Gallery: the departed, 2014

A visual homage to some of the key figures in film who passed away in 2014, to accompany the roll-call in our March 2015 issue.

Art by Naiel Ibarrola, words by Ehsan Khoshbakht.

☞ The departed: the filmmakers we lost in 2016

Naiel Ibarrola
Updated: 20 January 2017

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Left to right: Bob Hoskins, Eli Wallach, Virna Lisi, Richard Attenborough, James Garner, Run Run Shaw

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☞ Eli Wallach: the gun beneath the bubbles

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☞ Read Chanel Kong’s obituary of Run Run Shaw in our March 2015 isssue

Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Williams

☞ Philip Seymour Hoffman, 1967-2014

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Věra Chytilová and Mike Nichols

☞ Vera Chytilová, 1929-2014

☞ Read David Thomson’s homage to Mike Nichols in our February 2015 issue

Mickey Rooney and Shirley Temple

☞ The stallion and the mick

☞ Age of innocence: childhood on film

☞ Read Kate Stables’ obituary of Mickey Rooney in our March 2015 isssue

Miklós Jancsó

☞ High plains visionary: Miklós Jancsó, 1921-2014

Harun Farocki and Maximilian Schell

☞ Letter to Harun Farocki

☞ The trails of life: James Benning’s natural history and FAROCKI

☞ Read Nicole Brenez’s obituary of Harun Farocki in our October 2014 issue

Peter von Bagh

☞ In remembrance of things past / in memoriam Peter von Bagh

☞ Peter von Bagh forever

Lauren Bacall and Alain Resnais

☞ Alain Resnais, 1922-2014

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☞ Notes on The Big Sleep, 30 years after

☞ Read David Thomson’s reappraisal of Bacall’s career in our October 2014 issue

Literary works cited in illustrations, in order of appearance: Jean-Luc Godard, Sadeq Hedayat, Jean Cocteau, Mira & Antonín J. Liehm, Bertold Brecht, Harun Farocki, Omar Khayyam.

☞ See all our online obituaries.

In the March 2015 issue of Sight & Sound

Obituaries 2014

Bob Mastrangelo’s roll-call of the key figures in film who departed in 2014, plus Nick James on Gordon Willis, Kim Newman on George Sluizer, Philip Kemp on Billie Whitelaw, Chanel Kong on Run Run Shaw and Kate Stables on Mickey Rooney.

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Gallery: the departed, 2014

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