[Hoglaunccoolf]

It took me a minute to remember who you were talking about, then I remembered the cigarette smoke. That's to bad

[cbUDaNFRu]

Originally posted by Winston
I take it Ingmar Bergman does not approve of this thread, this forum or this messed-up world of ours in general. Bergman commits the sin of not being American.


I enjoyed Snyder's interviews.

Both will be missed.

[AlekseyZubkov]

All this site needs now is a Dead Pool...

[tetMitshisk]

Chess game lost.

[DumbNelmcrece]

Originally posted by Elok
My dad keeps trying to get me to watch The Seventh Seal. He says it's a great film. But he also said that about Citizen Kane, and so do most critics, and that movie just sucked. Maybe it was technically brilliant, but I for one do not give a rat's ass about some adopted blue-blood who spends his lifetime shooting himself in the foot. And reinventing and dominating the newspaper business.

[engideNedmupe]

Agreed.

But I have much more vivid memories of Tom Snyder. I watched him religiously back in the day and saw most of the more famed interviewed noted in the AP story. He didn't really "get" hippies, punks, or youth culture in general, but knew it was important and gave it an outlet. The results were often unintentionally hilarious, yet somehow touching in their honesty and earnestness. Snyder's offhand yet informed interview style was a breath of fresh air (though the same could not be said for the air itself) in the 70s.

[ZESINTERS]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
Who TF was Tom Snyder???

[jakitula]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
Who TF was Tom Snyder???

[9mm_fan]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
And reinventing and dominating the newspaper business. Well, it's true that nothing warms the heart and uplifts the soul quite like the history of the communications industry. I was on the edge of my seat cheering for Mr. Kane's circulation numbers at one point. Ultimately, though, it's a flawed film.

[Poohoppesmase]

No, it's the whole "main character is a pompous ******* who gets exactly what he deserves but isn't quite unpleasant enough for it to be entertaining in a vindictive way" thing.

[golfmenorca]

Originally posted by Wezil
All this site needs now is a Dead Pool... is that these things come in 3s............

[avodeinst]

Which is the whole point of the movie...

BTW, R.I.P. Bill Walsh as well, if we can include him as well into the title (he's far more important than the other two IMO)...

[ConoMadura]

There goes Winston, lowering the tone as usual...

[easypokergonj]

Tom Snyder's not dead as long as Dan Ackroyd still lives. (Though, in truth, I thought he'd died some time ago.

But Bergman...Bergman's a true loss. Not that he didn't have a full, amazing, productive life -- but still a loss. RIP Ingmar; you're one of the geniuses who taught me to love film. Say "hi" to Welles, Fellini, Altman and Kubrick when you see them.

[TorryJens]

Originally posted by MOBIUS
Which is the whole point of the movie...

BTW, R.I.P. Bill Walsh as well, if we can include him as well into the title (he's far more important than the other two IMO)... Bill Walsh and Tom Snyder both losing their battles against Luekemia.

[Lkemybab]

[q=BBC]
Blow-Up director Antonioni dies
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni was one of Italy's most acclaimed directors
Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni, renowned for his 1966 release Blow-Up, has died aged 94.

He gained two Oscar nominations for the iconic release, and was awarded an honorary Academy Award for his life's work in 1995.

He was also nominated for the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, the Palme d'Or, five times between 1960 and 1982.

The director died peacefully at home on Monday night, his wife, actress Enrica Fico, told La Repubblica newspaper.

Richard Mowe, a film writer and co-director of the Italian Film Festival UK, said Antonioni made productions "that were out of the conventional modes of expression".


It's the last link with the great days of European art cinema
Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Antonioni author
"He invented his own language of cinema - that's what made him very, very inventive," he said. "He didn't owe anything to anybody else. He was a total original."

Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, the author of a book on Antonioni's film L'Avventura (The Adventure), described his works as being productions that "invite you to concentrate on them, like great music".

"It's extraordinary that he should die within a day of Ingmar Bergman - that's two greats in two days," said Mr Nowell-Smith, who also curated a season of his work at London's BFI Southbank.

Michelangelo Antonioni with his wife Enrica Fico in 2002
Antonioni was married to Enrica Fico
"It's the last link with the great days of European art cinema."

Film critic Kim Newman paid tribute to the director, calling him an "important and fascinating film-maker".

Newman said Antonioni's best films were all concerned with "how awful Italian post-war society is, and how trivial and superficial everybody has become".

"But the films are so beautiful and the people in them are so gorgeous, you can't but feel, well, it would be really great to be alienated, lovelorn and miserable like that."

Fans will be able to pay their respects when Antonioni's body lies in state in the Sala della Protomoteca at Rome's city hall, the Campidoglio, on Wednesday morning.

The funeral will then take place in the director's home town of Ferrara, north-eastern Italy, on Thursday.

Antonioni was born in Ferrara in 1912 and released his debut feature, Story of A Love Affair, at the age of 38.

Vanessa Redgrave and David Hemmings in Blow-Up
Blow-Up starred Vanessa Redgrave and David Hemmings
But he did not achieve international recognition until the mystery L'Avventura 10 years later in 1960.

In 1966, he signed a deal to make a trilogy of films for the English market with legendary Italian film producer Carlo Ponti.

The first was Blow-Up, in which a photographer appears to have uncovered a murder in his photos.

Shot in London, and starring David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave, it was his biggest international hit.

Antonioni captured the "flower power" era in 1970, filming Zabriskie Point in California, while Hollywood actor Jack Nicholson starred as a journalist in 1974 in Professione: Reporter (The Passenger).

In 1985, the director suffered a stroke that left him partially paralysed, but he continued to work behind the camera. "Filming for me is living," he said.

His last cinematic release was 2004's The Dangerous Thread of Things, one part of a trilogy of short films released under the title Eros.[/q]

Don't famous deaths come in threes?