Saw the famous low-rent film-noir ‘Detour’ last night. Was astonished by the performance of ‘Ann Savage’ as the hitchhiker with what we would probably call borderline personality disorder these days, who terrorizes the protagonist of the picture. Take a look at the clip of ‘Ann’ below and tell me if if she doesn’t give one of the most amazing performances in cinema:
Anyhew, imagine my delight in finding out she plays Guy Madden’s mom in his new film ‘My Winnipeg’ coming to the Belcourst this month! Whoo-hoo!
(P.S. I’ve decided to become a champion of the low-budget Dear Listener after my experience with the 175 million dollar fiasco that is the Mummy).
8 responses so far.
1 jettloe // Aug 11, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Rambling
2 jettloe // Aug 12, 2008 at 9:27 am
Blockbusters
3 Phil // Aug 13, 2008 at 5:03 am
The death of video commenting……?
4 jettloe // Aug 13, 2008 at 9:15 am
Hmm…yes, have contacted Seesmic to see what the deal is re: vid comments!
+ I agree Kiley – one problem of course is that film is 'forgiving', being analog and all – with the moving picture in the gate and the grain/losing a generation etc., whereas if you're watching an all 'digital pipeline' presentation = Spiderman 3 going right from some CGI guy's cubicle to your HD screen = the image is rock steady and the flaws are much more apparent!
5 nulls101 // Oct 16, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Thanks for sharing
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6 TimHeaney // Dec 6, 2008 at 4:33 am
Can't remember if you ever mentioned My Winnipeg again after this but I watched it last night and thought it was great. I can honestly say I have never seen anything like it and while it took me a while to get in to by the end I was mesmerised. (oh yes – and Ann Savage was wonderful).
7 TimHeaney // Dec 6, 2008 at 11:33 am
Can't remember if you ever mentioned My Winnipeg again after this but I watched it last night and thought it was great. I can honestly say I have never seen anything like it and while it took me a while to get in to by the end I was mesmerised. (oh yes – and Ann Savage was wonderful).
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