The Woodstock Film Festival announced late last week that two of their Maverick Awards will be renamed to honor two late local residents. James Lyon, who died in 2007 after having cut The Virgin Suicides and three Todd Haynes films and starring in Poison and I Shot Andy Warhol, will lend his name to the Festival’s editing prize. Meanwhile, the Best Narrative Feature prize will be renamed to honor actor Lee Marvin.

A total aside: I did a YouTube search for “Lee Marvin” this morning and the first result under “Most Relevant” was the above clip of Marvin singing “I Was Born Under A Wandering Star,” from the much-maligned musical Paint Your Wagon, which I’ve never seen. It’s, you know, horrible, but charmingly so, with tough guy Marvin tunelessly grumbling out lines like, “Do I know where Hell is? Hell is in ‘hello’”. I love musical misanthropy!