Saturday 18 October 2014

The Thing Called Love (1993 Peter Bogdanovich)

River Phoenix (at his most Deppish) fell in love with Samantha Mathis during the filming. PB's direction is so cool, with lots of action in the frames and old time tracking, like Hawks or Ford is at his side in the director's chair. Dermot Mulroney and Sandra Bullock complete main cast. Warm and humane film is a love triangle and leads from Design for Living to The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, which is not only directly referenced but has a song written about it, shown being improvised by the couple in one of many uninterrupted single shots.

Written by Carol Heikkinen. Like They All Laughed the C&W is absolutely infectious with River singing some of his own compositions,

Exec producer George Folsey Jr is indeed the son of the distinguished cameraman. Hadn't heard of this film's cameraman Peter James nor editor Terry Stokes.

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