Jim Lyons, 1961-2007
Jim as Jack Bolton in Poison
I was very sad to learn that Jim Lyons died last Thursday. Known largely as a film editor, Jim was also an actor and a writer. He was a true and passionate cinéaste and a deeply generous man. It is difficult to put words to this tremendous loss, and so I was grateful to read Scott Macauley’s thoughtful memorial in Filmmaker Magazine.
… Jim did many other things – he wrote, acted and had plans to direct – and his great contribution to our world of film lay in his contributions not to any one of these fields but rather across them. Jim was always an artist, even when he was editing someone else’s material, and he brought an artist’s sensibility, temperament and questioning to everything he did. Whether it was playing the artist David Wojnarowicz in Steve McLean’s Postcards from America or Billy Name in Mary Harron’s I Shot Andy Warhol, or co-writing the story for Velvet Goldmine, Jim’s work questioned the social codes and roles that act to define us while also finding the elements of beauty in the spaces in between.
Updated links
Filmmaker Magazine
James Lyons, 46, Film Editor and Actor, Dies (NY Times)
All that heaven allows (Time Out NY)
A Short Film About Andy Warhol
Remembering Jim (IndieWire)