Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

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==

DJ Casper of “Cha Cha Slide”:

RIP DJ Casper, whose “Cha Cha Slide” has been an immeasurable and integral part of seemingly every inter-generational celebration I’ve ever attended https://t.co/vx11XlkiF4

— Leor Galil (@imLeor) August 8, 2023

1959 Spanish Tour De France winner Felice Bahamontes, 95

https://news.italy24.press/sports/759443.html

Federico! (Belgian news site where I read it says Felice)

Jamie Reid.

https://louderthanwar.com/jamie-reid-dies-at-76/

Sixto Rodriguez, 81.

Next doors cat Caspar had to see the vet for the last time.

Not a good week for Caspars!

Doreen Mantle, sitcom actress and Bosom Manor alumni best known as Mrs Warboys on One Foot In The Grave.

how long ago was I saying all the main cast of One Foot In The Grave were still alive? Maybe a month or two ago?

David LaFlamme, violinist/singer of It's A Beautiful Day, 82

https://bestclassicbands.com/david-laflamme-obituary-8-8-23/

according to Drudge, Robbie Robertson

Oh shit

Really? It looks like he just tweeted 5 hours ago. But could have been scheduled I guess.

Didn't realize until just now that Sixto Rodriguez was that Rodriguez. RIP.

But could have been scheduled I guess.

Robbie Robertson's to-do list for 9 Aug 2023:

800 - tweet
1300 - die

Drudge doesn't actually link to a story

Wikipedia moved Robertson to "died" status.

who are the ghouls rushing to update wiki pages? it's weird