Monday, January 31, 2022

Seeing Stars (1932)

 
SEEING STARS  (1932)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Ben Harrison, Manny Gould
Krazy Kat sits down to play a nightclub piano, and Laurel & Hardy, Jimmy Durante,  Joe E. Brown and the Marx Brothers all turn up in the audience. If those names aren't enough to suggest what era this cartoon is from, "Happy Days Are Here Again" figures prominently on the soundtrack.

Saturday, January 29, 2022

The 2021 Covie Awards

 
Due to the pandemic and other factors, the widely anticipated Scobie Awards have been mothballed for the second year in a row. Instead, the movie-watching world has to get by with the Covie Awards, recognizing achievement of all kinds in mostly older films. Time and the virus will determine whether the Scobies return, or whether the Covies are here to stay. 

Best Silent Movie Made In the 21st Century: "Blancanieves" (2012)
Blink and You'll Miss Him: Tony Curtis in "Criss Cross" (1949)
Cameo: David Niven in "The Road To Hong Kong" (1962)
Couple: Agathe Rouselle and Vincent Lindon in "Titane" (2021)
Character Studies: Elisha Cook Jr. in "Born To Kill" and Percy Helton in "Criss Cross" (1949)
Best Performance By an Actor Using Only His Voice: Jim Broadbent in "The Phone Call" (2013)
Best Performance By an Actress Playing a Girl Turning Into a Fish: Luna Wedler in "Blue My Mind" (2017)
Most Demented Ensemble: "Slack Bay" (2016)
Best Mad Scene: Geraldine Chaplin in "Chaplin" (1992)
Best Comedy Performance (Female): Barbara Windsor in "Carry On Girls" (1973)
Best Comedy Performance (Male): Alec Guinness in "Murder By Death" (1976)
Best Comedy Performance By an Actor Playing an Escaped Lunatic: Milton Parsons in "The Hidden Hand" (1942)
Best Rock-&-Roll Performance By a Female Vocalist Playing the Bass and Wearing a Leather Jumpsuit: Suzi Quatro in "Suzi Q" (2019)
Best Heist Sequence: "Topkapi" (1964)
Just For Fun: "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" (2021)
Scariest Performance By a Tree: "The Tree" (2010)
Most Real-Looking Recreations of Terrorist Events: "The Baader Meinhof Complex" (2008)
Sickest Acts of Violence: "Hobo With a Shotgun" (2011)
Most Authentic-Looking Paris Street Scenes: "Cleo From 5 To 7" (1962)
Evilest Villainy: Boris Karloff in "The House of Rothschild" (1934)
Cutest Goth Nun: Addison Timlin in "Little Sister" (2016)
Most Eye-Catching Nude Scene: Léa Seydoux in "The French Dispatch" (2021)
Most Discreet Nude Scene: Julia Meade in "Zotz!" (1962)
Barely Legal: Melanie Griffith in "Night Moves" (1975)
Chewing the Scenery: Rhys Ifans as Rasputin in "The King's Man" (2021)
Best Short Film: "Le Femme et le TGV" (2016)
Maynard G. Krebs Award For Beatnik Slang: Ray Tudor in "The Flesh Eaters" (1964)
Coffins Everywhere: "Bacurau" (2019)
Musical Score: Jonny Greenwood, "Spencer" (2021)
Better With Age: The cast of "All Together" (2011)
Why Closeups Were Invented: Noomi Rapace in "Lamb" (2021)
The End of the World and Then What?: "Deluge" (1933)
Voiceover Narration You Can't Ignore: Nick Offerman in "The Gunfighter" (2013)
Dullest Performance By an Actress In a Lead Role Playing a Witch: Samantha Robinson in "The Love Witch" (2016)
How To Be a Vamp: Estelle Taylor in "Where East Is East" (1929)
Is That What You Have To Do To Win an Academy Award?: "The Oscar" (1966)
Another Reason Not To Do Crystal Meth: "Antlers" (2021)
Ever Hear of the Pill?: "Yours, Mine and Ours" (1968)
Holidays From Hell: "Spencer" (2021)
Spy vs. Spy: Constance Bennett and Erich von Stroheim in "Three Faces East" (1930)
Commanding Officer You Might Be Willing To Fight For: Robert Redford in "The Last Castle" (2001)
Commanding Officer You Might Be Willing To Frag: James Gandolfini in "The Last Castle" (2001)
What Friends Are For: Kenny Laguna helping Joan Jett repair her catsuit, while she's wearing it, in "Bad Reputation" (2018)
The Search For Spock: Leonard Nimoy in "The Brain Eaters" (1958)
Were They or Weren't They?: Cary Grant and Randolph Scott in "Hot Saturday" (1932)
Missing a Finger: "William S. Burroughs: A Man Within" (2010)
Barista You Wouldn't Want To Order a Latte From: Carey Mulligan in "Promising Young Woman" (2020)
Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back To the Cloister: "Behind Convent Walls" (1977)
Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back To the Boarding School: "The House That Screamed" (1969)
Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back To the Reform School: "Werewolf In a Girls' Dormitory" (1961)
Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back To the 1960s: "Last Night In Soho" (2021)
Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back To the Fjord: "The Wave" (2015)
Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back To the Nuclear Power Plant: "The China Syndrome" (1979)
Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back To the Tar Pits: "Volcano" (1997)
Rat Pack In the Making: "Some Came Running" (1958)
Best Big Band Performance: Benny Goodman's Orchestra in "Hollywood Hotel" (1937)
Best Knockoff of "Casablanca": "The Conspirators" (1944)
Back To the Future: "Idaho Transfer" (1973) 
Best Animal Performance: The monkey in "The Kid Brother" (1927) and the cat in "Bell Book and Candle" (1958)
Least Animated Animal Performance: The three dead fish in "Blood Simple" (1984)
Best Performance by a Mustache: Moustache in "How To Steal a Million" (1966)
Best Performance By an Automobile In a Supporting Role: The Edsel In "Killing Car" (1993)
Best Movie To Watch Stoned (Maybe): "The Howl" (1970)
Herman Scobie Memorial Award For Career Achievement: Terence Stamp

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Bedazzled (1967)

 
BEDAZZLED  (1967)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Stanley Donen
    Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron,
    Raquel Welch, Barry Humphries, Michael Bates
A short-order cook with a desperate crush on one of his customers trades his soul to the Devil for seven wishes, and comes into contact with the Seven Deadly Sins. (Raquel Welch plays Lust.) Like "The Magic Christian", it's a movie that really has just one comic idea, but the idea's a good one and the filmmakers run with it. Cook as Lucifer gets to do all the fun stuff. He even gets to wear cool socks. Moore's initiation into an order of nuns called the Leaping Berylians is a loopy, leaping highlight.

Monday, January 24, 2022

Fog Island (1945)

 
FOG ISLAND  (1945)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Terry Morse
    George Zucco, Lionel Atwill, Jerome Cowan,
    Veda Ann Borg, Sharon Douglas, John Whitney,
    Jacqueline DeWit, Ian Keith, George Lloyd
A bunch of characters who are up to no good spend the night on a fog-bound island. Which one is a murderer? And who will find out before it's too late? A good little low-budget mystery in which everybody pretty much gets what they deserve, and at 72 minutes, watching it won't take up too much of your life. 

Saturday, January 22, 2022

The Playgirls and the Vampire 1960)


THE PLAYGIRLS AND THE VAMPIRE  (1960)  ¢ ¢
    D: Piero Regnoli
    Walter Brandi, Lyla Rocco, Maria Giovannini
    Alfredo Rizzo, Marisa Quattrini, Leonardo Botta,
    Tilde Damiani, Corinne Fontaine, Erika Dicenta
The members of a touring burlesque troupe take shelter in an old castle, where they're repeatedly warned not to leave their rooms at night, which (of course) they repeatedly do. A late-night creature feature from Italy with some decent atmospherics and one innocuous striptease routine. Nobody looks very happy in it, which could be due to the gloom of the castle, or to the actors having read the script.

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Two For the Seesaw (1962)

 
TWO FOR THE SEESAW  (1962)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Robert Wise
    Robert Mitchum, Shirley MacLaine, Edmon Ryan,
    Elisabeth Fraser, Eddie Firestone, Billy Gray
A New York free spirit and a lawyer from Nebraska hook up in a romantic melodrama based on William Gibson's play. Robert Mitchum and Shirley MacLaine play the mismatched couple, and there's something about the way they play off each other that tells you they don't quite connect. Both are wounded and maybe a little damaged, and even when they're getting close, they keep circling, eyeing each other, as if they were gauging the space between them. It's not quite a two-person story, but it might as well be, and the two stars are practically the whole show, though why Mitchum's character would even consider going back to Nebraska and leaving what he's got in New York is a little hard to fathom. Not when what he's got in New York is Shirley MacLaine.

Monday, January 17, 2022

The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)

 
THE ASSASSINATION OF TROTSKY  (1972)  ¢ ¢ 
    D: Joseph Losey
    Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider,
    Valentina Cortese, Enrico Maria Salerno
Richard Burton plays the exiled revolutionary in the days before his death in Mexico in 1940. There are some striking visual flourishes in this - look for the reflections - but the overall effect is brooding, didactic and sometimes silly. For metaphorical purposes, there's also some graphic bullfight footage that viewers who aren't partial to animal cruelty might want to steer clear of.

Saturday, January 15, 2022

The 10 Best Movies of 2021

 
The Movie Buzzard has watched more old movies than new ones lately. The following list reflects that.

MOVIES I LIKED A LOT:
"Lamb" (2021)
"Blancanieves" (2012)
"Le Femme et le TGV" (2016)
"Obit." (2016)
"The Friends of Eddie Coyle" (1973)
"Bacurau" (2019)
"Hairspray" (1988)
"Stormy Weather" (1943)
"The Nutty Professor" (1963)
"Titane" (2021)

SECRET TREASURES:
"Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President" (2020)
"All Together" (2011)
"Suck" (2009)
"Showdown At Boot Hill" (1958)

GUILTY PLEASURES:
"Carry On Girls" (1973)
"Volcano" (1997)
"The Suicide Squad" (2021)
"The Last Castle" (2001)

MOVIES I MIGHT WATCH AGAIN SOMETIME:
"Criss Cross" (1949)
"The French Dispatch" (2021)
"Ghostbusters: Afterlife" (2021)
"Bad Reputation" (2018)
"Last Night In Soho" (2021)
"Welcome To the Sticks" (2008)
"No Time To Die" (2021)
"Cutter's Way" (1981)
"Our Town" (2003)
"The Wave" (2015)

FOUR FROM THE VIDEO VAULT:
"Chinatown" (1974)
"The Taking of Pelham 123" (1974)
"Roman Holiday" (1953)
"Frankenstein" (1931)

TOXIC WASTE:
"The Oscar" (1965)

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera (1996)

 
THE TYPEWRITER, THE RIFLE & THE MOVIE CAMERA  (1996)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Adam Simon
Tim Robbins produced and narrates this profile of iconoclastic filmmaker Samuel Fuller (1911-1997). The title reflects the three key phases in Fuller's life: his early career as a tabloid journalist, service in the Army infantry during World War Two, and a 40-year run in and out of Hollywood, behind (and sometimes in front of) a movie camera. Much of the picture is Fuller talking about his life, his work, and anything else that catches his mind's eye, intercut with testimony from Jim Jarmusch and Martin Scorsese, and revealing segments in which Robbins and Quentin Tarantino, like cinema archeologists, dig through the artifacts in Fuller's garage. Fuller saw human society in general, and American society in particular, as a demented circus, hopelessly and irredeemably violent, and his sensibility was so blunt and brutal that he managed to piss off the left and the right both in equal measure. He reveled in that contradictory response, and in extended interview footage with Robbins, he comes across as a sort of mad court jester, a cigar-chomping, bare knuckles storyteller who's no-bullshit and all-bullshit simultaneously. Jarmusch gets it right when he describes Fuller as "an anti-authoritarian anarchist." During Fuller's lifetime, there was no other figure in movies quite like him. There hasn't been anybody like him since then, either.

Monday, January 10, 2022

Executive Action (1973)

 
EXECUTIVE ACTION  (1973)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: David Miller
    Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer,
    John Anderson, Ed Lauter, Dick Miller
Well-heeled, right-wing operatives engineer the assassination of JFK, setting up Lee Harvey Oswald as the fall guy. Conspiracy theories about who killed Kennedy seem likely to go on forever, but the odds of a movie like this one changing anybody's mind are not too good. Oliver Stone worked the same material to better effect in "JFK" (1991). Casting irony: Lancaster and Ryan were both staunch liberals, and Will Geer had been blacklisted. Dalton Trumbo (also blacklisted) wrote the screenplay. Ryan died not long after shooting was completed.

Saturday, January 8, 2022

The Long Ships (1964)

 
THE LONG SHIPS  (1964)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Jack Cardiff
    Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn,
    Rosanna Schiaffino, Oscar Homolka, Edward Judd,
    Lionel Jeffries, Bela Loncar, Gordon Jackson
Viking adventurers hijack the king's funeral ship and sail down to North Africa in search of a fabulous treasure: the legendary "Mother of Voices", a great golden bell. A colorful, action-packed, tongue-in-cheek swashbuckler, complete with brawls, battles, harem girls, sweeping music and model ships plowing the soundstage seas. Poitier looks stiff and out of place as a Moorish prince, but Widmark really gets into the jaunty, throwaway spirit of the piece as a Norseman with a crooked grin and a wisecrack, lie, or tall tale for every occasion. Nobody who saw this at the Eastwood Theater in Madison on a particular Saturday night in 1964 will ever forget it. A landmark guilty pleasure.

Sidney Poitier
(1927-2022)

Thursday, January 6, 2022

Varsity Show (1937)


VARSITY SHOW  (1937)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: William Keighley
    Dick Powell, Ted Healy, Rosemary Lane,
    Priscilla Lane, Walter Catlett, Fred Waring,
    John W. Bubbles, Ford Worthigton Lee,
    Johnnie Davis, Sterling Holloway, Mabel Todd
A hotshot Broadway producer (Dick Powell), returns to his alma mater to help the kids put on a show. Ted Healy, minus the Stooges, plays Powell's sidekick, and Mabel Todd has a funny moment or two as a dizzy coed who improbably comes on to Healy. The elaborate dance number that wraps up the show could only be the work of Busby Berkeley.

Tuesday, January 4, 2022

The Taming of the Shrew (1929)

 
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW  (1929)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Sam Taylor
    Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Edwin Maxwell,
    Joseph Cawthorne, Clyde Cook, Dorothy Jordan
Slapstick Shakespeare, in an early talkie starring Doug and Mary as the famously bickering, would-be couple. Neither Fairbanks nor Pickford would last very long in the sound era, and when they made this, their storybook marriage was coming apart, too. It's the only movie they appeared in together, and while you'd expect it to be dialogue-driven (Shakespeare, with an assist from Sam Taylor), check out how much of Pickford's performance is done without words.

Sunday, January 2, 2022

Final Reel 2021

 
LEE AAKER, 77, actor
“Hondo” 
“Mr. Scoutmaster” 
“The Atomic City”
MICHAEL APTED, 79, director
“Nell” 
“Coal Miner’s Daughter”
“63 Up”
ED ASNER, 91, actor
“JFK” 
“El Dorado”
“Fort Apache the Bronx”
JEAN-PIERRE BACRI, 69, actor
“The Night Clerk”,
 “Goodbye Gary Cooper”
 “Place Vendôme”
LISA BANES, 65, actress
“Cocktail”,
“Young Guns”  
“Gone Girl”
RAVEN BAY, 30, actress
“In the Flesh” 
“Slumber Party Cupcake Sluts” 
“Untamed Heart”
NED BEATTY, 83, actor
“Delverance”
“Network”
“All the President’s Men”
JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO, 88, actor
“Breathless” 
“A Woman Is a Woman” 
“That Man From Rio”
WALTER BERNSTEIN, 101, writer,
“Fail Safe” 
“The Molly Maguires”
“The Front”
VAL BISOGLIO, 95, actor
“The Hindenburg”,
“St. Ives”
“The Frisco Kid”
LESLIE BRICUSSE, 90, writer, composer, lyricist
“Scrooge”
“Doctor Dolittle” 
“Goodbye, Mr. Chips”
FRANK BONNER, 79, actor
“The Hoax” 
“Las Vegas Lady” 
“Under the Hollywood Sign”
GEORGE BUTLER, 78, producer, director
“Pumping Iron” 
“Going Upriver” 
“The Endurance”
JEAN-CLAUDE CARRIÈRE, 89, writer, actor
“Goya’s Ghosts” 
“The Artist and the Model” 
“The Tin Drum”
STEVE CARVER, 75, director
“Capone” 
“Big Bad Mama”
“River of Death”
NINO CASTELNUOVO, 84, actor
“Star Odyssey” 
“The English Patient” 
“Strip Nude For Your Killer”
SHIN’ICHI (“SONNY”) CHIBA, 82, actor
“Fighting Fist” 
“Karate Inferno”
“Doberman Cop”
CHARLOTTE CORNWELL, 71, actress
“Stardust” 
“The Saint”
“The Russia House”
ARLENE DAHL, 96, actress
“Jamaica Run” 
“Desert Legion”
“Journey To the Center of the Earth”
LOIS DE BANZIE, 90, actress
“Mass Appeal”
“Annie” 
“Sudden Impact”
NATHALIE DELON, 79, actress
“Bluebeard” 
“The Romantic Englishwoman” 
“Eyes Behind the Stars”
DUSTIN DIAMOND, 44, actor
“Bleeding Hearts” 
“Scavenger Killers” 
“The Curse of the Zombie Pirates”
JOAN DIDION, 87, writer
“True Confessions”
 “Play It As It Lays” 
“The Panic In Needle Park”
RICHARD DONNER, 91, director
“Superman” 
“Lethal Weapon”
 “The Omen”
ADRIEN DORVAL, 57, actor
“Shanghai Noon”
“Firestorm”
“The Pledge”
SUZANNE DOUGLAS, 64, actress
“The Inkwell” 
“Chain of Desire” 
“School of Rock”
ROBERT DOWNEY SR., writer, director, actor
“Putney Swope” 
“Greaser’s Palace”
 “Hugo Pool”
ETIENNE DRABER, 81, actor
“May Fools” 
“Madame Bovary” 
“Viper In the Fist”
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS, 89, actress
“Moonstruck”
“Mighty Aphrodite”
“Mr. Holland’s Opus”
MARILYN EASTMAN, 87, actress
“Houseguest” 
“Santa Claws” 
“Night of the Living Dead”
MARK EDEN, 92, actor
“The Pleasure Girls” 
“The Crimson Cult” 
“The L-Shaped Room” 
ROBERT FLETCHER, 98, costume designer
“Caveman” 
“Fright Night”
“Star Trek III: The Search For Spock”
SEIZÔ FUKUMOTO, 77, actor
“The Last Ronin”
“13 Assassins” 
“The Fort of Death”
MIRA FURLAN, 65, actress
“Silent Gunpowder” 
“Heads or Tails” 
“A Film With No Name”
JOHN GABRIEL, 90, actor
“The Hunters” 
“The Story of Ruth”
“El Dorado”
WILLIE GARSON, 57, actor
“Groundhog Day” 
“Freaky Friday” 
“Mars Attacks!”
LEON GAST, 84, director
“Smash His Camera” 
“Hell’s Angels Forever”
“When We Were Kings”
SAGINAW GRANT, 85, actor
“Grey Owl” 
“Black Cloud” 
“Valley of the Gods”
JAMES GREENE, 89, actor
“Albert Nobbs” 
“Johnny English” 
“Tom & Viv”
ALBERTO GRIMALDI, 95, producer
“Last Tango In Paris” 
“1900” 
“Gangs of New York”
CHARLES GRODIN, 86, actor
“The Heartbreak Kid” 
“Rosemary’s Baby”
“Catch-22”
DAVID GULPILIL, 68, actor
“Walkabout” 
“Australia” 
“The Right Stuff”
JAMES HAMPTON, 84, actor
“The China Syndrome”
“Pump Ip the Volume” 
“The Longest Yard”
HAYA HARAREET, 89, actress
“The Interns”
“Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer” 
“Ben-Hur”
MARIE HARMON, 97, actress
“Springtime In Texas”
“Secrets of a Sorority Girl” 
“The El Paso Kid”
CYNTHIA HARRIS, 87, actress
“Up the Sandbox”
 “Isadora”
 “Reuben, Reuben”
JEROME HELLMAN, 92, producer
“Midnight Cowboy”
“The Mosquito Coast” 
“Coming Home”
GLORIA HENRY, 98, actress
“Gang War” 
“Riders In the Sky” 
“Rancho Notorious”
GERALD HIKEN, 93, actor
“Fat Man and Little Boy” 
“The Candidate” 
“Reds”
ROBERT HOGAN, 87, actor
“Sweet Land” 
“Day Zero” 
“Trust, Greed, Bullets & Bourbon”
HAL HOLBROOK, 95, actor
“Wall Street” 
“Magnum Force” 
“All the President’s Men”
SALLY ANN HOWES, 91, actress
“Dead of Night”
“Cinderella”
“Paradise Lagoon”
HALYNA HUTCHINS, 42, cinematographer
“Snowbound” 
“Archenemy” 
“The Mad Hatter”
ROBERT C. JONES, 84, editor
“Shampoo”
“Bound For Glory” 
“Ship of Fools”
BRUCE KIRBY, 95, actor
“Sweet Dreams” 
“Catch-22”
 “J.W. Coop”
TAWNY KITAEN, 59, actress
“Gwendoline” 
“Bachelor Party” 
“White Hot”
YAPHET KOTTO, 81, actor
“Alien” 
“Brubaker” 
“Live and Let Die”
DILIP KUMAR, 98, actor
“Foot Path” 
“The Savage Princess” 
“The Honor of the House”
ART LAFLEUR, 78, actor
“Forever Young”
“The Sandlot” 
“Field of Dreams”
CLORIS LEACHMAN, 94, actress
“Kiss Me Deadly” 
“Young Frankenstein” 
“The Last Picture Show”
GUNNEL LINDBLOM, 89, actress
“Wild Strawberries” 
“Winter Light”
“The Virgin Spring”
NORMAN LLOYD, 106, actor
“Saboteur” 
“Limelight” 
“The Flame and the Arrow”
BETTY LYNN, 95, actress
“Mother Is a Freshman” 
“Father Was a Fullback” 
“Gun For a Coward”
NORM MACDONALD, 61, actor
“Dirty Work” 
“The Animal” 
“Screwed”
GAVIN MACLEOD, 90, actor
“Kelly’s Heroes” 
“The Sand Pebbles” 
“Operation Petticoat”
MONA MALM, 85, actress
“Fanny and Alexander” 
“The Birthday”
“Run For Your Life”
JACKIE MASON, 93, actor, comedian
“The Stoolie”
“The Jerk”
“Caddyshack II”
JEANETTE MAUS, 39, actress
“Your Sister’s Sister” 
“Dismissed” 
“Charm City Kings”
BIFF MCGUIRE, 94, actor
“Serpico” 
"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter” 
“The Thomas Crown Affair”
FRANK MCRAE, 80, actor
“48 Hrs.” 
“Cannery Row” 
“1941”
HELEN MCCRORY, 52, actress
“Skyfall” 
“Hugo” 
“Their Finest”
LARRY MCMURTRY, 84, writer
“Brokeback Mountain” 
“Lonesome Dove”
“The Last Picture Show”
EDDIE MEKKA, 69, actor
“Love Made Easy”
 “Dreamgirls”
 “Top of the World”
ROGER MICHELL, 65, director
“Notting Hill” 
“Venus” 
“Hyde Park On Hudson”
DIANA MILLAY, 86, actress
“Night of Dark Shadows” 
“Tarzan and the Great River”
PAUL MOONEY, 79, writer, actor
“Bamboozled” 
“Bustin’ Loose” 
“The Buddy Holly Story”
KAYCEE MOORE, 77, actress
“Ninth Street” 
“Daughters of the Dust” 
“Killer of Sheep”
MICHAEL NESMITH, 78, producer, actor, Monkee
“Repo Man”,
“Tapeheads” 
“Head”
TRISHA NOBLE, 76, actress
“The Private Eyes” 
“Love Is a Woman” 
“Carry On Camping”
NICOLA PAGETT, 75, actress
“The Viking Queen” 
“Oliver’s Story” 
“Anne of the Thousand Days” 
JEAN PANISSE, 92, actor
“Happy Easter” 
“An Angel On Wheels”
“Manon of the Spring”
CHRISTOPHER PENNOCK, 77, actor
“Savages” 
“Frances” 
"Basic Training”
TORD PETERSON, 94, actor
“No Time To Kill” 
“House of Angels” 
“Echoes of the Dead”
RONALD PICKUP, 80, actor
“The Mission” 
“A Dry White Season” 
“Zulu Dawn”
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER91, actor
“Barrymore” 
“The Insider” 
“Knives Out”
MARKIE POST, 70, actress
“Cook Off!” 
“There’s Something About Mary” 
“Sweet Sweet Summertime”
ANTHONY POWELL, 85, costume designer
“Tess”
“Papillon” 
“Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”
JANE POWELL, 92, singer, actress
“Royal Wedding”
“Holiday In Mexico”
“Seven Brides For Seven Brothers” 
MARION RAMSEY, 73, actress
“Police Academy” 
“Return To Babylon”
“When I Sing”
JOHN REILLY, 86, actor
“Spilt Milk”
“Deal of the Century” 
“Touch and Go”
CATHERINE RICH, 88, actress
“Captain Conan” 
“The Time To Die” 
“Threshold of the Void”
JOHN RICHARDSON, 86, actor
“Eyeball” 
“Black Sunday”
“One Million Years B.C.”, 
PETER MARK RICHMAN, 93, actor
“The Black Orchid” 
“Dark Intruder”
“Girls On the Loose”
PAUL RITTER, 55, actor
“On a Clear Day” 
“Nowhere Boy”
“Quantum of Solace”
TANYA ROBERTS, 65, actress
“Sins of Desire” 
“Sheena” 
“The Yum Yum Girls”
CHARLIE ROBINSON, 75, actor
“The River” 
“Drive, He Said”, 
“Gray Lady Down”
GIUSEPPE ROTUNNO, 97, cinematographer
“The Leopard”
“All That Jazz”
“On the Beach”
RICHARD RUSH, 91, director
“The Stunt Man” 
“Hells Angels On Wheels” 
“Freebie and the Bean”
ANTONIO SABATO, 77, actor
“Grand Prix” 
“War of the Robots” 
“Crime Boss”
MORT SAHL, 94, actor
“Don’t Make Waves”
 “In Love and War” 
“Max Rose’
PETER SCOLARI, 66, actor
“Letting Go” 
“All You Can Eat” 
“Looks That Kill”
GEORGE SEGAL, 87, actor
“King Rat” 
“The Hot Rock” 
“A Touch of Class”
BARBARA SHELLEY, 88, actress
“Cat Girl” 
“Blood of the Vampire”
 “Village of the Damned”
ANTHONY SHER, 72, actor
“Erik the Viking” 
“The Wolfman” 
“Shakespeare In Love”
GREGORY SIERRA, 93, actor
“Papillon” 
“Getting Straight” 
“The Towering Inferno”
JOSEPH SIRAVO, 66, actor
“Carlito’s Way” 
“Maid In Manhattan”
 “Motherless Brooklyn”
DAHLIA SKY, 31, actress
“Orgy University” 
“A Christmas Orgy” 
“Carwash Orgy 2”
WILLIAM SMITH, 88, actor
“Maniac Cop” 
“Darker Than Amber” 
“Any Which Way You Can”
STEPHEN SONDHEIM, 91, composer, lyricist
“Into the Woods” 
“Company” 
“Sweeney Todd”
LYNN STALMASTER, 93, castimg director
“The Right Stuff” 
“Being There” 
“The Untouchables”
MARTHA STEWART, 98, actress
“Daisy Kenyon” 
“Surf Party”
“In a Lonely Place”
DEAN STOCKWELL, 85, actor
“Compulsion” 
“Blue Velvet”
 “Paris, Texas”
TEMPEST STORM, 93, stripper, actress
 “French Peep Show” 
“Teaserama” 
“Striptease Girl”
JULIE STRAIN, 58, actress
“Bikini Squad” 
“Bikini Hotel” 
“The Devil’s Pet” 
UNA STUBBS, 84, actress
“Three Hats For Lisa” 
“Bedtime With Rosie” 
“Swinger’s Paradise”
BERTRAND TAVERNIER, 79, writer, director
“Coup de Torchon” 
“Captain Conan”
“Life and Nothing But”
MIKIS THEODORAKIS, 96, composer
“Z” 
“Zorba the Greek”
“The Day the Fish Came Out”
B.J. THOMAS, 78, singer, actor
“Jake’s Corner” 
“Jory” 
“Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”
STACY TITLE, 56, director
“The Last Supper 
“Hood of Horror” 
“Let the Devil Wear Black”
RUTHIE TOMPSON, 111, animator
“Bambi” 
“Sleeping Beauty” 
“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
CICELY TYSON, 96, actress
“Sounder” 
“The Help” 
“The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman”
JEAN-MARC VALLÉE, 58, producer, director
“Wild”
“The Young Victoria” 
“Dallas Buyers Club” 
BUDDY VAN HORN, 92, actor, director, stunts
“The Dead Pool” 
“Pink Cadillac” 
“Any Which Way You Can”
MELVIN VAN PEEBLES, 89, actor, writer, director
“Posse” 
“Watermelon Man” 
“Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song”
RUDOLF VATINYAN, 79, cinematographer
“Hostages”
“On the Old Roman Road” 
“The Merry Bus”
ISELA VEGA, 81, actress
“Barbarosa” 
“Red Gold” 
“The Black Widow”
EMI WADA, 84, costume designer
“Ran” 
“Taboo” 
“Dreams”
JESSICA WALTER, 80, actress
“Grand Prix” 
“Lilith” 
“Play Misty For Me”
GLORIA WARREN, 95, actress
“Dangerous Money"
 “Cinderella Swings It”
 “Always In My Heart”
JOAN WASHINGTON, 74, dialect coach
“Red Sparrow” 
“Green Zone” 
“Charlotte Gray”
JOAN WELDON, 90, actress
“Them!”
“Day of the Badman” 
“So This Is Love”
LINA WERTMÜLLER, 93, writer, director
“Seven Beauties” 
“The Seduction of Mimi” 
“Swept Away”
BETTY WHITE, 99, actress
“Lake Placid”, 
“The Third Wish”
“Advise & Consent”
YVONNE WILDER, 84, actress
“West Side Story” 
“Bloodbrothers” 
“The Return of Count Yorga”
CLARENCE WILLIAMS III, 81, actor
“The Legend of 1900” 
“The Silencers”
 “Purple Rain”
MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS, 54, actor
“Time Out of Mind”
 “12 Years a Slave” 
“The Road”
JANE WITHERS, 95, actress
“Pepper”
“Bright Eyes” 
“Giant”
SAMUEL E. WRIGHT, 72, actor
“Bird” 
“Separate But Equal” 
“Me and Him”
MAY WYNN, 93, actress
“The Caine Mutiny” 
“The White Squaw” 
“The Violent Men” 
 
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               can be phoned in is a review.”

                                                           Charles Grodin