Bingham Ray ist gestorben

Der 57jährige Bingham Ray (Bild), US-amerikanischer Filmemacher und Mitbegründer des Filmverleihs October Films, verstarb während des Sundance Film Festivals 2012 in Park City (Utah), wo er als Executive Direktor der San Francisco Film Society arbeitete, am 23. Januar 2012 an einer Serie von Hirnschlägen.

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«Bingham Ray, a colorful indie-film executive who helped steer art-house movies like ‚Bowling for Columbine‘ and ‚Hotel Rwanda‘ to the masses, died on Monday in a hospice in Provo, Utah. He was 57.»

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/movies/bingham-ray-executive-who-championed-independent-films-dies-at-57.html

«Born on Oct. 1, 1954, in Bronxville, N.Y., Ray started out as a programmer and manager at New York’s Bleecker Street Cinema before forming October Films with Jeff Lipsky in Lipsky’s Sherman Oaks garage. Soon, the independent distribution company was knocking out some of the most interesting films of the 1990s by some of the world’s most prominent directors: David Lynch (Lost Highway), Robert Altman (Cookie’s Fortune), Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves), Mike Leigh (Secrets & Lies), Jim Jarmusch (The Year of the Horse), Robert Duvall (The Apostle), and John Dahl (The Last Seduction).»

http://screencrave.com/2012-01-25/bingham-ray-driving-force-in-independent-film-dies-at-57-at-sundance-2012/

«One of the most influential forces in independent film, helping promote, distribute and produce such movies as ‚Hotel Rwanda,‘ ‚Bowling for Columbine,‘ ‚Drugstore Cowboy,‘ ‚The Kite Runner,‘ ‚High Art‘ and ‚The Last Seduction,‘ Mr. Ray came to San Francisco in November to reinvigorate the Film Society and select movies for its new SF Film Society Cinema.»

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/23/DDMK1MT98S.DTL#ixzz1kVfDCXRe

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