![]() Yesterday I drove two and a half hours to hear David Lynch speak for an hour. “Life is very, very complicated and so films should be allowed to be too.” “Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream, Neo? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world? ” Legacy Filmmaking (and Your Bank Account): “ They’re never going to talk about your bank account when you’re dead, but they will talk about maybe the movies you left behind if you really cared about what you did.”-Frank Darabont A couple that slipped by me I need to check out: Kurosawa’s Kagemusha and Jim Jarmusch’s Permanent Vacation. And some interesting titles I never saw and probably never will Cannibal Apocalypse, Fists of the White Lotus, Eaten Alive!, Blood Beach.Ĭheers to the class of 1980. Then there’s a list of 1980s films I didn’t catch until later Breaker Morant, Altered States, Stardust Memories, and Alligator (early John Sayles screenplay). Ordinary People (Oscars: Best Picture, screenplay, direction, supporting actor) Stir Crazy (Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor) Urban Cowboy (worth watching just to see Scott Glenn eat the worm) Here’s an eclectic-and partial- sample of what I saw in theaters in 1980: My movie tastes were evolving so I went to see everything I could. This was the pre-internet days and VHS or cable TV hadn’t come into my world yet. The Elephant Man opened in theaters in October 1980 and that was a great time to be a teenager newly interested in movies. Rewatching the movie makes me want to go read the original source material on the life of John Merrick The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences by Sir Frederick Treves and The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignityby Ashley Montagu.Īnd here’s a super article that fills in more about the movie. I saw the film in theaters when I was a teenager and it definitely peaked my early interest in what films could be. It was nominated for eight Oscars and the winner of BAFTA Best Picture in 1981. The direction (David Lynch), the acting (John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud), the make-up (Christopher Tucker), the black & white cinematography (Freddie Francis), and the screenwriting (Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren, Lynch) are brilliant. The Elephant Man is currently available on Amazon Prime and I had forgotten what an extraordinary film it is. Yet today it seems on the verge of being forgotten, and that’s a shame.” You know, how unhappy most of them are and.“David Lynch’s The Elephant Man is the one Lynch film that found a mesmerizing middle ground between conventional Hollywood story structure and its director’s surreal dreamscapes. You know something? You should take a month. He also reflects specifically on his love life as his current girlfriend, married Isobel, shows up unexpectedly, and as he starts to fall for festival attendee Daisy - at the festival with her Columbia professor boyfriend, Jack Abel - who reminds him of Dorrie, a neuro Despite the throng of requests for his time, he is further able to reflect on his life as he addresses the questions at the post screening Q&A sessions. He reluctantly agrees to attend a weekend long film festival of his movies. Most are fighting him all along the way, including the movie going public, who continually tell him that they love his movies especially the earlier funny ones, to studio executives who are trying to insert comic elements wherever possible into his current movie in production. Synopsis: Renowned filmmaker Sandy Bates is in a professional transition, directing largely comedies early in his career now wanting to direct more serious movies so that he can explore the meaning of life, most specifically his own.
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