FeverDog420
07-25-2002, 02:08 AM
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Saw this unconventional doc tonight at an advanced screening (it opens Friday in New York and L.A.). What a surprisingly fun movie! The Kid Stays in the Picture (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0303353) documents the rise (Rosemary's Baby) and fall (The Cotton Club) of '70's mondo-producer Robert Evans. This is no static talking heads and cut & paste job that most "non-fiction" films employ; it's a artful collage of creatively blended still photos with new and imaginative backgrounds, original Super-8 film footage, classic tunes from that era (Elton John, Steely Dan), and long-lost television clips from obscure, forgotten talk shows, all narrated by Evans himself in a deadpan and gruff yet earnest tone that reminded me of Johnny Depp's voice-overs in Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas.
Anyone who likes Hollywood-insider movies like The Player and Get Shorty will love this documentary . TKSITK reveals the origins of classics like Chinatown and The Godfather, and why The Cotton Club was doomed from the start. And a good deal of Evans' personal life is presented, like how his relationship with Love Story's Ali MacGraw was broken by Steve McQueen's The Getaway, and how a drug deal gone bad and a Hollywood murder landed him in Movie Jail for a decade.
If nothing else, TKSITP has dozens of movie clips, and part of the fun is figuring out what movies they're from. (I'm 28, and identified about 75% of them; IMDb helped me with ones with Woody Allen, Robert Redford and others.)
Check it out!
8/10
[This message has been edited by FeverDog420 (edited 07-25-2002).]
Saw this unconventional doc tonight at an advanced screening (it opens Friday in New York and L.A.). What a surprisingly fun movie! The Kid Stays in the Picture (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0303353) documents the rise (Rosemary's Baby) and fall (The Cotton Club) of '70's mondo-producer Robert Evans. This is no static talking heads and cut & paste job that most "non-fiction" films employ; it's a artful collage of creatively blended still photos with new and imaginative backgrounds, original Super-8 film footage, classic tunes from that era (Elton John, Steely Dan), and long-lost television clips from obscure, forgotten talk shows, all narrated by Evans himself in a deadpan and gruff yet earnest tone that reminded me of Johnny Depp's voice-overs in Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas.
Anyone who likes Hollywood-insider movies like The Player and Get Shorty will love this documentary . TKSITK reveals the origins of classics like Chinatown and The Godfather, and why The Cotton Club was doomed from the start. And a good deal of Evans' personal life is presented, like how his relationship with Love Story's Ali MacGraw was broken by Steve McQueen's The Getaway, and how a drug deal gone bad and a Hollywood murder landed him in Movie Jail for a decade.
If nothing else, TKSITP has dozens of movie clips, and part of the fun is figuring out what movies they're from. (I'm 28, and identified about 75% of them; IMDb helped me with ones with Woody Allen, Robert Redford and others.)
Check it out!
8/10
[This message has been edited by FeverDog420 (edited 07-25-2002).]