Thanks so much for the shout out to Zeitgeist Tapes. I am so glad we finally covered Running on Empty - a film I have rewatched countless times and has given me so much (not least an enduring love of James Taylor). I will (and do in the episode) freely admit that my gateway to the films was purely hormonal. But my love of it is anything but. These days it's Christine Lahti's Annie Pope that captivates me as much as the travails of poor Danny.
You're quite right. It's a film you can't imagine being made today. Anti-war protestors would blanche at it's subtlety and nuance and the right pretty much everything else. But I am so glad it exists in the world and I hope your post mean more people seek it out.
Christine Lahti was always so good in any of the art house films she did. Then she went on Chicago Hope (network TV here in the US), and I thought she became boring. Have you ever seen her in "Leaving Normal"? Very good. But Housekeeping, with the screen play by Bill Forsyth was my favorite. However, I haven't seen it in yonks, so who the heck knows if it holds up now that I am a million years older.
I mean, Bill Forsyth is always a safe bet, surely? Also, having just watched 'Studio 60' for our Aaron Sorkin watch-along, we've only just discovered that she's married to Thomas Schlamme, Sorkin's accomplice in The West Wing and Studio 60
Tobias -- I am with you 100% on the Westerns you called out. Fun fact; The Searchers was loosely based on the true story of Comanche leader, Quanah Parker, whose mother Cynthia Parker, was kidnapped in a Comanche attack on her family compound that had been the furthest to edge into Comanche territory-- but spared death and presumably rape by the ones who abducted her. She went on to marry one of the chiefs and bore two sons. When she was seen years later after the Comanche were attacked by US Cavalry, they abducted her all over again, and she went mad and never spoke again. It seemed she had adjusted to her life as a Comanche. She never saw her sons again, I think I read in SC Gwynne's remarkable "Empire of the Summer Moon" which I highly recommend you read before Taylor Sheridan turns it into something either amazing (1883) or bizarre (season 4 of Yellowstone), as he has apparently won the rights to film Quanah Parker's life story.
Thanks so much for the shout out to Zeitgeist Tapes. I am so glad we finally covered Running on Empty - a film I have rewatched countless times and has given me so much (not least an enduring love of James Taylor). I will (and do in the episode) freely admit that my gateway to the films was purely hormonal. But my love of it is anything but. These days it's Christine Lahti's Annie Pope that captivates me as much as the travails of poor Danny.
You're quite right. It's a film you can't imagine being made today. Anti-war protestors would blanche at it's subtlety and nuance and the right pretty much everything else. But I am so glad it exists in the world and I hope your post mean more people seek it out.
Thanks Emma! I must work through the backlog of the ZT - so much stuff in there that looks very juicy
Christine Lahti was always so good in any of the art house films she did. Then she went on Chicago Hope (network TV here in the US), and I thought she became boring. Have you ever seen her in "Leaving Normal"? Very good. But Housekeeping, with the screen play by Bill Forsyth was my favorite. However, I haven't seen it in yonks, so who the heck knows if it holds up now that I am a million years older.
I mean, Bill Forsyth is always a safe bet, surely? Also, having just watched 'Studio 60' for our Aaron Sorkin watch-along, we've only just discovered that she's married to Thomas Schlamme, Sorkin's accomplice in The West Wing and Studio 60
Tobias -- I am with you 100% on the Westerns you called out. Fun fact; The Searchers was loosely based on the true story of Comanche leader, Quanah Parker, whose mother Cynthia Parker, was kidnapped in a Comanche attack on her family compound that had been the furthest to edge into Comanche territory-- but spared death and presumably rape by the ones who abducted her. She went on to marry one of the chiefs and bore two sons. When she was seen years later after the Comanche were attacked by US Cavalry, they abducted her all over again, and she went mad and never spoke again. It seemed she had adjusted to her life as a Comanche. She never saw her sons again, I think I read in SC Gwynne's remarkable "Empire of the Summer Moon" which I highly recommend you read before Taylor Sheridan turns it into something either amazing (1883) or bizarre (season 4 of Yellowstone), as he has apparently won the rights to film Quanah Parker's life story.
I did not know that about The Searchers and now I shall have to find that book - thank you very much