Comments on: WHOLE SHOOTIN’ MATCH, THE - The Lost Picture Show http://www.hammertonail.com/genre/comedy/whole-shootin-match-the-the-lost-picture-show/ building a home for ambitious film Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:56:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: jonjost http://www.hammertonail.com/genre/comedy/whole-shootin-match-the-the-lost-picture-show/comment-page-1/#comment-889 jonjost Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:46:11 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1800#comment-889 A little (sad) note on Eagle. I met him way back then, when he was in Berlin for the festival, showing The Whole Shootin' Match in the Forum. We got along well, and he managed to have a little affair with a friend of mine there (she subsequently died of multiple sclerosis). Eagle liked to party, drink, and all. We stayed in touch and I followed his story as Hollywood got wind of him and dangled promises, and lured him to LA, set him up in a cottage and plied him with sufficient money and such so he could ply himself with other things popular back then in LaLaland. Nose candy. They didn't like what he wrote, pressing him for something more "commercial," Texas done their way with broadside caricatures, and stupid laughs. Eagle didn't take well to that, and being the kind of soul he was he left rather worse for wear. Somewhere along the line of my transient life, and his wilder one, I lost touch. Then I heard he had died, and was told last he'd been seen was standing under a freeway overpass in Houston, bumming money for another drink. It sounded, sadly, in character. Whether he would have landed in the same place or not evenso, I suspect his trip to Hollywood was basically a destructive negative event for him, and pushed him further along wherever he was headed. Of such regional cinema I'd include my own Slow Moves (1982, San Francisco and Sierra Nevada foothills), Bell Diamond (1985, Butte Montana), Sure Fire (1989, Circle City, Utah), The Bed You Sleep In (1993, Newport Or.) and I suppose also the 1977 Last Chants for a Slow Dance (Missoula Montana). Later films continued this - Homecoming (2004, Newport Oregon); Over Here (Portland Or.) For info see www.jon-jost.com or for thoughts see www.jonjost.wordpress.com A little (sad) note on Eagle. I met him way back then, when he was in Berlin for the festival, showing The Whole Shootin’ Match in the Forum. We got along well, and he managed to have a little affair with a friend of mine there (she subsequently died of multiple sclerosis). Eagle liked to party, drink, and all. We stayed in touch and I followed his story as Hollywood got wind of him and dangled promises, and lured him to LA, set him up in a cottage and plied him with sufficient money and such so he could ply himself with other things popular back then in LaLaland. Nose candy. They didn’t like what he wrote, pressing him for something more “commercial,” Texas done their way with broadside caricatures, and stupid laughs. Eagle didn’t take well to that, and being the kind of soul he was he left rather worse for wear. Somewhere along the line of my transient life, and his wilder one, I lost touch. Then I heard he had died, and was told last he’d been seen was standing under a freeway overpass in Houston, bumming money for another drink. It sounded, sadly, in character.

Whether he would have landed in the same place or not evenso, I suspect his trip to Hollywood was basically a destructive negative event for him, and pushed him further along wherever he was headed.

Of such regional cinema I’d include my own Slow Moves (1982, San Francisco and Sierra Nevada foothills), Bell Diamond (1985, Butte Montana), Sure Fire (1989, Circle City, Utah), The Bed You Sleep In (1993, Newport Or.) and I suppose also the 1977 Last Chants for a Slow Dance (Missoula Montana). Later films continued this - Homecoming (2004, Newport Oregon); Over Here (Portland Or.) For info see http://www.jon-jost.com or for thoughts see http://www.jonjost.wordpress.com

]]> By: michael simmonds http://www.hammertonail.com/genre/comedy/whole-shootin-match-the-the-lost-picture-show/comment-page-1/#comment-882 michael simmonds Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:12:36 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1800#comment-882 i think it is kinda sad that we are running out of "lost films". i have such fond memories of waiting years to see films like this. it was a real event when something like this came to town and trekking up to the walter reade. now i have them on dvd and realize that they are only movies. some of my other fav hard to find films- kes the last bolshevik grin without a cat california split three women cock sucker blues i think it is kinda sad that we are running out of “lost films”.
i have such fond memories of waiting years to see films like this.
it was a real event when something like this came to town and trekking up to the walter reade.
now i have them on dvd and realize that they are only movies.

some of my other fav hard to find films-
kes
the last bolshevik
grin without a cat
california split
three women
cock sucker blues

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