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8 October 2012
Radioman Review
Radioman is a legendary figure in the New York City film world. He is a former alcoholic homeless bum who started his film career in 1990 on Brian De Palmas’ Bonfire of the Vanities. He simply walked onto to set and handed Bruce Willis a beer because he though he was a bum as well. His life story has been told in the recent documentary directed by Mary Herr also called Radioman.
It’s features interview snippets of such stars as George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Josh Brolin, Tom Hanks, Johnny Deep and the list goes on and on. They all say how much they like seeing Radioman on set and how they it’s the same if it’s a New York film and he isn’t on set. Robin Williams one of the first celebrities who he met on a film set (the film is question was Terry Gilliam’s The Fisher King) jokes his resume is larger than his, Radioman’s IMDb page doesn’t list a 10th of the films he has appeared in.
It’s an interesting look at somebody who clearly has some mental health issues but has such a deep love for films. It shows his daily routine, which is getting on his bike and cycling to the daily film set and sometimes he evens go to other states besides New York. It’s show shis mess of a apartment. It also mentions his desire to get more prominent roles, which he been getting. He has a noticeable role on Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island for example.
It doesn’t really just judgement on Radioman. However it’s at times very difficult to watch because some of his behaviour and the footage is so revealing it gets very difficult at times to watch. Overall it’s a good little doc about the other side of the film industry.
Ian Schultz
Rating:12
UK Release Date: 12th October 2012
Directed by: Mary Kerr
Cast: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Johnny Depp, Meryl Streep
28 September 2012
Raindance 2012: Sunset Strip:The Movie Review
With Sunset Strip, one suspects that director Hans Fjellestad hopes he has drafted the definitive autobiography of that most insalubrious of American landmarks, Hollywood Boulevard. The reality is that this 93 minute love letter to sex, drugs and rock n’ roll feels more like an extended anecdote than anything else.
Fjellestad has wrung his contacts book to its very limits to populate his movie with anyone and everyone with even the tiniest connection to the world famous mile-and-a-half stretch of tarmac. Johnny Depp, Keanu Reeves, Paris Hilton, Dan Aykroyd (plugging his own vodka), and Kenneth Anger, amongst others, all pop up to wax lyrical about the world famous street, and let us know just what it is that makes the place so special.
The interviews are woven together in such a way as to concentrate either on a particular period in Los Angeles history, or a single bar, hotel or street corner to give us a sense of time and of space; to inject a sense of character into the lifeless brickwork. Not surprisingly, the interviews tend to concentrate on the seedier aspects of life on the strip; the drugs, the drink, the illicit trysts; at the expense of imparting any real practical or historical information.
What’s driven home here is that everyone involved has been profoundly affected in some way by Hollywood Boulevard, by its history, its character, and its “je ne sais quoi”. Mickey Rourke explains: “Your dreams can start out there, and your dreams will end there…”
All those little stories of celebrities having such a jolly good time: Kelly Osbourne’s lost virginity, Billy Corgan’s realisation that “he’d arrived”, or Tommy Lee’s public fellatio, make for entertaining, if irrelevant viewing. For all Fjellestad’s attempts to paint The Strip’s cultural history, there’s a distinct lack of actual history; a refusal to look beyond the scandal to view the filthy heart of Hollywood Boulevard and actually see what’s going on, or why.
It’s the prevailing sense of sense-congratulation amongst so many of those interviewed that leaves you feeling as if the secret to Sunset Strip is little more than a self perpetuating myth. Famous people flock there because famous people flock there. Either that or it just has a… I don’t know what.
Chris Banks (@Chris_in_2D)
Rating: 15
Screening Dates: Thursday 27 September ,Monday 1 October (20:45)
Directed by: Hans Fjellestad
Cast: Cisco Adler, Lou Adler, Ahmed Ahmed, Dan Aykroyd,
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