Is it a faux pas to rent the DVD that they're playing on the TV in the video store? I guess not when there's nobody else in the store. Also not when the movie in question is a stylish late-60s affair with awesome music that just got released on DVD. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968) is in some sense an "issues" film about, among other things, disability, class, and race in the American south. The handling of these issues, despite a fine performance by Alan Arkin, feels a bit rote. But wow is the film nice to look at. A young, slightly elfin Sondra Locke makes her debut here, and she looks straight out of the pages of the Spring/Summer A.P.C. look book. She cuts a kind of tom-boyish pixie figure, strong and plucky. Actually, Locke eerily resembles Stephen Malkmus. The film also has a very classy soundtrack by David Grusin. Check the clip for some moog stylings.Thursday, January 17, 2008
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Is it a faux pas to rent the DVD that they're playing on the TV in the video store? I guess not when there's nobody else in the store. Also not when the movie in question is a stylish late-60s affair with awesome music that just got released on DVD. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968) is in some sense an "issues" film about, among other things, disability, class, and race in the American south. The handling of these issues, despite a fine performance by Alan Arkin, feels a bit rote. But wow is the film nice to look at. A young, slightly elfin Sondra Locke makes her debut here, and she looks straight out of the pages of the Spring/Summer A.P.C. look book. She cuts a kind of tom-boyish pixie figure, strong and plucky. Actually, Locke eerily resembles Stephen Malkmus. The film also has a very classy soundtrack by David Grusin. Check the clip for some moog stylings.
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