Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Call Her Savage (1932)


CALL HER SAVAGE  (1932)  
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    D: John Francis Dillon
    Clara Bow, Gilbert Roland, Thelma Todd,
    Monroe Owsley, Estelle Taylor, Russell Simpson

Spoiler Alert: This review contains spoilers, but they won't spoil much.


In her next-to-last movie, Clara Bow plays a wild thing who whips a rattlesnake and then whips Gilbert Roland and then smashes a guitar over a musician's head and then wrestles an enormous dog and gets into a catfight. Then she marries a guy who's rich but no good and he gets drunk and cheats on her on their wedding night and she has a baby and does some hooking and the baby dies and then she falls for another rich guy, but that doesn't work out, either, and eventually she's back in Texas where her mom's about to croak, and that's when she learns her real dad was an Indian, which means she's a half-breed just like Gilbert Roland, which she figures explains her wildness, and at the fadeout it looks like she and Gilbert Roland are going to live happily ever after, or at least till she loses her temper and does something crazy again, which she probably will. The End.


Monday, January 29, 2018

Paterson (2016)


PATERSON  (2016)
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    D: Jim Jarmusch
    Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Rizwan Manji,
    Barry Shabaka Henley, William Jackson Harper
A week in the life of a bus driver, starring Adam Driver as a guy named Paterson, who navigates the streets of Paterson, New Jersey, picking up and dropping off , and writing poetry in a notebook he always carries on the side. A lot of the movie is just his day-to-day routine - really a series of rituals - from the time he wakes up (always between 6:11 and 6:28) to his morning bowl of Cheerios, the small talk with his supervisor at the start of his shift, the conversations he overhears from behind the wheel, the exchanges at home with his wife (a self-styled artist who he loves to the point of martyrdom), and finally a nightly walk with the dog and a nightly beer at the neighborhood bar. Get up the next day and repeat. Still, a lot can happen in a week, nothing to alter the course of world events, maybe, but crucial in the life of a Paterson, New Jersey, bus driver, and the movie's about that stuff, too. Jim Jarmusch might not be the only filmmaker who would dream up a movie like this, but he is the only one who would make this movie. He's the deadpan master of the silent pause, the quiet spaces in conversations, or between conversations, where nothing's being said. Any other director would cut away from those spaces. Jarmusch wants to see what's going on there, even if it's nothing, so he sticks around. He's been doing this for over 30 years, and while the style's not much different from what he's done before, the effect here seems more personal and intimate, not just showing you what a Jim Jarmusch movie typically looks like, but suggesting what it might feel like to live in one. Keep an eye out for the twins.

Friday, January 26, 2018

The 2017 Scobie Awards


Picture: "Wonderstruck"
Actress: Sally Hawkins, "Maudie" and "The Shape of Water"
Actor: Harry Dean Stanton, "Lucky"
Supporting Actress: Laurie Metcalf, "Lady Bird"
Supporting Actor: Jon Hamm, "Baby Driver"
Ensemble: "Murder On the Orient Express"
Couple: Adam Driver and Golshifteh Farahani, "Paterson"
Cameo: Patti Smith, "Song To Song"
Director: Guillermo del Toro, "The Shape of Water"
Cinematography: Rodrigo Prieto, "Silence"
Musical Score: Sqürl, "Paterson"
Editing: Lee Smith, "Dunkirk"
Animated Movie: "Loving Vincent"
Foreign Language Film: "The Other Side of Hope"
B Movie: "The Assignment"
Short Film: "5 Films About Technology"
Documentary: "Dawson City: Frozen Time"
Revival: "Mulholland Dr."
Title Sequence: "Loving Vincent"
Trailer: "Mother!"
Print Ad: "The Breadwinner"
Career Achievement Award: Leslie Caron

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Along Came Jones (1945)


ALONG CAME JONES  (1945)  
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    D: Stuart Heisler
    Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, Dan Duryea,
    William Demarest, Frank Sully, Russell Simpson
An amiably laid-back western with Cooper spoofing his own image as a slow-talking cowpoke who gets between Loretta Young and her desperado boyfriend (psycho Dan Duryea). It's the only movie Cooper produced, which makes you wish the back-projected landscapes didn't look quite so obvious. 

Monday, January 22, 2018

Baise Moi (2000)


BAISE MOI  (2000)  
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    D: Virginie Despentes, Coralie Tinh Thi
    Rafaëlla Anderson, Karen Lancaume, Delphine McCarty
A prostitute and a porno actress each commit a murder, then team up and head out into the French countryside on a vicious fucking and killing spree. Part hardcore feature and part "Thelma & Louise Meet Natural Born Killers", it was actually banned in France for the graphic nature of its sex and murder scenes. It's not the kind of thing that'll ever turn up at the multiplex in the mall. (Its title, translated literally, wouldn't even make the marquee.) But it's a shocking, uncompromising movie, a brutal, nihilistic portrait of two angry young women, who with some justification see the world as a sewer, and know they've got nowhere to go in it but down. 

Friday, January 19, 2018

Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)


CAST A DEADLY SPELL  (1991)  
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    D: Martin Campbell
    Fred Ward, Julianne Moore, David Warner,
    Clancy Brown, Alexandra Powers, Charles Hallahan 
This is interesting: a comic film noir that imagines H.P. "Phil" Lovecraft as a private eye in 1940s Los Angeles. There's a missing copy of the Necronomicon, a hulking zombie, a virgin unicorn hunter, some gremlins and demons, and an alignment of the planets that only occurs once every 666 years. Fred Ward plays the world-weary gumshoe. (This guy was born knowing how to light a cigarette.) Julianne Moore plays the femme fatale. The dialogue's hard-boiled and Curt Sobel's musical score plays like a tribute to (or theft from) Jerry Goldsmith. The zombie construction crew and the fat guy who bleeds to death from a thousand paper cuts are high points. Made for cable television. 

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Deadpool (2016)


DEADPOOL  (2016)  
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    D: Tim Miller
    Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein,
    Brianna Hildebrand, Karan Soni, Gina Carano
Another live-action superhero movie from Marvel about another mutant wise guy with extraordinary powers. The wise guy in question is Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds), a lowlife thug who's radiated till his face takes on the texture and appearance of a sausage-and-mushroom pizza and he can be shot, stomped, stabbed and mutilated without appreciably limiting his ability to kick ass. He's also emphatically R-rated, which means he can say and do shit that Thor and Hulk and Iron Man - so far, at least - cannot. It's a 10-minute idea driving a 100-minute movie - amusing for a reel or two, after which you're watching variations on the same joke playing out over and over. (Breaking down the fourth wall loses its novelty pretty fast when it becomes a running gag.) "Guardians of the Galaxy" took a goofball approach to its superheroes, too, but that movie had more affection for the conventions it was goofing on, and it had more wit. "Deadpool" aims a lot lower, without being nearly as much fun.

Monday, January 15, 2018

The 10 Best Movies of 2017


THE TEN BEST:
"Wonderstruck"
"The Shape of Water"
"Dawson City: Frozen Time"
"Loving Vincent"
"Paterson"
"Blade Runner 2049"
"Maudie"
"Dunkirk"
"Lady Bird"
"Lucky"

TAKE FIVE:
"Get Out"
"Logan"
"Suburbicon"
"Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri"
"Doctor Strange"

SECRET TREASURES:
"I, Daniel Blake"
"The Other Side of Hope"
"Bill Frisell: A Portrait"
"Unlocked"

GUILTY PLEASURES:
"The Assignment"
"Atomic Blonde"
"Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2"
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales"

FOUR FROM THE VIDEO VAULT:
"Fitzcarraldo"
"North By Northwest"
"Deadline U.S.A."
"Cannery Row"

WORST MOVIE OF THE YEAR:
"Despicable Me 3"

Friday, January 12, 2018

Badlands (1973)


BADLANDS  (1973)  
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    D: Terrence Malick
    Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates
I was 11 years old in 1958, when Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate went on their killing spree across Nebraska and Wyoming. Except for the strange case of Ed Gein, it was the most irresistibly lurid news story I can remember as a kid. I mean, two teenagers stealing cars, driving over the plains, shooting people and - for a short time - getting away with it: How could you not be intrigued by something like that? "Badlands" is Terrence Malick's fictionalized account of the Starkweather/Fugate murders, with Martin Sheen as Kit Carruthers, an out-of-work garbageman, and Sissy Spacek as Holly Sargis, a dreamy, baton-twirling 15-year-old with nothing much to do. Together, they're like an adolescent Bonnie and Clyde, drifting and delusional, a would-be James Dean and the blanked-out girl who adores him. One of the key American movies of the 1970s, and a collective career breakthrough for Malick, Sheen, Spacek and Spacek's soon-to-be husband, art director Jack Fisk. Ed Gein, eat your heart out. Sorry, bad joke.

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

The Expendables (2010)


THE EXPENDABLES  (2010)  
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    D: Sylvester Stallone
    Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li,
    Dolph Lundgren, Giselle Itié, Mickey Rourke, 
    Eric Roberts, Randy Couture, Steve Austin, 
    Terry Crews, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger
Geriatric commandos postpone their annual Medicare wellness visits to go to a Caribbean island and slaughter bad guys. Stallone's lumbering script doesn't really go anywhere, except as an excuse for an ancient-action-star reunion, but he does blow stuff up good. Mickey Rourke gets the movie's best scene, a soliloquy about a long ago mission in which he failed to save a woman's life. It's only marginally coherent, but that still puts it slightly ahead of the rest of the picture.

Monday, January 8, 2018

Have Rocket Will Travel (1959)


HAVE ROCKET WILL TRAVEL  (1959)  
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    D: David Lowell Rich
    The Three Stooges, Jerome Cowan, Anna Lisa,
    Robert Colbert, Marjorie Bennett, Nadia Sanders
Stooges in space. Moe, Larry and Curly Joe blast off to Venus after inventing a rocket fuel with ingredients like popcorn, sugar, kerosene and bicarbonate of soda. The Stooges did their best work in two-reelers, the ones with Curly and Shemp. Their m.o. was speed, and their shorts are a sort of race to see how many slapstick gags they can cram into 16 minutes. The expanded running time of features slowed them down. (Laurel and Hardy, whose comedy was more deliberate and sometimes just as violent, had better luck with longer films.) It was the two-reelers, showing on television, that brought the Stooges a new generation of fans and allowed them to make features in the first place, and "Have Rocket Will Travel" was the picture that kicked off their last few years of poking and bonking and pies in the face. It's not much of a movie - the storytelling is shoddy - but it does contain an inspired gag toward the end, a society gala that's reduced to chaos when everybody there starts to act like the Three Stooges. At least the late-career recognition came while Moe and Larry were still around to enjoy it. After all those years spent knocking each other around, it's nice that they got to cash in. 

Friday, January 5, 2018

The Way (2010)


THE WAY  (2010)  
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    D: Emilio Estevez
    Martin Sheen, Deborah Kara Unger, James Nesbitt,
    Yorick van Wageningen, Emilio Estevez, Tchéky Karyo
A sort of updated Canterbury Tales, about four pilgrims who meet up on the Camino de Santiago and walk the trail together. They're all on some sort of personal quest, spiritual maybe, but none of them all that religious. Tom (Martin Sheen) is an ophthalmologist from California, mourning the death of his son. Joost (Yorick van Wageningen) is a convivial Dutchman hoping to lose a few pounds. Sarah (Deborah Kara Unger) is a chain-smoking Canadian trying to recover from an abusive relationship. Jack from Ireland (James Nesbitt) is a travel author with a severe case of writer's block. They all find something along the way, and it's not necessarily what they thought they were searching for. The movie's an obvious labor of love for Sheen and Estevez, centered on four believable characters who are sympathetic without being entirely likeable. You can see how they'd get on each other's nerves after a while, yet they always come through for each other when it counts. They're not your typical college-age backpackers. They've got a few miles on them, and life has taken a toll. But they haven't stopped living yet, either, or they wouldn't out there walking the trail. In no time at all, they're a family - that happens when you're out on the road - and in the time it takes them to reach the end of their journey, they wouldn't want to be with anybody else. For the time it takes to watch the movie, neither would you. 

Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Final Reel 2017


Dust to the wind:

OM PURI, 66, actor
"Wolf"
"Gandhi"
"Charlie Wilson's War"
FRANCINE YORK, 80, actress
"Cracking Up"
"Bedtime Story"
"The Centerfold Girls"
WILLIAM PETER BLATTY, 89, writer
"The Exorcist"
"Darling Lili"
"A Shot In the Dark"
MIGUEL FERRER, 61, actor
"Silver City"
"Sunshine State"
"Point of No Return"
PAULA DELL, 90, stuntwoman
"Earthquake"
"The Poseidon Adventure"
"In Harm's Way"
DICK GAUTIER, 85, actor
"Divorce American Style"
"Black Jack"
"Fun With Dick and Jane"
ROBERT ELLIS MILLER, 89, director
"Any Wednesday"
"Sweet November"
"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter"
MARY TYLER MOORE, 80, actress
"Ordinary People"
"Thoroughly Modern Millie"
"Change of Habit"
MIKE CONNORS, 91, actor
"Voodoo Woman"
"Swamp Women"
"Flesh and the Spur"
JOHN HURT, 77, actor
"Alien"
"The Elephant Man"
"1984"
BARBARA HALE, 94, actress
"Airport"
"Big Wednesday"
"The Giant Spider Invasion"
RICHARD PORTMAN, 82, sound engineer
"Nashville"
"Splash"
"The Cowboys"
EMMANUELLE RIVA, 89, actress
"Amour"
"Hiroshima Mon Amour"
"Blue"
FRANK PELLEGRINO, 72, actor
"GoodFellas"
"Cop Land"
"BeerLeague"
SEIJUN SUZUKI, 93, actor
"Tokyo Drifter"
"Everything Goes Wrong"
"Princess Raccoon"
PROFESSOR IRWIN COREY, 102, actor
"Crackers"
"Car Wash"
"The Curse of the Jade Scorpion"
GEORGE "THE ANIMAL" STEELE, 79, actor, wrestler
"Boston Girls"
"Blowfish"
"Ed Wood"
RICHARD HATCH, 71, actor
"Unseen Evil"
"Dead By Friday"
"Prisoners of the Lost Universe"
ALEC McCOWEN, 91, actor
"Frenzy"
"Henry V"
"Gangs of New York"
GERALD HIRSCHFELD, 95, cinematographer
"Fail-Safe"
"Young Frankenstein"
"My Favorite Year"
RICHARD SCHICKEL, 84, writer, director, critic
"Myrna Loy: So Nice To Come Home To"
"Woody Allen: A Life On Film"
"Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin"
LOLA ALBRIGHT, 92, actress
"A Cold Wind In August"
"The Monolith Monsters"
"The Tender Trap"
BILL PAXTON, 61, actor
"Twister"
"Aliens"
"Apollo 13"
MIRIAM COLON, 80, actress
"Scarface"
"Lone Star"
"City of Hope"
NEIL FINGLETON, 36, actor
"X-Men: First Class"
"47 Ronin"
"Jupiter Ascending"
ROBERT OSBORNE, 84, critic, historian, television host
"Academy Awards Illustrated"
Turner Classic Movies
FRED WEINTRAUB, 88, producer
"Rage"
"Tom Horn"
"Dream Warrior"
CHUCK BERRY, 90, musician
"American Hot Wax"
"Rock, Rock, Rock!"
"Chuck Berry: "Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll"
DON GORDON, 90, actor
"Bullitt"
"Papillon"
"WUSA"
JEAN ROUVEROL, 100, writer, actress
"Stage Door"
"The Miracle"
"It's a Gift"
LORNA GRAY, 99, actress
"Exposed"
"The Plunderers"
"Valley of the Zombies"
CLIFTON JAMES, 96, actor
"Live and Let Die"
"Lone Star"
"The Last Detail"
JONATHAN DEMME, 73, director
"Philadelphia"
"Melvin and Howard"
"The Silence of the Lambs"
DARLENE CATES, 69, actress
"Wolf Girl"
"What's Eating Gilbert Grape?"
DON RICKLES, 90, actor
"Run Silent Run deep"
"Kelly's Heroes"
"Bikini Beach"
DALIAH LAVI, 76, actress
"Lord Jim"
"The Whip and the Body"
"Casino Royale"
MICHAEL BALLHAUS, 81, cinematographer
"Quiz Show"
"GoodFellas"
"Gangs of New York"
MARY TSONI, 30, actress
"Dogtooth"
"Motherland"
"The Northern Street"
TIM PIGOTT-SMITH, 70, actor
"Bloody Sunday"
"V For Vendetta"
"Quantum of Solace"
MICHAEL PARKS, 77, actor
"The Bible"
"Grindhouse"
"Nightmare Beach"
MOLLY PETERS, 75, actress
"Thunderball"
"Target For Killing"
CURT LOWENS, 91, actor
"Flightplan"
"Firefox"
"A Midnight Clear"
POWERS BOOTHE, 68, actor
"Nixon"
"Tombstone"
"Sin City"
ROGER MOORE, 89, actor
"Moonraker"
"Live and Let Die"
"The Sea Wolves"
WENDELL BURTON, 69, actor
"The Sterile Cuckoo"
"Heat"
"Fortune and Men's Eyes"
DINA MERRILL, 93, actress
"Desk Set"
"Butterfield 8"
"A Wedding"
PETER SALLIS, 96, actor
"The Curse of the Werewolf"
"Charlie Bubbles"
"Wuthering Heights"
FRED J. KOENEKAMP, 94, cinematographer
"Patton"
"Papillon"
"Islands In the Stream"
ROGER SMITH, 84, actor
"Auntie Mame"
"Rogue's Gallery"
"Operation Madball"
GLENNE HEADLY, 62, actress
"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"
"Dick Tracy"
"Mortal Thoughts"
DICK GREGORY, 84, actor
"Panther"
"Children of the Struggle"
"The Leisure Seeker"
JOHN G. AVILDSEN, 81, director
"Rocky"
"Save the Tiger"
"The Karate Kid"
ADAM WEST, 88, actor
"The New Age"
"The Young Philadelphians"
"Batman: The Movie"
ELENA VERDUGO, 92, actress
"House of Frankenstein"
"Panama Sal"
"The Big Sombrero"
LOREN JANES, 85, stuntman
"Escape From New York"
"Earthquake"
"Runaway Train"
SKIP HOMEIER, 86, actor
"The Gunfighter"
"Halls of Montezuma"
"The Tall T"
ANITA PALLENBERG, 75, actress
"Candy"
"Barbarella"
"Performance"
ALEKSEY BATALOV, 88, actor
"The Cranes Are Flying"
"The Overcoat"
"The Lady With the Dog"
STEPHEN FURST, 63, actor
"Animal House"
Getting Wasted"
"Up the Creek"
MICHAEL NYKVIST, 56, actor
"Together"
"Europa Report"
"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"
RED WEST, 81, actor
"Road House"
"Natural Born Killers"
"Cookie's Fortune"
DEBORAH WATLING, 69, actress
"That'll Be the Day"
"Take Me High"
"Electric Cinema"
NELSAN ELLIS, 39, actor
"The Butler"
"The Soloist"
"The Help"
ELSA MARTINELLI, 82, actress
"Rampage"
"Hatari"
"The V.I.P.s"
EVAN HELMUTH, 40, actor
"Fever Pitch"
"The Devil Inside"
"Other People's Parties"
MARTIN LANDAU, 89, actor
"Ed Wood"
"Crimes and Misdemeanors"
"North By Northwest"
PATTI DEUTSCH, 73, voice actress
"Tarzan"
"Monsters,Inc."
"The Emperor's New Groove"
GEORGE A. ROMERO, writer, director
"Night of the Living dead"
"Dawn of the Dead"
"Day of the Dead"
JOHN HEARD, 72, actor
"Cutter's Way"
"Heart Beat"
"Mindwalk"
JUNE FORAY, 99, voice actress
"Mulan"
"Cinderella"
"The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle"
LEONARD LANDY, 84, actor
"Hide and Shriek"
"Auto Antics"
"All About Hash"
HARVEY ATKIN, 74, actor
"Critical Care"
"Meatballs"
"A Change of Heart"
SAM SHEPARD, 73, writer, actor
"Days of Heaven"
"Raggedy Man"
"The Right Stuff"
JEANNE MOREAU, 89, actress
"The 400 Blows"
"Elevator To the Gallows"
"Jules and Jim"
ROBERT HARDY, 91, actor
"Young Winston"
"Sense and Sensibility"
"10 Rillington Place"
GLEN CAMPBELL, 81, musician, actor
"True Grit"
"Norwood"
"Uphill All the Way"
HARUO NAKAJIMA, 88, actor
"Godzilla"
"King Kong vs. Godzilla"
"Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster"
JOSEPH BOLOGNA, 82, actor
"My Favorite Year"
"Blame It On Rio"
"Transylvania 6-5000"
JERRY LEWIS, 91, actor, writer, director
"The Errand Boy"
"The Nutty Professor"
"King of Comedy"
JAY THOMAS, 69, actor
"Mr. Holland's Opus"
"Dirty Laundry"
"Horrorween"
TOBE HOOPER, 74, director
"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"
"Poltergeist"
"Invaders From Mars"
SHELLEY BERMAN, 92, actor
"The Best Man"
"Divorce American Style"
"Beware! The Blob"
RICHARD ANDERSON, 91, actor
"Seconds"
"Paths of Glory"
"Seven Days In May"
MIREILLE DARC, 79, actress
"Weekend"
"Living It Up"
"The Tall Blond Man With One Red Shoe"
YOSHIO TSUCHIYA, 90, actor
"Yojimbo"
"Son of Godzilla"
"Destroy All Monsters"
BLAKE HERON, 35, actor
"A Thousand Junkies"
"Dandelion"
"Dirt"
GASTONE MISCHEN, 88, actor
"The Conformist"
"Lion of the Desert"
"The Godfather Part II"
MURRAY LERNER, 90, director
"Sea Dream"
"Festival"
"Message To Love: The Isle of Wight Festival"
MARK LA MURA, 68, actor
"Baked In Brooklyn"
"Something Borrowed"
"City By the Sea
HARRY DEAN STANTON, 91, actor
"Alien"
"Paris, Texas"
"Repo Man"
FRANK VINCENT, 80, actor
"Raging Bull"
"GoodFellas"
"Do the Right Thing"
JAKE LAMOTTA, 96, boxer, actor
"Hangmen"
"Mob War"
"Maniac Cop"
JAN TRÍSKA, 80, actor
"Lost Souls"
"Apt Pupil"
"Reds"
JEAN ROCHEFORT, 87, actor
"Man On the Train"
"Tell No One"
"The Artist and the Model"
HARRY STRADLING JR., 92, cinematographer
"Little Big Man"
"Go Tell the Spartans"
"Rooster Coburn"
BARRY DENNEN, 79, actor
"Fiddler On the Roof"
"Jesus Christ Superstar"
"Trading Places"
HUGH HEFNER, 91, producer, publisher
"Macbeth"
"The Naked Ape"
"The Girls In the Band"
ANNE JEFFREYS, 94, actress
"Dick Tracy"
"Panic In the City"
"Richard III"
TOM PETTY, 66, musician, actor
"Made In Heaven"
"The Postman"
ANNE WIAZEMSKY, 70, actress
"Au Hasard Balthazar"
"Teorema"
"Foreign City"
ROY DOTRICE, 94, actor
"Amadeus"
"Nicholas and Alexandra"
"Tales From the Crypt"
DANIELLE DARRIEUX, 100, actress
"La Ronde"
"The Young Girls of Rochefort"
"Birds In Peru"
ROBERT GUILLAUME, 89, actor
"Spy Hard"
"Lean On Me"
"Superfly T.N.T."
FATS DOMINO, 89, musician
"Shake, Rattle & Rock!"
"The Girl Can't Help It"
"The Big Beat"
WOOD MOY, 99, actor
"Chan Is Missing"
"Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
"Howard the Duck"
JOHN MOLLO, 86, costume designer
"Alien"
"Gandhi"
"White Hunter Black Heart"
WALTER LASSALY, 90, cinematographer
"Tom Jones"
"Zorba the Greek"
"The Day the Fish Came Out"
FEDERICO LUPPI, 83, actor
"Pan's Labyrinth"
"The Devil's Backbone"
"Men With Guns"
PETER BALDWIN, 86, actor
"Tin Star"
"Teacher's Pet"
"Stalag 17"
ANTHONY HARVEY, 87, director, editor
"The Lion In Winter"
"Grace Quigley"
"They Might Be Giants"
JOHN HILLERMAN, 84, actor
"Blazing Saddles"
"Chinatown"
"High Plains Drifter"
ANN WEDGEWORTH, 83, actress
"Scarecrow"
"Bang the Drum slowly"
"Sweet Dreams"
MEL TILLIS, 85, musician, actor
"The Villain"
"Beer For My Horses"
"The Cannonball Run"
DELLA REESE, 86, singer, actress
"Harlem Nights"
"Beauty Shop"
"Psychic Killer"
RANCE HOWARD, 89, actor
"Nebraska"
"Chinatown"
"Ed Wood"
JULIO OSCAR MECHOSO, 62, actor
"Grindhouse"
"The Legend of Zorro"
"Machete Kills"
JIM NABORS, 87, actor
"Take Her, She's Mine"
"The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas"
CONRAD BROOKS, 86, actor
"Glen or Glenda"
"Curse of the Queerwolf"
"Ed Wood"
SHADIA, 88, actress
"Once In a Lifetime"
"Women of Pleasure"
"The Leech"
SHASHI KAPOOR, 79, actor
"Commando"
"The Deceivers"
"Sammy and Rosie Get Laid"
JOHNNY HALLYDAY, 74, musician, actor
"Crime Spree"
"The Iron Triangle"
"Man On the Train"
STEVE REEVIS, 55, actor
"Fargo"
"The Missing"
"Wild Bill"
MARTIN RANSOHOFF, 90, producer
"Catch-22"
"Ice Station Zebra"
"The Moonshine War"
BRUCE BROWN, 80, director
"Surf Crazy"
"The Endless Summer"
"The Edge"
BRUCE GRAY, 81, actor
"Spy Hard"
"War For Elephants"
"Rules Don't Apply"
KEELY SMITH, 89, singer, actress
"Thunder Road"
"Senior Prom"
"Hey Boy! Hey Girl!"
AUGUST AMES, 23, actress
"Lesbian Vampire Academy,"
"Demon Lust"
"Cosmic Calendar Girls"
YURIZAN BELTRAN, 31, actress
"Girl Crush"
"Nude Bondage Notebook"
"Innocent Girls Held Captive"
HEATHER MENZIES, 68, actress
"The Sound of Music"
"Hawaii"
"Sssssss"
JACK BLESSING, 66, actor
"Thirteen Days"
"Above Suspicion"
"Ground Zero"
ROSE MARIE, 94, singer, actress
"Top Banana"
"International House"
"The Man From Clover Grove"

"I've had great success being a total idiot."
                                                                    Jerry Lewis