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Amos Vogel, 1921-2012
A heroic cinephile and major figure in the creation of America’s post-World War II film culture, Amos Vogel died yesterday in his adopted hometown New York. Cinema 16, the film society that Vogel, a...
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Andrew Sarris (1928-2012)
Andrew Sarris, the most influential movie critic of his generation, died today at age 83. From 1960 through 1988, Sarris was a fixture at the Village Voice where, over the course of his hundreds of...
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Stephen Dwoskin (1939-2012)
Returning from holiday, I got word that the American avant-garde filmmaker Steve Dwoskin had died June 28 in London, his home for nearly five decades. Dwoskin, a trained graphic artist before he picked...
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Aleksei German (1938-2013)
The Cold War isn’t quite over I guess. Aleksei German’s obituary, published yesterday in the New York Times, identified him in the headline as “Director of Anti-Soviet Movies.” How about “Great Soviet...
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Les Blank (1936-2013)
Les Blank, who died Sunday at age 77, was King of the Folkie Filmmakers, a professional Stranger in Paradise, the ramshackle poet laureate of a lost American gemeinschaft. A soft-spoken bearish guy...
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Mario Montez 1935-2013
Asked to name his favorite superstar, Jack Smith singled out the appealing madcap known as Mario Montez, explaining that “he [sic] immediately enlists the sympathy of the audience.” Mario—who was born...
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