THU NOV 28 - 9:00 PM
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SUN DEC 1 - 2:00 PM
DIR. SOPHIE HUBER
2013 | USA | 103 MIN
Roger Ebert once famously wrote that no film featuring Harry Dean Stanton could be bad. Sophie Huber’s Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction makes a stirring case for the greatness of the now 87-year-old actor, whose particular blend of weary sorrow, no-nonsense feistiness, and philosophical cool has enhanced classics like Cool Hand Luke, Two-Lane Blacktop, Repo Man and Paris, Texas. Huber’s documentary takes an expressionistic approach to portraiture, interweaving commentary from admiring friends and collaborators (David Lynch, Sam Shepard, Wim Wenders, Kris Kristofferson) with both smeary shots of nocturnal L.A. from Stanton’s car window and black-and-white close-ups of the chain-smoking, music-loving actor singing his favorite songs. The result is a film that’s in perfect sync with its subject.
