Tag Archives: 1939

RIP Ricardo Bofill (1939 – 2022)

Ricardo Bofill was a Spanish architect who built Xanadu (1971), La Muralla Roja (1973) and Walden 7 (1975).

promotional video to ‘Visions of Architecture’ (2019), a work on Ricardo Bofill

His work references Gaudí, Palladio and Archigram.

Bofill’s opus is of major significance in European postmodern architecture.

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 Sonny Chiba (1939 – 2021)

Sonny featured in Japanorama 

Sonny Chiba was a Japanese actor and martial artist, a contemporary to Bruce Lee in Hong Kong.

opening title scene of Karate Kiba (1973)

I give you the opening title scene of Karate Kiba (1973) and the episode from Japanorama from 2007.

The Karate Kiba sequence has been copied nearly verbatim in Pulp Fiction (1994).