Today’s film is the 1985 short Tom Goes To The Bar. The film stars Billy Bastiani and Tom Noonan, and is written by Michael Taav and directed by Dean Parisot. Parisot is a directing veteran in both film and television, having worked on shows such as ER, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Good Wife, and Justified, and helming movies such as Fun With Dick and Jane and Galaxy Quest. His newest release, Red 2, opens in wide release in American theatres this weekend.
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- 7/20/2013
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
For anyone that's seen Tom Noonan's "What Happened Was," it would be certainly understandable why the actor/writer/director, who so effortlessly played the misanthropic paralegal on a first date with one of his co-workers, would be a little suspicious of an evening celebrating the film in Los Angeles over the long weekend.
"I thought I would make it and it would go away and it kept coming back," said Noonan of the 1994 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner. "And I'm glad."
The screening of "What Happened Was" at Cinefamily was a rare treat regardless, since the dark, low-budget comedy has never been released on DVD. But Noonan flew in from New York to be a part of the repertory theater's "That Guy!" series, which offered a similar tribute to Bruce Dern a day later and will continue on this month with fetes for character actors such as "Blood Simple...
"I thought I would make it and it would go away and it kept coming back," said Noonan of the 1994 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner. "And I'm glad."
The screening of "What Happened Was" at Cinefamily was a rare treat regardless, since the dark, low-budget comedy has never been released on DVD. But Noonan flew in from New York to be a part of the repertory theater's "That Guy!" series, which offered a similar tribute to Bruce Dern a day later and will continue on this month with fetes for character actors such as "Blood Simple...
- 1/18/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
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