R.I.P.

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Claude Chabrol - of the French New Wave of film, and still active making films until the end.


Chabrol was 80 - Jean Luc Godard is a whippersnapper at 78, but I note Jacques Rivette, Agnes Varda (and Nicolas Roeg) as still working at 82. I can't think of anyone older.

(Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira (b. 1908) - of whom I had never heard, is one answer.
Kaneto Shindo (b. 1912) has a film in postproduction


Kurt Maetzig (b. 1911) hasn't directed since 1976
Mario Monicelli (b. 1915) directed in 2008, 2010 film is "credit only"
Carlo Lizzani (b. 1917) directed in 2008
Ted Post (b. 1918) hasn't directed since 1999
Gabriel Axel (b. 1918) hasn't directed since 2001
Lester James Peries (b. 1918) hasn't directed since 2006
Paul Bogart (b. 1918) has directed for tv since 1988, and seems retired from that)