[The Daily] Remembering Stéphane Audran, Barbara Stone, and More

Actress Stéphane Audran has passed away at the age of eighty-five, reports Deadline’s Nancy Tartaglione. “Audran, whose real name was Colette Dacheville, is known for her long collaboration with Claude Chabrol to whom she was married from 1964–1980. She also starred in [Luis] Buñuel’s 1972 comedy The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie which went on to win the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Audran took the BAFTA Best Actress prize for that film as well. In 1987, she starred in Gabriel Axel’s Danish drama Babette’s Feast [image above] which also won the Foreign Language Oscar. The titular role garnered her a BAFTA nomination as Best Actress and a win from the London Critics Film Circle Awards.”

Besides the twenty-five films she made with Chabrol, Audran will also be remembered for her work in Eric Rohmer’s The Sign of Leo (1962), Samuel Fuller’s The Big Red One (1980), Bertrand Tavernier’s Coup de Torchon (1981), and Anne Fontaine’s The Girl from Monaco (2008) as well as for her performances in television series such as the landmark British production of Brideshead Revisited (1981). And when Orson Welles’s The Other Side of the Wind is released later this year, we’ll see her once again alongside Chabrol.

“U.S. industry veteran Barbara Stone, producer, distributor and founder of London’s iconic Gate Cinema, has died aged eighty-three in the UK capital,” reports Andreas Wiseman for Deadline. “Stone and her late husband David worked in the film business most of their lives, both in the U.S. and in the UK, playing an important role in distributing independent and avant-garde movies during the 1970s and 80s.” Not only did they introduce UK audiences to the likes of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Jonas Mekas, but the Gate would also “show classic films that others passed on, including La Cage aux Folles (1978), and Woody Allen’s Annie Hall (1977) and Manhattan (1979). Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane (1976), with Latin dialogue and subtitles, reportedly saw queues for weeks. . . . Meanwhile, their west-London home became well known to the likes of Bernardo Bertolucci, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, Wallace Shawn, Robert Kramer, Agnès Varda, and Anouk Aimée.”

Andy Lewis, who, along with his brother, Dave wrote the screenplay for Alan J. Pakula’s Klute (1971) starring Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland, has passed away at the age of ninety-three. Movie City News points us to the story in the Keene Sentinel as well as to a conversation with Lewis recorded in 2013 for The Next Reel.

“Louise Latham, the actress who made her big-screen debut by portraying the manipulative mother of Tippi Hedren's character in Alfred Hitchcock's suspense thriller Marnie, has died,” writes the Hollywood Reporter’s Mike Barnes. “She went on to appear in other movies like Firecreek (1968) with James Stewart and Henry Fonda; White Lightning (1973) with Burt Reynolds; The Sugarland Express (1974) in Steven Spielberg's first feature; Mass Appeal (1984) with Jack Lemmon; Paradise (1991) with Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson; and Love Field (1992) with Michelle Pfeiffer.” Latham was ninety-five.

Michael Gershman, a cinematographer who would not only shoot but also direct several episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Crossing Jordan, was seventy-three. Erin Nyren for Variety: “Gershman studied under cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond as a camera assistant on films like The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate, The River, The Blow Out, and The Rose during the ’70s and ’80s.”

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