Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

that's the guy who tried to frame riker!

omg YES

John Gosling, 75, keyboard player for The Kinks in the 1970s

Awww, shame. No comment from Ray Davies I see... yet, I suppose.

RIP

His piano was really the key element in the perfect ramshackle feel of the records of that era, yet his playing was exemplary whether the song required a shambolic or elegant approach. First song that comes to mind when I think of him is "Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues", he conveys those supposedly incompatible feelings of jollity and despair.

Ray says: "Condolences to his wife Theresa and family. Rest in Peace dearest John."

*wipes away tears*

I recently watched the animated series Digman! (highly recommended, btw), and was very surprised to hear “Schooldays” prominently featured. It reminded me of how much Gosling brought to the band. R.I.P.

Unfortunately I can't find any clips of them playing "Have a Cuppa Tea" on the Old Grey Whistle Test on YouTube because he's the star of that performance. He was very definitely was a major asset to the band in the 70s.

Cellist-composer Tristan Honsinger, collaborator with Derek Bailey, Cecil Taylor, and the Ex, among many others.

Also played on this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJJl9hv-Zd0

Ah, fuck; I was hoping to interview Honsinger for my Taylor book. Oh, well.

Bram Moolenaar, creator and maintainer of the Vim text editor

actress Anita Carey, who was in Coronation Street, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads and lots of other stuff

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/aug/07/coronation-street-actor-anita-carey-dies-aged-75

rip william friedkin

William Friedkin (1935 — 2023) pic.twitter.com/MAMd6Nbaf7

— MUBI (@mubi) August 7, 2023

will cue up TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985) in his honour tonight

I'll probably pull out THE HUNTED.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyhj98e-EP4

A surefire way to to get very wasted very quickly is to take a shot every time he says "leather bar" in this Cruising making of doc:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YEVFlv3MEA

Friedkin's reaction to Refn calling Only God Forgives a masterpiece is hilarious pic.twitter.com/4Zc14YEzwg

— kyle 4kLD (@agnosoul) July 25, 2022

For me, as much as the other highlights are well observed, it still remains that final pre-credits roll shot of Vukovich driving up to Ruth's place once again. Utterly quotidian, also inescapable fate; death is almost certainly the only exit but neither knows when it will arrive.

I’m gutted. To Live and Die in L.A., Sorcerer, and Killer Joe have always meant so much to me. He was, I think, the last living director to have worked on Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Nat Segaloff’s biography of him, Hurricane Billy, is a hoot. It ends around 1989, but it’s packed with some incredible insights and quotes.

His 1985 Twilight Zone episode “Nightcrawlers” is a stunning work of art

I'll rep for Sorcerer. Someone should.

RIP.

Sorcerer has deservedly been reappraised and recognized as a classic. Very fortunate to have seen a gorgeous archival 35mm print about a decade ago. Tangerine Dream’s score changed cinema forever

Yep

Will rep once again for Sydney Tafler's performance as Goldberg in Friedkin's film of "The Birthday Party".

Sorcerer is excellent as hell. Saw it years and years back on VCR but caught a proper one-off screening at the local Alamo last year and that was a damn experience and a half. And both times, man, that final scene. He knew how to end films well, didn't he:

https://fiftieswesterns.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/pdvd016.png

One of the best Pinter adaptations. He directed an opera, but I don’t think he did any theatre

I hate that Friedkin added a fucking gunshot sound to the last shot of Sorcerer. Believe me, it wasn’t there! The audience is smart enough to know what happens

Bug and Killer Joe weren't at all bad.

Jade is.

The car chase in Jade is funny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbJ2p0l1npc

...but yes, BAD BAD MOVIE

Wow I literally just learned he directed this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP0_8J7uxhs

I don't remember the gunshot added to the end of Sorcerer. Maybe I blocked it out, but I don't think it's on the Blu-Ray (which I ordered the day it was announced a couple of years ago).

watched the French Connection just last week. still classic

Tangerine Dream’s score changed cinema forever

Strange, though, that he only used a few minutes of their recordings! Most of the music in the film is taken from Keith Jarrett's Hymns/Spheres.

Maybe I blocked it out, but I don't think it's on the Blu-Ray

I don't remember it from the screening last year.

The car chase in To Live and Die in L.A. is better than French Connection’s. The 18 wheeler’s cargo load jacknifing takes your breath away

It’s a masterpiece on every level. The scene with John Pankow and William Petersen in the briefing room after their incident with the Chinese man, with Pankow giving Petersen a “what the fuck have we done?” look while Petersen’s eyes show he is already thinking ten steps ahead is incredible

We're this far in and no mention of The Exorcist? Too obvious?

Also, I did not know (or did not remember) that he was married at one time to Jeanne Moreau.

i consider my life relatively privileged and coddled because i’ve never been on a billy friedkin set. rip

theres many ways of measuring your favourite director i guess but by quite a few if those ways, hes mine

incredible at transmitting a crackling insanity to the screen

love that that vid of him putting the one note pretentious dickhead Refn in his place - funny guy and so correct in this case.

ha I had to look up what Only God Forgives was.

Rest In Peace. What a giant.

Only God Forgives But Friedkin Doesn't.

That's a great interview and Refn keeps saying things like that the whole way but I don't think he's being totally serious

Maybe I blocked it out, but I don't think it's on the Blu-Ray

I don't remember it from the screening last year.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, August 7, 2023 1:01 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

On WTF, Friedkin says it was library audio of a truck backfiring, and then goes on to describe the 'Lady or the Tiger' inspiration for the (unseen) ending.

xpost I think it's partially his knowing riff on Friedkin's Fritz Lang interview. (This is probably an obvious conclusion.)

Carmen Xtravaganza

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cvil2cvOKY0/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==