Obituaries
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A tribute to the late Sue Bruce-Smith
A legend in the British independent film world, film seller and distributor turned Film4 deputy director Sue Bruce-Smith sadly died of cancer last Saturday, 2 May 2020. Our former editor Nick James wrote this tribute to her in our March 2020 issue after a Bafta dinner; we publish them here in her memory.
Monday 4 May 2020 -
Honor Blackman obituary: a new-model leading lady
From the leather-clad crusader of The Avengers to James Bond’s feistiest female foil, Honor Blackman kicked away the cobwebs of British screen femininity in the 1960s, writes Josephine Botting.
Tuesday 21 April 2020 -
Max von Sydow obituary: Swedish star whose filmography sets him among the immortals
The actor who came to prominence dicing with Death himself in Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal had a phenomenally prolific career both in his native Sweden and abroad, energising both arthouse and blockbuster cinema with his inimitable presence, writes Michael Brooke.
Tuesday 10 March 2020 -
‘The Million Dollar Baby’, who has died aged 101, was one of the first and surely the youngest of Hollywood’s celebrity minors, as nonchalant on screen as she was vulnerable on set. She was likely also the last living silent film star, remembers Pamela Hutchinson.
Tuesday 25 February 2020 -
The departed: the filmmakers we lost in 2019
Our roll call of film figures who passed away in 2019, compiled by Bob Mastrangelo, with links to individual obituaries.
Monday 10 February 2020 -
Kirk Douglas obituary: the Hollywood star who burned fierce and long
An immigrant ragman’s son who became the last of Hollywood’s golden age male stars, Douglas – who has died aged 103 – stamped his mark on the screen with a combustive determination and magnetism, writes Lee Server.
Thursday 6 February 2020 -
Terry Jones obituary: the world’s funniest medieval historian
Funny man, TV writer, film director, historian, comedian, children’s author, anti-war campaigner, jester, poet, opera writer, clown… the legendary Monty Python star and director was, in the words of his friend and colleague Michael Palin, “the complete Renaissance comedian”, writes Michael Brooke.
Wednesday 22 January 2020 -
From the Magazine
Buck Henry obituary: Hollywood’s irreverent and observant raconteur
The witty screenwriter of several classic films including The Graduate and To Die For as well as an acclaimed character actor, he was Oscar-nominated as both a writer and director, recalls Hannah McGill.
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Lorenza Mazzetti obituary: a survivor from war-torn Italy who took Free Cinema to Cannes
The filmmaker who came to prominence with Together, as part of the Free Cinema movement in Britain, used her art to express the trauma she experienced during the Second World War, writes Henry K. Miller.
Thursday 9 January 2020 -
Peter Wollen obituary: the maven of British film theory
From his classic book Signs and Meanings in the Cinema to his filmmaking collaborations with Michelangelo Antonioni and Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen was the single most influential film theorist in the English language, remembers Henry K. Miller.
Friday 20 December 2019
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