Fuck
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 22 October 2020 00:52 (three years ago) link
Sad he’ll never get to see Georgie Minifer get his comeuppance. RIP loved reading his movie commentary.
― Boring, Maryland, Thursday, 22 October 2020 00:52 (three years ago) link
i didn't cry like this when my dad died
― mookieproof, Thursday, 22 October 2020 00:52 (three years ago) link
such an asshole on the board and such a sweetheart irl
lol xpost
― Un-fooled and placid (sic), Thursday, 22 October 2020 00:53 (three years ago) link
this is hard news. i only lived in brooklyn for a couple years, but Bill was a reliable friend. he would reach out to me, and ask if I wanted to see a movie (we watched several together, including a full viewing of Andrei Rublev) or catch a Mets game with him at Citi Field (especially when the Cardinals were in town). he was a good friend, very warm, very attentive, and always very witty. i think he would surprise a lot of you who never got to meet him, with his gentleness. i really valued his friendship. and he was really, really generous in listening to me go on at length about all sorts of naive thoughts on art and film and music, and taking me seriously. i hate to emphasize our age difference, but i always thought he was fatherly, in a way. like the way i would want someone to listen and care for me. crying a bit now, sorry.
RIP Bill.
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Thursday, 22 October 2020 00:53 (three years ago) link
Mookie I was seriously thinking about messaging you here to ask how he was just a couple hours ago !!!
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 22 October 2020 00:54 (three years ago) link
I’m just really glad I got to tell him how I felt in an email before he passed. I think I’d be even more of a mess right now if I didn’t. I wish we had some old FAP pictures from back in the day to share. I’m going to miss him.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, 22 October 2020 00:54 (three years ago) link
crying a bit now
me too
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Thursday, 22 October 2020 00:54 (three years ago) link
Reading this post is tough b/c for reasons I can't explain I got a premonition early this morning.
I met Bill seven or eight times, often in the company of KJB. In 2017 he came down to Miami for a baseball conference, and we enjoyed drinks and dinner and spent several fabulous hours together.
He's my movie sparring buddy and I'll miss him terribly.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 October 2020 00:55 (three years ago) link
yeah, i don't expect to either
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Thursday, 22 October 2020 00:55 (three years ago) link
xps yeah i was about to email him because he'd been unusually silent on the subject of the world series
ffs
― mookieproof, Thursday, 22 October 2020 00:55 (three years ago) link
i think he would surprise a lot of you who never got to meet him, with his gentleness.
this cannot be emphasized enough
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 22 October 2020 00:56 (three years ago) link
OK the tears are coming now
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, 22 October 2020 00:57 (three years ago) link
I always had a soft spot for this dude no matter what.Just gutted right now
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 22 October 2020 00:57 (three years ago) link
Bill Weber was an example of Catholic dialectical grace: fight tooth and nail, offer words of comfort you wouldn't think are possible.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 October 2020 00:57 (three years ago) link
really sad news, sorry to all who knew him irl
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Thursday, 22 October 2020 00:57 (three years ago) link
bill was one of the first ILXors i met IRL, we met up for drinks at beauty bar (he carried an anthology calendar so i'd know it was him). my last weekend before i left NYC for LA we went to see 'uncle boonmee' at NYFF together. i'm pretty sure the last time i saw him he, kevin, get bent and i went to a jack smith show in soho, then we all got drinks in a mostly empty irish pub afterwards and it was such a fun afternoon - it made me miss living in new york. i loved his sense of humor and his strong opinions about politics and i always wanted to know what he thought about new and repertory films that were out (we agreed more often than not). i'm heartbroken and i'm really gonna miss him. RIP buddy.
― donna rouge, Thursday, 22 October 2020 00:57 (three years ago) link
Very sad. I didn’t know him at all outside ILX, but I loved talking Jerry with him. And his politics were spot-on. I’ll miss him.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 22 October 2020 00:59 (three years ago) link
RIP you loveable crank.
― rb (soda), Thursday, 22 October 2020 00:59 (three years ago) link
RIP :-(
― brimstead, Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:01 (three years ago) link
damnit
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:01 (three years ago) link
fuck fuck fuck. privileged to have met him in person and slightly guilty that I'm behind on czech new wave films he nagged me about.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:02 (three years ago) link
we never met irl but we bonded over arguing whether Maddie in True Grit was a cunt or not (morbs for the affirmative, me for the negative), standup comedy & our shared love for Krassner’s JFK assassination hitpiece (who doesnt love the image of LBK skullfucking JFK’s eyesocket) ... i was so very fond of that kindly old cynic & will be over here crying for a while
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:02 (three years ago) link
xp elvis,
haha yeah, looking through my emails with him, i was laughing at
Feb 20 at the Walter Reade... I'm not crazy about the two Zukawski films I've seen, but all the Cool Kids like him.
https://www.filmlinc.org/films/on-the-silver-globe/
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:03 (three years ago) link
he was one of the first people I took notice of on ilx. he had a memorable screen name and was willing to engage earnestly with my naive film opinions
― Dan S, Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:04 (three years ago) link
A truly unique individual I’m glad to have met and kept in touch with outside the board. Even when he was being insufferable here, I could never really be mad at the guy. He was who he was... I’m honestly surprised by this news, I would have thought him too stubborn to die. RIP
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:05 (three years ago) link
RIP Bill – I will miss him a lot. I've typed and deleted a lot more, but -- I will miss him a lot.
― (show hidden tics) (WmC), Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:05 (three years ago) link
Ah, fuck. I was just thinking about him the other day since he'd been noticeably absent from some threads he usually popped in on. RIP Bill.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:06 (three years ago) link
arguing whether Maddie in True Grit was a cunt or not (morbs for the affirmative, me for the negative)
I'm with the good doctor on this one
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:08 (three years ago) link
that’s so sad, rip dr. morbius and condolences to everyone who loves him and will miss him
― estela, Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:08 (three years ago) link
Oh shit. I was hoping he would live to see the donor restrictions on The Day the Clown Cried expire. I'm going to miss him on the film threads.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:08 (three years ago) link
I just saw the news and I’m so bummed out
― jjjusten, Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:09 (three years ago) link
This is really fucking me up
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:10 (three years ago) link
a great, maddening, valuable and deeply, unseriously human presence. will be badly missed.
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:11 (three years ago) link
ah geez, Morbz was one of my fave people to hate Ronald Reagan with ... not that I'm in any way religious or believe in heaven or anything, or whether one has the ability to punch other dead people in the face, or communicate your belief that they are fucking pieces of shit ... but Bill, if you can read this, feel free to punch Ronald Reagan in the face and/or tell him that he is a fucking piece of shit.
― sarahell, Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:12 (three years ago) link
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, October 21, 2020 8:57 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i love this alfred
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:12 (three years ago) link
xpost cosign sarahell
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:14 (three years ago) link
Your posts, especially on film, were always a highlight ever since I started lurking here. Rest easy.
― knowing for certain the first touch of the light will finish you (fionnland), Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:14 (three years ago) link
Hope there's some justice wherever you are, buddy.
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:14 (three years ago) link
only knew him from here on ILX, but will miss him very much all the same... sincere condolences to his friends and family, RIP.
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:15 (three years ago) link
deems said it better than I could have said it. RIP.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:15 (three years ago) link
I never got to meet him (or any of you), but I'll repeat what I said on FB: One of the only curmudgeons I've ever seen that was a genuinely good person underneath it all.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:16 (three years ago) link
He was the last ILXor I saw IRL, right before lockdown. He’s probably the one I saw most.This sucks so much!!!
― Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:16 (three years ago) link
Oh man, this is sad. I met him twice: once in Chicago in 2007 and once in NYC in 2010. But I think of him foremost as a reliable (and ever-cantankerous) presence here. I'll miss seeing his name.
― jaymc, Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:16 (three years ago) link
We butted heads plenty over the years and he could drive me absolutely up the goddamn fuckin wall, but the guy seriously knew his shit, unlike 99% of humans out there, including myself. It was always clear that he deeply loved the things that he loved, including this place. Even when he was being poisonous I could always tell it was fundamentally bc he was mad the world wasnt a better place. I will always remember him.
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:17 (three years ago) link
This sucks.
R.I.P., good Doctor.
As I was just texting to Flappy: "I didn't always agree with him but always loved seeing what he'd say about whatever, and was always curious about his life. He was a major part of the firmament and will be missed."
― Everything's Blue In This Whorl (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:19 (three years ago) link
love morbs, this is terrible, RIP
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:20 (three years ago) link
I've learned more about film from this man, who I never met, than almost anyone else in my life. He was the #1 reason why I posted here. I can't believe I'll never get to meet him or talk about John Ford or Fassbinder again. Posts of his are burned in my brain. Fuck this
― flappy bird, Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:21 (three years ago) link
This was really good.
― Smike and Pmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 14 October 2023 02:39 (six months ago) link
i had to leave the service early to catch the last amtrak upstate for a close friend’s wedding. sorry i wasn’t able to hang out with some of you guys after i also regret not being able to thank Cathy after for putting this together and sharing the story of Bill’s life, it was wonderful to heari felt a lot of sadness honestly but i was very happy to be at lincoln center amid the film fest, it felt like the proper atmosphere to send Bill off. love ya pal
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 14 October 2023 14:43 (six months ago) link
I saw your name in the register but didn't know what you looked like so didn't introduce myself.
― Smike and Pmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 14 October 2023 15:30 (six months ago) link
I'm sorry I didn't get to know him. He's obviously missed.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 14 October 2023 20:13 (six months ago) link
A beautiful event last night. His sister Cathy organized a fitting tribute to an ultimately cuddly curmudgeon. Lots of reminiscing. Bill's niece sang three songs during which I had the most difficult time keeping it together. I finally got to meet James Redd and the Blacks and Ian! Not sure if this will work. But here's the cover of the program.https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/391746033_10120694681728800_728178855284367773_n.jpg?stp=cp6_dst-jpg
― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 15 October 2023 00:40 (six months ago) link
This?https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/391746033_10120694681728800_728178855284367773_n.jpg?stp=cp6_dst-jpg&_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=xLp6sc5SjgUAX-IGG3d&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.xx&oh=00_AfCxjtni7ydMCrvzhf1NfB0qx7lzp920A4de0y4W5SeE6Q&oe=652F4522
― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 15 October 2023 00:41 (six months ago) link
Ugh ok. I'll try when I'm back home. :(
Second time worked
― Smike and Pmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 October 2023 00:47 (six months ago) link
I got a bit teary whilst Cathy was speaking but tried to keep it closer to the Ozu level.
― Smike and Pmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 October 2023 02:21 (six months ago) link
Watching Transit now and started to think of him, partly because I know he liked Petzold and this film in particular, but mostly because the scene of Franz Rogowski fixing the kid’s radio reminded me of Cathy’s story about him taking apart the turntable with the screwdriver.
― Smike and Pmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 October 2023 04:46 (six months ago) link
Thanks to everyone who was able to go. I only met Bill in person once and don’t live anywhere nearby, but it’s good to hear things went well
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Sunday, 15 October 2023 14:40 (six months ago) link
very sad to have missed this too. i love the choice of venue.
― donna rouge, Sunday, 15 October 2023 17:42 (six months ago) link
Yes. Cathy said Bill “used his library card a lot.”
― Smike and Pmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 October 2023 17:53 (six months ago) link
And I namedropped you in my speech.
― Smike and Pmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 October 2023 17:54 (six months ago) link
Very nice to hear how things went well.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 15 October 2023 17:55 (six months ago) link
https://imgur.com/Al8Ab4C
I'm sorry I couldn't be there.
Was anyone here besides Morbs anticipating the donor restrictions on The Day the Clown expiring in 2024? I recently spoke to a Library of Congress employee about their plans for making this material available for viewing.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Sunday, 15 October 2023 23:29 (six months ago) link
Guess tomorrow is the day
― Smike and Pmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 October 2023 22:38 (five months ago) link
Pancake Rollcall!
<No syrup here tho>
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 21 October 2023 12:05 (five months ago) link
I’m in!
― Smike and Pmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 October 2023 14:15 (five months ago) link
just had some myself!
― donna rouge, Sunday, 22 October 2023 16:42 (five months ago) link
pcakes happening in the Veg household ✔️
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 22 October 2023 17:48 (five months ago) link
Bruno Walter mention in MAESTRO made me think of the memorial.
― Blecch’s POLLero (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 December 2023 18:34 (four months ago) link