sometimes a great notion

Rainer Maria Rilke

Freud: The Secret Passion (1962)

How did I not know this movie existed until today? Montgomery Clift played Freud?! John Huston directed it?! Jean-Paul Sartre wrote the original script?! And wanted Marilyn Monroe to be in it?!

(Update: it’s not on DVD, but since I have the internet, I can watch it on YouTube! Have I mentioned that I love the interwebz?)

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Terry Gross interviews Tracy Morgan (10/23/09)

I finally listened to the podcast of this Fresh Air interview, and it was definitely one of the stranger interviews I’ve ever listened to, on NPR or anywhere else. You almost feel sorry for Terry Gross, she keeps trying to figure out if Morgan is joking or not (and certainly his TALKING EXCESSIVELY LOUD A LOT sounds jokey), and when she finally realizes he is serious, she has to figure out how to proceed with the rest of the interview as an almost therapy-like session.

“It’s emotional. It’s emotional for me. It is, and I’ve got to be honest with thyself. I’m funny. I still turn the funny on. The funny bus is still sitting downstairs. Yeah, the funny bus - I’ve got a whole truckload of funny downstairs.”

Getting your film degree via YouTube!

I’m going to try and start putting up one of these every couple of weeks or so, by director. I always think it’s a lot of (nerd) fun to watch a lot of films by the same director all in a row, to work your way through their filmography and whatnot. So, I’m starting this unofficial series off with BILLY WILDER.

Click on any of the links below to watch a Billy Wilder film for free, in its entirety, via YouTube…

The Major and the Minor

Wilder, of course, directed many other films as well. But if it’s not on this list, that means it wasn’t available on YouTube. That’s what Netflix is for, I guess. And trust me: most any Wilder film is worth your time.

‘It Makes No Difference” - The Band

(from The Last Waltz)

Brewster McCloud (1970)

When I have nothing to post from anybody on Filmosophy, I have to fill in the spaces myself. :)

Here’s my piece today on Robert Altman’s weird and wonderful Brewster McCloud. Click through to read the entire thing…

filmosophy:

I BELIEVE I CAN FLY

“How I yearn to throw myself into endless space and float above the awful abyss.” - Johann Wolfgang Goethe

It begins inside a mostly barren Astrodome, the one-time Wicked Witch of the West (literally) leading the red and white uniformed African-American marching band she has hired through an out-of-tune rendition of the national anthem. (They will soon revolt and launch into “Lift Every Voice and Sing”, long considered “The Black National Anthem”).

Elsewhere in the dome - in a forgotten bomb shelter buried deep within its bowels to be exact - lives an awkward, lonely teenage boy with big glasses named Brewster McCloud who is building the wings he hopes will one day enable him to fly far away from the worries of this world…

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William Carlos Williams

'In Treatment' to return to HBO for third season!

psychotherapy:

HBO announced Friday that it has ordered a third season of the drama “In Treatment”, which stars Gabriel Byrne as therapist Paul Weston.

A third season had been in some doubt, as Byrne has said in interviews that he finds the role (which he plays very well) quite challenging. That’s understandable; his character is in almost every scene and much of his work involves reacting to and working through thorny issues with the sometimes challenging patients in his care.

The show is changing head writers again, as it has done every season so far. Anya Epstein of HBO’s “Tell Me You Love Me” and Danny Futterman (“Capote”) will take over from Season 2 showrunner Warren Leight.

The show goes into production early next year in New York.