Monday, June 15, 2009

FILMMAKER ALLAN KING DIES

CBC News has just released the sad news that Canadian filmmaker Allan King has died -- he was 79.

2 comments:

Greg Woods said...

Despite that he was 79, this is still sad news. He was still working. He was a trailblazer with immense curiosity about the human condition-- his work broke barriers. One of the true (and few) visionaries of Canadian cinema.

Barry Smight said...

I agree. He seemed to possess so much vitality, and I would have expected him to go on for even longer.

He is a marker in Canadian cinema -- like David Cronenberg and Atom Egoyan, Allan King is known and admired outside of Canada.