Hotel Artemis (2018)

HOTEL ARTEMIS  (2018)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Drew Pearce
    Jodie Foster, Sterling K. Brown, Sofia Boutella,
    Jeff Goldblum, Bryan Tyree Henry, Jenny Slate,
    Zachary Quinto, Dave Bautista, Charlie Day
"Hotel Artemis" marks the first time Jodie Foster has looked old in a movie. It's also her first big-screen appearance since "Elysium" in 2013. It's a thriller set ten years in the future, with Jodie as the resident nurse practitioner in a sort of urgent care clinic for criminals, operating out of a run-down Los Angeles hotel. There's a riot going on outside, and a handful of desperate characters have already checked in or soon will, to have Jodie patch up their bullet wounds. There are rules in a place like the Artemis. There have to be. And the movie ends up being at least partly about what happens when the system starts to break down and the rules no longer apply. On top of that, Foster's character (shades of "Nim's Island") is agoraphobic and hasn't been out of the hotel in years. It's a satisfying action-and-suspense piece with topical references to a border wall to the south and a collapsing environment (the riots are over the high price of water). The storytelling's inventive, and there's a shabby elegance to the set design. Best of all, there's Foster, who's both tough and funny, vulnerable and a force to be reckoned with. Wrinkles and all, she commands the screen, and you can tell she's having a blast doing it. Now in her mid-50s, with a lifetime of movie work under her belt already, Jodie could be just getting started. 

Flaming Gold (1932)

FLAMING GOLD  (1932)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Ralph Ince
    William Boyd, Pat O'Brien, Mae Clarke,
    Rollo Lloyd, Helen Ware, Robert McWade
William Boyd, who worked on oil rigs among other jobs before he got into acting, plays a wildcatter hoping to strike it rich in Mexico. Pat O'Brien plays his less dashing partner, and Mae Clarke plays the woman who comes between them. It's a fast-paced, formula adventure, a "programmer" was what they called 'em back then, with a running time of 53 minutes. Boyd's career would take a significant turn just three years later, when he made his first appearance as Hopalong Cassidy.

Damsel (2018)

DAMSEL  (2018)  ¢ ¢
    D: David Zellner, Nathan Zellner
    Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, David Zellner,
    Robert Forster, Nathan Zellner, Joseph Billingiere
This movie is by the Zellner Brothers, who made "Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter", and it's another tale about an obsessive (and apparently unhinged) quest. Robert Pattinson plays a guy who shows up  in an unnamed town on the coast of somewhere, with a guitar and a rifle slung over his back and a miniature horse in tow. He's on a mission  to rescue his fiancee, who's been kidnapped, and to insure they get hitched as soon as he finds her, he enlists the help of an alcoholic preacher, who has  come west to make a new start, a goal he hasn't come close to achieving. Some movies are offbeat and some are just off. I'd say "Damsel" is a little of both. Is there such a thing as a mumblecore western? Maybe that's what this is. Watch the first five minutes and you'll catch a colorful, tongue-in-cheek cameo by Robert Forster as a guy who's been out on the prairie way too long. It's the best thing in the movie, but then he walks off into the desert in his union suit, and the movie kind of wanders off, too. Proceed at your own risk.

The 2018 Scobie Awards

     Picture: "The Old Man & the Gun"
     Actress: Rosamund Pike, "A Private War"
     Actor: Hugh Grant, "A Very English Scandal"
     Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton, "Suspiria"
     Supporting Actor: Michael Palin, "The Death of Stalin"
     Ensemble: "Nostalgia" and "The Party"
     Couple: Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek, 
                    "The Old Man & the Gun"
     Cameo: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, "On the Basis of Sex"
     Director: Joel and Ethan Coen, 
                      "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"
     Cinematography: Bruno Delbonnel, 
                                      "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"
     Musical Score: Max Richter, "Hostiles"
     Animated Movie: "Isle of Dogs"
     Foreign Language Film: "Naples In Veils"
     B Movie: "The Nun"
     Documentary: "The Great Buster"
     Revival: "The Threat"
     Title Sequence: "The Death of Stalin"
     Trailer: "A Quiet Place"
     Poster Art: "I Think We're Alone Now"
     Career Achievement Award: Ed Harris

9 To 5 (1980)

9 TO 5  (1980)  ¢ ¢ ¢

    D: Colin Higgins

    Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman,

    Sterling Hayden, Elizabeth Wilson, Henry Jones

A massively popular feminist comedy starring Dolly, Lily and Jane as corporate secretaries who revolt against their misogynist boss (Dabney Coleman). Among other things, this movie contains an important lesson in packaging. When you're about to add artificial sweetener to your supervisor's coffee, make sure you don't grab the rat poison instead. The boxes look an awful lot alike.

I, Tonya (2017)

I, TONYA  (2017)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Craig Gillespie
    Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney,
    Julianne Nicholson, Paul Walter Hauser, 
    Bobby Cannavale, Caitlin Carver, Bojana Novakovik
Tonya Harding's story, told in Harding's own words, or something close to them, the wild, cautionary tale of a white-trash kid from Portland, Oregon, who survived horrifying abuse at the hands of her mother, and more horrifying abuse at the hands of her husband, clawed her way to the top of the figure-skating world, and watched it all come crashing down with the infamous Nancy Kerrigan knee-capping incident. The movie suggests that in some significant ways, Harding never had a chance. Ruthlessly pushed to excel on the ice - she dropped out of high school to devote more time to skating - she never tried to conceal her blue-collar background or tone down her tough-girl manner. She couldn't, or wouldn't, it didn't matter which. In a sport that rewards young women who project an aura of class (Kerrigan, for example), Tonya was unmistakably from the wrong side of the ice. Her athleticism was beyond dispute, but the judges hated her. Margot Robbie plays the wounded, combative Harding. Sebastian Stan plays Jeff Gillooly, her louse of a husband. Allison Janney plays the mother from hell, and gives a terrifying performance. There's a queasy sort of humor running through the film, but most of what happens is anything but funny. For of all her momentary fame and success, it's hard to imagine anybody wanting to trade places with Tonya Harding. The media coverage in the 1990s turned her into a tabloid joke, but if her own account is even partly true - and the movie's approach to the truth is admittedly squishy - she was also much more: the remarkably gutsy survivor and heroic central figure in a distinctly American tragedy.

Killers From Space (1954)

KILLERS FROM SPACE  (1954)  ¢ ¢
    D: W. Lee Wilder
    Peter Graves, James Seay, Steve Pendleton,
    Barbara Bestar, Frank Gerstel, John Frederick
Peter Graves takes on some extraterrestrials whose eyeballs make them look like Marty Feldman. Really. Take a look. Those are serious eyeballs.

The Final Year (2017)

THE FINAL YEAR  (2017)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Greg Barker
To make this documentary, Greg Barker and his film crew tracked Barack Obama's foreign-policy team through the last 12 months of Obama's presidency, from the White House to the United Nations, squalid refugee camps to elegant conference rooms, Paris to Hiroshima, Nigeria to Vietnam. The main players, besides the commander-in-chief, are Secretary of State John Kerry, UN Ambassador Samantha Power, speechwriter Ben Rhodes and National Security Advisor Susan Rice. To some extent, they're all idealists, dedicated to the notion that the long-term arc of history bends toward the world getting better, despite all the short-term evidence to the contrary. It's a challenge, especially in Syria, a humanitarian nightmare and a hopeless logistical mess, Obama's most conspicuous foreign-policy failure. They're not always right and they don't always succeed, but they know the stakes are too high to ever stop trying. By the end, they all look exhausted. When Donald Trump wins the 2016 election, they're visibly devastated - Rhodes, the speechwriter, is speechless - but even then they remain optimistic. As Power says, they're in for the long haul, convinced that the goal of a more liveable planet for everybody isn't just worth fighting for, it's achievable. Let's hope they're right about that. 

The 10 Best Movies of 2018

THE TEN BEST:

"The Old Man & the Gun"

"The Great Buster"

"Leave No Trace"

"Isle of Dogs"

"Hotel Artemis"

"The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"

"Naples In Veils"

"The Florida Project"

"The Bookshop"

"I, Tonya"

TAKE FIVE:

"Wajib"

"Revenge"

"The Reports On Sarah and Saleem"

"In the Fade"

"The Nun"

SECRET TREASURES:

"Wisconsin Death Trip" (1999)

"The Last Run" (1971)

"The McKenzie Break" (1970)

"The Golden Boys" (2008)

GUILTY PLEASURES:

"Rubber" (2010)

"The Blob" (1958)

"The Mask of Fu Manchu" (1935)

"The H-Man" (1958)

BACK ON THE BIG SCREEN:

"The Threat" (1949)

"The Accused" (1949)

"The Changeling" (1980)

"Godmonster of Indian Flats" (1973)

FOUR FROM THE VIDEO VAULT:

"Barabbas" (1961)

"Prime Cut" (1972)

"Panic In the Streets" (1950)

"The Face Behind the Mask" (1941)

WORST MOVIE OF THE YEAR:

"Peppermint"

Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)

ROBIN AND THE 7 HOODS  (1964)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Gordon Douglas
    Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., 
    Bing Crosby, Peter Falk, Barbara Rush,
    Victor Buono, Hans Conried, Sig Ruman,
    Edward G. Robinson, Allen Jenkins, Jack LaRue
Middle-aged hipsters try (but not too hard) to impersonate gangsters in Prohibition-era Chicago. The results are not especially convincing, but that's not the point. All the Rat Pack movies are throwaways, and this one's no exception, which could make it kind of slow going unless you're a fan. Frank belts out "My Kind of Town", and Bing lays down the law at a revival meeting by crooning "Mr. Booze".

    

The Florida Project (2017)

THE FLORIDA PROJECT  (2017)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Sean Baker
    Willem Dafoe, Brooklyn Kimberly Prince, Bria Vinaite,
    Valeria Cotto, Christopher Rivera, Jose Olivo,
    Aiden Malik, Mela Murder, Carl Bradfield, Sandy Kane
This is a movie about life on the skids, or at best on the margins. The setting's a shabby, live-in motel, a decaying, lavender-painted palace almost literally in the shadow of Disney World. That's where a young girl named Moonee (Brooklyn Prince) lives with her mom, Halley (Bria Vinaite), a stripper who's just lost her job at the club because she won't turn tricks on the side. Presiding over the complex and barely holding its rundown parts together is Bobby (Willem Dafoe), the property manager, who has to answer to the building's owner, while dealing with power outages, broken appliances and a lot of desperate tenants who may or may not be able to make next week's rent. A lot of the movie focuses on Moonee and her friends, who run around with minimal parental supervision, getting into whatever trouble a bunch of six-year-olds can, testing Bobby's weary patience, and treating the motel and its surroundings as their personal playground. It's hard to tell how much of this was scripted and how much was just Baker telling the kids, "Go play and we'll follow you around with a camera for a while." Either way, the kids are remarkable, especially the brash, precocious Prince. You watch Moonee in her scenes with Halley, and you wonder who's the kid here, because they both are. Then you look at her environment and her likely prospects, and you wonder whether her life will turn out any different than her mom's. The hope for something better, like the fantasy world she escapes to in the end, might as well be a million miles away. 

Hoopla (1933)

HOOPLA  (1933)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Frank Lloyd
    Clara Bow, Preston Foster, Richard Cromwell,
    Minna Gombel, Herbert Mindin, Roger Imhof
In her last movie, Clara Bow plays "Fatima, the Queen of the Sultan's Harem," whose provocative dance on the midway causes a riot at the carnival. She also falls hard for her boss's son, a good-natured kid she's getting paid to seduce. As melodrama, this is nothing special, but the costuming is pre-Code, and the fade-out leaves Clara just the way she'd want to be remembered: happy, vivacious and in total command of the screen. The rest of her life wasn't nearly that much fun.

Black Panther (2018)

BLACK PANTHER  (2018)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Ryan Coogler
    Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong'o, Martin Freeman,
    Angela Bassett, Sterling K. Brown, Forest Whitaker,
    Andy Serkis, Michael B. Jordan, Letitia Wright
Chadwick Boseman, whose starring roles already include Jackie Robinson and Thurgood Marshall, checks in as T'Challa, the newly crowned king of the African nation of Wakanda. Being an enlightened leader, T'Challa only wants peace for his people. Being a superhero called the Black Panther, he's skilled at beating people up. Also, Wakanda has enough high-tech weaponry to take on anybody in the world, and that means the CGI looks good. So hats off to Marvel for making a black superhero the star of a movie like this and not underestimating its mass-market potential. It was about time, you know? Next up: An Asian superhero, a Hispanic superhero and a Native American superhero walk into a Hollywood story conference, and . . .

Final Reel 2018

              "I'm going to keep working until
                they shoot me and take me off and 
                bury me. And I hope they film it."
                                                               Burt Reynolds

PERRY MILLER ADATO, 97, producer, director

"The Great Radio Comedians"

"Georgia O'Keeffe"

MARTY ALLEN, 95, actor, comedian

"A Whale of a Tale"

"Allen and Rossi Meet Dracula and Frankenstein"
MICHAEL ANDERSON, 98, director
"Logan's Run"
"Pope Joan"
"Shake Hands With the Devil"

STANLEY ANDERSON, 78, actor

"Armageddon"

"The Pelican Brief"

"Arlington Road"

SUSAN ANSPACH, 75, actress

"Five Easy Pieces"

"Montenegro"

"Play It Again, Sam"

STÉPHANE AUDRAN, 85, actress

"Babette's Feast"

"Silver Bears"

"Wedding In Blood"

CHARLES AZNAVOUR, 94, singer, actor

"Shoot the Piano Player"

"Candy"

"The Tin Drum"

KEN BERRY, 85, actor

"Hello Down There"

"The Cat From Outer Space"

"Herbie Rides Again"

BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI, 77, writer, director

"1900"

"Last Tango In Paris"

"The Sheltering Sky"

YVONNE BLAKE, 78, costume designer

"Superman"

"Nicholas and Alexandra"

"Robin and Marian"

PHILIP BOSCO, 88, actor

"Deconstructing Harry"

"Working Girl"

"Nobody's Fool"

MARTIN BREGMAN, 92, producer

"Scarface"

"Sweet Liberty"

"Dog Day Afternoon"

DUSHON MONIQUE BROWN, 50, actress

"Unexpected"

"Surprise Me!"

"A Light Beneath Their Feet"

JOSEPH CAMPANELLA, 93, actor

"Meteor"

"Last Call"

"Down the Drain"
MICHELE CAREY, 75, actress
"El Dorado"
"The Sweet Ride"
"Dirty Dingus Magee"

MARY CARLISLE, 104, actress

"Say It In French"

"Hotel Haywire"

"Dance, Girl, Dance"

DEBORAH LEE CARRINGTON, 58, actress

"Total Recall"

"Men In Black"

"Mighty Joe Young"
JOHN CARTER, 95, film editor
"Paper Lion"
"The Formula"
"Lean On Me"

REG E. CATHEY, 59, actor

"St. Vincent"

"Se7en"

"What About Bob?"

EMMA CHAMBERS, 53, actress

"Notting Hill"

"The Clandestine Marriage"

"Skullduggery"

RAYMOND CHOW, 91, producer

"The Seven Coffins"

"The Cannonball Run"

"The Amsterdam Kill"

ANNE V. COATES, 92, film editor

"Lawrence of Arabia"

"Becket"

"The Elephant Man"

OLIVIA COLE, 75, actress

"Go Tell It On the Mountain"

"Some Kind of Hero"

"Coming Home"

BILL DAILY, 91, actor

"The Barefoot Executive"

"Alligator II: The Mutation"

"Horrorween"

VIC DAMONE, 89, singer, actor

"Kismet"

"Hit the Deck"

"Hell To Eternity"
PHILIP D'ANTONI, 89, producer
"Bullitt"
"The French Connection"
"The Seven-Ups"

BRADFORD DILLMAN, 87, actor

"The Mephisto Waltz" 

"Sudden Impact"

"The Way We Were"

PETER DONAT, 90, actor

"The Hindenburg"

"The China Syndrome"

"The War of the Roses"

FRANK DOUBLEDAY, 73, actor

"The Big Fix"

"Escape From New York"

"The First Nudie Musical"

ROBERT DOWDELL, 85, actor

"Wicked Stepmother"

"Skin Deep"

"Macho Callahan"

STAN DRAGOTI, 85, director

"Mr. Mom"

"The Man With One Red Shoe"

"Love At First Bite"

R. LEE ERMEY, 74, actor

"Full Metal Jacket"

"Mississippi Burning"

"Se7en"

HARLAN ELLISON, 84, writer

"A Boy and His Dog"

"Try a Dull Knife"

"The Oscar"

NANETT FABRAY, 97, actress

"The Band Wagon"

"The Happy Ending"

"Teresa's Tattoo"

PABLO FERRO, 83, title designer

"Dr. Strangelove"

"Being There"

"Stop Making Sense"

MILOS FORMAN, 86, director

"Ragtime"

"Amadeus"

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

ARETHA FRANKLIN, 76, queen of soul

"The Blues Brothers"

"The Blues Brothers 2000"
LIZ FRASER, 88, actress
"Dad's Army"
"Under the Doctor"
"Carry On Behind"

JOHN GAVIN, 86, actor

"Back Street"

"Psycho"

"Spartacus"

EUNICE GAYSON, 90, actress

"Dr. No"

"From Russia With Love"

"The Revenge of Frankenstein"

PAMELA GIDLEY, 52, actress

"Highway To Hell"

"The Blue Iguana"

"Cherry 2000"

LEWIS GILBERT, 97, director

"Alfie"

"Moonraker"

"Educating Rita"

ANN GILLIS, 90, actress

"Little Orphan Annie"

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"

"Little Men"
GLORIA JEAN, 92, actress
"River Gang"
"Ghost Catchers"
"Never Give a Sucker an Even Break"

BILL GOLD, 97, poster designer

"Casablanca"

"Dirty Harry"

"The Sting"

WILLIAM GOLDMAN, 87, writer

"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"

"The Great Waldo Pepper"

"The Princess Bride"

RICHARD GREENBERG, 71, title designer, visual effects

"Flash Gordon"

"Altered States"

"Hudson Hawk"

JOSH GREENFIELD, 90, writer

"Harry and Tonto"

"Oh God! Book II"

SAMUEL HADIDA, 64, producer

"True Romance"

"Resident Evil"

"Dancing At the Blue Iguana"

BARBARA HARRIS, 83, actress

"Nashville"

"Family Plot"

"A Thousand Clowns"

TAB HUNTER, 86, actor

"Battle Cry"

"Damn Yankees"

"Lust In the Dust"

RICKY JAY, 72, actor

"Magnolia"

"Boogie Nights"

"Tomorrow Never Dies"

STEPHEN JEFFRIES,68, writer

"Diana"

"The Libertine"

JÓHANN JÓHANNSSON, 48, composer

"Sicario"

"Arrival"

"The Theory of Everything"

MICKEY JONES, 76, actor

"Starman"

"Dead Bang"

"Tin Cup"

JAMES KAREN, 94, actor

"Wall Street"

"Jagged Edge"

"Invaders From Mars"

GLORIA KATZ, 76, writer

"American Graffiti"

"French Postcards"

"Lucky Lady"
TAMIO KAWAJI, 79, actor
"Savage Wolf Pack"
"Waterfront Blues"
"The Setting Sun"

MARGOT KIDDER, 69, actress

"Superman"

"Sisters"

"92 In the Shade"

WRIGHT KING, 95, actor

"King Rat"

"Invasion of the Bee girls"

"Planet of the Apes"

ARNOLD KOPELSON, 83, producer

"Platoon"

"The Fugitive"

"Falling Down"

GARY KURTZ, 78, producer

"Gangster Kittens"

"Slipstream"

"Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope"
RINGO LAM, 63, writer, director
"Wild Search"
"In Hell"
"City On fire"

CLAUDE LANZMANN, 92, writer, director

"Shoah"

"Napalm"

"The Last of the Unjust"
LOUISE LATHAM, 95, actress
"Marnie"
"Firecreek"
"92 In The Shade"

CHRISTOPHER LAWFORD, 63, actor

"Jack the Bear"

"The Russia House"

"Mr. North"

STAN LEE, 95, writer, producer, actor

"Black Panther"

"Doctor Strange"

"Thor"

DANNY LEINER, 57, director

"Dude, Where's My Car?"

"Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle"

SONDRA LOCKE, 74, actress, director

"Sudden Impact"

"Death Game"

"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter"

BUD LUCKEY, 83, animator

"Toy Story"

"A Bug's Life"

"Cars"

JOHN MAHONEY, 77, actor

"Moonstruck"

"Eight Men Out"

"In the Line of Fire"

DOROTY MALONE, 92, actress

"Warlock"

"Basic Instinct"

"The Big Sleep"

ROBERT MANDAN, 86, actor

"Zapped!"

"Hickey & Boggs"

"The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas"

JERRY MAREN, 98, actor, munchkin

"At the Circus"

"The Terror of Tiny Town"

"The Wizard of Oz"

VANESSA MARQUEZ, 49, actress

"Stand and Deliver"

"Night Children"

"Twenty Bucks"

PENNY MARSHALL, 75, director, actress

"Big"

"Awakenings"

"A League of Their Own"

PETER MASTERSON, actor, director

"The Exorcist"

"The Stepford Wives"

"The Trip To Bountiful"

BILL MAYNARD, 89, actor

"Robin and Marian"

"Carry On Matron"

"Carry On Henry VIII"

PEGGY McCAY, 90, actress

"UFOria"

"Uncle Vanya"

"Murphy's Romance"

JILL MESSICK, 50, producer

"Hot Rod"

"Frida"

"Mean Girls"
SUSAN MILLER, 98, singer, actress
"Swing It Soldier"
"An Innocent Affair"
"Never Give a Sucker an Even Break"

WARREN MILLER, 93, writer, director

"Ski Time"

"Ski Fantasy"

"Ski On the Wild Side"

DONALD MOFFAT, 87, actor

"Earthquake"

"The Right Stuff"

"Cookie's Fortune"

LILIANE MONTEVECCHI, 85, actress

"The Glass Slipper"

"The Sad Sack"

"The Young Lions"

ROBBY MÜLLER, 78, cinematographer

"Repo Man"

"Dead Man"

"Dancer In the Dark"

GEOFF MURPHY, 80, writer, director

"Utu"

"The Quiet Earth"

"Neve Say Die"

DERRICK O'CONNOR, 77, actor

"Brazil" 

"Hope and Glory"

"End of Days"

JACKSON ODELL, 20, actor

"Jefferson"

"Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer"

"Shooting In Vain"
ERMANNO OLMI, 86, director
"The Tree of the Wooden Clogs"
"One Fine Day"
"Time Stood Still"

KITTY O'NEIL, 72, stunts

"The Blues Brothers"

"Smokey and the Bandit II"

"Airport 1975"

ROGER PERRY, 85, actor

"Roller Boogie"

"Count Yorga, Vampire"

"The Thing With Two Heads"

LUCIAN PINTILIE, 84, director

"Reconstruction"

"The Afternoon of a Torturer"

"Too Late"

PEGGY PLATT, 58, actress

"Harry and the Hendersons"
CHARLOTTE RAE, 92, actress
"Bananas"
"The Hot Rock"
"Rabbit Test"
DOUGLAS RAIN, 90, actor
"2001: A Space Odyssey"
"2010: The Year We Make Contact"
MEG RANDALL, 91, actress
"Criss Cross"
"Ma and Pa Kettle"
"Last of the Badmen"
BURT REYNOLDS, 82, actor, director
"Deliverance"
"Smokey and the Bandit"
"Boogie Nights"
DONNELLY RHODES, 80, actor
"Pressure"
"The Neptune Factor"
"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"
NICOLAS ROEG, 90, director, cinematographer
"Performance"
"Walkabout"
"Don't Look Now"
CONNIE SAWYER, 105, actress
"Oh, God!"
"The Way West"
"The Man In the Glass Booth"
MRINAL SEN, 95, director
"City Life"
"In Search of Famine"
"Calcutta 71"
CAROLE SHELLEY, 79, actress
"The Odd Couple"
"The Boston Strangler"
"Carry On Regardless"
NEIL SIMON, 91, writer
"The Odd Couple"
"Barefoot In the Park"
"Murder By Death"
SRIDEVI, 54, actress
"Julie"
"Mom"
"I Love You"
DAVID OGDEN STIERS, 75, actor
"The Majestic"
"Shadows and Fog"
"The Curse of the Jade Scorpion"
ELIZABETH SUNG, 63, actress
"Finding Madison"
"Go For Sisters"
"Memoirs of a Geisha"
EZRA SWERDLOW, 64, producer
"Wag the Dog"
"Zombieland"
"Everybody Wins"
ISAO TAKAHATA, 82, director
"Only Yesterday"
Grave of the Fireflies"
"Heidi In the Mountains"
DELORES TAYLOR, 85, actress, producer
"Billy Jack"
"The Trial of Billy Jack"
"The Return of Billy Jack"
NINI THEILADE, 102, dancer, actress
"The Big Bluff"
"The Song To Her"
"A Midsummer Night's Dream"
JOHN THOMPSON, 71, producer
"The Black Dahlia"
"Prozac Nation"
"Lovelace"
VERNE TROYER, 49, actor
"Pinocchio's Revenge"
"Gnome Alone"
"Austin Powers In Goldmember"
GRETA THYSSEN, 84, actress
"Shadows"
"Journey To the Seventh Planet"
"The Beast of Budapest"
HARRY J. UFLAND, 81, producer
"The Last Temptation of Christ"
"Freaked"
"Snow Falling On Cedars"
JERRY VAN DYKE, 86, actor
"McLintock!"
"Palm Springs Weekend"
"The Courtship of Eddie's Father"
WILL VINTON, 70, producer, director, animator
"Dinosaur"
"Rip Van Winkle"
"The Adventures of Mark Twain"
CLINT WALKER, 90, actor
"The Ten Commandments"
"The Dirty Dozen"
"None But the Brave"
AUDREY WELLS, 58, writer
"Shall We Dance"
"George of the Jungle"
"Under the Tuscan Sun"
HUGH WILSON, 74, writer
"Police Academy"
"Rustler's Rhapsody"
"Blast From the Past"
SCOTT WILSON, 81, actor
"The Gypsy Moths"
""The Right Stuff"
"In Cold Blood"
PAUL JUNGER WITT, 77, producer
"Brian's Song"
"Dead Poets Society"
"Three Kings"
PETER WYNGARDE, 90, actor
"The Innocents"
"Burn, Witch, Burn"
"Alexander the Great"
CELESTE YARNALL, 74, actress
"Scorpio"
"The Velvet Vampire"
"Beast of Blood"
MADIHA YOUSRI, 98, actress
"Prisoner of Shadows"
"Land of Dreams"
"Life or Death"
CRAIG ZADAN, 69, producer
"Footloose"
"Chicago"
"The Bucket List"
LOUIS ZORICH, 93, actor
"For Pete's Sake"
"The Don Is Dead"
"W.C. Fields and Me"

"Acting's fun, but life's more important."
                                                            Margot Kidder