Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

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

Maybe people are confusing the musician with the Spider-verse character, who was killed by Dr. Octopus.

If he died, I guarantee he did it on his own, with no help from others

Funny that he would now have to rely on guys like Levon to show him around, point out where the lockers are, how the meal plan works, etc.

No longer dead on wikipedia. It's like Schrodinger's obit.

I removed it.

It was posted by an unregistered user and didn't cite anything.

In the next world, Robbie will have to tell anecdotes about his life for the rest of eternity.

ok Variety has it now

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/robbie-robertson-dead-the-band-1235692172/

Only Garth now, and he's in pretty rough health I think

DJ Casper of “Cha Cha Slide”:

Johnny Hardwick, the voice of Dale Gribble from King of the Hill.

https://www.tmz.com/2023/08/10/king-of-the-hill-dale-johnny-hardwick-voice-actor-dead-dies/

Painter Bruce Marden, 84.

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

Painter Bruce Marden, 84.

― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Thursday, August 10, 2023 9:53 AM (twenty-five minutes ago)

probably Brice unless there's another notable octogenarian painter named Marden who I'm not aware of.

Please, no marden in the Obituary thread.

14 year old rapper Lil Tay is not dead, a hacker posted that on her socials, apparently. I don't know why that's in the papers here in Belgium but it is

Shit, Brice must've autocorrected to Bruce when I typed it.

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

Because I needed it spelled out - the subject of the documentary Searching for Sugar Man, about how he stopped making music (and was rumoured dead) after a few albums, but had a weird fame in South Africa that led to a couple of fans seeking him out and him eventually touring there for the first time.