Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Quote File / Take 9


Some lines from the movies of John Hurt:


"I am a shadow of my former shadow. My time was 

  decades ago."
  Hurt in "Snowpiercer"

"It's not so much staying alive. It's staying human 

  that's important."
  Hurt in "1984"

"I'm a writer. I write. I don't process words."

  Hurt in "Life and Death On Long Island"

"The wand chooses the wizard, Mr. Potter."

  Hurt in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"

"A man should know when to leave the party."

  Hurt in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"

"Wanna go for a ride?"

  Hurt to Jodie Foster in "Contact"

(1940-2017)

Friday, January 27, 2017

A Perfect Day (2015)


A PERFECT DAY  (2015)  
¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Fernando León de Aranoa
    Benicio Del Toro, Tim Robbins, Mélanie Thierry,
    Olga Kurylenko, Fedja Stukan, Eldar Residovic,
    Sergi López, Frank Feys, Nenad Vukelic
A gallows comedy about some aid workers trying to get a dead body out of a well somewhere in Bosnia during the Balkan War. Imagine: a war movie in which no shots are fired and nothing explodes. Not that there isn't a war going on. You can feel it all around. Benicio Del Toro plays the team's head of security (such as it is), a week away from the end of his hitch and a plane ticket home. Mélanie Thierry's the newcomer, a water sanitation specialist getting her first look at life on the ground in a war zone. Tim Robbins plays the old-timer, a career ex-pat who's been at this so long, he's got no home to go back to anywhere. Olga Kurylenko's an NGO official who could pull the plug on the group's funding and shares an uneasy romantic history with Del Toro. De Aranoa spends enough time hanging out with these characters to let you get to know them a little, enough to give you a sense of the idealism that brought them to this hellhole in the first place, and the fatalism that gets them through the day. The movie's both funny and tense. The stakes are believably human. What's a perfect day, anyway? In this case, maybe it's a day you score enough rope somewhere to pull a corpse out of a well. Or retrieve a kid's soccer ball from a bombed-out house. Or successfully guess which side of the road you're driving on is mined. Or maybe it's just waking up the next morning to find you're still alive. You're hungry and dirty and you've hardly slept and you're on your way to a refugee camp with a failing sewer system and you're expected to do something about that, if you can just negotiate the roadblocks and the IEDs and the bureaucratic red tape and the rival armies and maybe a dead cow or two, and you're in Bosnia in 1995 and now it's raining. See? A perfect day.

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

The 2016 Scobie Awards


Picture: "A Perfect Day"
Actress: Amy Adams, "Arrival" and "Nocturnal Animals"
Actor: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, "Snowden"
Supporting Actress: Judy Davis, "The Dressmaker"
Supporting Actor: Michael Shannon, "Nocturnal Animals"
Couple: Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga, "Loving"
Cameo: Frances McDormand, "Hail, Caesar!"
Director: Gavin Hood, "Eye In the Sky"
Cinematography: Francesco Di Giacomo, "The Wait"
Musical Score: Marcello De Francisci and Lisa Gerard, 
                            "Jane Got a Gun"
Foreign Language Film: "The Brand New Testament"
B Movie: "The Shallows"
Documentary: "Older Than Ireland"
Animated Movie: "Zootopia"
Revival: "Ben-Hur" (1925)
Title Sequence: "The Architect"
Trailer: "Dawn"
Print Ad: "Jane Got a Gun"
Career Achievement Award: Werner Herzog

Monday, January 23, 2017

The Swarm (1978)


THE SWARM  (1978)  
¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Irwin Allen
    Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark,
    Henry Fonda, Bradford Dillman, Richard Chamberlain,
    Olivia De Havilland, Fred MacMurray, Ben Johnson,
    Slim Pickens, Patty Duke Astin, Lee Grant, Jose Ferrer
Killer bees invade Texas, and only a top-flight cast of slumming movie stars can stop them. I mean, look, if General Richard Widmark, Doctor Henry Fonda, Captain Katharine Ross and entomologist Michael Caine can't get the job done, who can? Plus, you've got Fred MacMurray and Ben Johnson both making a play for Olivia De Havilland, Patty Duke going into labor, Slim Pickens threatening to cut off the county's water supply, and Jose Ferrer running the local nuclear power plant. If this movie wasn't such an awful piece of junk, it wouldn't be nearly as much fun. The costume design actually got an Oscar nomination, though the stylish red suede outfit Ben Johnson strolls around town in could make you wonder about that. Ben Johnson in bell bottoms? Only in hell or the 1970s.

Friday, January 20, 2017

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)


THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 2 

    D: Francis Lawrence                                     (2015)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth,
    Woody Harrelson, Donald Sutherland, Julianne Moore,
    Philip Seymour Hoffman, Elizabeth Banks, Jena Malone,
    Jeffrey Wright, Sam Claflin, Willow Shields, Stanley Tucci
The Katniss Everdeen saga comes to a close, at least for now, with Katniss on a personal mission to assassinate President Snow, who will stop at nothing to put down the rebellion. If the first "Hunger Games" film was a juvenile gladiator movie, this one's a juvenile battle epic, with Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) a sort of Joan of Arc of the apocalypse, still torn romantically between studly Gale Hawthorne and sensitive (but dangerously psychotic) Peeta Melark. Effie Trinket (Elizabeth Banks) and Caesar Flickerman (Stanley Tucci) are still hanging around, but they're barely in the story at this point, and some inventive rewriting was required to work around Philip Seymour Hoffman, who inconveniently died before the film could be completed. At the time I saw this, the primary campaign in the U.S. was still going on, nobody knew who would be elected to the White House in 2016, and a strange thought occurred to me: Hillary Clinton as Alma Coin. Donald Trump as President Snow. Real or not real? Frightening.

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Go West (1925)


GO WEST  (1925)  
¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Buster Keaton
    Buster Keaton, Howard Truesdale, Kathleen Myers
Buster Keaton hops a freight and heads west, ending up at a ranch where he hires on as a cowboy. With his flat hat, tiny gun and glaring lack of cowboy skills, he's an outcast out on the range, but he does make a connection with one of the cows, a sweet-natured creature named Brown Eyes. The climax has Buster in a demon costume leading a thousand steers through downtown Los Angeles, the kind of crazy, ambitious sight gag that only Keaton would dream of pulling off. Another classic bit occurs when Buster accuses a fellow ranch hand of cheating at cards and the guy pulls a gun and says (of course), "Smile when you say that." Which wouldn't even be a joke, except in a Buster Keaton movie. I won't tell how he resolves that one, except to say that what worked for Lillian Gish in "Broken Blossoms" does not work for Keaton here.

Monday, January 16, 2017

The Dressmaker (2015)


THE DRESSMAKER  (2015)  
¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Jocelyn Moorhouse
    Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Hugo Weaving,
    Liam Hemsworth, Sarah Snook, Kerry Fox,
    Shane Bourne, Barry Otto, Julia Blake
Two hours of eccentricity from Down Under starring Kate Winslet as a seamstress who brings revenge and high fashion to a dust-speck town in the outback. It's a spaghetti western. No, it's a melodrama. No, it's a murder mystery. No, it's a black comedy. No, it's a romance. It's all of those things on an ever-shifting basis, and the crazy thing is, it works. Hugo Weaving steals a scene or two as a cross-dressing constable, but the movie really belongs to Judy Davis as Kate's mad old mom. "Mad Molly" might be unhinged, but she's not completely delusional, and there's a reason she's gone over the edge. Davis shows not just how thinly stretched her grip on reality has become, but how tenaciously she's still hanging on. And Molly's got a score to settle, too. Forget the old Klingon proverb. Revenge is a dish best served with needles and thread, a few well-aimed golf balls, a little hashish and a devious sense of fun. 

Friday, January 13, 2017

The 10 Best Movies of 2016


THE TEN BEST:
"A Perfect Day"
"Hell or High Water"
"Midnight Special"
"The Dressmaker"
"Loving"
"La La Land"
"Manchester By the sea"
"Eye In the Sky"
"The Brand New Testament"
"Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children"

TAKE FIVE:
"The Innocents"
"The Curve"
"Older Than Ireland"
"Nerve"
"10 Cloverfield Lane"

SECRET TREASURES:
"The High Sun"
"The Man Who Knew Infinity"
"Max Rose"

GUILTY PLEASURES:
"The Nice Guys"
"Suicide Squad"
"The Hateful Eight"

BACK ON THE BIG SCREEN:
"Ben-Hur" (1925)
"Blow-Up"
"Private Property"
"The Swimmer"

FOUR FROM THE VIDEO VAULT:
"Badlands"
"The Flight of the Phoenix"
"A Night At the Opera"
"Woman In the Dunes"

WORST MOVIE OF THE YEAR:
"Complete Unknown"

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

High School Hellcats (1958)


HIGH SCHOOL HELLCATS  (1958)  
¢ ¢
    D: Edward Bernds
    Yvonne Lime, Bret Halsey, Jana Lund, Viola Harris,
    Susanne Sydney, Heather Ames, Nancy Kilgar
The new girl in school falls in with a gang of juvenile delinquents, who plot their bad-girl transgressions from their secret hiding place in an abandoned movie theater. Probably the kind of place that once showed movies like "High School Hellcats". 

Monday, January 9, 2017

The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015)


THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY  (2015)  
¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Matthew Brown
    Dev Patel, Jeremey Irons, Devika Bhise,
    Toby Jones, Jeremy Northam, Stephen Fry
Like a lot of people, I suspect, I managed to hack my way through school despite the fact that I had no discernible skill or interest in mathematics. This movie is about people who aren't like that. It takes place during World War One, and it's based on the true story of Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel), who goes from the streets of Madras, India, to Trinity College, Cambridge, because of his brilliance with numbers. His mentor at Trinity is G.H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons), and their collaboration turns into a long-running debate between a young man from another culture who approaches math intuitively and sees God in the relationships between numbers, and an older man, an atheist who believes that nothing has value without proof. It's a compelling human drama about people who find beauty and even transcendence in formulas and variables and all that other stuff the rest of us barely learned once, and forgot the moment the ink was dry on our final exams. It imagines math the way Ramanujan does, as an art form, an obsessive creative quest comparable to a Beethoven symphony. You don't have to understand how the numbers work to appreciate the movie.

Friday, January 6, 2017

Singin' In the Rain (1952)


SINGIN' IN THE RAIN  (1952)  
¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
    Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor,
    Jean Hagen, Cyd Charisse, Millard Mitchell
A rubber-faced background musician and an ambitious young showgirl help a silent matinee idol survive the transition to sound in a singing, dancing, laughing, splashing classic from MGM. If it's not the best Hollywood musical ever, it's at least the best musical ever made about Hollywood. Kelly's rapturous song-and-dance routine to the title tune is one of the transcendent moments in American films.

Debbie Reynolds
(1932-2016)

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)


JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK  (2001)  
¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Kevin Smith
    Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, Ben Affleck,
    Shannon Elizabeth, Eliza Dushku, Ali Larter,
    Will Ferrell, Jason Lee, Carrie Fisher,
    George Carlin, Jeff Anderson, Brian O'Halloran,
    Jon Stewart, Jennifer Schwalbach, Mark Hamill, 
    Shannen Doherty, Chris Rock, Ever Carradine,
    Joey Lauren Adams, Matt Damon, Alanis Morissette
Everybody's favorite New Jersey stoners hit the road for Hollywood, where somebody at Miramax is making a movie about them. Along the way, they kidnap an orangutan, get framed for a diamond heist, learn the rules of hitchhiking from George Carlin, and catch on as extras in the sequel to "Good Will Hunting". It's about as loose as a comedy can get, but it's also pretty darn funny, thanks to some nutty cameos and movie references, and Jason Mewes' id-gone-berserk presence as the pussy-obsessed Jay. Smith can take an iffy joke too far - the bit with Carlin is a case in point - and Jay and Silent Bob probably work better as part of an ensemble than they do as the stars of the show. There's a real sense that Smith was ready to cut them loose after this one. A title at the end reads "Jay and Silent Bob have left the building," and a few seconds later, God (Alanis Morissette) literally closes the book on them. They would come back, of course, in "Clerks II" (2006). Thank God and Kevin Smith for that.

Carrie Fisher
(1956-2016)

Monday, January 2, 2017

Final Reel 2016


VILMOS ZSIGMOND, 85, cinematographer
"The Hired Hand"
"McCabe & Mrs. Miller"
"Heaven's Gate"
ANGUS SCRIMM, 89, actor
"Phantasm"
"Satanic"
"I Sell the Dead"
PAT HARRINGTON JR., 86, actor
"Move Over, Darling"
"2000 Years Later"
"Round Trip To Heaven"
RICHARD LIBERTINI, 82, actor
"Awakenings"
"Nell"
"The Bonfire of the Vanities"
DAVID MARGULIES, 78, actor
"Ghost Busters"
"Ishtar"
"All That Jazz"
DAVID BOWIE, 69, musician, actor
"Labyrinth"
"The Hunger"
"The Man Who Fell To Earth"
BRIAN BEDFORD, 80, actor
"Nixon"
"Grand Prix"
"The Angry Silence"
ALAN RICKMAN, 69, actor
"Dogma"
"Love Actually"
"Galaxy Quest"
FRANCO CITTI, 80, actor
"The Godfather"
"The Decameron"
"Arabian Nights"
NOREEN CORCORAN, 72, actress
"The Girls On the Beach"
"Gidget Goes To Rome"
"I Love Melvin"
JACQUES RIVETTE, 87, writer, director
"La Belle Noiseuse"
"Celine and Julie Go Boating"
"The Nun"
DAN HAGGERTY, 73, actor
"Night Wars"
"Grizzly Mountain"
"The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams"
SHEILA SIM, 93, actress
"The Outsiders"
"West of Zanzibar"
"Pandora and the Flying Dutchman"
ABE VIGODA, 94, actor
"The Godfather"
"Underworld"
"The Cheap Detective"
BOB ELLIOTT, 92, actor
"Quick Change"
"Cabin Boy"
"Between Time and Timbuktu"
ALICE ARLEN, 75, writer
"Silkwood"
"The Weight of Water"
"Alamo Bay"
DANIEL GERSON, 49, writer
"Monsters, Inc."
"Monsters University"
"Big Hero 6"
TOMMY KELLY, 90, actor
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
"Peck's Bad Boy With the Circus"
FRANK FINLAY, 89, actor
"The Three Musketeers"
"A Christmas Carol"
"Murder By Decree"
ADRIENNE CORRI, 85, actress
"Rosebud"
"The Human Factor"
"A Clockwork Orange"
GEORGE GAYNES, 98, actor
"Police Academy"
"Tootsie"
"Wag the Dog"
VANITY, 57, actress
"The Last Dragon"
"Action Jackson"
"Neon City"
TONY BURTON, 78, actor
"Rocky"
"The Shining"
"Hook"
MARGARET BLYE, 76, actress
"The Italian Job"
"Hard Times"
"Soft Toilet Seats"
DOUGLAS SLOCOMBE, 103, cinematographer
"The Lion In Winter"
"Raiders of the Lost Ark"
"Murphy's War"
GEORGE KENNEDY, 91, actor
"Charade"
"Airport"
"Cool Hand Luke"
DOUGLAS WILMER, 96, actor
"Patton"
"Octopussy"
"The Vengeance of Fu Manchu"
LEE REHERMAN, 49, actor
"Last Action Hero"
"Holt Kills Randy"
"Death and Texas"
NANCY DAVIS, 94, actress
"Shadow In the Sky"
"Shadow On the Wall"
"Donovan's Brain"
KATHRYN TROSPER, 100, actress
"Citizen Kane"
RICHARD DAVALOS, 85, actor
"East of Eden"
"Kelly's Heroes"
"Cool Hand Luke"
KEN ADAM, 95, production designer
"Dr. Strangelove"
"Goldfinger"
"Barry Lyndon"
FRANK SINATRA JR., 72, singer, actor
"Hollywood Homicide"
"Everything or Nothing"
"Do It In the Dirt"
LARRY DRAKE, 67, actor
"Darkman"
"Dark Asylum"
"American Pie 2"
RICHARD BRADFORD, 81, actor
"Sunset"
"The Untouchables"
"The Legend of Billie Jean"
JOE SANTOS, 84, actor
"Zandy's Bride"
"The Panic In Needle Park"
"The Postman"
RITA GAM, 88, actress
"Hannibal"
"King of Kings"
"Sign of the Pagan"
KEN HOWARD, 71, actor
"Michael Clayton"
"1776"
"Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon"
EARL HAMNER JR., 92, writer
"Where the Lilies Bloom"
"The Last Generation"
"Palm Springs Weekend"
GARRY SHANDLING, 66, actor
"Love Affair"
"Zoolander"
"Iron Man 2"
JIM HARRISON, 78, writer
"Wolf"
"Revenge"
"Cold Feet"
PATTY DUKE, 69, actress
"The Miracle Worker"
"Valley of the Dolls"
"The Swarm"
RONNIE CORBETT, 85, actor
"Mad Little Island"
"Fierce Creatures"
"Casino Royale"
ANNE JACKSON, 90, actress
"The Shining"
"The Bell Jar"
"Dirty Dingus Magee"
DAN IRELAND, 57, producer, director
"The Whole Wide World"
"Jolene"
"Mrs. Palfrey At the Claremont"
PRINCE, 57, musician, actor
"Purple Rain"
"Under the Cherry Moon"
"Graffiti Bridge"
CHYNA, 46, wrestler, actress
"Losing Control"
"Illegal Aliens"
"Backdoor To Chyna"
DORIS ROBERTS, 90, actress
"The Rose"
"A Fish In the Bathtub"
"The Grass Harp"
GUY HAMILTON, 93, director
"Goldfinger"
"Live and Let Die"
"Funeral In Berlin"
WILLIAM SCHALLERT, 93, actor
"Sword of Venus"
"Captive Women"
"The Man From Planet X"
MADELEINE LEBEAU, 92, actress
"Casablanca"
"Napoleon"
"Gentleman Jim"
ALAN YOUNG, 96, actor
"Tom Thumb"
"The Time Machine"
"The Cat From Outer Space"
BURT KWOUK, 85, actor
"Goldfinger"
"The Chairman"
"The Return of the Pink Panther"
ANGELA PATON, 86, actress
"Groundhog Day"
"The Wedding Singer"
"Joe Dirt"
GIORGIO ALBERTAZZI, 92, actor
"Last Year At Marienbad"
"The Assassination of Trotsky"
PETER SCHAFFER, 90, writer
"Equus"
"Amadeus"
"The Public Eye"
THERESA SALDANA, 61, actress
"Thrill Seekers"
"Angel Town"
"Raging Bull"
ANTON YELCHIN, 27, actor
"Star Trek"
"The Beaver"
"Only Lovers Left Alive"
BUD SPENCER, 86, actor
"Boot Hill"
"They Call Me Trinity"
"Even Angels Eat Beans"
MICHAEL HERR, 76, writer
"The Rainmaker"
"Full Metal Jacket"
"Apocalypse Now"
AHARON IPALÉ, 74, actor
"The Mummy"
"Son of the Pink Panther"
"Charlie Wilson's War"
PAUL COX, 76, writer, director
"Man of Flowers"
"Vincent"
"The Nun and the Bandit"
AMBER RAYNE, 31, actress
"Lucky Lesbians 3"
"Skateboard Kink Freak"
"Barbed Wire Kiss"
MICHAEL CIMINO, 77, writer, director
"The Deer Hunter"
"Thunderbolt and Lightfoot"
"Heaven's Gate"
JOHN MCMARTIN, 86, actor
"Legal Eagles"
"A Sh0ck To the System"
"All the President's Men"
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI, 76, writer, director
"Certified Copy"
"Taste of Cherry"
"Like Someone To Love"
NOEL NEILL, 95, actress
"Junior Prom"
"Forgotten Women"
"Atom Man vs. Superman"
LISA GAYE, 81, actress
"Night of  Evil"
"Castle of Evil"
"Rock Around the Clock"
HECTOR BABENCO, 70, writer, director
"Kiss of the Spider Woman"
"Ironweed"
"Foolish Heart"
GARRY MARSHALL, 81, writer, director
"Pretty Woman"
"Exit To Eden"
"Runaway Bride"
MARNI NIXON, 86, singer, voice double
"The King and I"
"West Side Story"
"My Fair Lady"
DAVID HUDDLESTON, 85, actor
"Blazing Saddles"
"The Big Lebowski"
"Santa Claus"
DLORIA DEHAVEN, 91, actress
"Two Tickets To Broadway"
"Between Two Women"
"Three Little Words"
BARRY JENNER, 75, actor
"Enough Said"
"Looker"
"Defending Santa"
TERENCE BAYLER, 86, actor
"Time Bandits"
"Life of Brian"
"The Remains of the Day"
KENNY BAKER, 81, actor
"Star Wars"
"Labyrinth"
"Time Bandits"
FYVUSH FINKEL, 93, actor
"Nixon"
"Q & A"
"A Serious Man"
ARTHUR HILLER, 92, director
"Love Story"
"Silver Streak"
"The Hospital"
HAZEL DOUGLAS, 92, actress
"Albatross"
"Asylum"
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1"
STEVEN HILL, 94, actor
"Heartburn"
"Teachers"
"The Slender Thread"
GENE WILDER, 83, actor
"The Producers"
"Young Frankenstein"
"Blazing Saddles"
JON POLITO, 65, actor
"Barton Fink"
"Miller's Crossing"
"The Crow"
NORMA MORICEAU, 72, costume designer
"The Road Warrior"
"The Quiet American"
"Wide Sargasso Sea"
BOBBY BREEN, 88, actor
"Breaking the Ice"
"Rainbow On the River"
"Fisherman's Wharf"
ANDREZEJ WAJDA, 90, writer, director
"Man of Marble"
"Man of Iron"
"Kanal"
BRYAN RUSSELL, 63, actor
"Bye Bye Birdie"
"The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm"
PIERRE ÉTAIX, actor, writer, director
"The Suitor"
"As Long As You've Got Your Health"
"Micmacs"
HILMAR THATE, 85, actor
"Veronika Voss"
"Angels of Iron"
"The Ninth Day"
HUGH O'BRIAN, 91, actor
"Broken Lance"
"The Shootist"
"Red Ball Express"
JANET PATTERSON, 60, costume designer
"The Piano"
"Bright Star"
"Far From the Madding Crowd"
THE LADY CHABLIS, 59, actress
"Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil"
ALEXIS ARQUETTE, 47, actress
"Pulp Fiction"
"Jumpin' At the Boneyard"
"Bride of Chucky"
KIM MCGUIRE, 60, actress
"Cry-Baby"
"Disturbed"
"Serial Mom"
CHARMIAN CARR, 73, actress
"The Sound of Music"
CURTIS HANSON, 71, director
"The Bedroom Window"
"L.A. Confidential"
"In Her Shoes"
BILL NUNN, 62, actor
"Do the Right Thing"
"The Last Seduction"
"Spider-Man"
LYN WILDE, 93, actress
"Campus Honeymoon"
"Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble"
"Twice Blessed"
WOLFGANG SUSCHITZKY, 104, cinematographer
"Ulysses"
"Get Carter"
"Theatre of Blood"
DON MARSHALL, 82, actor
"The Interns"
"Uptown Saturday Night"
"The Thing With Two Heads"
RAOUL COUTARD, 92, cinematographer
"Breathless"
"The Defector"
"Jules and Jim"
LEONARD COHEN, 82, singer, songwriter
"McCabe & Mrs. Miller"
"Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man"
ROBERT VAUGHN, 83, actor
"Bullitt"
"The Magnificent Seven"
"Teenage Cave Man"
JOAN CARROLL, 85, actress
"Meet Me In St. Louis"
"Obliging Young Lady"
"The Bells of St. Mary's"
MARC MICHEL, 87, actor
"The Mad Heart"
"The Pleasure Pit"
"The Umbrellas of Cherbourg"
LUPITA TOVAR, 106, actress
"Dracula"
"Tropic Fury"
"Green Hell"
LEON RUSSELL 74, singer, songwriter
"Mad Dogs & Englishmen"
"A Poem Is a Naked Person"
FLORENCE HENDERSON, 82, actress
"Song of Norway"
"The Brady Bunch Movie"
"Fifty Shades of Black"
RON GLASS, 71, actor
"Serenity"
"Deal of a Lifetime"
"Lakeview Terrace"
PAUL SYLBERT, 88, production designer
"The Drowning Pool"
"Gorky Park"
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
ALICE DRUMMOND, 88, actress
"Ghost Busters"
"Awakenings"
"Nobody's Fool"
FRITZ WEAVER, 90, actor
"Fail-Safe"
"Marathon Man"
"The Big Fix"
ANDREW SACHS, 86, actor
"Quartet"
"Hitler: The Last Ten Days"
"Revenge of the Pink Panther"
DON CALFA, 76, actor
"Bugsy"
"Nickelodeon"
"The Return of the Living Dead"
PETER VAUGHAN, 93, actor
"Brazil"
"An Ideal Husband"
"Straw Dogs"
ALAN THICKE, 69, actor
"Alpha Dog"
"The Surfer King"
"Hollywood North"
BERNARD FOX, 89, actor
"Titanic"
"The Mummy"
"The Bamboo Saucer"
BILLY CHAPIN, 72, actor
"The Night of the Hunter"
"Violent Saturday"
"The Kid From Left Field"
ZSA ZSA GABOR, 99, actress
"Moulin Rouge"
"Touch of Evil"
"Queen of Outer Space"
FRAN JEFFRIES, 79, actress
"The Pink Panther"
"Harum Scarum"
"Sex and the Single Girl"
MICHELE MORGAN, 96, actress
"Joan of Paris"
"Bluebeard"
"Passage To Marseilles"
CARRIE FISHER, 60, actress
"Star Wars"
"The Blues Brothers"
"Hannah and Her Sisters"
DEBBIE REYNOLDS, 84, actress
"Singin' In the Rain"
"The Unsinkable Molly Brown"
"How the West Was Won"
GEORGE S. IRVING, 94, actor
"Foreplay"
"Deadly Hero"
"Up the Sandbox"
BARBARA TARBUCK, 74, actress
"Big Trouble"
"The Tie That Binds"
"Walking Tall"
TYRUS WONG, 106, artist
"Bambi"
"Around the World In Eighty Days"
WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER, 84, actor
"With Six You Get Eggroll"
"Hearts of the West"
"Heaven Sent"

"Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch."

                                                                                 Jim Harrison