Where is the love for "The Horse's Mouth"?

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Alec Guinness + Roland Neame + Joyce Cary + John Bratby = CCCCLLLLAAAASSSSSSSSIIIICCCC!

I watched this not knowing a damn thing about it a few weeks ago. It was at the library, I saw three things.

1 - Criterion DVD
2 - with Alec Guinness
3 - playing a cantankerous painter.

Now it's one of my favorite pictures, I've learned about a terrific painter I never heard of before, and I've begun reading the brilliant trilogy of novels that was the basis for the film. I'm totally stoked about this.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 31 December 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

i've seen this, but i can't remember a damn thing about it.

― is this an institution of learning or a teenage brothel? (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 31 December 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

Does this help?

The Resurrection of Lazarus, by Gulley Jimson (um, er, John Bratby)

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 31 December 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

ooh prokofiev's "lieutenant kije" is on the soundtrack

― is this an institution of learning or a teenage brothel? (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 31 December 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

Actually, the soundtrack is almost entirely variations on the main Lt. Kije theme.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 31 December 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

it's coming back. i saw this about a decade ago at the museum of the moving image in queens.

― is this an institution of learning or a teenage brothel? (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 31 December 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

I first encountered this tale through the words of Joyce Cary. Gully Jimson, as described in that masterful narrative, wholly impressed me at the time. I have not had the pleasure of viewing the moving picture version. Is it pleasurable as well?

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 31 December 2005 03:51 (twenty years ago)

Was I too understated in my praise?

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 31 December 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)

I'm in the same boat with Aimless, which is no doubt Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men In A Boat, with the third passenger as yet unspecified.
The novel The Horse's Mouth is one of the better books about the artistic temperament.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Saturday, 31 December 2005 08:29 (twenty years ago)

And, excuse my transatlantic ignorance, but isn't Ronald Neame a bit of a hack? Or maybe that's part of his charm.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Saturday, 31 December 2005 08:58 (twenty years ago)

Just because you made "The Posiedon Adventure" doesn't mean you can't make a good movie, too.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 31 December 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

I love this book (and the rest of the trilogy). One of my mom's fave raves hence a sentimental pick.

Must see movie.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 31 December 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

I saw the Criterion version around this time last year...classic. Alec Guinness' best performance.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 31 December 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

I've seen the end of this film once, many years ago. I did like it, but it was a random 'flip around the channels and stumble across Alec Guinness' experience.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 31 December 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Liked the film as a kid, don't want to re-see til I've read Cary.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 31 December 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

I did read the book a few months ago; stellar character study.

Also, RIP Ronald Neame:

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/1994

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 19 June 2010 19:37 (sixteen years ago)

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