Harold and Maude Tagged Articles at Cinematical
Credits Report: Harold and Maude
Filed under: Comedy », Fandom », Trailers and Clips »
It doesn't seem like the right fit. The camera follows a pair of feet slowly down the staircase and over to the record player. Soon Cat Stevens' "Don't Be Shy" is playing: "Don't be shy, just let your feelings roll on by. Don't wear fear, or nobody will know you're there. Just lift your head, and let your feelings out instead." It's a nice song, in classic, melodious Stevens style -- the sort you would imagine for a movie of lightness and sweetness -- but it's also the perfect match for dark satire -- the perfect accompaniment to Harold's fake suicide.
There's nothing about the credit sequence to Harold and Maude that I don't love. The plain, sans serif font nestles right at home against the slow camera trail as Harold sets up his fake end. The camera doesn't dare pan back until the deed is done, allowing us a sort of keyhole look into his technique. And once he's hanging, there's no better way to relay the feel of the film than his mother walking in busy in her own thoughts, seeing him, pausing, and then continuing with her path. You don't know why she's indifferent to her son's apparent suicide, but you do know that we've entered a Swiftian, satirical world where things aren't exactly status quo.
As much as I love some of the more intricate and fancy credit sequences that hit screens today, I hold a large slab of appreciation for perfection in simplicity, and how an unassuming approach and a carefully shot scene can be just as powerful as an explosion of flair.
Fan Made: 'Harold and Maude' for your Mantle
Filed under: Fandom »
Harold and Maude is pretty much the cult movie. There are people like me who gush about Heathers, others who gush about Killer Tomatoes or Sho'nuff, but I've never heard as much love as I have for Harold and Maude. Rightly so, being one of those films I can't imagine not existing.
Luckily we can see it whenever we want on DVD, but now you could also have their blissful and in-love faces right on your mantle. Almostfamous over at etsy has the paintings for sale for $370. It is, of course, for the pair -- because what are Maude and Harold without each other? But if that's too pricey for you -- prints of Maude are available for $14. Unfortunately, I don't see a print for Harold.
There are lots of others as well -- Enid from Ghost World, Tennenbaums, PeeWee, Amelie, Fear and Loathing. They're all great, but none come close to the utter suitability of Harold and Maude's couple portraits. Check out a few of our favorites in the gallery below.
[via BoingBoing]
New On DVD - Harry Potter 4, Howl's Moving Castle, Jarhead
Filed under: New Releases », DVD Reviews », New on DVD », Home Entertainment »
- Breaking News - Hong Kong action director Johnny To delivers this watchable Woo-alike about a police force that loses the support of the public when a robbery goes bad and is covered by a local news program. The set pieces are pretty tight, even if the drama and the statement To tries to make about the power and responsibility of the media doesn't fully come through.
- Free Enterprise: Special Edition - A self-effacing turn akin to Marlon Brando's in The Freshman and Pauly Shore's in Pauly Shore Is Dead is William Shatner, sending up the cult of personality that has followed him since the original Star Trek series ended its five year mission two years early in 1969. When fanboys Rafer Wiegel and Eric McCormack meet their boyhood idol, he is far from the super-cool man for all seasons they have long worshiped. He's bent on staging a one-man musical version of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, a great running joke that culminates in the brilliant payoff that is the Shatner/The Rated R rap duet, "No Tears For Caesar". Writer-director Robert Meyer Burnett has created a love letter, not just to Trek, but to anyone who has ever loved anything with fanatical passion, and this long-overdue 2-disc treatment gives it the respect it was not afforded when it was first released in 1999. Check out the Pop-Up Video style trivia track, which annotates the geekery, new special effects, the making-of feature Where No Man Has Gone Before, and the unaired TV pilot, Café Fantastique, which features the real fans who inspired this smart, hardy-har-har trek. A sequel, My Big Fat Geek Wedding, has been listed on the IMDB for nearly 3 years now, and Mindfire Entertainment's website features a rudimentary mention of it, though no firm details are available as yet.
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Special Edition - Death, and the gloomy heft that comes with it, visits Hogwarts in the fourth and most satisfying installment in the ongoing series so far. When an evil thought vanquished literally rears its ugly head again, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermoine (Emma Watson) team up to expose it. Like the overwhelmingly dark Revenge Of The Sith, this is the first to bear the PG-13 rating (for "sequences of fantasy violence and frightening images"), though its decidedly down ending makes it feel more like The Empire Strikes Back. It is not unreasonable to expect studio Warner Brothers to keep their three leads on through Harry Potter and the As-Yet-Unwritten-and-Untitled Year 7 Story. This, of course, is despite the fact that they will be in their early 20's by then, but let us not forget that at least one of the 90210 kids was practically eligible for Social Security by the end of that run. Even at 157 minutes, the book has still been truncated, but it is doubly encouraging to know that kids will know what is missing and will sit still for that long in order to be able to go on smartly about it. The second disc is chock-full-o' extra goodies, and is available in full- and widescreen editions. A single disc version is also available.
Indie Roundup: 'Sweetgrass,' 'Clarkworld,' 'Broken Embraces'
Shelf Life: Fight Club_thumbnail.jpg)
Watch: Famous 'Matrix' Scene Re-Created with LEGOs
Peter Jackson Says Spielberg's 'Tintin' is Done Filming, but...
Interracial Harmony: 'Ninja Assassin' vs. 'Blind Side'
_thumbnail.jpg)
