/film/ - FILM

>>12066

no shit, i still haven't recovered from it

>Celebrated Italian film-maker Vittorio Taviani has died, aged 88.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-43775741

>>12078

I guess it's time to finally watch KAOS

"The most important living Brazilian filmmaker" is no longer living. Nelson Pereira dos Santos has died. I see no English news of it.

http://sensesofcinema.com/2011/great-directors/nelson-pereira-dos-santos/

Santos is the most important living Brazilian filmmaker. In his quintessential career, his films have influenced directors and cinephiles for over 50 years. Of the most influential Brazilian films of the past five decades, at least one was directed by Santos in each decade. These influential films include Rio, 40 Graus (Rio, 100 Degrees F., 1955), Vidas Secas (Barren Lives, 1963), Como Era Gostoso o MeuFrancês (How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman, 1971), Memórias do Cárcere (1984), and Casa-Grande e Senzala (2000). Santos’ impact on Latin American cinema cannot be overstated. For critics and cinephiles all over the world, Santos’ early films are milestones in the emergence of modern post-war cinema. Inspired by neorealism, his films from the 1950s and 1960s depict the brutal reality of life in the favelados (slums)found in cities such as Rio de Janeiro, or of retirantes (migrants) fleeing the famine in the drought-stricken northeastern region of Brazil.

Another week, another dead director. Michael Anderson of Logan's Run, The Damn Busters, Around the World in 80 Days, and many others

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-anderson-dead-logans-run-around-world-80-days-director-was-98-724070

I hate to be morbid but we missed our weekly dead director

>One of his first films, Reconstituirea (The Reconstitution), released in 1968, is considered by some critics the best movie in the history of Romanian cinema. Two of his movies, O vara de neuitat (An Unforgettable Summer) – 1994 and Prea Tarziu (Too Late) – 1996, were selected in the official competition of the Cannes Film Festival. Another one of his films, Terminus Paradis, brought him the big prize of the Venice Film festival in 1998.

Her fame transcended the Soviet era, and her works influenced a new generation of Russian and Ukrainian filmmakers.

Kira Muratova, one of the Russian-speaking world's most influential filmmakers, has died. She was 83.

Muratova died in Odessa, Ukraine, where she had lived and worked for many years, her husband, Yevgeny Golubenko, told the Ukrainian news portal Buro. Friends on social media said she had been ill for some time.

A director and screenwriter, Muratova earned plaudits at home and abroad for her fearless work, which included critically acclaimed features such as The Asthenic Syndrome, a dark satire of Soviet society revolving around a student with acute melancholia. It received a special jury prize at the 1990 Berlin Film Festival.

Writing on his Facebook page, producer Yura Minzianoff recalled screenings at Moscow's famous VGIK film school of one of her early films, Dolgie Provody (Long Farewells). It was made in 1971 but not honored at Russia's domestic Oscars, the NIKA Awards, until 1988.

"With Kira's passing," he wrote, "an entire epoch ends. I remember how her students cried over Long Farewells."

Asthenic Syndrome on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqKRQbHuUfU

Bernardo Bertolucci dead at 77

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/bernardo-bertolucci-dead-dies-director-the-last-emperor-1203036077/

https://deadline.com/2018/11/bernardo-bertolucci-dies-italian-director-the-last-emperor-last-tango-paris-77-1202508621/

It's possible Bertolucci was the first Italian director I watched.

As I post this, the top two google news items are smear pieces. I don't like to see this fashionable puritanism become part of obituaries.

Bernardo Bertolucci: his disturbing treatment of Maria Schneider

The rape scene in Last Tango in Paris made actress Maria Schneider feel "humiliated." It has to be part of Bernardo Bertolucci's legacy. Vox / 2 hours ago

Bernardo Bertolucci, 'Tango,' and #MeToo

The director's death raises ugly memories of his most famous film. The Boston Globe / 3 hours ago

Other recent deaths:

Nicholas Roeg -- I never knew about his late career "erotic" cash grabs like Full Body Massage

Ricky Jay -- Magician and David Mamet regular

Witold Sobocinski -- one of the great Polish cinematographers

Geoffrey Peter Murphy

A schoolteacher-turned-pot smoking hippie-turned musician-turned director, our man in Aotearoa was notable for 1981's Goodbye Pork Pie, 1983's Utu, 1985's The Quiet Earth and a legendary midnight movie, 1993's The Last Outlaw. Also wrote the first 2.

80 years old, was also 2nd Unit Director in The Lord of the Rings trilogy

Just when i was recalling him yesterday and thinking no famous HK directors have gone away in many, many years.

Ling-Tung Lam "Ringo Lam"

An ignored actor who morphed into director after realizing he liked to write and take photos more, he became a employee director and stuck gold after doing a quirky sequel for a famous comedy series, for his money-move he was granted an opportunity to do a personal project.

He pulled one of his reserved stories and made his most famous project, 1987's Dragon vs. Tiger aka City on Fire, infamously known these days as the movie that heavily-inspired the famous director Quentin Tarantino. But the film is no obscure piece of work as it is one of the first movies, along with A Better Tomorrow, that defined the Hong Kong Blood Opera action genre that permeated the late 80's through the early 00's and added another layer of ridiculousness to the modern action entertainment.

Also known for doing the last Van Damme classics after the man was blacklisted from Hollywood for his personal antics. His other notable works are all bloodbaths: 1987's Prison on Fire, 1992's Full Contact, 1997's Full Alert and the 1992's Jackie Chan twin movie.

Not a paragon of truly meaningful filmmaking but certainly an iconic mind in popular culture: Dual-wielding chinamen flying over smoke and mirrors in neon light nights. And Jackie Chan, with Van Damme, playing piano.

Jonas Mekas

December 24, 1922 – January 23, 2019

http://www.artnews.com/2019/01/23/jonas-mekas-key-experimental-filmmaker-dies-96/

Though he is frequently credited with helping create a form of cinema that radically broke with filmmaking norms, Mekas resisted the term “experimental.” “No one was experimenting,” he told the Guardian in 2012. “Not Maya [Deren], not Stan Brakhage, and certainly not me. We were making different kinds of films because we were driven to, but we did not think we were experimenting. Leave that to the scientists.”

Dušan Makavejev

https://www.blic.rs/kultura/vesti/umro-dusan-makavejev-odlazak-jednog-od-najvecih-srpskih-reditelja/m3jj2yw

I loved W.R. and Sweet Movie, the Eclipse set was nice, and Manifesto was an underrated film from him (is it on DVD yet?). He had a fun-loving sensibility that set him apart.

BTW is Yugoslav black wave the coolest name for a film movement?

Michel Legrand

A french high-class jazz pianist who wandered around with French New Wave directors like Gotard, Demy, Varda and composed some of their films, along with other hundred of films including the original 1968's Thomas Crown Affair, 1991's Dingo, 1973's F for Fake and recently 2018's The Other Side of the Wind.

Had a solid solo career in the piano jazz days too, even when he didn't really go to the realms of modal jazz or hard bebop.

>>14051

Funnily enough i had an idea around my mind about a dream sequence, and because i only watching Eraserhead and Mulholland Drive completely i kind of wanted to see his whole career due to him being the most notorious for that kind of thing.

I keep hearing very contrasting opinions about his work from both sides of film watchers, and i keep hesitating all the time even when i don't really dislike it.

>Eastwood

I honestly don't think we would be missing anything if the guy went to sleep "early"

Man, i referenced his work due to appearing in a famous greek movie when i was around a Lanthimos discussion a week ago, and was about to see The House That Jack Built but didn't

Bruno Ganz

A Swiss-born German actor, conceived by a Swiss-German father and Northern (germanic?) Italian mother, who went on to be one of the most significant German actors in the last decades, being honored at one point to be the holder of the Iffland Ring, which i didn't know about until today.

Man liked the theater since his teenage years and subsequently debuted in it at 19 years old, a year later after his film debut, and focusing on it until he was constantly called in big movie productions around the mid-80's but still being called to the floor in latter years, notably for Faust around 2000 and 2001.

Was a guest actor in comedy movies and occasional lead in Made-for-TV adaptations in the 60's to mid-70's until he was given spotlight around 1974-76, where he appeared in a bunch of well-known projects and launched his career until these days.

Being a famous germanic man, Ganz was usually cast as a mouthpiece against NatSoc Germany and conservative values, doing so multiple times until he hit a big stone with Der Untergang, being picked to be none other than herr Adolf Hitler, and receiving a lot of criticism for trying to humanize the man himself, even if the script itself was a flanderization of it all.

Definitely a mainstay of the region and "New German Cinema", Bruno was diagnosed of gut cancer last august and saw the light the 15th of the present month. Notable for starring in Wenders 1977's The American Friend and 1987's Wings of Desire, Herzog 1979's Nosferatu, Rohmer 1976's The Marquise of O, Angelopoulos 1998's Eternity and a Day FUCK, F.J. Schaffner 1978's The Boys from Brazil, Silvio Soldini 2000's Pane e Tulipani, Uli Edel 2008's Der Baader Meinhof Komplex and of course, Hirschbiegel 2004's Der Untergang. Also Von Trier 2017's The House That Jack Built and the upcoming Terrence Malick's Radeground. End of an era.

I doubt my forecasting because i saw 3 Walter Hill movies in a row and nothing has happened

>>14244

Didn't mean to spoiler that much, also Radegund i meant to say!

Michael Nyqvist's final role too. Sneaky Malick's movie will be tentatively an anti-NatSoc movie in its surface premise, but boosts a shot that is usually reposted by a couple of anons as a shining window to a Blood & Soil scenery.

Bruno Ganz will probably go out with a bang along with the Nyq, but where will the shot go?

Stanley Donen has died at 94 - I didn't know he was still alive.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/stanley-donen-dead-famed-director-720663

I really enjoyed Charade as a kid, and the ending kind of scared me.

Two more recent director deaths were Václav Vorlícek and Claude Goretta. They are not as well known, but now is a good time to explore their work a bit more...

https://www.czechpostergallery.com/vaclav-vorlicek-1913-2019/

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/21/claude-goretta-obituary

Carolee Schneemann - http://www.ubu.com/film/schneemann.html

She's kind of interesting even though I wasn't a devoted fan. A muh vagina feminist artist. She complained about having a hard time as a woman in her profession, but how much success is even possible when making experimental films and art? No one in the general public watches that stuff. I wonder how much of her feminist complaints were somewhat legitimate vs. a ploy to get attention for her work.

Anyway I like this video profile of Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson. The other two are getting old too. 20th century film personalities are rapidly leaving us. https://vimeo.com/245243561

>>14474

What's wrong with his assertion? While the use of certain phrases does seem unorthodox he did bring a valid point: How much can someone fling gender criticism on a field where experimentation is the objective and lack of mainstream attention, or even established "art house" publishing, is rare?

Maybe some people can when we add the suspicious factors that take play in the auctioning and promotion of said art, but that usually just falls under good old nepotism heavily mixed with money laundering schemes.

And to make this somewhat on topic, i know this is not the board to place this but had to post that Dick fucking Dale died in the 16th of March. While perhaps not the absolute creator, he definitely was The Man in the Surf Rock guitar field, the most notable part of the genre and certainly one of the last icons of the Americana and Jukebox imagery.

As much of a guitar revolutionary as Hendrix, dude was also half-slav, half-classic arab. Interesting but somewhat obvious when we hear his musical influence.

>>14474

/pol/ is a little unhinged these days, talking themselves into mass murder, but I'm curious which part of that post you disagree with? Your zero effort reply gave no details.

I don't think Carolee Schneemann's work was unjustly lacking acclaim. She was well-regarded in film and art circles. It's possible some crappy artists surpassed her, but better artists also had less acclaim than her.

How much more successful should she have been?

ID politics is a way to get noticed. I was merely wondering if she used it to her advantage. In the last five years there's been plenty of cynical "woke" posturing for career advancement.

Agnes Varda

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/agnes-varda-dead-pioneering-filmmaker-french-new-wave-was-90-1096071

<Bibi Andersson, a Swedish actress whose portrayals of chaste schoolgirls, beguiling young women and tormented wives made her a muse and frequent collaborator of filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, most notably in “The Seventh Seal,” “Wild Strawberries” and “Persona,” died April 14 in Stockholm. She was 83.

Rutger Hauer

Son of busy drama teachers, he was raised by private nannies and relatives until he ran out in his teenage years to the sea. After a year he returned and worked various odd jobs while finishing school by night, then he joined an acting school at college.

He seems to have finished it and joined an experimental acting group for a couple of years until Paul Verhoeven, fresh from a series of documentaries and one even winning an award for a military documentary, found him and offered a job for his new ventures at Dutch television in a series so-called Floris, man was 25 at this point.

The series was a success and established both in firm ground, later they collaborated in perhaps a couple of Netherlands' most famous projects internationally: 1973's Turks Fruit, 1975's Keetje Tippel and 1977's Soldaat van Oranje.

After the international release of the latter, along with Verhoeven fighting with the national media and producers (concluding with his famous revenge in form of a movie years later) Hauer jumped the pond and found himself in international projects like 1981's Nighthawk and 1982's Blade Runner.

The man purportedly had a habit of picking roles depending solely if he liked the character and if he could potentiate its traits, giving place to memorable roles in big movies or awkwardly strong performances in direct2video projects. Movies like 1986's The Hitcher, 1989's Blind Fury and 1992's Split Second just like 1988's La Leggenda del Santo Bevitore are example of this.

Man was also informally known as one of the few actors who insisted on portraying german SS units as any other kind of soldier, and if anything more refined if we are to go by his SS roles which were more than a couple; this grounded obvious industry controversy and the mythical "punitive" projects mentioned in contemporary urban legends regarding people who are against vilification. Truth or not this fella worked well in the vast majority of his movies, which made him the most famous dutch actor around.