Jan 10, 2011
SFFILM
And Everything Is Going Fine (USA 2010), Steven Soderbergh’s assembled biographical tribute to master monologist Spalding Gray (Swimming to Cambodia, SFIFF 1987; Monster in a Box, SFIFF 1992) opens Friday, February 18 on SFFS Screen at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas.
When Spalding Gray . . . began performing his autobiographical monologues in the late 1970s and early ’80s-first as a member of the Wooster Group, then on his own-they felt radical and revelatory, like bulletins from newly discovered artistic territory. By 2004, when Gray committed suicide by jumping from the Staten Island Ferry, his work was a familiar and widely appreciated feature of the cultural landscape. He made occasional appearances in movies, television series and conventional plays, but his great role, his great project, was himself. . . . Now Soderbergh has assembled a biographical tribute that is also a sampler of Gray’s performances, formal and otherwise. The film, And Everything Is Going Fine (the highly ironic title comes from a monologue excerpted in the film), is, among other things, a tour de force of smart and sensitive editing. Drawing on recordings of stage appearances, television interviews with MTV and Charlie Rose and other videotaped conversations, this documentary is as digressive and, miraculously, as coherent as the monologues that are its principal inspiration. –A.O. Scott, New York Times
With Spalding Gray. Showing on Blu-ray. 90 min. Distributed by IFC.
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Also Coming Soon to SFFS Screen
February 4: The Time That Remains Spanning 60 years of history, Suleiman’s witty, elegiac film portrays the life of the director’s family and community known as Israeli Arabs, Palestinians who remained in Israel after its founding.
February 11: Come Undone Silvio Soldini’s film measures the day-by-day emotional cost of a love affair between a comfortably married accountant for a small insurance agency and a waiter with a wife and two young children.
February 25: How I Ended This Summer In remote Chukotka on the eastern edge of Russia, a missed communication between two men working at a polar station escalates into a taut duel of nerves. Alex Popogrebsky’s vise-like psychological thriller is part action-adventure, part gorgeous-looking art film.
SFFS Screen, the innovative exhibition partnership with Sundance Cinemas, enables the Film Society to present its acclaimed film programs and events at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas year-round.
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