A24 4,338 Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 Wasn't he just a zombie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,534 Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 Wouldn't know. I've never seen a single second of the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,338 Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 The series turned into a joke anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,508 Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Very sorry to hear that Monica Vitti has passed away. Antonioni is one of my favourite directors (seen all his films), and Vitti was his great Muse. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,534 Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 Your starter for 10; who has died today? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,368 Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 Doug Trumbull, VFX Legend, Has Passed Away Naïve Old Fart, Marian Schedenig, bruce marshall and 2 others 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,338 Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters, Blade Runner, Star Trek TMP, The Tree Of Life, ... R.I.P, Douglas. Chen G. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chen G. 3,949 Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 Truly one of the greatest piooneers of special effects and trick-photography in cinema history. Will be missed. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,534 Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 8 minutes ago, AC1 said: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters, Blade Runner, Star Trek TMP, The Tree Of Life... ... Silent Running, Brainstorm... That he didn't win the Oscar for Blade Runner, is criminal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,395 Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 I'm celebrating the Maestro's birthday when I got the email about this. This is sad news. I guess I'll be watching the end of Close Encounters today. RIP, Mr. Trumbull. A visionary in a time of visionaries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,338 Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 Oddly enough his resume is rather short ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chen G. 3,949 Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 But of the most extremly high pedigree! Its wild that the last thing he did was the recent Lord of the Rings trailer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,534 Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 ... and to think that Julia Phillips almost made a pass, at him. He dodged a bullet, there . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,395 Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/robert-blalack-dead-star-wars-visual-effects-1235088279/ Sad that his death is going to be completely overshadowed by Trumbull. I know Star Wars is just a movie (really I do) but the talent that coalesced in that moment in many ways changed the world. Certainly they changed movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,338 Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 Never heard of this guy. I guess the only SFX wizards that I know by name (and I'm sure I'm forgetting a name or two) are Trumbull, John Dykstra and Richard Yuricich (who actually did the most in Blade Runner), ... all old school FX wizards. I'm totally not familiar with the new SFX hot shots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,508 Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 1 minute ago, AC1 said: Never heard of this guy. I guess the only SFX wizards that I know by name (and I'm sure I'm forgetting a name or two) are Trumbull, John Dykstra and Richard Yuricich (who actually did the most in Blade Runner), ... all old school FX wizards. I'm totally not familiar with the new SFX hot shots. Ray Harryhausen turns in his grave! But yeah -- I was not familiar with Blalack either. So many behind-the-scenes STAR WARS folks I'm not familiar with. Sorry to hear of his passing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,338 Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 4 minutes ago, Thor said: Ray Harryhausen turns in his grave! Sure, the stop-motion king, but he was before my time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,534 Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 14 hours ago, AC1 said: Never heard of this guy. I guess the only SFX wizards that I know by name (and I'm sure I'm forgetting a name or two) are Trumbull, John Dykstra and Richard Yuricich (who actually did the most in Blade Runner), ... all old school FX wizards. Derek Meddings; Nick Alder; Brian Johnson: Ken Ralston; Dennis Muren; David Dryer; Con Pederson; Harrison Ellenshaw; Peter Ellenshaw; Sid Dutton; Albert Whitlock; A.D. Flowers; Greg Jein; Glen Robinson; Frank Van Der Veer; Scott Farrar; Dennis and Robert Skotak ; Richard Edlund. There's a few names to be going on with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,395 Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 TBH I wasn't familiar with him either. NOF: nice that you included BOTH Ellenshaws. 😎 Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,534 Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 ... Robert Legato; Caroleen Green; Chris Evans; Michael Pangrazio; Phil Tippett; Thaine Morris; Matthew Yuricich... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,338 Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 You must have worked in the FX industry, Richard, or at least have a great passion for it! Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,534 Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 RIP, Ian MacDonald, co-founder of King Crimson (edit)...and Foreigner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 "McDonald and Giles" one of the great deep cut prog rock albums! RIP Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,338 Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 20 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said: RIP, Ian MacDonald, co-founder of King Crimson Just a few days ago I discovered that the drummer on 'Sides' by Anthony Phillips is early King Crimson drummer Michael Giles. His drumming is completely nuts! Ian McDonald also started Foreigner, right? Not a fan of that one. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,534 Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 I don't mind Foreigner. Waiting For A Girl Like You is an exceptional song. MacDonald had left, by then, but Thomas Dolby, and Larry Fast were drafted in. SIDES is not bad. WISE AFTER THE EVENT, THE GEESE AND THE GHOST are better. 1984 is outstanding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,338 Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 52 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said: I don't mind Foreigner. 1984 is outstanding. Two shocking statements, Richard! It was Invisible Men and 1984 that stopped me from further buying any Anthony Phillips LPs. I really don't like these two. To me The Geese And The Ghost stands miles above all the others. It was the first Anthony Phillips album that I bought and it's one of my all-time favorite albums, one that I will certainly take with me when Jay and Ricard ban me to a desert island. It has a kind of melancholy for a medieval place and time that never existed and I really love that. Can't find that feeling anywhere else. Back in the day, I loved Wise After The Event (after getting used to Ant's voice of which, if I'm honest, I'm not a big fan of) and Sides, but they are much more song oriented than The Geese And The Ghost. These days I actually enjoy Sides more (again, those 2 prog track with Michael Giles! WTF! Plus, 'I Want Your Love' is a perfect love song that can stand next to anything Paul Simon has ever written) then Wise After The Event but it back then it was the other way around. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,534 Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 I love any Anthony Phillips, even INVISIBLE MEN, but 1984 is his (for me) masterpiece. Foreigner aren't bad. When the complete history of rock is written, they'll be a footnote, but a pleasant one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,338 Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 6 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said: I love any Anthony Phillip Oh yeah? What about Private Parts & Pieces 1 & 2? Or Field Days? 6 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said: 1984 is his (for me) masterpiece. It's his Platinum but The Geese And The Ghost is his Tubular Bells. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,534 Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 As I said: "I love any Anthony Phillips". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,395 Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 What is the point of this thread if you people don't tell me that Howard "Doctor Johnny Fever" Hessman passed away?!? https://youtu.be/6TdR80F6Vo0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovygoth666 670 Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 https://apnews.com/article/ivan-reitman-dead-d67947aa895371cd9f5840e6e9339440?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter Ivan Reitman, director of Ghostbusters 1 & 2' Meatballs and Stripes has passed away. Raiders of the SoundtrArk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JNHFan2000 2,966 Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 3 hours ago, Groovygoth666 said: https://apnews.com/article/ivan-reitman-dead-d67947aa895371cd9f5840e6e9339440?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter Ivan Reitman, director of Ghostbusters 1 & 2' Meatballs and Stripes has passed away. Very sad to hear bruce marshall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 RIP Ivan Reitman Kindergarten Cop was his best movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 PJ O'Rourke, one of my favorite writers/satirists since I was a teen, died today. He was always funny and always an interesting perspective, even when I disagreed with his take. Like so many lame nerds, I first discovered him via the NPR show Wait Wait Don't Tell me, on which he was a frequent panellist. He was one of the few right-of-center voices to have a long-time home at the radio network. https://www.npr.org/2022/02/15/1080941812/satirist-p-j-orourke-panelist-on-nprs-wait-wait-dont-tell-me-dies-at-74 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 Reitman's family fled the NAZIS. The amount of exiled Jewish talent that ended up in Canada and USA is staggering. Russian Jews were the first and largest wave. Imagine what their cultures might have been.... Btw I just watched the DVD of THE WOLF MAN which features an interview with German- Jewish refugee Curt Siodmak. Rip IR Groovygoth666 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,363 Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 Trumbull was a genius ... recently-ish rewatched Close Encounters, and those UFO FX still REALLY hold up. Amongst many movies, Reitman of course brought us Ghostbusters and bless him for that. Only bit of PJ O'Rourke I ever read was The Bachelor Home Companion, but damn it was funny. R.I.P. to all three. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,395 Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 I had no idea Reitman directed Dave. And I know it's not regarded as a "good film" but at the time I really like Six Days Seven Nights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,534 Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 2 hours ago, Tallguy said: I had no idea Reitman directed Dave. And I know it's not regarded as a "good film" but at the time I really like Six Days Seven Nights. If memory serves, there was quite the controversy surrounding the release of 6D7N. Wasn't this the time that Amy Heche chose to come out? Also, not a popular choice, but...I like LEGAL EAGLES. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,363 Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 Ah yes ... back at a time when the co-lead of a romcom adventure flick revealing that they were gay made studio execs go a whiter shade of pale as they thought about the effect on the box-office in the more conservative states . Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,534 Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 Hee, hee. #In olden days, a woman coming out, was not the thing to shout about, now, Heaven knows, anything goes# Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,395 Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 My memory is thankfully fuzzy. But the controversy (as much as there was) was that Heche was riding the coat tails of her relationship with Elen Degeneres to larger stardom. I didn't care, it was a Harrison Ford movie! I always liked Ford in comedies. It beat the hell out of his super serious / noble Jack Ryan / Richard Kimble / President Whoever roles that he fell into (and made LOTS of money with). bruce marshall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,363 Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 He is, of course, very good at 'action hero with a funny side' (Han and Indy, and arguably Hollywood Homicide). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,534 Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 R.I.P., Gary Brooker Tallguy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 Sad news for fans of hard rock. Mark Lanegan died today at the age of 57. He was the lead singer for the band Screaming Trees and he recorded a few duet albums I liked very much with Isobel Campbell, but I'll always remember him first and foremost for his collaborations with Queens of the Stone Age. He's singing lead on this absolute classic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,368 Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 Oh no that sucks, Mark Lanegan is great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 9 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said: R.I.P., Gary Brooker Oh man! I just commented on him Rip GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,395 Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 RIP Sally Kellerman. Hot Lips to some, Silver Eyes to others. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,534 Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 She was sexier than Loretta Swit, but Swit made the role her own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,338 Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 That reminds me, I really need to watch this movie again. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,534 Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 Directed by Ulu Grosbard, who made the woefully underrated STRAIGHT TIME. A24 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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