Elie Wiesel at age 87: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/wo...t-87.html?_r=0
Elie Wiesel at age 87: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/wo...t-87.html?_r=0
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36693545
Robin Hardy, director of The Wickerman (the original, not that piece of shit remake) has died.
Michael Cimino, director of The Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate.
http://variety.com/2016/film/people-...te-1201808052/
holy shit, today is shit
I was going to post another link: http://www.thewrap.com/michael-cimin...or-dies-at-77/
I actually liked his work and was hoping he would get to do one more film. It sucks as I really think he is underrated and doesn't deserve the bad rap he got over Heaven's Gate. It's a flawed film but certainly spectacular. Here is a piece I wrote about him 2 years ago: https://cinemaaxis.com/2014/07/24/th...ichael-cimino/
Fuck you 2016.
Can't you just die already, 2016?
If the Holocaust had never happened, my Jewish ancestors would've never come to America and I wouldn't exist. I've always had a connection to the subject and from a very early age was instilled with a sense of its importance; it's always been a heavy subject for me that I've felt somewhat obligated to be aware of (I think everyone has a responsibility to know about these things and never forget them). His book Night was, for me as a young person when I first read it, an extremely impacting read, and I know I'm one of many who had that experience with it.
People like him were excellent reminders that no one can completely take the life or love out of others through hate and bigotry and he was an extremely important figure for the Jewish community. I find it extremely moving that he lived to 87 after spending his childhood in a society that was committed to guaranteeing he'd never make it past adolescence, and that he was able to spent all of the extra time defiantly spreading education, understanding and insight throughout the world.
This year needs to just stop it.
I'm going to watch The Wicker Man again now... Still maybe the most disturbing movie I've ever seen. I walked away from it the first time really shaken up, and it's maybe the only movie that even though I thought it was great, I have a hard time watching again. There's something so terrible about the ending. The way he screams, the terror he expresses at the revelation... it's all too real. The mindless fanaticism of the true believer is capable of delivering the most horrifying and meaningless ends. Such a great film. RIP.
Filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami at age 76 of cancer: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle...medium=twitter
Oh fuck you 2016. Cimino and now Kiarostami.
..............
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Edit: wrong thread
The world lost a truly great man on the 8th of July. RIP Abdul Sattar Edhi, very likely to be the most humble person to ever have walked the earth.
Geneviève Castrée (music projects known as Woelv and Ô Paon, and she was also an illustrator and comic artist), wife of Phil Elverum (known for his music as Mount Eerie and also The Microphones), has passed away after a battle with cancer. She was only in her 30's.
http://www.spin.com/2016/07/phil-elv...tree-has-died/
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Here's 2 more: Filmmaker Hector Babenco of Kiss of the Spider Woman at age 70: http://www.avclub.com/article/rip-he...an-and--239567
& Steven Young of Colourbox, This Mortal Coil, & M/A/R/R/S: http://www.avclub.com/article/rip-st...-volume-239590
I hate you 2016.
Sorry for the double-post but I just got news on Twitter that Alan Vega of Suicide has just died.
Fuck...
Yeah just heard about Vega: RIP. And the suck that is 2016 continues...
no.... I just got the news about Alan Vega.
Filmmaker/Happy Days creator Garry Marshall at age 81: http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/...source=copyurl
Goddamnit.
Sandy Pearlman, music producer at 72: https://www.yahoo.com/music/blue-oys...190943437.html
Ah fuck...
https://www.instagram.com/p/BIZ21JnB...sycinder&hl=en
EC Comics mean so much to me... they're a huge part of who I am.
Jerry Doyle from Babylon 5.
http://www.tmz.com/2016/07/28/jerry-...abylon-5-dead/
I think that show must have some kind of curse. About half the cast members have died.
Hollywood film legend Gloria DeHaven at age 91: http://www.thewrap.com/gloria-dehave...0s-dies-at-91/
The one who's not The Dude, but The Big Lebowski himself David Huddleston.
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