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RIP Richard Rush

 “How tall is King Kong?”

(Eli Cross)

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Richard Rush (1929-2021)
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A regizat doar 12 filme - notamment efervescentul Psych-Out (1968), cultissimul Freebie and the Bean (1974) și inclasabilul The Stunt Man (1980). S-a retras în 1994, după eșecul The Color of Night. A murit pe 8 aprilie, la Los Angeles. Avea 91 de ani.

Textul lui Anfrei Cretulescu pe FB, cu care am iubit si apreciat impreuna a maxim  THE STUNT MAN si documentarul lui Rush de pe dvd-ul american, The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man (2000).

tribut in Variety aici 

 

 Rush, Peter O’Toole și Steve Railsback, în timpul filmărilor pentru The Stunt Man - California, 1979.

RIP Bertrand Tavernier

Bertrand Tavernier, one of the most ditinguished French filmmakers from the 70's is gone at 79 on March 25th 2021. He shot a film in Romania, Captaine Conan won best director at Cannes for Une dimanche a la campagne and his last work was an exhaustive a documentary about French cinema, Voyage au travers du cinema francais, expandes as a whole series. Filmography highlights: Coup de torchon, 'Round Midnight, La mort en direct, Le juge et l'assasin, L.627, In the Electric Mist. 

Criterion Collection: Tavernier was a man who “embodied the spirit of cinema as robustly as anyone ever has.”

RIP George Segal

Sadly another one of Hollywoodțs greats, George Segal has passed away on March 23d 2021. He was 87. He was Oscar nominated for supporting actor in Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf ? (1966).

War movies (King Rat, The Bridge at Remagen), spy yarns (The Quiller Memorandum), thrillers & heist movies (The Hot Rock, The Terminal Man). Segal was a big star at the end of sixties and in the 70's, then in the 80țs his filmography bgan to fade away.  When I was a kid i saw him in cinema in The Southern Star (Steaua sudului), A Touch of Class, next to Glanda Jackson and Carbon Copy (Copie la indigo), when his son was a very young Denzel Washington. 

Last time I saw him in The Owl and the Pussycat (1970), next to Barbra Streisand, a catch-up classic comedy I saw just last year. 

Uncanny, just last morning I saw an article about the anniversary of California Split (1974),which I'm not sure I have ever seen, the Robertt Altman gambling film with Segal and Elliot Gould.

Segal: "I got along with [Altman] really well... It was like a party. It was so civilized back then. There were no long hours. It was relaxed. That’s why those movies from the ’70s were so good...Those ’70s, what we’re talking about, were transcendent..."