Throwing subtlety aside, Hounded is a straight-up lampoon of the kind of snooty toffs that believe the world is their birthright.
People have been intrigued by the concept of humans hunting humans ever since Richard Connell published his influential short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, in 1924. Almost every iteration of the media it inspired over the last 100 years has carried through an element of class disparity between hunter and prey, used originally to highlight the barbarity of hunting animals. Hounded is the…
Roger Corman passed away recently, at 98. He was a powerhouse of cinema. His own movies, of which he directed more than 50, were all cheap B-movies. The films he produced (nearly 400) were much of the same. Yet, he used his position to give new players a chance to get some experience. Martin Scorsese, Jack Nicholson, Peter Bogdanovich, Sylvester Stallone, Robert DeNiro, David Carradine, Peter Fonda, Sandra Bullock, Tommy Lee Jones, Dennis Hopper, Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Joe Dante, James Cameron and dozens upon dozens of more people got their start with Corman. He also handled distribution for a lot of foreign films that other companies passed on, including work by Kurosawa, Truffeau, Fellini and Ingmar Bergman. It's not a stretch at all to say that the face of cinema would be completely different without him; the last 50 years of movies owes a huge debt to Roger Corman.
If you are going to watch one of his films I'd suggest:
Masque of the Red Death
The Little Shop of Horrors
X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes
A Bucket of Blood
These are all low budget films but they've got fun ideas and are easy to watch. Just a lot of fun.
On November 14th, the @criterioncollection is releasing a standalone 4K blu-ray of The Last Picture Show by Peter Bogdanovich!
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
4K digital restoration of the director’s cut, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the film and special features
Texasville (1990), the sequel to The Last Picture Show, presented in both the original theatrical version and a black-and-white version of Peter Bogdanovich’s director’s cut, produced in collaboration with cinematographer Nicholas von Sternberg
Two audio commentaries, featuring Bogdanovich and actors Cybill Shepherd, Randy Quaid, Cloris Leachman, and Frank Marshall
Three documentaries about the making of the film
Q&A with Bogdanovich from 2009
Screen tests and location footage
Introduction to Texasville featuring Bogdanovich, Shepherd, and actor Jeff Bridges
Excerpts from a 1972 television interview with filmmaker François Truffaut about the New Hollywood
Trailers
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by film critic Graham Fuller and excerpts from an interview with Bogdanovich about Texasville, with a new introduction by Bogdanovich biographer Peter Tonguette
'Targets' – Peter Bogdanovich begins on Criterion Channel and free on Hoopla
Old-school horror meets the new face of the real American terror in Targets (1968).
The debut feature from director Peter Bogdanovich fictionalizes the true story of Charles Whitman, the sniper who killed 17 people on a shooting rampage in in Texas in 1966, and winds it through the story of an aging horror actor (Boris Karloff playing “Byron Orlok”) who wants to retire because his brand of…
Targets will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on May 16 via The Criterion Collection. Sister Hyde designed the cover art for the 1968 crime thriller.
Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon) writes and directs. Boris Karloff, Tim O'Kelly, Nancy Hsueh, James Brown, and Sandy Baron star. Roger Corman produces.
Targets has been newly restored in 2K, supervised by Bogdanovich, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. Special features are listed below.
Special features:
Audio commentary by writer-director Peter Bogdanovich (2003)
Introduction by writer-director Peter Bogdanovich (2003)
Interview with filmmaker Richard Linklater (new)
Excerpts from an interview with production designer Polly Platt (1983)
Booklet with an essay by critic Adam Nayman and excerpts from an interview with Peter Bogdanovich from Eric Sherman and Martin Rubin’s 1969 book The Director’s Event
Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in the startling debut feature from Peter Bogdanovich. Produced by Roger Corman, this chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror-movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man (Tim O’Kelly) on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles. Charged with provocative ideas about the relationship between mass media and mass violence, Targets is a model of maximally effective filmmaking on a minimal budget and a potent first statement from one of the defining voices of the American New Wave.
i was tagged by the wonderful maddie @leonardcohenofficial to post the posters from my favorite new-to-me watches of the year!! (in purely aesthetic order)
rope - alfred hitchcock (1948)
sunset boulevard - billy wilder (1950)
deep end - jerzy skolimowski (1970)
i’m not there - todd haynes (2007)
brewster mccloud - robert altman (1970)
carol - todd haynes (2015)
ladies and gentlemen, the fabulous stains - lou adler (1982)
what’s up doc? - peter bogdanovich (1972)
the effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds - paul newman (1972)
i'll tag @frogeye-pierce @thebuffalospringfeild @iwrotemrtambourineman and @juliebarnes!!!!
i only made it through half my goal of 100 new-to-me movies this year (life was. crazy) but the 52 i did watch will be under the cut!
edge of the city - martin ritt (1957)
the grand budapest hotel - wes anderson (2014)
licorice pizza - paul thomas anderson (2021)
dazed and confused - richard linklater (1993)
brewster mccloud - robert altman (1970)
the tragedy of macbeth - joel coen (2021)
my own private idaho - gus van sant (1991)
my beautiful laundrette - stephen frears (1985)
dead reckoning - john cromwell (1947)
keep off my grass! - shelley berman (1975)
raising arizona - joel & ethan coen (1987)
top hat - mark sandrich (1935)
the man who fell to earth - nicolas roeg (1976)
chicago - rob marshall (2002)
the blues brothers - john landis (1980)
little miss sunshine - jonathon dayton & valerie faris (2006)
sunset boulevard - billy wilder (1950)
i'm not there - todd haynes (2007)
love & mercy - bill pohlad (2014)
walk hard - jake kasdan (2007)
mysterious skin - gregg akari (2004)
whip it - drew barrymore (2009)
sophie scholl: die letzten tage - marc rothemund (2005)
when harry met sally - rob reiner (1989)
the watermelon woman - cheryl dunye (1996)
shiva baby - emma seligman (2020)
juno - jason bateman (2007)
carol - todd haynes (2015)
what's up doc? - peter bogdanovich (1972)
the philadelphia story - george cukor (1946)
die fälscher - stefan ruzowitzky (2007)
but i'm a cheerleader - jamie babbit (1999)
the twilight saga: eclipse - david slade (2010) <- THIS WAS NOT MY CHOICE but it was technically new to me. i want to emphasize my friend forced me to watch this with her
velvet goldmine - todd haynes (1998)
magical mystery tour - bernard knowles & the beatles (1967)
the shape of water - guillermo del toro (2017)
all that heaven allows - douglas sirk (1955)
i was a male war bride - howard hawks (1949)
the effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds - paul newman (1972)
ladies and gentlemen, the fabulous stains - lou adler (1982)
the breakfast club - john hughes (1985)
airplane! - jerry & david zucker & jim abrahams (1980)
maleficent - robert stromberg (2014) <- twilight friend pick lmfao
chi-raq - spike lee (2015)
a league of their own - penny marshall (1992)
rope - alfred hitchcock (1948)
pearl - ti west (2022)
get out - jordan peele (2017)
one cut of the dead - shinichiro ueda (2017)
deep end - jerzy skolimowski (1970)
the hours and times - christopher munch (1991) <- random number generator decided my gay john lennon fate with this one :/
Here is Part 3 of my “Best Picture My Way” series. The last two are found here. My stipulations can be found in Part 1.
For convenience sake, I’ll relay this message. For Best Picture, I’m only gonna list the nominated producer for newly added films (here’s the Wikipedia page for the rest). I will mostly go with the ones credited as “produced by” or “p.g.a.” (if the latter is shown) on IMDB as the nominees. Limit is five.
Also, if you’re wondering why there are more years listed here than the other two, that’ll be answered in the next part.
1951
Rashomon - Minoru Jingo
Ace in the Hole - Billy Wilder
A Place in the Sun
Strangers on a Train - Alfred Hitchcock
A Street Called Desire
1952
High Noon
Forbidden Games - Robert Dorfmann
Singing in the Rain - Arthur Freed
Moulin Rogue
The Quiet Man
1953
Roman Holiday
From Here to Eternity
Shane
The Big Heat - Robert Arthur
The Stalag 17 - Billy Wilder
1954
On the Waterfront (still)
Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock
The Caine Mutiny
Dial M for Murder - Alfred Hitchcock
Johnny Guitar - Nicholas Ray
1955
Marty (still)
The Night of the Hunter - Paul Gregory
Rebel Without a Cause - David Weisbart
The Long Grey Line - Robert Arthur
Mister Roberts
1956
Tea and Sympathy - Pandro S. Berman
The Ten Commandments
Giant
The Killing - James B. Harris
The Searchers - Patrick Ford
1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai (still)
12 Angry Men
Nights of Cabiria - Dino De Laurentiis
Witness for the Persecution
The Seventh Seal - Allan Ekelund
1958
Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock
Mon Oncle - Jacques Tati
Touch of Evil - Albert Zugsmith
Auntie Mame
The Defiant Ones
1959
Ben-Hur (still)
Anatomy of a Murder
North by Northwest - Alfred Hitchcock
Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder
The Diary of Anne Frank
1960
The Apartment (still)
Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock
Elmer Gantry
The Magnificent Seven - John Sturges
The Alamo
1961
West Side Story (still)
Through a Glass Darkly - Allan Ekelund
The Hustler
Judgment at Nuremberg
Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Martin; Jurow; Richard Shepherd
1962
Lawrence of Arabia (still)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Mutiny on the Bounty
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - Willis Goldbeck
The Longest Day
1963
8 1/2 - Angelo Rizzoli
The Great Escape - John Sturges
Lillies of the Field
America, America
Cleopatra
1964
Mary Poppins
Dr. Strangelove
My Fair Lady
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - Mag Bodard
Woman in the Dunes - Kiichi Ichikawa; Tadashi Ono
1965
The Sound of Music (still)
Doctor Zhivago
A Patch of Blue - Pandro S. Berman; Guy Green
Darling
Ship of Fools
1966
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woof?
A Man for All Seasons
The Professionals - Richard Brooks
The Sand Pebbles
A Man and A Woman - Claude Lelouch
1967
Persona - Ingmar Bergman
The Graduate
The Jungle Book - Walt Disney
In The Heat of the Night
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
1968
2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick
Oliver!
Funny Girl
The Lion in Winter
Rosemary’s Baby - William Castle
1969
Midnight Cowboy (still)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Z
The Wild Bunch - Phil Feldman
Easy Rider - Peter Fonda
1970
Patton (still)
M*A*S*H
Five Easy Pieces
Love Story
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion - Marina Cicogna; Daniele Senatore
1971
The French Connection (still)
The Last Picture Show
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - Mitchell Brower; David Foster
A Clockwork Orange
Fiddler on the Roof
1972
The Godfather (still)
The Emigrants
Cabaret
The Heartbreak Kid - Edgar J. Scherick
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - Serge Silberman
Tim Holt in The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Richard Bennett, Orson Welles (voice). Screenplay: Orson Welles. Cinematography: Stanley Cortez. Production design: Albert S. D’Agostino. Film editing: Robert Wise. Music: Bernard Herrmann.
So much has been written about the mishandling and mutilation of Orson Welles's second feature film that it's hard to see The Magnificent Ambersons that we have without pining for the one we lost. What we have is a fine family melodrama with a truncated and sentimental happy ending and an undeveloped and poorly integrated commentary on the effects of industrialization on turn-of-the-20th-century America. We also have some of the best examples of Welles's genius at integrating performances, production design, and cinematography -- all of which Welles supervised to the point of micromanagement. The interior of the Amberson mansion is one of the great sets in Hollywood film. Welles used the set as a grand stage, exploiting the three levels of the central staircase memorably with the help of Stanley Cortez's deep-focus camerawork. Welles later told Peter Bogdanovich that Frank Lloyd Wright, who was Anne Baxter's grandfather, visited the set and hated it: It was precisely the kind of domestic architecture that he had spent his career trying to eliminate, which, as Welles said, was "the whole point" of the design. As for the performances, Agnes Moorehead is superb as the spinster aunt, Fanny Minafer, especially in the "kitchen scene," a single long take in which her nephew, George (Tim Holt), scarfs down strawberry shortcake as she worms out of him the information that Eugene Morgan (Joseph Cotten) has renewed his courting of George's widowed mother, Isabel (Dolores Costello). The news is especially painful for Fanny, who had hopes of attracting Eugene herself. Holt, an underrated actor, holds his own here and elsewhere -- he is, after all, the central character, the spoiled child whose selfishness ruins the chances for happiness of so many of the film's characters. We can mourn the loss of Welles's cinematic flourishes that were apparently cut from the film, but to my mind the chief loss is the effective integration of the theme initiated when Eugene, who has made his fortune developing the automobile, admits that the industrial progress it represents "may be a step backward in civilization" and that automobiles are "going to alter war and they're going to alter peace." Welles was speaking from his own life, as Patrick McGilligan observes in his book Young Orson. Welles's father, Dick Welles, had been involved in developing automobile headlights -- the very thing in which Fanny invests and loses her inheritance -- and was the proud driver of the first automobile on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, Welles's home town. The Magnificent Ambersons would have been much richer if Welles had been able to make the statement about the automobile that he later told Bogdanovich was central to his concept of the film.
39. "kolobok" (1956, davydov) / 1st viewing / file
40. when tomorrow comes (1939, stahl) / 1st viewing / file
41. "rendezvous" (1976, lelouch) / 1st viewing / museum of home video stream
42. "my name is oona" (1971, nelson) / 1st viewing / museum of home video stream
43. "back to the future predicts 9/11" (2015, alexander) / 1st viewing / museum of home video stream
44. "mondo elvis" (1984, corboy) / 2nd viewing / museum of home video stream
45. "the attitude factor" (1981, parker) / 2nd viewing / museum of home video stream
46. "the ugly little boy" (1977, morse / thompson) / 1st viewing / museum of home video stream
47. "invasion of the aluminum people" (1980, boone) / 1st viewing / museum of home video stream
48. passage à l'acte (1993, arnold) / 1st viewing / museum of home video stream
49. only angels have wings (1939, hawks) / 2nd viewing / dcp, brattle theatre
50. the talk of the town (1942, stevens) / 1st viewing / dcp, brattle theatre
51. the last picture show (1971, bogdanovich) / 3rd viewing / columbia classics 4k
52. the train (1965, frankenheimer) / 2nd viewing / kino lorber 4k
53. the lego batman movie (2017, mackay) / 1st viewing / blu-ray
54. no sex last night (1996, calle and shepard) / 1st viewing / le cinema club
55. barry lyndon (1975, kubrick) / 2nd viewing / 35mm, brattle theatre
56. ladies of leisure (1930, capra) / 2nd viewing / file
57. the raid (2011, evans) / 2nd viewing / 4K
58. misery (1990, reiner) / no idea what viewing / scream factory blu-ray
59. the whisperers (1967, forbes) / 1st viewing / file
60. thinner (1996, holland) / 2nd viewing / blu-ray
61. the song of the scarlet flower (1938, tulio) / 1st viewing / file
62. the curse (2024, fielder & safdie) / 1st viewing / paramount w/ showtime
63. red lips (1995, farmer) / 1st viewing / agfa blu-ray
64. video diary of a lost girl (2012, denniberg) / 1st viewing / agfa blu-ray
65. drugstore cowboy (1989, van sant) / 2nd viewing / criterion channel
66. "beanstalk bunny" (1955, jones) / 35mm, brattle theatre
67. "kit for kat" (1948, freleng) / 35mm, brattle theatre
68. "the bee-deviled bruin" (1949, jones) / 35mm, brattle theatre
69. "robin hood daffy" (1958, jones) / 35mm, brattle theatre
70. "daffy duck hunt" (1949, mckimson) / 35mm, brattle theatre
71. "piker's peak" (1957, freleng) / 35mm, brattle theatre
72. "wet hare" (1962, mckimson) / 35mm, brattle theatre
73. "now, hare this" (1958, mckimson) / 35mm, brattle theatre
74. "water, water every hare" (1952, jones) / 35mm, brattle theatre
75. "bill of hare" (1962, mckimson) / 35mm, brattle theatre
76. "knighty knight bugs" (1958, freleng) / 35mm, brattle theatre
77. muppets from space (1998, hill) / 2nd viewing / blu-ray
78. josie and the pussycats (2001, kaplan & elfont) / no idea what viewing / criterion channel
79. the big house (1930, hill) / 4th viewing / file
80. liar liar (1997, shadyac) / 2nd viewing / shout factory blu-ray
81. no country for old men (2007, coen brothers) / 2nd viewing / paramount plus
82. "the big snooze" (1946, clampett) / looney tunes golden collection vol. 2
È morto all’età di ottantadue anni il grande attore americano, interprete di film quali Love Story di Arthur Hiller, Uomini selvaggi di Blake Edwards, Paper Moon - Luna di carta e Vecchia America di Peter Bogdanovich, Barry Lyndon di Stanley Kubrick, Driver, l’imprendibile di Walter Hill, Quell’ultimo ponte di Richard Attenborough e molti altri.
Nato a Los Angeles nell’aprile 1941, Charles Patrick Ryan O’Neal - meglio noto come Ryan O’ Neal -, figlio di un’attrice americana di origini irlandesi e per metà ebraiche ashkenazite e di uno scrittore e sceneggiatore di origini irlandesi ed inglesi, dopo alcune apparizioni - all’inizio degli anni Sessanta - in serie tv come Gli intoccabili, Il virginiano, Carovane verso il West, Perry Mason e La parola alla difesa, si fa conoscere dal grande pubblico recitando nella soap opera Peyton Place (1964-68) insieme ad una giovane Mia Farrow (la quale, di lì a breve, si sarebbe affermata con il celebre Rosemary’s Baby di Roman Polanski).
La notorietà arriva con l’interpretazione di Oliver Barrett IV in Love Story (1970), con Ali MacGraw e Ray Milland, e con cui ottiene una Nomination all’Oscar come Miglior Attore Protagonista, una nomination al Golden Globe, e il David di Donatello come Miglior Attore Straniero. Tale ruolo, visto anche l’enorme successo del film, è uno fra quelli per cui O Neal è maggiormente noto presso il cosiddetto “grande pubblico”.
Tuttavia, i suoi film più interessanti arriveranno negli otto/nove anni successivi: lo ricordiamo nel ruolo del giovane cowboy nel western Uomini selvaggi (1971) di Blake Edwards, con William Holden, in coppia con un’indiavolata Barbra Streisand nelle commedie Ma papà ti manda sola? (1972) di Peter Bogdanovich e Ma che sei tutta matta? (1979) di Howard Zieff, in Paper Moon – Luna di Carta (1973) di P. Bogdanovich, in cui recita con sua figlia – all’epoca bambina – Tatum O Neal, in Il ladro che venne a pranzo (1973) di Bud Yorkin, in Vecchia America (1976) di P. Bogdanovich, Quell’ultimo ponte (1977) di Richard Attenborough, Oliver’s Story (1978) di John Korty, e soprattutto in quelle che vengono considerate le due migliori performances della sua carriera: quella del cinico arrivista irlandese protagonista del celebre Barry Lyndon (1975) di Stanley Kubrick, tratto dal libro omonimo di William Makepeace Thackeray, e quella dell’abilissimo pilota automobilistico che viene ingaggiato dalle gang criminali per guidare le loro macchine e sfuggire agli inseguimenti della polizia in Driver, l’imprendibile (1978) di Walter Hill, con Isabelle Adjani e Bruce Dern.
Negli anni Settanta viene anche preso in considerazione per il ruolo - poi andato al giovane Al Pacino - di Michael Corleone in Il Padrino (1972) di Francis Ford Coppola e per quello - poi affidato a Sylvester Stallone - di Rocky Balboa in Rocky (1976) di John G. Avildsen.
Alla fine del decennio conosce Farrah Fawcett (1947-2009), all’epoca star del telefilm Charlie’s Angels (1975-79), che diventerà la sua compagna e con la quale lavorerà in vari film - fra cui Sacrificio d’amore (1989) di David Greene - e nella serie televisiva Good Sports (1991-92).
A partire dagli anni Ottanta la sua carriera comincia un lungo declino e non tornerà più ai livelli precedenti.
Fra gli altri film ricordiamo Il ranch della violenza (1962) di Arthur Hiller, con Charles Bronson e Richard Egan, I formidabili (1969) di Michael Winner, con Michael Crawford, Charles Aznavour e Stanley Baker, Jeans dagli occhi rosa (1981) di Andrew Bergman, con Mariangela Melato e Jack Warden, Vertenza inconciliabile (1984) di Charles Shyer, con Drew Barrymore, Sam Wanamaker ed una giovane Sharon Stone, Febbre di gioco (1985) di Richard Brooks, con Catherine Hicks, Giancarlo Giannini, Chad Everett e John Saxon, I duri non ballano (1987) di Norman Mailer, con Isabella Rossellini e Lawrence Tierney, Uno strano caso (1989) di Emile Ardolino, con Robert Downey Jr e Cybill Shepherd, Infedeli per sempre (1996) di Paul Mazursky,
Hollywood brucia (1997) di Alan Smithee, Zero Effect (1998) di Jake Kasdan, con Bill Pullman, The List (2000) di Sylvain Guy, con Ben Gazzara, People I Know (2002) di Daniel Argrant, con Al Pacino, Kim Basinger e Bill Nunn, Waste Land (2007) di Rebecca Chaney.
In epoche più recenti è apparso in Knight of Cups (2015) di Terrence Malick.
Attivo anche in televisione, fra il 2006 e il 2017 è apparso in oltre venti episodi della serie Bones (2005-2017), in cui interpreta il padre della protagonista, l’anatomo-patologa Temperance Brennan (interpretata da Emily Dechanel).
On June 6th, the @criterioncollection is releasing a 4K uhd-blu-ray upgrade of the all time classic Rules of the Game - with an first time new cover (see above):
The Rules of the Game
Considered one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners in which a weekend at a marquis’s country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances. The film has had a tumultuous history: it was subjected to cuts after the violent response of the audience at its 1939 premiere, and the original negative was destroyed during World War II; it wasn’t reconstructed until 1959. That version, which has stunned viewers for decades, is presented here.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New 4K restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray of the film with special features
Introduction to the film by director Jean Renoir
Audio commentary written by film scholar Alexander Sesonske and read by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
Comparison of the film’s two endings
Selected-scene analysis by Renoir historian Chris Faulkner
Excerpts from a 1966 French television program by filmmaker Jacques Rivette
Part one of Jean Renoir, a two-part 1993 documentary by film critic David Thompson
Video essay about the film’s production, release, and 1959 reconstruction
Interview with film critic Olivier Curchod
Interview from a 1965 episode of the French television series Les écrans de la ville with Jean Gaborit and Jacques Durand
Interviews with set designer Max Douy; Renoir’s son, Alain; and actor Mila Parély
PLUS: An essay by Sesonske; writings by Jean Renoir, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bertrand Tavernier, and François Truffaut; and tributes to the film by J. Hoberman, Kent Jones, Paul Schrader, Wim Wenders, Robert Altman, and others
'Paper Moon' – Conning their way through the Depression on HBO Max
Peter Bogdanovich was Hollywood’s golden boy in the early 1970s. His somber, black-and-white, small town drama The Last Picture Show (1971) earned eight Oscar nominations and took home two acting awards and What’s Up, Doc? (1972), his contemporary update of the screwball comedy, was a crowd-pleasing hit. For his next film, he paid tribute to the rural 1930s films of his hero, John Ford.
Paper…
21: Wilko Johnson, 75, English guitarist (Dr. Feelgood)/actor (‘Game Of Thrones’)
25: Irene Cara, 63, American singer (‘Flashdance’)/actress (‘Fame’)
30: Christine McVie, 79, English singer/songwriter/musician (Fleetwood Mac)
December
5: Kirstie Alley, 71, American actress (‘Cheers’)
Jim Stewart, 92, record producer/co-founder of Stax Records
6: Jet Black, 84, English drummer (The Stranglers)
9: Ruth Madoc, 79, English actress (‘Hi-De-Hi’)
10: J. J. Barnes, 79, American R&B singer
11: Angelo Badalamenti, 85, American film and TV composer (‘Blue Velver/’Twin Peaks’
13: Sol Amarfio, 84, Ghanaian drummer (Osibisa)
16: Rick Anderson, 75, American bass player (The Tubes)
17: Mike Hodges, 90, English screenwriter/director (‘Get Carter’/’Pulp’/’Flash Gordon’)
18: Terry Hall, 63, English singer (The Specials/Fun Boy Three)/songwriter (‘Our Lips Are Sealed’)
Martin Duffy, 55, English keyboard player (Felt/Primal Scream)
19: Sonya Eddy, 55, American actress (‘Barbershop’/’Daddy Day Care’/’Coach Carter’/’Seinfeld’)
20: Iain Templeton, English drummer (The La’s/Shack)
21: Harvey Jett, 73, American guitarist (Black Oak Arkansas)
22: Thom Bell, 79, Jamaican-born American artist/songwriter/arranger/producer (‘Betcha By Golly Wow’/’I’ll Be Around’/’You Are Everything’/’The Rubberband Man’/’La-La (Means I Love You’))
23: George Cohen, 83, English footballer (member of 1966 World Cup-winning side)