Harry Dean Stanton: S/D

Tried to listen to the Doug loves movies episode with him on, struggled with it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/movies/harry-dean-stanton-dead-actor.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

There was no immediate information on his survivors.

Just wondering whether he kept this part really private or what? Can't remember the last obit I've read with that comment.

he's great in a small part as a racist, smug police detective in Farewell, My Lovely, sassing Mitchum as John Ireland's sidekick.

Mr. Stanton’s onetime roommate Jack Nicholson.

This possibly explains something I'd always thought was cool, which was HDS's name appearing as graffiti both in the jail cell in Easy Rider and on a site in Drive, He Said.

Not sure if this has been posted here yet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTuu7r9imtw

obit roundup

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4929-the-daily-harry-dean-stanton-1926-2017

Lynch tribute entirely in character

Films that would have been enlivened by the presence of HDS:
The Thing
Badlands
Taxi Driver (in the role Scorsese took)
Any gangster film pretty much
In fact most films, bar any Tarantino

Allison Anders:

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4969-a-moment-with-harry

I only just barely skim any writing on a film I haven't yet seen--reviews, ILX--so I actually went to Lucky thinking I was going to see a documentary. Two minutes in I thought "This is really going to be conceptual," then another two minutes and it was "Um, this is not a documentary." I spent the next 10 minutes being mad at the film, because obviously it was the film's fault, not mine, but I slowly warmed to it after that. John Carroll Lynch seems to have been aiming for that short list of famous films about getting old--Tokyo Story, Umberto D, etc.--and I'm sure many people will be very affected by it. It has its moments, but I doubt I'll be thinking about it years later like I do The Straight Story (also with Harry Dean; its director has a good part in Lucky). Wouldn't be surprised if Tom Skerritt turns up all over year-end lists of supporting performances for his one scene.

thanks for sharing the Anders link, Morbs. Beautiful story.

ha that is awesome clemenza, i can see going into Lucky thinking it's a doc. i've seen the trailer 2-3 times & it definitely seems like everyone is just playing themselves

This is what I thought I was going to see three weeks ago:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2372776/

I must have seen it on a rental shelf at some point and got them confused. Partly Fiction's playing somewhere here tomorrow night, but I've got to choose between it and a Richard Avedon documentary in the morning--can't drive downtown twice.

Wow, I just saw a young(-ish) HDS playing a singing hobo on an ep of Checkmate, an early sixties detective show w/Sebastian Cabot they were rerunning today on the Decades channel.

From an April 13, 1975 Louisville Courier-Journal piece; Harry Dean Stanton explains how the death of his father led to his at-long-last career breakthrough. Wise words! pic.twitter.com/4V8VxRWwJY

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Just rewatched Alien and decided to google Harry Dean Stanton because I knew I recognized him from 'Wild At Heart' and something else and WTF. He was in so much. Seriously crazy this guy's career. I saw there's a doc about him, I think I need to watch it.

i've only seen a fraction of the things he's been in, but wasn't he in Bonanza and stuff like that early on? so fucking cool

i saw the last film he was in, Lucky, when it was in theaters. as mesmerizing as ever. i enjoy watching him just be himself. he was a fucking legend imo

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— SNL Hosts Introducing the Musical Guest (@snlhostsintro) October 1, 2021

His first IMDB credit is 1954--and he was already 28. I think Paris, Texas was something of a breakthrough in terms of name recognition, after which he was everywhere for the next few years. (He was everywhere in the '70s, too, but he was just "that guy.")

Or maybe Repo Man was the breakthrough the year before.

Straight Time may have been the first HARRY DEAN STANTON role.

I dunno, cases could be made for Rancho Deluxe or Dillinger, or even Cisco Pike.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBQl0hCmV5I

what's awesome about that SNL Replacements clip is that it was the legendary performance that got them banned from SNL (and effectively, tv) for years afterward, and HDS was drinking with them backstage beforehand, according to the Trouble Boys bio

to me, HDS is a legend because there's just no way you're at the right place at the right time doing things exactly the right way that many times in a row

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_p4NsgH05E

I'd bet money that Paris, Texas was the first time he was billed first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd2EzQsZteA

He was great in lots of films before that, but he was the ultimate character actor (and went back to that soon enough).

He was good in Renaldo and Clara too.

On Twitter last night---don't know if he really said it but it's worth saying:
|I'm 87 years old.,. | only eat so I can smoke and stay alive. The only fear |
hove is how my consciousness is gonna hang on after my body goes. I just
hope there's nothing, like there was before I was born. I'm not really into
Religions, they're all microcosms of the ego. When man began to think he was
a separate person with a separate soul, it created a violent situation...

The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness.

Anybody else you interviewed bring these things up? Hang on, I gotta
toke this call...Hey, brother..That's great, man. Yeoh I'm bein interviewed...
We're talkin’ about nothing..I’ve got him well-steeped in nothing right now.
He's stopped askin’ questions.
Harry Deon Stanton
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Diane Doniol-Valcroze
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Writer/screenwriter. Daughter of Jacques Doniol-Valcroze co-founder of Cahiers Du Cinéma

For the longest time I got him and Dean Stockwell mixed up and was always puzzled that the guy from Quantum Leap was so lauded.

the guy from quantum leap was also good imo (at least in Blue Velvet)

When I saw David Lynch introduce the DC-area premiere of Inland Empire someone asked him what HDS was like and he replied "Harry Dean... is the funniest person I have ever met." He then told a story about going out drinking w/ HDS, Angelo Badalamenti and someone else, and that Harry Dean started telling some story that had them all rolling laughing. "This story kept getting funnier and funnier, and I thought... there's no way this guy can go further with it. BUT HE DID!" He never mentioned what the story was.

Yeah, Stockwell played a Blue Velvet-y creep on the Battlestar Galacta too, and he's good--much younger, with shoulder-length hair, yet kinda--cleancut---compared to Bruce Dern and Jack Nicholson, whom he's understandably overshadowed by, in Psych-Out:

Psych-Out 1968 (Director's Cut 2015 Blu-Ray Edition) [HD] 1080p
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHcNjetHydM

Galactaca *reboot* I meant duh sorry

https://fabulousinfayette.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/IMG_5543-1024x768.jpg

Found this pretty interesting (from Wikipedia): "Paris, Texas appeared on a posthumous list of Akira Kurosawa's 100 favorite movies."

Talk about Dean Stockwell last night on this thread--eerie.

^^ Thought the same thing this morning.

whoa, wait I thought that had something to do with the mention here...

sorry dean

is this the dean stockwell RIP thread now?

Stockwell was a longtime friend of musician Neil Young, and the pair co-wrote and co-directed the little-seen 1982 film “Human Highway.” Long an artist, Stockwell designed the cover art for Young’s album “American Stars ‘N Bars.”

i did not know that!

Oh there's more:

“Stockwell’s screenplay is long lost” is truly a heartbreaking statement. pic.twitter.com/yVhaMzbaQ6

— Steven Hyden (@Steven_Hyden) November 9, 2021

Stockwell designed the cover art for Young’s album “American Stars ‘N Bars.”

That's actually one of his cooler album covers, even if the album itself is not all that stellar

maybe neil young didn't know that "stars and bars" has long been a name for the confederate flag, just like "stars and stripes" is for the US flag. but he probably did.

The title pops up in a rhyme on the inner sleeve.

https://crimereads.com/harry-dean-stanton-is-the-hero-of-every-noir/

Brother Bud’s philosophy is, “Everybody ought to believe in something. I believe I’ll have another drink.” Sounds a lot like the guy holding court at Dan Tana’s twenty-five years later, who was fond of saying, “We’re all gonna live forever. But I’m gonna outlive all you motherfuckers.”