Forsyth, Forsooth, For Soothsayer....
Aug. 1st, 2008 08:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogEleanor requested a 1989 film from Netflix, which we received today and watched tonight. I'd vaguely remembered seeing it in cinema around the time of its release, but I'd totally forgotten its progeny.
Written by John Sayles, who had previously brought us Eight Men Out and The Brother From Another Planet, and went on to write Sunshine State, the latter a starring vehicle for Edie Falco that will not, for an instant, remind you of the Carmela Soprano role she played for three years before and five years after this Sayles vehicle.
Directed by Scotland's Bill Forsyth, whose earlier works had included Gregory's Girl and its sequel; Comfort and Joy; and Local Hero.The first and last of those are the only ones of them generally available in the popular new "DVD" format on these Region One shores. Other than those, he's only directed one other film since giving us this one almost 20 years ago.
It stars Burt Reynolds as an aging safecracker, in one of his last motion picture turns, and Casey Siemaszko, a Danny Partridge lookalike who's gone on to any number of Law and Order and CSI roles since this criminal debut but who shines as a n00b in Burt's criminal spotlight.
Why, I ask you, is shit like this confined to obscurity, but we have to suffer through remakes of Madagascar and The Mummy?
Just askin'.
Written by John Sayles, who had previously brought us Eight Men Out and The Brother From Another Planet, and went on to write Sunshine State, the latter a starring vehicle for Edie Falco that will not, for an instant, remind you of the Carmela Soprano role she played for three years before and five years after this Sayles vehicle.
Directed by Scotland's Bill Forsyth, whose earlier works had included Gregory's Girl and its sequel; Comfort and Joy; and Local Hero.The first and last of those are the only ones of them generally available in the popular new "DVD" format on these Region One shores. Other than those, he's only directed one other film since giving us this one almost 20 years ago.
It stars Burt Reynolds as an aging safecracker, in one of his last motion picture turns, and Casey Siemaszko, a Danny Partridge lookalike who's gone on to any number of Law and Order and CSI roles since this criminal debut but who shines as a n00b in Burt's criminal spotlight.
Why, I ask you, is shit like this confined to obscurity, but we have to suffer through remakes of Madagascar and The Mummy?
Just askin'.