Country: USA
Year: 2003
Duration: 86
After playing the ghost of
Hamlet's father in Almereyda's Hamlet, Sam Shepard invited the director
to film his most recent work, The Late Henry Moss. Using a relaxed style,
Almereyda alternates interviews with Shepard and the actors (Sean Penn, Nick
Nolte, Cheech Marin, Sheila Tousey, T-Bone Burnett, Sam Shepard) with clips of
the rehearsals and furtive glimpses backstage. The result is a more intimate and
stratified film, revealing the pain behind the show, which is based on the
tormented relationship between Shepard and his father, and his father's death in
1984.
Biography
film director
Michael Almereyda
Michael Almereyda (Overland Park, Kansas, USA, 1959) after a stint as a screenwriter, debuted in directing in 1987 with the short A Hero of Our Time. He then realized Twister and in 1992 made Another Girl Another Planet, which won the Golden Gate Award at the International Film Festival of San Francisco. In 1995 he and Amy Hobby co-directed At Sundance. The Rocking Horse Winner, which was presented in Torino in 1997, won the Award for Best Short Film at the Hamptons International Film Festival that same year. In 2000 he directed Hamlet, with Sam Shepard, a fundamental encounter even for This So-Called Disaster (2003). In 2002, Happy Here and Now won the Jury Prize at the South by Southwest Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
A Hero of Our Time (cm, 1985), Twister (1989), Another Girl Another Planet (1992), Aliens (cm, 1993), Nadja (id., 1994), At Sundance (coregia/codirector Amy Hobby, doc., 1995), The Rocky Horse Winner (1997), Trance (1998), Hamlet (Hamlet 2000, 2000), Happy Here and Now (2002), This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs the Late Henry Moss (2003), Deadwood (ep. E.B. Was Left Out; Deadwood, ep. L’esclusione di E.B., TV, 2005), William Egglestone in the Real World (doc., 2005), New Orleans Mon Amour (2008).
Cast
& Credits
Regia/Director: Michael
Almereyda
Montaggio/Film editor
Kate Williams
Interpreti e personaggi/Cast and characters: Sean Penn (Se stesso-Ray/Himserf-Ray), Nick Nolte (Se stesso-il fratello/Himserf-the brother), Cheech Marin (Caesar), Sheila Tousey (Choncita), T-Bone Burnett (Se stesso/Himself), Sam Shepard (Se Stesso/Himself)
Produttore/Producer: Callum Greene, Anthony Katagas
Operatore/Camera : Amber Lasciak,Andy Black,Adam Keker, Michael McDonnough Vendita all'estero/Sales contact: John Sloss per Cinetic Media
Montaggio/Film editor
Kate Williams
Interpreti e personaggi/Cast and characters: Sean Penn (Se stesso-Ray/Himserf-Ray), Nick Nolte (Se stesso-il fratello/Himserf-the brother), Cheech Marin (Caesar), Sheila Tousey (Choncita), T-Bone Burnett (Se stesso/Himself), Sam Shepard (Se Stesso/Himself)
Produttore/Producer: Callum Greene, Anthony Katagas
Operatore/Camera : Amber Lasciak,Andy Black,Adam Keker, Michael McDonnough Vendita all'estero/Sales contact: John Sloss per Cinetic Media