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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 21, 2018 19:14:23 GMT
Isn't that the truth! Way way back, when I finally got to see I've Loved You So Long, I commented on the excellence of the actress who played the sister to Kristin Scott Thomas's main character. I remember that you replied lauding that actress and further commenting on her many strong portrayals of secondary characters. I immediately thought of that this morning when I read for Donald Moffat's obituary headline.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 21, 2018 19:37:17 GMT
And Elsa Zylberstein still continues to make plenty of movies but is never the star...
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Post by patricklondon on Dec 26, 2018 17:38:42 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Dec 26, 2018 18:51:45 GMT
Sister Wendy, we used to watch this as a family with my 2 teenage sons howling with laughter (philistines) ...this delicate, knowledgable, quietly spoken little nun talked confidently about paintings of alarmingly voluptuous naked maidens and muscular lusty looking chaps cavorting in gay abandon. It did seem a bit incongruous...
I thought she was strange, but very clever and a splendid communicator. RIP Sister Wendy.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Dec 26, 2018 18:53:33 GMT
I'm ashamed to say that we knew a chap with a similar overbite...he is known as 'Sister Wendy' by my sons to this day...not to his face of course.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 26, 2018 20:40:48 GMT
Ohhh ~ I never knew about Sister Wendy! Thank you for the clip, Patrick -- I love her! Her teeth are kind of cute and even though she says things like "Flow-a" for Flora, the depth of her feeling and understanding of the art and the stories behind it come through.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 26, 2018 21:41:46 GMT
Others have been through tooth trauma. Freddie Mercury's nickname in school was apparently "Bucky."
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Post by Kimby on Dec 26, 2018 23:42:37 GMT
I LOVED Sister Wendy! Very sad she won’t be interpreting art anymore. On Earth, anyway.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 27, 2018 17:00:07 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 30, 2018 6:56:17 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Dec 30, 2018 12:19:21 GMT
June Whitfield was such a talented actress, remember her on the wireless when I was a nipper and loved her in Absolutely Fabulous. She did a stint as Miss Marple for radio 4 that we enjoyed tremendously. Sadly missed (good innings tho!)
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 30, 2018 12:31:11 GMT
I remember her all the way back to the ‘50’s in Take it from Here on the radio.
Very talented and very sadly missed. One of those people you thought would live forever.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 30, 2018 12:37:11 GMT
I’m always amazed that such highly intelligent people believe in God.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Dec 30, 2018 13:29:48 GMT
It's a choice I've never understood. Raised within a religious community I expect that the need to question your faith wouldn't be as pressing. My nephew married into a Scottish Catholic family and their faith is in their bones. The church and the priest are involved in every aspect of their lives..my nephew was initially annoyingly devout when he first converted to Catholicism..but he's settled down into just preachy...we have some excellent arguments about religion and the existence or absence of a god... me arguing against of course...
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Post by casimira on Dec 30, 2018 13:39:35 GMT
I am finding myself culturally ignorant and deprived in that the last two obits posted are totally foreign to me.
As an aside, reading about you and your nephew being able to have what seems to be a healthy discourse about religion so admirable Cheery.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 30, 2018 14:02:25 GMT
Both very British Casi.
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Post by casimira on Dec 30, 2018 14:12:00 GMT
I don't consider you "foreign" Mick. Just so you know.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 3, 2019 3:00:36 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 15, 2019 16:30:03 GMT
Goodbye, Carol Channing. I didn't even know she was still alive. (age 97)
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Post by Kimby on Jan 15, 2019 18:56:33 GMT
Goodbye, Dolly...
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 15, 2019 19:08:56 GMT
*snork!* I think I knew she was still alive, but had no idea she was that old.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 24, 2019 2:28:28 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 27, 2019 19:34:43 GMT
Because of the death of Michel Legrand, France 2 has jettisoned tonight's programme of The Revenant and is showing instead Les Démoiselles de Rochefort followed by The Thomas Crown Affair.
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Post by casimira on Feb 8, 2019 18:18:21 GMT
British stage and screen actor Albert Finney has left us. Age 82 after a brief illness.
I adored this man's work. From his role in Under the Volcano based on the Malcolm Lowry script, The Dresser, Shoot the Moon, and Erin Brockovich and many other works. His range and talent was unsurpassed by few of his generation.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 8, 2019 18:23:12 GMT
The movie for which I most remember him was Two for the Road with Audrey Hepburn. It might have spawned my passion for road movies.
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Post by casimira on Feb 8, 2019 18:31:57 GMT
For some reason I thought he was older than 82. I was surprised when I heard his age. I somehow put him in the league of actors e.g. Olivier, Gielgud etc.
(My husband thought he had already died and was surprised when I told him of his death.)
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 8, 2019 21:33:16 GMT
I too thought he was older. It seems as though he abruptly began looking old sometime back. Oddly, I'd rather forgotten about him until reading of his death this morning.
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Post by lagatta on Feb 16, 2019 16:18:49 GMT
Yes, I very much liked Bruno Ganz. Remember, he played Hitler in Downfall but also played an angel in Wings of Desire. Quite a range! Not to mention the Grandfather in Heidi, a children's film, near the end of his life.
I saw Pane e tulipani but don't think I've seen Eternity and a day - must look up titles in French and other languages, as they aren't always straight translations.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 16, 2019 17:11:37 GMT
The films of Bruno Ganz which marked me the most were Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire and The American Friend but the movie that I really found the most amazing was Volker Schlöndorff's Die Fälschung (Circle of Deceit in English). I consider it to be the most important film of its decade, combining the Iron Curtain with the civil war in Beirut. Bread and Tulips was charming for a minor movie. The most recent movie that I saw him in was The House that Jack Built by Lars von Trier.
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Post by lagatta on Feb 16, 2019 17:54:23 GMT
I'd love to see Die Fälschung - missed that one. Perhaps the Goethe Institut here will hold a small Ganz festival. Although he wasn't German, many of his films were.
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