Native Son (1951)

 

NATIVE SON  (1951)  ¢ ¢ 1/2

    D: Pierre Chenal

    Richard Wright, Jean Wallace, Nicholas Joy, 

    Gloria Madison, Charles Cane, George Rigaud,

    Gene Michael, Willa Pearl Curtis, George D. Green

A young black man gets a job as a chauffeur to a wealthy white family, and only bad things happen from that point on. This is a rough piece of work in almost every way, from its uncompromising language to its unpolished performances to its low-down appraisal of ghetto life to its pessimistic conclusion. It's a story that deserves a better movie, but the in-your-face execution has an undeniable power. Richard Wright plays the protagonist of his own novel, kind of like Mickey Spillane did in "The Girl Hunters", and there's an odd sense of dislocation that goes with a film that's set in Chicago but was shot in Buenos Aires.

Titane (2021)

TITANE  (2021)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2

    D: Julia Ducourau

    Agathe  Roouselle, Vincent Lindon, Garance Marillier,

    Bertrand Bonello, Adèle Guigne, Dominique Frot

A seven-year-old girl named Alexia survives a car wreck with a metal plate in her head and grows up to be an exotic dancer with an automobile fetish, and a serial killer. When wanted posters with her picture on them start to turn up in public places, she alters her identity and appearance and changes her name to Adrien, passing herself off as the missing son of a captain in the fire department. She also discovers she's pregnant, which is complicated, because it's not clear how she got that way, or what she's pregnant with, and she's trying desperately to keep anybody, but especially the captain, from finding out. And the captain has an issue of his own, an addiction to steroids that's getting out of control. It's one of the strangest, most gender-bent love stories ever, with an emphasis on physical mutation that David Cronenberg would appreciate. The homoerotic depiction of firefighters as young hunks (all of them  male) who spend their spare time dancing with each other leads to a scene where Adrien dances on top of a fire truck, doing the same moves she did when she was Alexia, but now in her male persona. The boys don't know what to make of that, and start to back off and look away. The ambiguity confounds them. Fire figures prominently in the plot, too. A prize-winner at Cannes. 

The Star Prince (1918)

 

THE STAR PRINCE  (1918)  ¢ ¢ 1/2

    D: Madeline Brandeis

    Zoe Rae, Dorphia Brown, Marjorie Claire Bowden,

    John Dorland, Edith Rothschild, Gulnar Kheiralla

A prince who falls from the sky, some fairies, a couple of bear cubs and a talking squirrel, a castle and a cave, a princess and an evil dwarf and an old witch and a beggar woman and a bag of gold. A silent fairy tale with an all-kid cast, directed (at about age 20) by Madeline Brandeis, who specialized in books and movies for children. Ambitious, but way too cute.

The 2022 Covie Awards

 

The Covie Awards were created a couple of years ago to recognize cinematic achievement in various categories during the pandemic. Since then, the virus hasn't exactly gone away, and it looks like the Covies will be sticking around, too.

Picture: "The Banshees of Inisherin" (2022)

Actress: Dorotheea Petre in "Ryna" (2005)

Actor: Kiefer Sutherland in "Forsaken" (2015)

Secret Treasure: "The Man Who Sued God" (2001)

Guilty Pleasure: "Bullet Train" (2022)

Short Film: "C'etait un Rendezvous" (1976)

Best Mad Scene: Julianne Nicholson in "Blonde" (2022)

Best Performance By an Actor Spoofing Himself: Victor Mature in "After the Fox" (1966)

Best Performance By an Actress Playing a Cadaver: Alba Ribas in "The Corpse of Anna Fritz" (2015)

Best Performance By an Actor Playing a Severed Head: Michel Simon in "The Head" (1959)

Best Trans Performance: Iris Menas in "West Side Story" (2021)

Best Action-Movie Performance: Chloë Grace Moretz in "Shadow In the Cloud" (2020)

Best Performance By an Actress In a Slasher Movie Wearing a Pair of Bib Overalls: Mia Goth in "X" (2022)

Best Performance By an Actress In a Role That Could Only Be Played By Björk: Björk in "The Northman" (2022)

Best Animation In a Documentary: "Chicago 10" (2007)

Character Study: Whit Bissell in "Somewhere In the Night" (1946), "He Walked By Night" (1948) and "Riot In Cellblock 11" (1954)

Better With Age: Karen Allen in "Colewell" (2019)

Cameo In a Narrative Film: Little Richard in "Mystery, Alaska" (1999)

Cameo In a Documentary: Paul Soglin in "Cheeseheads" (2015)

Showing Up and Cashing In: John Carradine in "Demented Death Farm Massacre" (1971/1986)

Most Eye-Catching Nude Scene: Jane Birkin in "Je T'aime Moi Non Plus" (1976)

Most Discreet Nude Scene: Joan Sims in "Carry On Up the Jungle" (1970)

Wickedest Lipstick: Judy Davis in "Absolute Power" (1997) and Cate Blanchett in "Nightmare Alley" (2021)

Filthiest Wardrobe: Richard Widmark's buckskins in "The Last Wagon" (1956)

Weirdest Nicolas Cage Movie: "Mandy" (2018)

Best Argument For Film Preservation: "Three Minutes: A Lengthening" (2021)

Title Sequence: "Running Scared" (2006)

Poster Art: "You Won't Be Alone" (2022)

Best Musical Performance: Arturo Toscanini in "Hymn of the Nations" (1944)

Best Dance Performance: Josephine Baker in "Siren of the Tropics" (1927)

Best Katharine Hepburn Impression: Saoirse Ronan in "See How They Run" (2022)

How To Be a Diva: Gloria Swanson in "Zaza" (1923)

He Don't Look Chinese: Bela Lugosi as "The Mysterious Mr. Wong" (1934)

He Don't Look Japanese: Yul Brynner in "Flight From Ashiya" (1964)

What Kind of Accent Is That?: Jason Robards in "Caboblanco" (1980)

Don't Let PETA See This: "Electrocuting an Elephant" (1903)

Least Convincing Performance By a Mechanical Shark: "Jaws: The Revenge" (1987)

Frodo Gets Laid: Elijah Wood in "The Oxford Murders" (2008)

Not Going Gently: "Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia" (2014)

Give This Kid a Quaalude: Mickey Rooney in "Strike Up the Band" (1940)

Why Closeups Were Invented: Samantha Morton in "River Queen" (2005)

How To Dress For a Day In the Jungle: Maureen O'Sullivan in "Tarzan and His Mate" (1934)

Best Animal Performance: The duck in "Love Birds" (2011)

Back To the Future: "Time After Time" (1979)

Don't Go Near the Water: "Shark Bait" (2022)

Fear of Flying: "The Night My Number Came Up" (1955)

Made In Wisconsin: "The Game" (1984)

Lost In Space: "Battle Beyond the Sun" (1962)

War Is Hell and Then Some: "All Quiet On the Western Front" (2022)

High Sticking: "Slap Shot" (1977)

Leftover Spaghetti: "Blindman" (1971)

Looking Good In a Lost Cause: Shirley MacLaine in "Woman Times Seven" (1967)

Dancing For Dollars: Demi Moore in "Striptease" (1996)

Playing With Fire: "Lux Aeterna" (2019)

Caught Cheating: Annie Girardot in "Inspector Maigret" (1958)

Just a Bit Outside: Bob Uecker in "Major League" (1989)

Watch Your Speed: "Hell Drivers" (1957)

Zombie with a Switchblade: Allison Hayes in "Zombies of Mora Tau" (1957)

Sex and Sacrilege: "Sacred Flesh" (2000)

Shark-Infested and Jet-Fueled: "West Side Story" (2021)

Watermelons and Machine Guns: "Mr. Majestyk" (1974)

Herman Scobie Memorial Award For Career Achievement: Bill Murray

Trapeze (1956)

 

TRAPEZE  (1956)  ¢ ¢ ¢

    D: Carol Reed

    Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida,

    Katy Jurado, Thomas Gomez, John Puleo,

    Minor Watson, Gerard Landry, Sidney James

Lancaster and Curtis play trapeze artists whose plans to perform a daring triple somersault - Tony flying and Burt catching - are disrupted when the newest member of the act (Gina Lollobrigida) comes between them. The romantic stuff is predictable, but the storytelling's efficient, and you can't say it's not attractively cast. Lancaster was no stranger to circus acrobatics and did most of his own stunts. The cutting makes it pretty obvious when somebody else is filling in for Tony.

Gina Lollobrigida

(1927-2023)

Blondie Goes To College (1942)

 

BLONDIE GOES TO COLLEGE  (1942)  ¢

    D: Frank B. Strayer

    Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Janet Blair,

    Larry Parks, Jonathan Hale, Lloyd Bridges

Comic-strip characters go to college, and mostly moronic things happen. The enduring popularity of Blondie and Dagwood has always been a mystery to me, and this movie did nothing to change that. Remarkably, it's one of 28 Blondie features cranked out at Columbia between 1938 and 1950, all of them starring Lake and Singleton. Young Lloyd Bridges turns up briefly as one of the students. 

I Bury the Living (1958)

 

I BURY THE LIVING  (1958)  ¢ ¢ 1/2

    D: Albert Band

    Richard Boone, Theodore Bikel, Peggy Maurer,

    Howard Smith, Herbert Anderson, Robert Osterloh

Richard Boone, on  a break from "Have Gun Will Travel", plays the newly installed director of a cemetery where a map on the wall in the office shows who's buried where, and who's going to be, with white pins for those still above ground and black pins for those under it. What will happen, do you think, if he switches a white pin for a black one? In a movie called "I Bury the Living", it's not hard to guess. Throw in a few zombies and you'd be closing in on "Night of the Living Dead".

Boy Meets Girl (1938)

 

BOY MEETS GIRL  (1938)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2

    D: Lloyd Bacon

    James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Marie Wilson,

    Ralph Bellamy, Frank McHugh, Dick Foran,

    Bruce Lester, Penny Singleton, Ronald Reagan

A speedball comedy about the movie biz, starring Cagney and O'Brien as hustling screenwriters and Ralph Bellamy as their not-so-patient boss. It's like the movie equivalent of an amateur stage production - it's based on a play - in which everything's pitched a little faster than it really ought to go. That seems to be deliberate, and if the gags don't all stick to the wall, you hardly have time to notice. The pace is insane. Most people can't even breathe as fast as Cagney can talk. 

The 10 Best Movies of 2022

 

The following list was scraped together from the movies I saw last year, either for the first time ever, or for the first time in years. Some I managed to see on the big screen. Others were on Kanopy, YouTube, or TCM. Some were rentals from Scarecrow, Seattle's only remaining video store. 

MOVIES I LIKED A LOT:

"The Banshees of Inisherin" (2022)

"All Quiet On the Western Front" (2022)

"Belfast" (2021)

"Bullet Train" (2022)

"Forsaken" (2015)

"X" (2022)

"Little Women" (2019)

"See How they Run" (2022)

"Running Scared" (2006)

"C'était un Rendezvous" (1976)

SECRET TREASURES:

"Colewell" (2019)

"Ray Meets Helen" (2017)

"Interstate 60" (2002)

"Mystery, Alaska" (1999)

GUILTY PLEASURES:

"Assassination Nation" (2018)

"Benedetta" (2021)

"Mandy" (2018)

"The Corpse of Anna Fritz" (2015)

MOVIES I MIGHT WATCH AGAIN SOMETIME:

"Hell Drivers" (1957)

"Strangers In Paradise" (1984)

"Chicago 10" (2007)

"The Northman" (2022)

"The Man Who Sued God" (2001)

"Somewhere In the Night" (1946)

"The Good Liar" (2019)

"Lisbon Story" (1994)

"A Long Way Down" (2014)

"The Night My Number Came Up" (1955)

FOUR FROM THE VAULT:

"Airplane!" (1980)

"Absolute Power" (1997)

"Slap Shot" (1977)

"Tarzan and His Mate" (1934)

TOXIC WASTE:

"Demented Death Farm Massacre" (1971/1986)

Once Were Brothers (2019)

 

ONCE WERE BROTHERS: ROBBIE ROBERTSON AND THE BAND  (2019)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢

    D: Daniel Roher

Robbie Robertson tells the story of The Band, from the group's origin as Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks to Bob Dylan's "Basement Tapes", late-60s hits like "The Weight" and "Stage Fright", and finally disintegration due to rancor, car wrecks and heroin abuse. There are more sides to The Band's story than just Robertson's, but he's the survivor and he's a persuasive and articulate witness, and the playlist here would be hard to beat. Anybody with an interest in rock-&-roll history should know something about The Band, and anybody with an interest in The Band will want to see this film. Martin Scorsese was the executive producer, and clips from Scorsese's "The Last Waltz" could make you want to watch that movie, too.

Scalawag (1973)

 

SCALAWAG  (1973)  ¢ ¢

    D: Kirk Douglas

    Kirk Douglas, Mark Lester, Lesley Anne Down,

    George Eastman, Neville Brand, Don Stroud,

    Danny DeVito, Phil Brown, Davor Antolic

A peg-legged outlaw and his cutthroat gang go looking for a fortune in stolen gold, but find that the map that can lead them to the treasure is a parrot. Does that make sense to you? Well, never mind. Kirk Douglas directed, produced (his wife gets the credit on screen), and even had a hand in the script on this. It's not awful exactly, but it's an odd enterprise, a pirate/western/musical/adventure that doesn't feel like it fits or belongs anywhere, and doesn't really go anywhere, either. Mel Blanc does the voice of the parrot.

The Outlaw and His Wife (1918)

 

THE OUTLAW AND HIS WIFE  (1918) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2

    D: Victor Sjöström

    Victor Sjöström, Edith Erastoff, John Ekman, Nils Aréhn

A Swedish variation on "Les Miserables", set in Iceland but filmed in northern Sweden, about a man who becomes a thief because he has no other options for survival. It ends tragically, when the title characters, old and on the point of starvation, walk out into a blizzard and freeze to death. Those Swedes sure know how to have a good time.

Stories We Tell (2012)

 

STORIES WE TELL  (2012)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢

    D: Sarah Polley

Sarah Polley's remarkable exposé turns the camera on her own family in a daring experiment that's part documentary, part home movie, part melodrama and (a big part) mystery, the mystery being the identity of Polley's biological father. As with any family dynamic, the issues that come up are complex and intensely personal, and it all revolves around Polley's late mother, an actress whose outgoing personality and zest for life affected everybody who knew her. The combination of home movies and authentic-looking recreations is so seamlessly accomplished, you can't tell what's real from what's not - it all looks real - and the directness with which Polley confronts her witnesses, and their openness answering her questions, can be unsettling. I can't imagine most families wanting to expose themselves like this, or most filmmakers taking on a subject so intimate and pulling it off so brilliantly. It's not a trip most of us would take, but I'm glad Sarah Polley did.

Final Reel 2022

 

RAVEN ALEXIS, 35, actress

"Guilty Pleasures"

"Girlfriend For Hire"

"Bad Girls 8"

MARY ALICE, 80, actress

"Malcolm X"

"The Matrix Revolutions"

"Sunshine State"

KIRSTIE ALLEY, 71, actress

"Look Who's Talking"

"Deconstructing Harry"

"Blind Date"

LOUIE ANDERSON 68, actor, comedian

"Coming To America"

"Ratboy"

"Pop Star Puppy"

JOHN AYLWARD, 75, actor

"Armageddon"

"Finding Graceland"

"Thirteen Days"

ANGELO BADALAMENTI, 85, composer

"Wild At Heart"

"The City of Lost Children"

"Stalingrad"

JOANNA BARNES, 87, actress

"The Parent Trap"

"Tarzan, the Ape Man"

"Spartacus"

JEAN-JACQUES BEINEIX, 75, director

""Diva"

"The Moon In the Gutter"

"Betty Blue"

MARILYN BERGMAN, 93, songwriter

"Tootsie"

"The Thomas Crown Affair"

"The Way We Were"

DAVID BIRNEY, 83, actor

"Nightfall"

"Caravan To Vacarres"

"Oh, God! Book II"

PETER BOGDANOVICH, 82, director, writer, actor

"Targets"

"The Last Picture Show"

"Paper Moon"

MICHEL BOUQUET, 96, actor

"Renoir"

"Borsalino"

"Bloody Sun"

PETER BROOK, 97, writer, director

"Lord of the Flies"

"Marat/Sade"

"King Lear"

JOHNNY BROWN, 84, actor

"A Man Called Adam"

"Town & Country"

"Hanky Panky"

JAMES CAAN, 82, actor

"The Godfather"

"Thief"

"Rollerball"

COLIN CANTWELL, 90, special effects

"Star Wars"

"2001: A Space Odyssey"

"Close Encounters of the Third Kind"

IRENE CARA, 63, singer, actress

"Fame"

"City Heat"

"D.C. Cab"

VERONICA CARLSON, 77, actress

"The Ghoul"

"The Horror of Frankenstein"

"Old Dracula"

CARLETON CARPENTER, 95, actor

"Summer Stock"

"Vengeance Valley"

"Up Periscope"

JACK CHARLES, 79, actor

"Pan"

"The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith"

"Mystery Road"

ROBERT CLARY, 96, actor

"Thief of Damascus"

"Ten Tall Men"

"The Hindenberg"

ROBBIE COLTRANE, 72, actor

"Goldeneye"

"Ocean's Twelve"

"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"

TIM CONSIDINE, 81, actor

"Patton"

"Sunrise At Campobello"

"The Shaggy Dog"

COOLIO, 59, rapper, actor

"Midnight Mass"

"Dracula 3000"

"A Wonderful Night In Split"

BERNARD CRIBBINS, 93, actor

"Carry On Jack"

"The Mouse On the Moon"

"Casino Royale"

RUGGERO DEODATO, 83, director

"Cannibal Holocaust"

"Body Count"

"Waves of Lust"

TONY DOW, 77, actor

"Back To the Beach"

"The Kentucky Fried Movie"

"High School U.S.A."

NED EISENBERG, 65, actor

"Primary Colors"

"Flags of Our Fathers"

"Million Dollar Baby"

LOUISE FLETCHER, 88, actress

"The Cheap Detective"

"Blue Steel"

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

FARRAH FORKE, 54, actress

"Ground Control"

"Kate's Addiction"

"Hitman's Run"

CLARENCE GILYARD JR., 66, actor

"Die Hard"

Top Gun"

"The Beast"

JEAN-LUC GODARD, 91, writer, director

"Breathless"

"Weekend"

"Contempt"

GILBERT GOTTFRIED, 67, actor, comedian

"Bad Medicine"

"Highway To Hell"

"Meet Wally Sparks"

STEPHEN GREIF, 78, actor

"Boogie Woogie"

"The Upside of Anger"

"Nicholas and Alexandra"

CLU GULAGER, 93, actor

"Winning"

"The Killers"

"Return of the Living Dead"

PHILIP BAKER HALL, 90, actor

"Magnolia"

"Secret Honor"

"Boogie Nights"

ESTELLE HARRIS, 93, actress

"Out To Sea"

"CBGB"

"Lost & Found"

JOHN HARTL, 76, moviegoer, critic

The Seattle Times

RONNIE HAWKINS, 87, musician, actor

"Heaven's Gate" 

"Snake Eater"

"Duct Tape Forever"

KATHRYN HAYS, 88, actress

"Counterpoint"

"Ride Beyond Vengeance"

"Ladybug Ladybug"

ANNE HECHE, 53, actress

"Volcano"

"Wag the Dog"

"Six Days Seven Nights"

HOWARD HESSEMAN, 81, actor

"About Schmidt"

"Silent Movie"

"Inside Out"

DWAYNE HICKMAN, 87, actor

"Cat Ballou"

"Ski Party"

"How To Stuff a Wild Bikini"

MIKE HODGES, 90, writer, director

"Get Carter"

"Flash Gordon"

"Morons From Outer Space"

BO HOPKINS, 84, actor

"The Wild Bunch"

"American Graffiti"

"Midnight Express"

MARSHA HUNT, 104, actress

"The Human Comedy"

"Back From the Dead"

"Johnny Got His Gun"

WILLIAM HURT, 71, actor

"Body Heat"

"The Big Chill"

"Children of a Lesser God"

JUST JAECKIN, 82, director

"Emmanuelle"

"Lady Chatterley's Lover"

"The Story of O"

CONRAD JANIS, 94, actor

"Let's Rock"

"The Buddy Holly Story"

"Airport 1975"

L.Q. JONES, 94, actor

"The Wild Bunch"

"Hell Is For Heroes"

"Hang 'Em High"

LESLIE JORDAN, 67, actor

"Sordid Lives"

"Love Ranch"

"Lucky Dog"

MAX JULIEN, 88, writer, actor

"Getting Straight"

"The Mack"

"The Black Klansman"

KATHRYN KATES, 73, actress

"Asylum"

"Monkey Man"

"The Nurse"

SALLY KELLERMAN, 84, actress

"M*A*S*H"

"Brewster McCloud"

"Welcome To L.A."

HARDY KRÜGER, 93, actor

"Hatari!"

"The Flight of the Phoenix"

"A Bridge Too Far"

MICKEY KUHN, 90, actor

"Red River"

"Gone With the Wind"

"A Streetcar Named Desire"

ALAN LADD JR., 84, producer

"Villain"

"Braveheart"

"An Unfinished Life"

LINDA LAWSON, 86, actress

"Night Tide"

"Sometimes a Great Notion"

"Apache Rifles"

RAY LIOTTA, 67, actor

"Goodfellas"

"Something Wild"

"Field of Dreams"

SACHEEN LITTLEFEATHER, 75, actress

"The Trial of Billy Jack"

"Johnny Firecloud"

"Shoot the Sun Down"

BRUCE MACVITTIE, 65, actor

"The Cotton Club"

"Million Dollar Baby"

"The January Man"

MARY MARA, 61, actress

"Prom Night"

"Swedish Auto"

"True Colors"

STUART MARGOLIN, 82, actor, director

"Kelly's Heroes"

"Death Wish"

"Women of the Prehistoric Planet"

FAYE MARLOWE, 95, actress

"The Spider"

"Hangover Square"

"Rendezvoous With Annie"

MARINO MASÉ, 83, actor

"The Leopard"

"King David"

The Godfather Part III"

MEAT LOAF, 74, actor, musician

"Wayne's World"

"The Rocky Horror Picture Show"

"The Fight Club"

YVETTE MIMIEUX, 80, actress

"The Time Machine"

"The Black Hole"

"Jackson County Jail"

SHARYN MOFFETT, 85, actress

"The Body Snatcher"

"The Falcon In San Francisco"

"The Locket"

ROBERT MORSE, 90, actor

'The Loved One"

"The Cardinal"

"How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying"

ROGER E. MOSELEY, 83, actor

"Hit Man"

"McQ"

"Semi-Tough"

OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN, 73, singer, actress

"Grease"

"Xanadu"

"Sordid Lives"

NICHELLE NICHOLS, 89, actress

"Truck Turner"

"The Torturer"

"Star Trek: The Motion Picture"

MONTY NORMAN, 94, composer

"Dr. No"

"Call Me Bwana"

"The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll"

IRENE PAPPAS, 93, actress

"The Guns of Navarone"

"The Trojan Women"

"Zorba the Greek"

VIRGINIA PATTON, 97, actress

"Black Eagle"

"The Burning Cross"

"It's a Wonderful Life"

NEHEMIAH PERSOFF, 102, actor

"The Wrong Man"

"The Harder They Fall"

"Some Like It Hot"

WOLFGANG PETERSEN, 81, director

"Das Boot"

"The Perfect Storm"

"In the Line of Fire"

SIDNEY POITIER, 94, actor, director

"The Bedford Incident"

"The Defiant Ones"

"No Way Out"

GERALD POTTERTON, 91, director

"Heavy Metal"

"The Rainbow Boys"

"Ghost Ship"

BOB RAFELSON, 89, director

"Five East Pieces"

"Blood and Wine"

"Mountains of the Moon"

JULIA REICHERT, 76, producer, director

"Union Maids"

"American Factory"

"Seeing Red"

IVAN REITMAN, 75, producer, director

"Stripes"

"Legal Eagles"

"Cannibal Girls"

WILLIAM REYNOLDS, 90, actor

"Cult of the Cobra"

"Francis Goes To West Point"

"Away All Boats"

ALICIA RIO, 55, actress

"Spanish Fly"

"Nympho Zombie Coeds"

"Sorority Sex Kittens 2"

MITCHELL RYAN, 88, actor

"Winter People"

"Judge Dredd"

"The Devil's Own"

BOB SAGET, 65, actor, comedian

"Benjamin"

"Critical Condition"

"Entourage"

LIZ SHERIDAN, 93, actress

"Only You"

"School Spirit"

"Wedding Bell Blues"

HENRY SILVA, 95, actor

"Ocean't Eleven"

"Dick Tracy"

"Ghost Dog"

PAUL SORVINO, 83, actor

"Bulworth"

"Dick Tracy"

"Reds"

CATHERINE SPAAK, 77, actress

"The Empty Canvas"

"Crazy Desire"

"Circle of Love"

CAROL SPEED, 76, actress

"Black Samson"

"Dynamite Brothers"

"The Mack"

LARRY STORCH, 99, actor, comedian

"The Great Race"

"The Great Bank Robbery"

"Captain Newman, M.D."

AKIRA TAKARADA, 87, actor

"Godzilla"

"Samurai Saga"

"Star of Hong Kong"

JEAN-LOUIS TRINTINGNANT, 91, actor

"A Man and a Woman"

"The Conformist"

"Z"

DOUGLAS TRUMBULL, 79, director, visual effects

"Silent Running"

"Blade Runner"

"2001: A Space Odyssey"

KENNETH TSANG, 87, actor

"The Monkey King"

"Six Strong Guys"

"Anna and the King"

JOE TURKEL, 94, actor

"Blade Runner"

"The Sand Pebbles"

"The Shining"

GASPARD ULLIEL, 37, actor

"Saint Laurent"

"A Very Long Engagement"

"Hannibal Rising"

VANGELIS, 79, composer

"Blade Runner"

"Chariots of Fire"

"Bitter Moon"

LEON VITALI, 74, actor

"Terror of Frankenstein"

"Barry Lyndon"

"Romeo & Juliet"

MONICA VITTI, 90, actress

"Duck In Orange Sauce"

"Blonde In Black Leather"

"The Flying Saucer"

LENNY VON DOHLEN, 63, actor

"Electric Dreams"

"Leaving Normal"

"Dracula's Widow"

TONY WALTON, 87, production designer

"Mary Poppins"

"All That Jazz"

"Murder On the Orient Express"

FRED WARD, 79, actor

"The Player"

"Henry & June"

"The Right Stuff"

DAVID WARNER, 80, actor

"Morgan"

"Titanic"

"Straw Dogs"

JIMMY WANG YU, 79, actor

"Rage of the Tiger"

"The Savage Killers"

"The Dragon Squad"

JOHN ZARITSKY, 78, director

"Ski Bums"

"Leave Them Laughing"

"Tears Are Not Enough"

"Remember me? I used to be Peter Bogdanovich."

Peter Bogdanovich.