The great stop-motion animator, creator of dinosaurs and ancient gods, has passed away in London.
Roger Ebert, respected movie critic and proud Chicagoan, passes away at the age of 70.
It is the most shattering experience of a young man’s life when one morning he awakes and, quite reasonably, says to himself: “I will never play the Dane.”
It has been argued that, if any bruiser hangs around long enough, he or she inevitably turns into a national treasure. This fate certainly befell Michael Winner long before he began to ail. Winner, who has died at the age …
It is a bit of a shame that the great Nagisa Oshima, who has died at the age of 80, is still best known for the lubricious (and beautifully made) Ai No Korida. There is brilliance in that film, but …
We have just heard the news that our good friend, Pete Walsh, programmer of the Irish Film Institute for the last 18 years, has died after a short illness. Pete was a film fanatic down to the soles of his …
By now you will have heard the sad news that Tony Scott, director of Top Gun, True Romance and a dozen other whizz-bang entertainments, has killed himself at the age of 68. He was always close to his brother, Sir …
Oh no. Don’t tell me Robert Hughes is dead. “Muscular” is overused as a description of prose. Too often, the word acts as a sort of pointer to the character of the writer. It’s not really Norman Mailer’s syllables that …
