ahhh no... Mr Takagi!

snaphook · 30-07-2014 11:35am

He won't be joining us for the rest of his life.

RIP.

Telecaster58 · 30-07-2014 1:02pm

snaphook wrote: »

He won't be joining us for the rest of his life.

RIP.

Ha Ha. Brilliant!

doubledown · 31-07-2014 10:00am

Make-up legend Dick Smith has passed away. His credits included The Godfather, Taxi Driver, The Exorcist and Little Big Man to name a few.

He was a genius. Even to this day most people think De Niro shaved his head for the final reel of Taxi Driver. He didn't - it was a skull cap made by Smith with a fake mohawk attached.

humanji · 31-07-2014 10:10am

I was lucky enough to do a course under him and he was just amazing. Hell of a talent and a great guy.

Harry Palmr · 31-07-2014 10:39am

Another Starburst favourite gone!

Smith one of an amazing generation of prosthetic/make up effects men - along with guys like Carlo Rambaldi, Rick Baker, Rob Bottin, Germano Natali and of course Tom Savini.

krudler · 31-07-2014 6:26pm

doubledown wrote: »

Make-up legend Dick Smith has passed away. His credits included The Godfather, Taxi Driver, The Exorcist and Little Big Man to name a few.

He was a genius. Even to this day most people think De Niro shaved his head for the final reel of Taxi Driver. He didn't - it was a skull cap made by Smith with a fake mohawk attached.

A makeup genius is right, Max Von Sydow was in his 30s in The Exorcist, he looks as old now as he did in that.

09-08-2014 10:56am

Menahem Golan one of the godfathers of B movie cinema died yesterday. There's a documentary out in the coming weeks about him and Globus and Cannon studios

Harry Palmr · 09-08-2014 10:59am

As a teenager of the 80s Menahem Golan has a very small place in my trash culture heart!

Rothko · 09-08-2014 12:12pm

doubledown wrote: »

Make-up legend Dick Smith has passed away. His credits included The Godfather, Taxi Driver, The Exorcist and Little Big Man to name a few.

He was a genius. Even to this day most people think De Niro shaved his head for the final reel of Taxi Driver. He didn't - it was a skull cap made by Smith with a fake mohawk attached.

That's what I thought, until now.

Agent Coulson · 09-08-2014 12:54pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Menahem Golan one of the godfathers of B movie cinema died yesterday. There's a documentary out in the coming weeks about him and Globus and Cannon studios

Harry Palmr wrote: »

As a teenager of the 80s Menahem Golan has a very small place in my trash culture heart!

RIP.

Off to watch The Delta Force and American Ninja now.

MfMan · 11-08-2014 11:41am

British-born character actor Charles Keating. Among others, played on-the-make Rex Mottram in the wonderful 'Brideshead Revisited' (TV).

Harry Palmr · 13-08-2014 9:53am

Lauren Bacall. They don't make 'em like this any more. Just 19 when she went toe-to-toe with Humphrey Bogart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MheNUWyROv8

humanji · 13-08-2014 10:23am

There's a great obituary for her in the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/13/lauren-bacall-obituary

JP Liz V1 · 13-08-2014 1:40pm

RIP Lauren Bacall

delbertgrady · 21-08-2014 8:04pm

Brian G. Hutton has died, aged 79. Director of arguably the greatest men-on-a-mission movie ever made, Where Eagles Dare, the effortlessly likeable WWII hokum that is Kelly's Heroes, cult classic Night Watch and the often overlooked High Road to China.

Harry Palmr · 24-08-2014 10:06pm

Sir Richard Attenborough : August 29, 1923 - August 24 2014

One of the greats and great lovies of cinema has died at 90.

Actor and then director, he'll always be "Big X" on a bank holiday weekend, though his best performance may well be as John Christie in 10 Rillington Place.

Shadowlands is my favourite of his directed films

red dave · 24-08-2014 10:09pm

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Sir Richard Attenborough : August 29, 1923 - August 24 2014

One of the greats and great lovies of cinema has died at 90.

Actor and then director, he'll always be "Big X" on a bank holiday weekend, though his best performance may well be as John Christie in 10 Rillington Place.

I think that was a hoax?

bnt · 24-08-2014 10:10pm

red dave wrote: »

I think that was a hoax?

Not a hoax, sadly. Big enough news for its own thread.

JP Liz V1 · 24-08-2014 10:10pm

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Sir Richard Attenborough : August 29, 1923 - August 24 2014

One of the greats and great lovies of cinema has died at 90.

Actor and then director, he'll always be "Big X" on a bank holiday weekend, though his best performance may well be as John Christie in 10 Rillington Place.

Shadowlands is my favourite of his directed films

RIP

red dave · 24-08-2014 10:12pm

bnt wrote: »

Not a hoax, sadly. Big enough news for its own thread.

Ahh dammit

JP Liz V1 · 28-08-2014 10:45pm

Stephen Lee has died probably known more for tv roles RIP http://news-briefs.ew.com/2014/08/27/stephen-lee-dead/

RIP thread for people involved in film

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