I loved this and was so happy to share it. Can't believe this popped up after a weekend where I had made a note to myself to figure out WEH to Alan Rudolph! I must track down The Secret Lives of Dentists.
Choose Me, Trouble in Mind, Secret Lives of Dentists and likely others are available through the Minuteman Library Network and, I imagine, other library systems. There is no need to suffer through a poor copy or ads. Or to go crazy searching for unusual films.
Thanks for this. The trio of Welcome to LA, Choose Me, and Trouble in Mind were and remain great favorites. A Teddy Pendergrass CD with most of the Choose Me soundtrack still gets a lot of play.
Not in regard to Alan Rudolph, but rather about your recommendation for "Rye Lane" a couple of weeks ago, I agree with everything you said, but after watching it I think you may have buried the lead by not mentioned the third main character, which is 'color'! This is the most gorgeously production-designed film I've seen in many years, one where the meticulously thought-out use of color affects every aspect of the film and adds immeasurably to its impact on the viewer.
You talked me into it. I will see Remember My Name soon (Amazon prime has it, one of the few things I DON'T have to pay to see, even. I saw the secret lives of dentists, I think, but I can't remember it very well...
many tks for attention to him, so many great moments e.g. Anne Archer in the black strapless singing to herself, Tom Berenger actually well-cast, as he was in Someone to Watch Over Me, and Neil Young making a Studebaker sedan seem sinister; one of the origins of Sarah Silverman's secret family in Ohio.
would you do the same for Hal Hartley, starting w a show of hands of who's heard of him?
Rudolf was at his most productive when I was in my late 20s and my art, and especially film, horizons were expanding rapidly. If I remember right, I saw at least one of his films at the Seattle International Film Festival. Trouble In Mind, having been shot in Seattle, is both a local fave and also hilarious for the way it scrambles the geography completely when characters travel about.
Mark Isham’s soundtrack to The Moderns was in medium rotation for me for a couple of decades and only fell off due to technology changes; but I’ll add it back!
Thank you for this! I took your advice and borrowed The Secret Lives of Dentists from my library. Great film. I had no recollection of it although I was a regular reader of yours back in 2003. Among other things, reading your review and then seeing the film made me feel nostalgic for the days when I'd head to the movies after reading your excellent reviews. Now that I've found you here I intend to make that pleasure a regular part of my life again. (For anyone interested in the DVD: it includes an interesting commentary track with Alan Rudolph and Campbell Scott as well as a Sundance Channel Anatomy of a Scene featurette about the opera scene.)
I loved this and was so happy to share it. Can't believe this popped up after a weekend where I had made a note to myself to figure out WEH to Alan Rudolph! I must track down The Secret Lives of Dentists.
Choose Me, Trouble in Mind, Secret Lives of Dentists and likely others are available through the Minuteman Library Network and, I imagine, other library systems. There is no need to suffer through a poor copy or ads. Or to go crazy searching for unusual films.
Thanks for this. The trio of Welcome to LA, Choose Me, and Trouble in Mind were and remain great favorites. A Teddy Pendergrass CD with most of the Choose Me soundtrack still gets a lot of play.
Not in regard to Alan Rudolph, but rather about your recommendation for "Rye Lane" a couple of weeks ago, I agree with everything you said, but after watching it I think you may have buried the lead by not mentioned the third main character, which is 'color'! This is the most gorgeously production-designed film I've seen in many years, one where the meticulously thought-out use of color affects every aspect of the film and adds immeasurably to its impact on the viewer.
You talked me into it. I will see Remember My Name soon (Amazon prime has it, one of the few things I DON'T have to pay to see, even. I saw the secret lives of dentists, I think, but I can't remember it very well...
many tks for attention to him, so many great moments e.g. Anne Archer in the black strapless singing to herself, Tom Berenger actually well-cast, as he was in Someone to Watch Over Me, and Neil Young making a Studebaker sedan seem sinister; one of the origins of Sarah Silverman's secret family in Ohio.
would you do the same for Hal Hartley, starting w a show of hands of who's heard of him?
I’m a big fan of Alan Rudolph too. BTW, “Remember My Name” has a marvelous soundtrack featuring Alberta Hunter on vocals.
Rudolf was at his most productive when I was in my late 20s and my art, and especially film, horizons were expanding rapidly. If I remember right, I saw at least one of his films at the Seattle International Film Festival. Trouble In Mind, having been shot in Seattle, is both a local fave and also hilarious for the way it scrambles the geography completely when characters travel about.
Mark Isham’s soundtrack to The Moderns was in medium rotation for me for a couple of decades and only fell off due to technology changes; but I’ll add it back!
I loved “the secret lives of dentists.” Forgot, if I ever knew, but it was an Alan Rudolph film.
Thank you for this! I took your advice and borrowed The Secret Lives of Dentists from my library. Great film. I had no recollection of it although I was a regular reader of yours back in 2003. Among other things, reading your review and then seeing the film made me feel nostalgic for the days when I'd head to the movies after reading your excellent reviews. Now that I've found you here I intend to make that pleasure a regular part of my life again. (For anyone interested in the DVD: it includes an interesting commentary track with Alan Rudolph and Campbell Scott as well as a Sundance Channel Anatomy of a Scene featurette about the opera scene.)