- Michael Raso
From Film Historian Michael Bowen:
"I learned Tuesday night from Jenifer Sparks Schaffner, Bruce Sparks' daughter, that Bruce took his own life on April 21. He was 75 years old.
I was lucky enough to interview Bruce on the phone on two or three occasions and to meet him in person in 2004 at the Lake Placid Film Festival, which generously invited Bruce to attend a tribute to his friend and long-time collaborator Joe Sarno. He was certainly one of the most innately intelligent and insightful people I have ever met and I am deeply grateful for the time he spent discussing his work with me.
I know his passing is noted as well by his friend and collaborator Mal Worob (aka, Carter Stevens) who said in a recent email:
"He was a man of rare talent and I can honestly say...he single-handedly made me a better filmmaker."
I thought those of you who knew and worked with Bruce "back in the day" would want to know of his passing."All best wishes, Michael Bowen mjbpro1@rcn.com
From Director Carter Stevens:
"I have just gotten word that Bruce Sparks passed away. Most of you won't know his name but he was the BEST Cinematographer in the Independent / Sexploitation world of cinema. He was Joe Sarno's main cameraman and was my first camera on about half of my features. He was a man of rare talent and I can honestly say I learned more about camera work and lighting from him than I ever did in college. He single handedly made me a better filmmaker. I will miss him."
clip segment from the "Joe Sarno Lake Placid Film Festival" mini-doc
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#What It’s Like to Chill with the Most Ruthless Men in the World
ReplyDeleteRatko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic:
Confessions of a Female War Crimes Investigator
Retrospectively, it was all so simple, natural and matter of fact being on a boat restaurant in Belgrade, sitting with, laughing, drinking a two hundred bottle of wine and chatting about war and peace while Ratko Mladic held my hand. Mladic, a man considered the world’s most ruthless war criminal since Adolf Hitler, still at large and currently having a five million dollar bounty on his head for genocide by the international community. Yet there I was with my two best friends at the time, a former Serbian diplomat, his wife, and Ratko Mladic just chilling. There was no security, nothing you’d ordinarily expect in such circumstances. Referring to himself merely as, Sharko; this is the story of it all came about.
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