RIP Jean-Jacques Beineix (1946 – 2022)

Betty Blue (1986), landlord and clearing and lighting the beach house scene.

Jean-Jacques Beineix was a French film director best known for Betty Blue (1986).

There was something about this film, which I saw when I was 21, which I found very off-putting.

I can never forget when she smears that plate of spaghetti bolognese all over her face.

But the scene above, where she snubs the landlord and throws everything out of the caban by the sea, their beach house, is quite hilarious. Then she lights up the place, foreshadowing here coming madness.

Must see film when you are 21, totally optional afterwards.

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RIP Mariano Laurenti (1929 – 2022)

Mariano Laurenti was an Italian film director known for his work in the commedia sexy all’italiana genre.

Ubalda, All Naked and Warm (1972)

In that genre he directed several films in the ‘decamerotico’ subgenre, like the one above.

Ubalda, All Naked and Warm (1972) is nothing more than one big excuse to show the naked breasts of Edwige Fenech and Karin Schubert.

RIP Peter Bogdanovich (1939 – 2022)

Peter Bogdanovich was an American director and general film person.

To me, he is an integral part of the Roger Corman phenomenenon.

Of all his films, I have the fondest memories of Paper Moon, I remember the beginning of that film vividly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw2FMVsZdTA&ab_channel=EldoradoRoad

Above, a documentary by a certain Adam Hulin.

Happy new year from us.

RIP Mikey Chung (1950 – 2021)

 Mikey Chung (1950 – 2021) was a Jamaican musician who played keyboards, guitar and percussion instruments.

“Breezing” (1972) by Mike Chung & The Now Generation

Here with a cover of “Breezin'” (1970) by Bobby Womack.

“Breezin'” (1970) is a musical composition by Bobby Womack, originally released with Gabor Szabo on Blue Thumb Records as a seven inch single.

On the b-side was “Azure Blue”. The song was later released on Gabor’s album High Contrast.

RIP Sabine Weiss (1924 – 2021)

Sabine Weiss was a Swiss photographer, best known for her street photography in the humanist style.

Her work reflects the optimism of the Wirtschaftswunder, of ‘Les trente glorieuses’, of the post–World War II economic expansion.

Furthermore, the term humanist photography, strictly linked with the Family of Man photo exhibition which traveled around the world, was the instrumentalization of photography to obtain “niemals wieder Krieg!.”