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Post by jervistetch on Aug 31, 2022 19:47:45 GMT
Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady
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Post by spiderwort on Aug 31, 2022 21:09:22 GMT
Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady
Never saw this, jervis, though I always meant to. But it's reminded me of a short narrative film about beat poets, Pull My Daisy (1959). It was written and narrated by Jack Kerouac, and the cast includes the poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso. Composer David Amram is also in the cast, and he did the music. It's not a great film, but it is an historically significant one. Here it is, all 26 minutes of it, for those who are interested.
(I think I also posted this in another thread, too, but I'm not sure.)
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Post by jervistetch on Aug 31, 2022 21:45:44 GMT
Thank you for pointing us to PULL MY DAISY, Spider. I’ll have to watch it after I pick up some red wine and Benzedrine.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Aug 31, 2022 21:57:35 GMT
James Joyce's Women (1985) British/Irish co-production directed by Michael Pearce, this excellent fascinating period drama film was produced by and stars Fionnula Flanagan, and is based on Flanagan's 1977 play, a tribute to the novelist and poet, titled James Joyce's WomenFionnula Flanagan gives a standout performance playing a half-dozen women in Joyce's real life and his fictional worlds. Portraying Joyce's wife Nora, she recalls their time together, the film gives wonderful insight capturing the era and the beauty of Joyce's melodious words... Chris O'Neil as James Joyce...
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Post by stryker on Aug 31, 2022 22:07:21 GMT
Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady I love Nick Nolte's performance as Neal Cassady, he has some great scenes. The scene where he gets bust smoking "reefer" breaks my heart, and I love the line where he tells Heard's Jack Kerouac "... you know, we all gotta serve. But, the famous - they have to serve as an example." I hope this film comes out on Blu Ray one day. I saw it on the big screen, but I don't think it's available on DVD. I'll never forget Nolte's use of the words lascivious to describe Stevie.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Aug 31, 2022 23:19:45 GMT
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Post by marshamae on Sept 1, 2022 0:34:01 GMT
I love this film, and I love Pacino doing comedy. Alan King, Bob and Ray, Tuesday Weld, Dyan Cannon all wonderful.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Sept 1, 2022 0:46:18 GMT
The Voice of Merrill (1952) Dir. John Gilling. A work of pure fiction, this entertaining low budget British thriller revolves around an author, and a playwright married to a beautiful but scheming wife. Struggling author Hugh Allen (Edward Underdown) begins an affair with Alycia Roach (Valerie Hobson) the wife of playwright Jonathan Roach (James Robertson Justice). Roach has written an episodic radio play, "The Voice of Merrill", which he wants to present anonymously, he agrees to Alycia's scheming suggestion that Allen should be the narrator of the radio broadcasts. Alycia persuades Allen to pass off the play as his personal work, in an attempt to boost his own writing career.... Edward Underdown, Valerie Hobson, James Robertson Justice
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Post by timshelboy on Sept 1, 2022 19:38:17 GMT
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Post by spiderwort on Sept 1, 2022 20:48:34 GMT
Appreciate your choices of THE GLASS MENAGERIE and SUDDEN FEAR, Tim. About SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, however: I haven't seen it in decades (and only saw it once), but I don't remember anything about a writer in it. Can you please clarify? I'm probably just forgetting.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Sept 1, 2022 20:55:34 GMT
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Post by timshelboy on Sept 1, 2022 21:00:55 GMT
Appreciate your choices of THE GLASS MENAGERIE and SUDDEN FEAR, Tim. About SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, however: I haven't seen it in decades (and only saw it once), but I don't remember anything about a writer in it. Can you please clarify? I'm probably just forgetting. Sebastian Venable was a poet
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Post by spiderwort on Sept 1, 2022 21:06:46 GMT
Sebastian Venable was a poet
Oh, of course! Now I remember. Sorry about that and thanks for the clarification. I think I saw that film in the 60s on tv -- a long time ago. Wasn't much of a fan, so never bothered to watch it again. But maybe I should.
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Post by timshelboy on Sept 2, 2022 8:55:34 GMT
Appreciate your choices of THE GLASS MENAGERIE and SUDDEN FEAR, Tim. About SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, however: I haven't seen it in decades (and only saw it once), but I don't remember anything about a writer in it. Can you please clarify? I'm probably just forgetting. There was a 1992 TV remake with Maggie Smith, Natasha Richardson & Rob Lowe - more faithful but much less fun
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Post by marshamae on Sept 2, 2022 14:49:50 GMT
Appreciate your choices of THE GLASS MENAGERIE and SUDDEN FEAR, Tim. About SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, however: I haven't seen it in decades (and only saw it once), but I don't remember anything about a writer in it. Can you please clarify? I'm probably just forgetting. Sebastian Venable was a poet My problem with this film is that Montgomery Clift struggles to be convincing as the shrink, but he would have been perfect as Sebastian, who never appears on screen . It was like the suggested casting of Vivian Leigh as the second Mrs De Winter. No matter how much they dowdied her up ( I guess I should say down) she was the perfect embodiment of Rebecca, who haunts the film but remains invisible. Clift, for me is a constant distraction.
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Post by timshelboy on Sept 2, 2022 15:18:58 GMT
Sebastian Venable was a poet My problem with this film is that Montgomery Clift struggles to be convincing as the shrink, but he would have been perfect as Sebastian, who never appears on screen . It was like the suggested casting of Vivian Leigh as the second Mrs De Winter. No matter how much they dowdied her up ( I guess I should say down) she was the perfect embodiment of Rebecca, who haunts the film but remains invisible. Clift, for me is a constant distraction. I certainly would not want him performing a lobotomy on me...
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Post by manfromplanetx on Sept 2, 2022 21:46:40 GMT
Topsy-Turvy (1999) British musical period drama written and directed by Mike Leigh. The highly entertaining film is a lavish production recreating in sumptuous detail Victorian era theatrical history. It is a setting in which we find composer Arthur Sullivan (Allan Corduner) and writer dramatist W. S. Gilbert (Jim Broadbent) already famous and widely successful, the duo are currently experiencing a bout of creative stagnation. Set in the period between 1884 and 1885, leading up to the premiere of their famous comic opera, The Mikado, the fascinating historical drama focuses on the creative conflict between playwright and composer.
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Post by spiderwort on Sept 14, 2022 23:33:28 GMT
A screenwriter: Sunset Boulevard (1950)and an author of children's books: Miss Potter (2006)
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Post by spiderwort on Sept 22, 2022 1:52:54 GMT
The story of young Jane Austen, who was -- The Front (1976): In 1953, Woody Allen poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through. A terrific film directed by Martin Ritt, with a screenplay by Walter Bernstein, who was blacklisted in the early 50s and then received an Oscar nomination for this script about how he could only write during the Blacklist by using "fronts" (there's some justice in the world, after all!). A fictional story of a dying writer who bases his last book on his own perception of his family.
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Post by marshamae on Sept 22, 2022 3:28:26 GMT
Providence lookswonderful
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