The news has spread today that film critic and theorist Andrew Sarris has died at the age of 83. In the field of Film Studies, I’m most familiar with Sarris as being the one who wrote the English definition for the auteur theory, which was originally theorized by François Truffaut in Cahiers du Cinéma. In his short, but poignant, […]
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The news spread fast last night (on Twitter of course) that Leslie Nielsen had died yesterday, from complications from pneumonia, at the age of 84. I, like most people of my generation, am most familiar with Nielsen for his comedy work during the last 30 years. I was particularly a fan of the Naked Gun
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Even though I’m in the middle of my TIFF coverage, it wouldn’t be respectful not to mention that Patrick Swayze succumbed yesterday to his battle with pancreatic cancer and died at the age of 57. Swayze is, of course, best known for his roles in the films Dirty Dancing and Ghost. I personally quite enjoyed
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John Hughes, director of many teen films from the 1980s, such as Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, died today of a heart attack at the age of 59. This news is definitely sad, since many of the films he directed are today considered classics. He will be missed.
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After a battle with cancer, Farrah Fawcett has died at the age of 62. She was probably best known for her role of the Charlies Angels TV series and also had roles in the films The Cannonball Run, The Apostle, and Logan’s Run. I believe the only film I really saw her in was the
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Now this one’s sad. David Carradine, known the TV show Kung Fu, as well as being the title character in Kill Bill was found dead in his hotel room at the age of 72. I won’t go into details, but apparently there were signs that he committed suicide. I wasn’t really all that family with
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Paul Newman was considered on the great actors, but I have only seen a handful of his films, all of them from the last 20 years of his life. In fact, I think the only film I saw theatrically with him in it was Road to Perdition in 2002. Still you can’t ignore all the
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Boy, it really has been a sad year for celebrity deaths. I just found out today that Bernie Mac just died of complications from pneumonia at the age of 50. I first heard of Bernie Mac when The Bernie Mac Show started in 2001. However, my real first experience was when he was part of
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I was a bit saddened today to hear that stand-up comedian and actor George Carlin has died from heart failure at the age of 71. My earliest memories of George Carlin was as “Mr Conductor” on the children’s show Shining Time Station. I first movie I was Carlin in was Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
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