R.i.p 2010

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Another year.

No entrants as yet...

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Art Clokey


creator of "gumby" dies at 88, r.i.p.

i remember when i was a kid a man asked me if i wanted to see zombie, when he really said was gumby.i still watched the tape,lol

[neverending]

Art Clokey was a visionary and innovator. And the creator of some of the strangest images ever put on film. RIP Art.

[fortunato]

This guy made my mornings something to look forward to as a kid.
RIP.

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Director Eric Rohmer, one of the giants of modern French cinema, has died at age 89, his production company Campagnie Eric Rohmer said on Monday.



With other groundbreaking filmmakers, such as Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut, Rohmer was one of the founders of French New Wave cinema that in the 1950s and 1960s transformed French and world cinema forever.

In a career spanning nearly 60 years, Rohmer directed more than 50 feature films and shorts, for the big screen and television, becoming an international symbol for both what was good and bad about so-called art house films.

In movies such as My Night at Maud's (1969), Claire's Knee (1970) and Pauline at the Beach (1983), Rohmer depicted the behaviour and emotions of human beings, often in the grip of an irrational passion, in a style that conceded little to the demands of entertainment.

Talky, slow-moving, with few of the usual artifices of film-making, Rohmer's movies have legions of passionate fans and detractors.

"You have to see one of (Rohmer's movies), and if you kind of like that one, then you should see his other ones, but you need to see one to see if you like it," American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino once said in an interview.

Depending on the source, Rohmer was either born on March 21, 1920, as Maurice Henri Joseph Scherer, in the southern city of Tulle, or on April 4, 1920, as Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer in Nancy.

Asked why he took his assumed pseudonym, he replied, "It was a name I chose just like that, for no particular reason, only because I liked it."

At the age of 26, after having moved to Paris, he published his first and only novel, under a different pseudonym, Gilbert Cordier.

After working as a teacher of literature and a journalist, he found his life's calling at the legendary Cinematheque Francais, where he met some of his future collaborators in cinematic revolution.

He shot his first film in 1950. One year later, he began working on the Cahiers du Cinema, which became the mouthpiece and bible of the French New Wave. He served as editor-in-chief of the magazine from 1956 to 1963.

Rohmer's first major success, and the film that established him as a major international cinematic figure, was "My Night at Maud's", which was nominated for two Oscars and won several international prizes.

The numerous awards his films, directing and screenwriting have received include a Golden Lion at the 1986 Venice Film Festival, Silver Bears at the 1967 and 1983 Berlin Film Festivals and the 2000 National Society of Film Critics Awards for best foreign film.

[urgeok2]

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this is what you'd get if woody allen and donald sutherland had a kid.


pauline at the beach is the only movie i have/have seen by this guy. good film.

[fortunato]

What a loss. I couldn't believe this when I heard it on the radio today.
RIP.

[iSeymore]

Originally Posted by urgeok2

this is what you'd get if woody allen and donald sutherland had a kid.


pauline at the beach is the only movie i have/have seen by this guy. good film.

HAH. Briliant.

[newb]

Originally Posted by urgeok2

this is what you'd get if woody allen and donald sutherland had a kid.


pauline at the beach is the only movie i have/have seen by this guy. good film.

When I saw the picture I thought it was Robert Crumb.

[Elvis_Christ]

R.I.P Mr Reatard :(

Memphis Garage Rocker Jay Reatard Dead at 29

1/13/10, 5:02 pm EST

Memphis garage rocker Jay Reatard, who broke out last year thanks to Watch Me Fall, has died at the age of 29, Reatard’s label Matador Records confirmed. According to Memphis’ Commercial Appeal, Reatard was found dead in his Memphis home at 3:30 am this morning and reportedly died in his sleep. “We are devastated by the death of Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr., aka Jay Reatard. Jay was as full of life as anyone we’ve ever met, and responsible for so many memorable moments as a person and artist,” Matador Records said in a statement. “We’re honored to have known and worked with him, and we will miss him terribly.” Watch Reatard perform “Blood Visions” last month in Atlanta in the video above.

“Since 1998’s Teenage Hate, Memphian Jay “Reatard” Lindsey, 29, has spit enough pissed-off, low-fi garage punk to become DIY royalty,” Will Hermes wrote in his three-and-a-half star review of Watch Me Fall. “There’s also choral sugar, dub effects, sweet guitar cascades and mad hooks. On the majestic closer, alongside a sad cello, he insists, ‘There is no sun.’ With sound this blazingly bright, who needs it?”

In 2008, Beck recruited Reatard to record a cover of Modern Guilt’s “Gamma Ray” for the B side of that song’s single. For last year’s Record Store Day, Reatard’s “Hang Them All” was featured on a split 7” with Sonic Youth’s “No Garage.” Reatard also recently opened for the Pixies during their run of Doolittle concerts. On their Facebook page, the Pixies wrote “We want to express our condolences to the friends and family of Jay Reatard, on his sudden passing today.”