Title: Furthest from |
Release Date: 2001 |
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Running time: about 46 minutes |
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Distributor and Production Company: Token; IFP Website |
Director; Writer: Tim Kinzy |
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Cast: Woody Harrelson, Steve Guttenberg, Clint Allen, Michael Harris |
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Review: This documentary provides an amusing account of the 1999 production in Minneapolis of Woody Harrelson’s play (perhaps politically incorrect), “Furthest from the Sun.” Harrelson is well known for rather garish films like “Natural Born Killers” and “The People vs. Larry Flynt.” The comedy here shows the tensions among the production and cast members (including let one person go) during the pre-production rehearsals and preparation. You get a similar sense of tension from watching the HBO Project Greenlight accounts of the filming of “Stolen Summer.” This film was
previewed (at the Heights Theater in For the ultimate satire of independent film-making and
self-instantiation, check out The Independent (2000, Arrow Films), a fictional
documentary about make-believe film-maker Morty Fineman (played by Jerry Stiller, with Janeane Garofalo and Max Perlich), whose filmography of
400+ films would (I mean the subjunctive mood here) the Army training film
“The Simplex Complex.” Or the 1992
spectacle, “The Real History of America.”
Fineman defiantly says, “I don’t make movies
to make money. I make money to make movies.”
Like me and my cousin when I was 12, doing our drawings of filmstrips,
and again like me at 58. Fineman wants the world to hear his “message,” like that
there is no happy ending and the world, and especially |
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