Friday, January 31, 2020

1917 (2019)


1917  (2019)  
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    D: Sam Mendes
    George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Colin Firth,
    Benedict Cumberbatch, Andrew Scott, Mark Strong
If there's an ideal movie to go on a double bill with Peter Jackson's World War One documentary "They Shall Not Grow Old", it's probably this, Sam Mendes' narrative feature about two British soldiers assigned to cross nine miles of no man's land to warn the commander of a combat regiment that if he doesn't call off a planned attack on the German line, his troops will be annihilated. The first thing you notice in it is the camerawork. It's stunning, moving with the soldiers through the trenches and over the bombed-out countryside, a hellish landscape littered with rotting corpses, wounded comrades, flies, rats, barbed wire, dead horses, crippled weaponry, burning cities and abandoned farms. You're aware of the camera at first, and it's a little distracting, but as you adjust to it, the effect becomes organic and you're simply in the movie with the two corporals, dirty, hungry, terrified, exhausted, dodging bullets and stumbling through the mud, trying to stay alive from one moment to the next. The Great War brought to ghastly, heroic life. 

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Mackenna's Gold (1969)


MACKENNA'S GOLD  (1969)  
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    D: J. Lee Thompson
    Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas,
    Camilla Sparv, Julie Newmar, Ted Cassidy,
    Keenan Wynn, Edward G. Robinson, Lee J. Cobb,
    Eli Wallach, Anthony Quayle, Burgess Meredith,
    Raymond Massey, Eduardo Ciannelli, Robert Phillips
Outlaws, adventurers, fortune hunters, the U.S. Cavalry and Gregory Peck all ride out in search of the Canyon del Oro, a legendary lost canyon of gold. A clunky but colorful western adventure with spectacular landscapes, an impressive cast, music by Quincy Jones, and some cheesy-looking back-projection and miniature work. Watch Julie Newmar go skinny-dipping. Watch Telly Savalas cut himself shaving his head. Watch Edward G. Robinson steal the picture with three or four minutes of screen time. Watch an Egyptian play a Mexican (delivering lines like"Ay, Chihuahua!"), and a bunch of actors who aren't Indians pretend to be Indians. Maybe that's why the Apache spirits guarding the canyon get so pissed off.

Monday, January 27, 2020

The 2019 Scobie Awards


The Scobie Awards are named after Herman Scobie, a World War Two veteran and free-lance soldier of fortune who died under mysterious circumstances in a Paris hotel room in 1963. (See "Charade".)


Picture: "They Shall Not Grow Old"

Actor: Mads Mikkelsen, "Arctic"
Actress: Lupita Nyong'o, "Us"
Supporting Actor: Sam Rockwell, "Richard Jewell"
Supporting Actress: Marianne Rendón, "Mapplethorpe"
Ensemble: "Knives Out"
Couple: Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly, "Stan & Ollie"
Cameo: Iggy Pop, "The Dead Don't Die"
Director: Quentin Tarantino, 
                 "Once Upon a Time In Hollywood"
Cinematography: Caleb Deschanel, "Never Look Away"
Musical Score: Joseph Trapenese, "Arctic"
Animated Movie: "Ruben Brandt, Collector"
Foreign Language Film: "Never Look Away"
B Movie: "The Dead Don't Die"
Title Sequence: "Knives Out"
Trailer: "Hagazussa"
Poster Art: "Mary"
Career Achievement Award: Judy Davis

Saturday, January 25, 2020

Attack Girls' Swim Team Versus the Undead (2007)


ATTACK GIRLS' SWIM TEAM VERSUS THE UNDEAD  (2007)  
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    D: Kôji Kawano 
    Sasa Handa, Yuria Hidaka, Ayumi Tokitô
A Japanese gore-and-skin-fest in which the only potential survivors of a zombie epidemic are the members of a high-school girls' swim team. Because, hey, wasn't it like that where you went to school? Alternate titles: "Undead Pool", "Inglorious Zombie Hunters", "The Girls Rebel Force of Competitive Swimmers".

Thursday, January 23, 2020

Erik the Viking (1989)


ERIK THE VIKING  (1989)  
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    D: Terry Jones
    Tim Robbins, John Cleese, Imogen Stubbs,
    Mickey Rooney, Eartha Kitt, Terry Jones,
    Antony Sher, Freddie Jones, Samantha Bond
A motley crew of Norsemen sail west, over the edge of the world and all the way to Valhalla, hoping to wake up the gods and bring the Age of Darkness to en end. A Monty Python spinoff that tries to do for the Vikings what "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" did for the Knights of the Round Table, but the inspired zaniness the gang brought to the Arthur legend only rarely materializes. Terry Jones wrote and directed and John Cleese shows up as an evil warlord, but the other Pythons are nowhere to be found, and the movie could desperately use them. The Richard Widmark/Sidney Poitier adventure "The Long Ships" is a better Viking comedy than this.

Terry Jones
(1942-2020)

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Mapplethorpe (2018)


MAPPLETHORPE  (2018)  
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    D: Ondi Timoner
    Matt Smith, Marianne Rendón, John Benjamin Hickey, 
    Tina Benko, Brandon Sklenar, Rotimi Paul
A sketchy, scrappy biopic  tracking the relatively short life and career of one of the 20th century's most influential photographers, from his early days with Patti Smith to his death from AIDS in 1989. There's a gritty look to the cinematography that works especially well in the first couple of reels, when Robert and Patti are bunking at the Chelsea Hotel and scuffling around New York, the period Smith chronicled in her memoir "Just Kids". "You might not know us yet, but we're going to be big stars," Patti tells the proprietor at the Chelsea. "Only today we don't have any money." He gives them a room, accepting Robert's artwork as collateral, and they do become stars, Robert for his black-and-white portraits, delicate images of flowers and raw depictions of the gay leather scene. Fame, fortune and controversy follow, and it's only a matter of time before an uninhibited lifestyle catches up with him. Played by former Doctor Who Matt Smith, Mapplethorpe comes across as a guy with no self-control and an unlimited passion for his work. He can be thoughtlessly (or deliberately) cruel to those around him, but what he can capture with a camera is exquisite. A devil and an angel, rolled into one. He won't live to be 50, he says at one point, and he's right about that. He just wants his work to be there when he's gone. You can't help wishing he'd hung around longer - you wonder what he might've accomplished if he had - but it's not hard to see why that's not the way things worked out.

Sunday, January 19, 2020

Hannibal (1959)


HANNIBAL  (1959)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Edgar G. Ulmer
    Victor Mature, Rita Gam, Gabriele Ferzetti,
    Rik Battaglia, Milly Vitale, Franco Silva
The Great Victor plays the Carthaginian general who famously terrorized Rome by bringing elephants over the Alps. Mature might look (and act) like a figure in a wax museum, but he had the advantage of not taking himself too seriously, and, anyway, somebody had to play Hannibal, so why not Victor Mature?

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

The 10 Best Movies of 2019


The following list was scraped together from the movies I saw last year, mostly in and around Seattle. Some were released previously in other places.


THE TEN BEST:
"They Shall Not Grow Old"
"Once Upon a Time In Hollywood"
"Jojo Rabbit"
"Joker"
"Never Look Away"
"The Dead Don't Die"
"Ruben Brandt, Collector"
"Arctic"
"Knives Out"
"The Lighthouse"

TAKE FIVE:
"Tel Aviv On Fire"
"Echo In the Canyon"
"The Two Popes"
"Maiden"
"The Highwaymen"

SECRET TREASURES:
"The Merry Frinks" (1934)
"The Juniper Tree" (1990)
"Blackthorn" (2011)
"Lost In Paris" (2016)

GUILTY PLEASURES:
"Princess of the Nile" (1954)
"Mackenna's Gold" (1969)
"Freebie and the Bean" (1974)
"Zombieland: Double Tap" (2019)

FOUR FROM THE VIDEO VAULT:
"The Phantom Carriage" (1921)
"Bullitt" (1968)
"Vanishing Point" (1971)
"Hickey & Boggs" (1972)

BACK FROM OBLIVION:
"As the Earth Turns" (1938)

Tuesday, January 7, 2020

The Lovers (2017)


THE LOVERS  (2017)  
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    D: Azazel Jacobs
    Debra Winger, Tracy Letts, Melora Walters,
    Aidan Gillen, Tyler Ross, Jessica Sula
A married couple who are cheating on each other start cheating on the people they're cheating on each other with. With each other. It gets a little crazy when the lies come due, but even then you wouldn't really want to walk away. Debra Winger, that's why.

Monday, January 6, 2020

Panic In the Streets (1950)


PANIC IN THE STREETS  (1950)  
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    D: Elia Kazan
    Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Jack Palance,
    Barbara Bel Geddes, Zero Mostel, Dan Riss
A stowaway just off the boat in New Orleans falls in with some gangsters and ends up being shot. The police report says the bullets killed him, but a public health officer (Richard Widmark) finds something more disturbing: The man had pneumonic plague. Now it's a race to track down everybody who had contact with the guy, before the disease becomes an epidemic. A good, tight thriller, filmed on location, with mostly local non-professionals in the supporting roles. In the age of Zika, Ebola and who knows what's next, a movie like this gives you something to think about. You'll remember it the next time you're out in a public place and somebody closeby sneezes. Menacing performance by Jack Palance in his first screen role. 

Sunday, January 5, 2020

Dark Money (2018)


DARK MONEY  (2018)  
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    D: Kimberly  Reed
We could be fairly early yet in the tenure of John Roberts as chief justice of the United States, but at this point, the case that seems likely to define him is Citizens United, in which a 5-4 court majority equated corporations with people and money with speech, paving the way for levels of electoral corruption that are still evolving and nowhere close to being reversed. This documentary zeroes in on a place that fought back - Montana - a sparsely populated, mostly conservative state with a century-old tradition of policing its elections to counter the pervasive influence of the copper industry. It's not copper so much anymore, it's nonprofits with vague identities and patriotic sounding names that allow corporations, and rich individuals like the Koch brothers, to give as much as they want to the causes and candidates they believe in, with no accountability to anybody. The movie begins and ends on a lake left behind by Anaconda Copper, a body of water so toxic that migrating geese that stop by there die. The metaphorical implications are obvious.

Saturday, January 4, 2020

Carry On Columbus (1992)


CARRY ON COLUMBUS  (1992)  
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    D: Gerald Thomas
    Jim Dale, Bernard Cribbins, Maureen Lipman
    Alexei Sayle, Rik Mayall, Charles Fleischer,
    Larry Miller, Julian Clary, Leslie Phillips,
    June Whitfield, Nigel Planer, Holly Aird
The Carry On Gang, or what's left of it, sails the seas in search of gold and a few silly laughs. A late entry in the long-running series, and considered by most fans to be one of the weakest, with only a handful of naughty puns to prevent you from wanting to watch something else. Most of the original gang had moved (or passed) on by then, and it's just not the same without them.

Thursday, January 2, 2020

Final Reel 2019


JULIE ADAMS, 92, actress
“The Last Movie” 
“McQ” 
“The Creature From the Black Lagoon”
DANNY AIELLO, 86, actor
“Radio Days” 
“Moonstruck” 
“Do the Right Thing”
JED ALLAN, 84, actor
“Zero Tolerance” 
“Ice Station Zebra” 
"The Photographer"
CHELO ALONSO, 85, actress
“Sheba and the Gladiator” 
“Atlas Against the Cyclops” 
“The Huns”
BIBI ANDERSSON, 83, actress
“The Seventh Seal” 
“Wild Strawberries” 
“Quintet”
CARMEN ARGENZIANO, 75, actor
 “Angels & Demons” 
“Swordfish” 
“A Murder of Crows”
RENE AUBERJONOIS, 79, actor
“M*A*S*H”  
“The Patriot” 
“McCabe & Mrs. Miller”
ROBERT AXELROD, 70, actor
“The Blob”  
“The Revenant” 
“Tales of Frankenstein”
CHRISTIAN BACH, 59, actress
“El Secreto” 
“Soy Libre” 
“Revenge of the Black Wolf”
KAYE BALLARD, 93, singer, actress
“Pandemonium” 
“Freaky Friday” 
“Which Way To the Front?”
STEVE BEAN, 58, actor
“Mousehunt” 
“The Out-of-Towners” 
“Blast From the Past”
PAUL BENJAMIN, 81, actor
“Escape From Alcatraz” 
“Gideon’s Trumpet” 
“The Station Agent”
SUE BERNARD, 71, actress
“Necromancy” 
“The Killing Kind” 
“Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!”
VERNA BLOOM, 80, actress
“Medium Cool” 
“Animal House” 
“The Hired Hand” 
JIM BOUTON, 80, actor, writer, baseball player
“The Long Goodbye” 
“How Do You Know”
DON BRADY, 85, actor
“Lolita” 
“Dallas Buyers Club”  
“Zandalee”
JOHN CARL BUECHLER, 66, director, makeup, effects
“Deep Freeze” 
“Bikini Drive-In”
“Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity”
CARMINE CARIDI, 85, actor
“Havana” 
“Prince of the City”
“The Godfather: Part II”
DIAHANN CARROLL, 84, singer, actress
“Claudine” 
“Paris Blues” 
“Porgy and Bess”
SEYMOUR CASSEL, 84, actor
 “Rushmore”
 “Dick Tracy” 
“Minnie and Moskowitz”
CAROL CHANNING, 97, actress
“Thoroughly Modern Millie” 
“Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
JOHN CLARKE, 88, actor
“Gun Street” 
“You Have To Run Fast” 
“The Satan Bug”
BARRY COE, 84, actor
“The 300 Spartans” 
“The Bravados”  
“Jaws 2”
LARRY COHEN, 77, writer, director
“It’s Alive”  
“It Lives Again”
“The Stuff” 
TIM CONWAY, 85, actor
“McHale’s Navy” 
“The Apple Dumpling Gang” 
“Dear God”
VALENTINA CORTESE, 96, actress
“Day For Night”
 “Juliet of the Spirits” 
“Barabbas” 
CHARLES CRAIG, 86, actor
“Night of the Living Dead” 
“Mortal Remains”
“Chasing Dreams”
PAUL DARROW, 78, actor
“Long Ago, Tomorrow” 
“Mister Jerico” 
“Die Another Day”
WINDSOR DAVIES, 88, actor
“Carry On England” 
“Murder Most Foul”
“Carry On Behind”
DORIS DAY, 97, singer, actress
“Pillow Talk” 
“Teacher’s Pet”
 “The Man Who Knew Too Much”
STANLEY DONEN, 94, director
“Charade” 
“Arabesque”  
“Singin’ In the Rain”
BILLY DRAGO, 73, actor
“The Untouchables” 
“Pale Rider” 
“Desert Rose”
DENISE DUBARRY, 63, actress, producer
“Being There”
“Monster In the Closet” 
“The Devil and Max Devlin”
CARMEN DUNCAN, 76, actress
“Hotel Mumbai” 
 “Now and Forever” 
“Platypus Cove”
HANNELORE ELSNER, 76, actress
“Cherry Blossoms” 
“Berlin, I Love You” 
“An Alibi For Death”
RICHARD ERDMAN, 93, actor
“The Men” 
 “Mission Over Korea” 
“Stalag 17”
RILEY EVANS, 32, actress
“White Trash Nurses” 
“Psycho Cheerleaders” 
“Pin Up Perversions”
ROBERT EVANS, 89, producer
“Chinatown”
 “Marathon Man” 
 “Black Sunday”
ALBERT FINNEY, 82, actor
“Tom Jones”
 “Erin Brockovich” 
 “The Dresser”
WAYNE FITZGERALD, 89, title designer
 “Reds” 
“Silverado” 
“Splash”
PETER FONDA, 79, actor
“Easy Rider”
“The Hired Hand” 
 “Ulee’s Gold”
ROBERT FORSTER, 78, actor
“Medium Cool”
“The Stalking Moon”
 “Jackie Brown” 
DAVID FOSTER, 89, producer
“The Getaway” 
“The Drowning Pool” 
“McCabe & Mrs. Miller”
DIANNE FOSTER, 90, actress
“The Last Hurrah” 
“The Deep Six” 
“The Violent Men”
ROBERT FRANK, 94, director
“Pull My Daisy" 
“Summer Cannibals”
“Candy Mountain” 
GILLIAN FREEMAN, 89, writer
“The Leather Boys” 
“That Cold Day In the Park”
JAMES FRAWLEY, 82, director
“Kid Blue" 
“The Muppet Movie” 
“The Big Bus” 
BRUNO GANZ, 77, actor
“Downfall” 
“Wings of Desire” 
 “Nosferatu”
NANCY GATES, 93, actress
“Suddenly” 
“Comanche Station” 
 “Death of a Scoundrel”
SAMUEL W. GELFMAN, 88, producer
“Cockfighter” 
“Caged Heat” 
“The Incredible Melting Man”
JULIE GIBSON, 106, actress
“The Contender” 
“Badmen of Tombstone” 
“Broadway Buckaroos”
MEREDYTHE GLASS, 98, extra
“The Wizard of Oz”
 “Babes In Arms” 
“Strike Up the Band”
STEVE GOLIN, 64, producer
“Spotlight” 
“The Revenant” 
 “Wild At Heart”
SID HAIG, 80, actor
 “Galaxy of Terror” 
“Death House” 
“The Devil’s Rejects”
BARBARA HAMMER, 79, director
 “Sappho” 
“Hot Flash”
 “Superdyke Meets Madame X”
VALERIE HARPER, 80, actress
 “Golda’s Balcony” 
“Blame In On Rio”
 “Chapter Two”
SUSAN HARRISON, 80, actress
“Key Witness”
“The Light That Failed”
“Sweet Smell of Success”
RUTGER HAUER, 75, actor
“Blade Runner” 
“Soldier of Orange”
 “Hobo with a Shotgun”
DAVID HEDISON, 92, actor
“The Fly” 
 “Live and Let Die”
 “The Naked Face”
KATHERINE HELMOND, 89, actress
“Family Plot”
 “Time Bandits” 
“Brazil”
DEL HENNEY, 83, actor
“Villain” 
 “Soldier of Orange” 
“Straw Dogs”
MITZI HOAG, 86, actress
 “Play It As It Lays” 
“Heart Like a Wheel”
 “The Trip”
MED HONDO, 82, actor, director
 “West Indies” 
“Oh, Sun” 
“Lumière Noire”
NEIL INNES, 75, musician, actor
“The Missionary” 
“Erik the Viking” 
“Monty Python and the Holy Grail”
JESSICA JAYMES, 40, actress
“Bikini Warriors” 
“Triple Trouble”  
“Slave for a Night”
LARRY FLASH JENKINS, 63, actor
“The Presidio” 
“Armed and Dangerous”
 “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”
ARTE JOHNSON, 90, actor
“The President’s Analyst” 
“The Subterraneans” 
“Love At First Bite”
EDDIE JONES, 84, actor
“Seabiscuit” 
 “The Grifters”
 “Stanley & Iris”
FREDDIE JONES, 91, actor
 “The Elephant Man” 
“Erik the Viking” 
“Wild At Heart”
ISAAC KAPPY, 42, actor
“Klown Kamp Massacre”
 “Terminator Salvation”
 “Thor”
ANNA KARINA, 79, actress
 “Cleo From 5 To 7” 
“Bread and Chocolate” 
“The Nun”
KEN KERCHEVAL, 83, actor
“Network” 
“Pretty Poison”  
“F.I.S.T”
PAUL KOSLO, 74, actor
“Inferno” 
“The Annihilators”  
“Chained Heat II”
KARL KROGSTAD, 71, director
“Strings” 
“The Last Ride”  
“The Perfect Show”
MACHIKO KYÔ, 95, actress
“Rashomon” 
“Ugetsu”  
“Gate of Hell”
MARIE LAFORÊT, 80, actress
“Rat Trap” 
“Blue Panther” 
 “The Vultures”
MICHEL LEGRAND, 86, composer
“The Umbrellas of Cherbourg”
 “Atlantic City”
 “Cleo From 5 To 7”
RON LEIBMAN, 82, actor
“Norma Rae” 
“The Hot Rock” 
 “Slaughterhouse-Five”
VIRGINIA LEITH, 94, actress
“The Brain That Wouldn’t Die”
 “Black Widow”
 “Toward the Unknown”
CHARLES LEVIN, 70, actor
“Between the Lines”
 “Honeysuckle Rose” 
“The Man With One Red Shoe”
EDWARD LEWIS, 99, producer
“Spartacus” 
“Seconds”  
“Seven Days In May”
PEGGY LIPTON, 72, actress
“Purple People Eater” 
“The Postman” 
“Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me”
BRANKO LUSTIG, 87, producer
“Schindler’s List” 
“Gladiator” 
 “Kingdom of Heaven”
CAROL LYNLEY, 77, actress
“The Poseidon Adventure” 
 “Shock Treatment” 
“Harlow”
MICHAEL LYNNE, 77, producer
“Hairspray” 
“Ambition”
 “Haunting On Fraternity Row”
SUE LYON, 73, actress
“Lolita” 
“The Night of the Iguana” 
 “Tony Rome”
BILL MACY, 97, actor
“Oh, Calcutta” 
“The Late Show”
 “My Favorite Year”
DUSAN MAKAVEJEV, 86, writer, director
“Sweet Movie” 
“Montenegro” 
“The Coca-Cola Kid”
BARRY MALKIN, 80, editor
“Big” 
 “Rumble Fish”
 “The Godfather: Part III”
JEAN-PIERRE MARIELLE, 87, actor
“The Da Vinci Code”
 “The Two Crocodiles” 
“Coup de Torchon”
MARDIK MARTIN, 84, writer
“Mean Streets”
 “New York, New York” 
“Raging Bull”
PETER MAYHEW, 74, actor
“Star Wars” 
“Terror”
“Killer Ink”, 
BILLY MAYO, 61, actor
“American Violence” 
“The Evil Within”
 “Double Bang”
PHILIP MCKEON, 55, actor
“Sandman”
 “Red Surf”
 “Return To Horror High”
MARK MEDOFF, 79, writer
“Children of a Lesser God”
 “City of Joy” 
“Clara’s Heart”
JONAS MEKAS, 96, director
“The Brig”
 “A Letter From Greenpoint” 
 “In Between”
SERGE MERLIN, 86, actor
“Amélie”
 “City of Lost Children” 
 “Montana Blues”
SYLVIA MILES, 94, actress
“Midnight Cowboy” 
 “The Last Movie”
 “92 In the Shade”
DICK MILLER, 90, actor
“A Bucket of Blood”
“The Wild Angels”
 “The Trip” 
STEPHEN MOORE, 81, actor
 “Pirate Radio”
 “Brassed Off”
 “A Bridge Too Far”
SHELLEY MORRISON, 83, actress
“Max Dugan Returns” 
“Blume In Love” 
“Troop Beverly Hills” 
MYA-LECIA NAYLOR, 16, actress
“Code Red”
 “Index Zero”
 “Cloud Atlas”
PHYLLIS NEWMAN, 86, actress
“Let’s Rock” 
 “Mannequin" 
“Bye Bye Braverman”
DENISE NICKERSON, 62, actress
“Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory”
 “Smile”
 “Zero To Sixty”
KIP NIVEN, 73, actor
“Magnum Force” 
“Earthquake” 
 “Damnation Alley”
STEPHANIE NIZNIK. 52, actress
“Memorial Day”
 “Exit To Eden”
 “Star Trek: Insurrection”
LUKE PERRY, 52, actor
“8 Seconds” 
 “The Fifth Element” 
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”
PAOLO PAOLONI, 89, actor
“Cannibal Holocaust”
“The Haunting of Helena” 
“Ripley’s Game”
MURIEL PAVLOW, 97, actress
“Eyewitness” 
“Malta Story”
 “Night Boat To Dublin”
D.A. PENNEBAKER, 94, director, cinematographer
“Down From the Mountain”
 “The War Room” 
“Monterey Pop”
MICHAEL J. POLLARD, 80, actor
“Bonnie and Clyde”
 “Little Fauss and Big Halsey”
 “Between the Lines”
ANDRÉ PREVIN, 89, composer
“Elmer Gantry”
 “Two For the Seesaw”
 “Irma La Deuce”
MILTON QUON, 105, actor, visual effects
“Fantasia”
 “The Cat Killers” 
 “Speed”
TERRY RAWLINGS, 85, editor
“Alien” 
“Blade Runner” 
 “Chariots of Fire”
NADJA REGIN, 87, actress
 “Stranglehold”
 “The Fur Collar”
 “From Russia With Love”
SHANE RIMMER, 89, actor
“Out of Africa”
 “Year of the Comet”
 “Spy Game”
ALLENE ROBERTS, 90, actress
“Union Station”
 “Knock On Any Door”
 “Bomba On Panther Island”
MATT ROSE, 53, makeup, special effects
“Beetlejuice”
 “Batman & Robin” 
“Ed Wood”
ALVIN SARGENT, 92, writer
“Paper Moon” 
“Ordinary People”
 “Julia”
EDITH SCOB, 81, actress
“Holy Motors”
 “Brotherhood of the Wolf”
 “Eyes Without a Face”
WILLIAM MORGAN SHEPPARD, 86, actor
“Gettysburg”
 “The Sea Wolves”
 “Wild At Heart”
LISA SHERIDAN44, actress
“Beat” 
 “A Magic Christmas” 
“Elsa & Fred”
JOHN SINGLETON, 51, writer, director
“Boyz n the Hood” 
“Rosewood”
 “Poetic Justice”
JOAN STALEY, 79, actress
 “Cape Fear”
 “Johnny Cool”
 “Valley of the Dragons”
JOE STAPLETON, 56, actor
“Mystic River”
 “Spotlight”
 “Manchester By the Sea” 
PEGGY STEWART, 95, actress
 “Gun Street”
 “The Black Lash” 
“The Way West”
TADAO TAKASHIMA, 88, actor
“Son of Godzilla” 
“King Kong vs. Godzilla” 
“Moonlight In the Rain”
BRIAN TARANTINA, 60, actor
“BlacKkKlansman”
 “The Brave One”
 “Jacob’s Ladder” 
RIP TAYLOR, 85, actor
“Indecent Proposal”
 “Wayne’s World 2”
 “The Silence of the Hams”
PETER TORK, 77, actor, musician
“Head”
 “Cathedral Pines”
 “I Filmed Your Death”
RIP TORN, 88, actor
 “Tropic of Cancer” 
“King of Kings”
 “Time Limit”
PIERO TOSI, 92, costume designer
“The Leopard” 
 “Death In Venice”
 “The Stranger”
ANDREW G. VAJNA, 74, producer
“Tombstone” 
“Evita”
 “Total Recall”, 
AGNÈS VARDA, 90, writer, director
“Le Bonheur” 
“Cleo From 5 To 7” 
 “Vagabond”
JAN-MICHAEL VINCENT, 73, actor
“Bite the Bullet” 
 “White Line Fever”
 “Big Wednesday”
ROBERT WALKER JR., 79, actor
“Ensign Pulver”
 “Easy Rider” 
 “The Savage Seven”
JOHN WESLEY, 72, actor
“Perfect”
 “Nothing But Trouble” 
“Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot”
PETER WHITEHEAD, 82, director
“The Fall”
 “Fire In the Water”
 “The Benefit of the Doubt”
RICHARD WILLIAMS, 86, director, animator
“The Thief and the Cobbler”
 “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” 
JOHN WITHERSPOON, 77, actor
“Bulworth” 
“Fatal Instinct” 
 “Bird”
BILL WITTLIFF, 79, writer
“Lonesome Dove”
 “Raggedy Man” 
“Legends of the Fall”
MORGAN WOODWARD, 93, actor
“Cool Hand Luke” 
“Death of a Gunfighter”
 “Firecreek”
FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI, 96, director
“Hamlet”
 “Romeo and Juliet”
 “The Taming of the Shrew” 

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