PLURALEYES 4 CRASHES MOVIE
Not exactly the feel-good movie of the year. The film chronicles the week he spends before turning himself over and ultimately being tortured and murdered. He agrees to star in a snuff movie and is given a lot of cash which he hopes will bring his family a better life. Depp plays a Native-American ex-con down on his luck, living in a (literal) trash heap with his wife and children. But the producers approached Johnny Depp who was intrigued by the story, but not the script, and he re-wrote, directed and starred in the movie. Touchstone dropped the project like a hot potato. His body was found a month later by hikers in the woods- he had shot himself. But then in 1993 Ghazal bludgeoned his estranged wife and 13-year-old daughter to death and set fire to their cabin. Producers optioned the book by Gregory McDonald and got Disney’s Touchstone Pictures interested in financing with Aziz Ghazal (writer of Zombie High) as director. The story behind the making of this film is fascinating. Released on VHS in 1999, but where is it on DVD or Blu-ray? My favorite moment is when the leads listen to an entire scratchy Edith Piaf record without saying a word. Shot in black and white and set over a four-week period, the film is often maddeningly talky, but it casts an incredibly powerful spell. Jean-Pierre Leaud plays the self-absorbed student Alexandre, who juggles two volatile girlfriends: Marie ( Bernadette LaFont), a dress-shop owner who supports him financially, and the pretty, promiscuous Veronika ( Francoise Lebrun). Jean Eustache’s 1973 masterpiece is a staggering three-and-a-half-hour film about a Parisian menage-a-trois. Although just writing those words I got anxious about having to re-watch Harley Cross screaming “slut bitch” at his mother. But I never forgot it and would kill to see it again. Directed by Juan Jose Campanella, this premiered at the Boston Film Festival and got a limited run in theaters and then disappeared. But both Young and Cross give such astonishing, raw, fearless performances. This is the kind of film that afterwards makes you feel like someone has punched you for an hour and a half. All her pathetic attempts to get help for the troubled boy fail and his violence escalates. Karen Young plays a loving but ineffective mother of a psychotic boy ( Harley Cross). This just screams for a digitally re-mastered Blu-ray release. He was a truly amazing writer and his death was a tragic loss. Bowne worked with Morrissey afterwards, writing additional dialogue for the brilliant Mixed Blood and S pike Of Bensonhurst before dying of AIDs in 1989. I saw this at occasional festivals but it frustratingly never played in theaters or appeared on DVD. Morrissey filmed a lot in split screen, which also compliments the drama and it’s a gritty reminder of long-gone days on Times Square, with a terrific performance by Bacon as a junkie hustler. What Bowne did so beautifully was to create a new kind of slang for the street kids- the dialogue is profane and rhythmic and blackly funny. The plot is about luring an unsuspecting john ( Orson Bean) to their apartment in order to get him high and slip him in bed with a young dead boy who OD’d the night before so they can extort money from him. Paul Morrissey directed this adaptation of Alan Bowne’s electrifying play about Times Square male hustlers and used much of the cast of the original play- including Kevin Bacon, Mark Keyloun ( Mike’s Murder) and a young Esai Morales as male prostitutes. Here’s my MIA wish list (although I’ve been so shocked recently with Blu-ray releases of such rarities as Dear Dead Delilah and The Killing Kind, anything’s possible).įorty Deuce. For me there a handful of films I would kill to own. My heart leaps when I hear the stories of supposedly lost films like Dryer’s silent film The Passion Of Joan Of Arc only to have an original print discovered in a janitor’s closet at a mental hospital in Oslo in 1982.
PLURALEYES 4 CRASHES FULL
I’m always amused and annoyed by online message boards concerning Blu-ray and DVD releases where people are bitching, “I hope they put out the full uncut European version!” No one seems to realize that many independent films have been lost to time, vinegar syndrome, rights disputes, their film negatives ending in some land fill. But what do they do about movies that you can never find? Movies that haven’t shown up on video, DVD or streaming (unless you count bootlegged blurry copies with Rumanian subtitles). They post photos of missing kids on milk cartons.
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