Yesterday, for Mel Brooks' 100th birthday, 7,000 fans gathered in the main square of Bologna, Italy, to sing “Happy Birthday” to him. Mel himself replied with a video message, and then the crowd watched Young Frankenstein together.
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Alexander Kluge, the German filmmaker whose career spanned more than six decades and helped define the New German Cinema movement, has died. He was 94. https://t.co/eHYIZEhlf0
Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96. https://t.co/FFI5TO0oGT
Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, pictured here at Gramsci's grave, was born on this day in 1922.
"Nothing is more anarchic than power. Dictated by the abstract logic of an economic system it carries out the genocide of real, living cultures."
Today we also say goodbye to the great Frederick Wiseman, who passed away at 96. One of America’s greatest documentary filmmakers, with a career spanning over five decades, including ‘Titicut Follies’ (1967), ‘High School’ (1968), ‘Welfare’ (1975), or ‘National Gallery’ (2014).
We love you, David Lynch. ❤️ Goodnight to a truly once-in-a-lifetime artist, who not only changed cinema forever but altered how we experience the world and showed us what it really means to dream. No more blue tomorrows.