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shadowkatKit Carson passed away this week. Best know for the films "Texas Chainsaw Massacre II" and "Paris, Texas" - which he wrote, and his son, Hunter Carson starred in, he was amongst other things my sisinlaw's beloved uncle. He'd been ill for a bit.
From film critic Robert Wilonsky's obit:
To call his career eclectic diminishes the word. The Irving-born Carson, a product of the University of Dallas, was an actor, his filmography ranging from Sidney Lumet’s "Running on Empty to an episode of Miami Vice in which he soared. He co-wrote Jim McBride’s 1983 remake of Breathless starring Richard Gere. He served as inspiration and mentor to Roman Coppola, son of Francis and maker of the movie CQ, which was partially cribbed from David Holzman, a black-and-white parody of cinema verite. He was an art-house-hold name.
“I met Kit on Paris, Texas, he was there as writer and father of the young co-star,” writes Allison Anders on Facebook this morning. She wrote and directed such films as Gas Food Lodging and Grace of My Heart, and went on to direct several episodes of Sex and the City. “He was later of one my advisors at the Sundance Lab and from there, a friend. I only discovered later all the incredible things he had done before Paris Texas, as a filmmaker and writer. He wrote some of the best pieces on pop culture in the late 60s for Eye Magazine and later Rolling Stone. So glad to have known him.”
Writes Anders, Kit’s was “a life truly lived on his own terms.”
Robert Wilonsky's obit on independent film maker and auteur, L.M. Kit Carson
From film critic Robert Wilonsky's obit:
To call his career eclectic diminishes the word. The Irving-born Carson, a product of the University of Dallas, was an actor, his filmography ranging from Sidney Lumet’s "Running on Empty to an episode of Miami Vice in which he soared. He co-wrote Jim McBride’s 1983 remake of Breathless starring Richard Gere. He served as inspiration and mentor to Roman Coppola, son of Francis and maker of the movie CQ, which was partially cribbed from David Holzman, a black-and-white parody of cinema verite. He was an art-house-hold name.
“I met Kit on Paris, Texas, he was there as writer and father of the young co-star,” writes Allison Anders on Facebook this morning. She wrote and directed such films as Gas Food Lodging and Grace of My Heart, and went on to direct several episodes of Sex and the City. “He was later of one my advisors at the Sundance Lab and from there, a friend. I only discovered later all the incredible things he had done before Paris Texas, as a filmmaker and writer. He wrote some of the best pieces on pop culture in the late 60s for Eye Magazine and later Rolling Stone. So glad to have known him.”
Writes Anders, Kit’s was “a life truly lived on his own terms.”
Robert Wilonsky's obit on independent film maker and auteur, L.M. Kit Carson