James Earl Jones

[La Reine Margot]

We were very sad to hear that the great actor James Earl Jones passed away today. He was 93.

We have a little bit of history with him. Jac's first film has a scene with this fantastic actor and human being, playing the role of a doctor in Haiti who gets killed by the Ton Ton Macoutes.

The clip includes bits of The Comedians, a film based on Graham Greene's famous novel. The principal characters in The Comedians are based in two of the principal people that are in Krik Krak.

Krik Krak has a lot to do with Duvalier and he is one of main subjects in the film... Papa Doc Duvalier, who is the narrator in the next clip.

Krik Krak Clip:

https://youtu.be/4KlVPgZhDr8?si=AjBXROvtwlvIPcuZ

Graham Greene saw the film at the Cannes Film Festival, where it premiere back in 1988. Graham invited Jac for a nice lunch meeting at his home in Antibes where he had a small apartment, at Les Residences des Fleurs, on the Rue Pasteur overlooking the port, one of his few gripes with Antibes was the noise that came from The Yacht Bar directly below his apartment!

Graham and Jac had a long discussion about The Comedians, Krik Krak, Papa Doc and, of course James Earl Jones... not to mention Elizabeth Taylor who was also in The Comedians playing the role of Burton's wife. Richard played the lead role of the Hotel Owner, one of the principal characters in Jac's film as well.

Greene wrote a beautiful 'critique' of Jac's film, which is now part of it's history.

I felt I needed to share this.

If you stay in the link for the clip, you will see trailers for the TV series El Hombre de la Luna, Carmen's, aka Camille, first work with Jac, as well as trailers for Nocturnia, Martyr and Sirwiñakuy. Cool?