Monster in a Box
Screening on Film
Directed by Nick Broomfield.
With Spalding Gray.
US, 1992, 35mm, color, 87 min.
With Spalding Gray.
US, 1992, 35mm, color, 87 min.
Spalding Gray moves his one-man show out of Cambodia into more personal terrain addressing the foibles of writing a novel, aliens and AIDS, earthquakes and artist colonies, writer’s block in Nicaragua and photography in St. Petersburg. Meanwhile, the “monster” looms in the wings: Gray’s unwieldy 1,800-page manuscript of his novel, Impossible Vacation. Nick Broomfield, better known for his first-person investigative documentaries, provides inventive camera work to increase visual variety. Laurie Anderson’s electronic incidental music accentuates the monologue’s momentum.
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Directed by Jean Renoir, 1928
Live piano accompaniment by Peter FreisingerScreening on Film
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Live piano accompaniment by Peter FreisingerLive Musical AccompanimentScreening on Film
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Introduced by Film Conservator Julie BuckScreening on Film
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Directed by Alexander Mackendrick, 1957
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