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Killing Them Softly (DVD)
Brad Pitt, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, James Gandolfini, Vincent Curatola, …
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Brad Pitt stars in this darkly comic thriller based on a 1974
George V. Higgins crime novel. Jackie Cogan (Pitt) is a
professional 'point man' - that is, the investigator who prepares
the way for a hitman - who is assigned to track down a pair of
junkies who have ripped off a mob-protected poker game. The
star-studded supporting cast includes Ray Liotta, James Gandolfini,
Scoot McNairy and Sam Shepard.
Sam Shepard is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of more than
forty-five plays. He was a finalist for the W. H. Smith Literary
Award for his story collection "Great Dream of Heaven," " "and he
has also written the story collection "Cruising Paradise," " "two
collections of prose pieces, "Motel Chronicles "and "Hawk Moon," "
"and "Rolling Thunder Logbook," " "a diary of Bob Dylan's 1975
Rolling Thunder Review tour. As an actor he has appeared in more
than thirty films, including "Days of Heaven," " Crimes of the
Heart," " Steel Magnolias," " The Pelican Brief," " Snow Falling on
Cedars," " All the Pretty Horses," " Black Hawk Down," " "and "The
Notebook."" "He received an Oscar nomination in 1984 for his
performance in "The Right Stuff." His screenplay for "Paris, Texas"
won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, and he
wrote and directed the film "Far North "in 1988 and co-wrote and
starred in Wim Wenders' "Don’t Come Knocking "in 2005. Shepard’s
plays, eleven of which have won Obie Awards, include "The God of
Hell," " The Late Henry Moss," "Simpatico," "Curse of the Starving
Class," " True West," " Fool for Love," and "A Lie of the Mind," "
"which won a New York Drama Desk Award. A member of the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, Shepard received the Gold Medal for
Drama from the Academy in 1992, and in 1994 he was inducted into
the Theatre Hall of Fame. He lives in New York.
"From the Trade Paperback edition."
'Set in a desolate motel room on the edge of the Mojave desert, the
play has something of the timeless universality of a Greek tragedy
. . . Like ancient classical drama, too, the action is at once
brief and relentless. By the end of the 90-minute play you feel you
have lived through a cataclysm . . . This is a tremendous play,
bleak but savagely funny, apparently naturalistic yet also resonant
and dreamlike.' Daily Telegraph Fool for Love is accompanied in
this volume by The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing
his Wife, a comic operetta by Sam Shepard and Catherine Stone,
which takes an irreverent view of American heroes and heroics.
Sam Shepard was arguably America’s finest working dramatist, as
well as an accomplished screenwriter, actor, and director. Winner
of a Pulitzer Prize, he wrote more than forty-five plays, including
True West, Fool for Love, and Buried Child. Shepard also appeared
in more than fifty films, beginning with Terrence Malick’s Days
of Heaven, and was nominated for an Academy Award for his
performance in The Right Stuff. Despite the publicity his work and
life attracted, however, Shepard remained a strongly private man
who said many times that he would never write a memoir. But he did
write intensively about his inner life and creative work to his
former father-in-law and housemate, Johnny Dark, who was
Shepard’s closest friend, surrogate brother (they were nearly the
same age), and even artistic muse. Two Prospectors gathers nearly
forty years of correspondence and transcribed conversations between
Shepard and Dark. In these gripping, sometimes gut-wrenching
letters, the men open themselves to each other with amazing
honesty. Shepard’s letters give us the deepest look we will ever
get into his personal philosophy and creative process, while in
Dark’s letters we discover insights into Shepard’s character
that only an intimate friend could provide. The writers also
reflect on the books and authors that stimulate their thinking,
their relationships with women (including Shepard’s anguished
decision to leave his wife and son—Dark’s stepdaughter and
grandson—for actress Jessica Lange), personal struggles, and
accumulating years. Illustrated with Dark’s candid, revealing
photographs of Shepard and their mutual family across many years,
as well as facsimiles of numerous letters, Two Prospectors is a
compelling portrait of a complex friendship that anchored both
lives for decades, a friendship also poignantly captured in Treva
Wurmfeld’s film, Shepard & Dark.
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Cold in July (Blu-ray disc)
Wyatt Russell, Ken Holmes, Michael C. Hall, Vinessa Shaw, Lanny Flaherty, …
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Noir thriller directed by Jim Mickle and starring Michael C. Hall
and Sam Shepard. Texan small-business owner Richard Dane (Hall) has
been hailed as the town hero since he protected his wife (Vinessa
Shaw) and child by fatally shooting a would-be burglar inside their
home. Residual guilt from the encounter is quickly dissipated by
the police who assure Richard that he was acting in self-defence
and therefore cannot be held accountable for the murder. However,
when the burglar's recently-paroled father, Ben (Shepard), arrives
in town and begins making explicit threats towards Richard and his
family, Richard is forced to step up once again to protect them
from harm...
From one of our most acclaimed writers: a collection of tales
set mainly in the American West, written with the terse lyricism,
cinematic detail, and wry humor that have become Sam Shepard's
trademarks.
A man traveling down Highway 90 West gets trapped alone overnight
inside a Cracker Barrel restaurant, where he is tormented by an
endless loop of Shania Twain songs. A wandering actor returns to
his hometown and runs into an old friend, who recounts their
teenage days of stealing cars, buying Benzedrine, and sleeping with
whores in Tijuana. A Minnesota couple and their children, traveling
south for vacation, are so caught up in the ordinary dramas of
family life that they remain oblivious to the beauty of the Yucatan
peninsula. Stunning, inventive, and powerful, these stories are
Shepard at his flinty-eyed, unwavering best.
Brilliant, prolific, uniquely American, Pulitzer prizewinning
playwright Sam Separd is a major voice in contemporary theatre. And
here are seven of his very best.
"One of the most original, prolific and gifted dramatists at work
today."--"The New Yorker"
"The greatest American playwright of his generation...the most
inventive in language and revolutionary in craft, he] is the writer
whose work most accurately maps the interior and exterior
landscapes of his society."--"New York Magazine"
"If plays were put in time capsules, future generations would get a
sharp-toothed profile of life in the U.S. in the past decade and a
half from the works of Sam Shepard."--"Time
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"Sam Shepard is the most exciting presence in the movie world and
one of the most gifted writers ever to work on the American
stage."--Marsha Norman, Pulitzer prizewinning author of "'Night,
Mother.
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"One of our best and most challenging playwrights...his plays are a
form of exorcism: magical, sometimes surreal rituals that grapple
with the demonic forces in the American landscape."--"Newsweek"
"His plays are stunning in thier originality, defiant and
inscrutable."--"Esquire"
"Sam Shepard is phenomenal..the best practicing American
playwright."--"The New Republic"
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actor, ex-cowboy, and musician Sam Shepard now stands revealed as a storyteller of dazzling artistry. Bleak and wildly funny, touching but stringently unsentimental, these stories give readers a most intimate view of the writer who has become synonymous with the recklessness, stoicism, and solitude of American manhood.
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August: Osage County (DVD)
Abigail Breslin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ewan McGregor, Juliette Lewis, Julia Roberts, …
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Academy Award-nominated drama directed by John Wells. Members of
the Weston family reunite at their family home in Osage County,
Oklahoma when their troubled poet father Beverly (Sam Shepard) goes
missing. It isn't long before they find that he has commited
suicide and the rest of the family then come to pay their last
regards at the funeral. Leaving his outspoken and drug-addicted
wife Violet (Meryl Streep) behind, the rest of the family feel
obligated to stay with her while she grieves for her husband. But
living in such close proximity is a test for any grown family, and
it isn't long before cracks in their relationships begin to appear.
The ensemble cast includes Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Juliette
Lewis, Chris Cooper and Benedict Cumberbatch. Both Streep and
Roberts received Oscar nominations for their performances in the
Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories, respectively.
Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising
world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a live
legend in the theater. Shepard chronicles his own life birth in
Illinois, childhood memories of Guam, Pasadena and rural Southern
California, adventures as ranch hand, waiter, rock musician,
dramatist, and film actor. Scenes from this book form the basis of
his play Superstitions, and of the film (directed by Wim Wenders)
Paris, Texas, winner of the Golden Palm Award at the 1984 Cannes
Film Festival. ". . .essential reading. A scrapbook of short
stories, autobiographical reveries, poetry and photographs, Motel
Chronicles is full of verbal delights, as well as insights into its
author's entire canon. Whether Mr. Shepard is reminiscing about his
parents or daydreaming about cherished movies and cars of his
youth, he speaks in pungent and ethereal language that remakes our
West. Read in conjunction with the plays, Motel Chronicles also
helps demystify the origins of Mr. Shepard's psychological
obsessions and desolate frontier iconography." Frank Rich, New York
Times "If plays were put in time capsules, future generations would
get a sharp-toothed profile of life in the U.S. in the past decade
and half from the works of Sam Shepard." Time "Sam Shepard is a
shaman a New World shaman. Sam is as American as peyote, magic
mushrooms, Rock and Roll, and medicine bundles." Jack Gelber Sam
Shepard (1943) is a playwright, actor, author, screen writer, and
director whose work is performed on and off Broadway and in other
theaters across the country. In 1979, he received the Pulitzer
Prize for Drama for his play Buried Child. In 1983, he was
nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in The
Right Stuff. His other famous works include True West, A Lie of the
Mind, and Curse of the Starving Class. Fool For Love & the Sad
Lament of Pecos Bill by Sam Shepard was also published by City
Lights Publishers.
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Inhale (DVD)
Dermot Mulroney, Diane Kruger, Mia Stallard, Sam Shepard, Jordi Mollà, …
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Baltasar Kormákur directs this tense thriller about a couple's
desperate race against time to save their daughter's life. With
their daughter Chloe (Mia Stallard) suffering from a rare
degenerative lung disease and donor organs in short supply, Paul
and Diane Stanton (Dermot Mulroney and Diane Kruger) travel to
Mexico in search of a doctor with links to the local underworld.
With time running out and their search for a donor faltering, Paul
soon realises he'll have to do whatever it takes, legal or
otherwise, to save the life of his daughter.
A solitary man digs a hole in the ground, near a dead horse. Amidst
the clutter of food and equipment stands Hobart Struther, who has
ridden all the way out to the middle of nowhere on a holy mission.
But one day into his "Great Sojourn," things are looking bleak. His
horse has choked to death, he's miles away from civilization, and
there's not a person around to talk to - other than himself. As
Hobart examines his rise -- how he built a vast art collection
while ensconced in a comfortable Park Avenue lifestyle -- he digs
deep into his own history, unearthing truths about his past while
still struggling to find the answers he needs. With Shepard's
linguistic flair, subtle humor, and probing insights, "Kicking a
Dead Horse" is an invigorating addition to the works of one of
America's most innovative playwrights.
These three plays by Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard are bold, explosive, and ultimately redemptive dramas propelled by family secrets and illuminated by a searching intelligence. In The Late Henry Moss–which premiered in San Francisco, starring Sean Penn and Nick Nolte–two estranged brothers confront the past as they piece together the drunken fishing expedition that preceded their father’s death. In Eyes for Consuela, based on Octavio Paz’s classic story “The Blue Bouquet,” a vacationing American encounters a knife-toting Mexican bandit on a gruesome quest. And in When the World Was Green, cowritten with Joseph Chaikin, a journalist in search of her father interviews an old man who resolved a generations-old vendetta by murdering the wrong man. Together, these plays form a powerful trio from an enduring force in American theater.
The complete scripts to six Sam Shepard plays: The Unseen Hand *
Forensic and the Navigators * The Holy Ghostly * Back Bog Beast
Bait * Shaved Splits * 4-H Club.
Set within the netherworld of thoroughbred racing, this hair-raisingly funny new play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of True West explores the classical themes of memory, loyalty, and restitution. Simpatico launches readers into regions where high society meets the low life, and where, as one of the main characters observes, "someone is cutting someone else's throat."
Comedy / 3m, 1f / Int. Recently revived at New York's Circle in the
Square, where Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly alternated playing
the roles of the brothers, this American classic explores
alternatives that might spring from the demented terrain of the
California landscape. Sons of a desert dwelling alcoholic and a
suburban wanderer clash over a film script. Austin, the achiever,
is working on a script he has sold to producer Sal Kimmer when Lee,
a demented petty thief, drops in. He pitches his own idea for a
movie to Kimmer, who then wants Austin to junk his bleak, modern
love story and write Lee's trashy Western tale. Shepard's
masterwork.... It tells us a truth, as glimpsed by a 37 year old
genius. - New York Post It's clear, funny, naturalistic. It's also
opaque, terrifying, surrealistic. If that sounds contradictory,
you're on to one aspect of Shepard's winning genius; the ability to
make you think you're watching one thing while at the same time
he's presenting another. - San Francisco Chronicle
In his latest play, States of Shock, Sam Shepard turns a bizarre
anniversary party into a grisly yet hilarious reopening of the
wounds of war, sex, and family betrayal. This volume also includes
Shepard's screenplay for the film Far North and the forthcoming
film Silent Tongue.
people here have become the people they're pretending to be. 'Sam
Shepard's language is sparse and crystal clear. His words appear
modest, but they have huge scope.' Wim Wenders This volume is the
first collection of Sam Shepard's autobiographical fiction and
poetry. It inspired the award-winning film, Paris, Texas. 'Sam
Shepard is the greatest U.S. playwright of his generation. Since
1964 he has mapped out a huge mythic territory...like Whitman, his
is vast and contains multitudes, his plays soar over the empty
tracts of the Midwest, celebrate the space, energy and naive
optimism of the new-found lands.' Time Out
A newly revised edition of an American classic, Sam Shepard's
Pulitzer Prize--winning "Buried Child "is as fierce and
unforgettable as it was when it was first produced more than
twenty-five years ago.
A scene of madness greets Vince and his girlfriend as they arrive
at the squalid farmhouse of Vince's hard-drinking grandparents, who
seem to have no idea who he is. Nor does his father, Tilden, a
hulking former All-American footballer, or his uncle, who has lost
one of his legs to a chain saw. Only the memory of an unwanted
child, buried in an undisclosed location, can hope to deliver this
family
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