Spalding Gray is his "final" monologue "And Everything is Going Fine" as directed by Steven Soderbergh Photo: Washington Square Films/IFC films Continue reading on Examiner.com: Spalding Gray's "Final Film" to be Shown at the Brattle Theater - Boston Film | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/film-in-boston/spalding-gray-s-final-film-to-be-shown-at-the-brattle-theater#ixzz1AyyVVgmC
In late 1996, I had the pleasure of watching Spalding Gray performing his then latest monologue “It’s a Slippery Slope” at Emerson’s Majestic Theater in Boston. I had seen “Swimming to Cambodia” before and it was a treat to see his monologue up close and personal and in a proper theater setting. Mr. Gray committed suicide in 2004 after several years of bouts with depression. This week, the Brattle Theater has the area premiere of the film about Spaulding Gray “And Everything is Going Fine.”
Gray used events in his own life to examine them in front of an audience as part therapy and part performance to speak of universal truths. As such he took the idea of performance monologues to new heights over the last decade or so. Pieced together from rare interviews and clips of Gray by Steven Soderbergh (who directed the film version of Gray’s monologue “Gray’s Anatomy”), a final posthumous biography/monologue about the artist himself emerges. Soderbergh has received high marks for his editing of the footage to create this document; Film Comment called his work “exquisitely fabricated.” But it is Gray’s show for sure—a final monologue that never really existed until now.
“And Everything is Going Fine” plays for one week at the Brattle from January 14 through the 20. This weekend (Jan 14-17) the film will also be shown with the theatrical version of Gaspar Noe’s“Enter the Void.”
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