Monthly Archives: May 2010
HotDocs 2010: And Everything is Going Fine (a documentary on Spalding Gray)
| May 3, 2010 | Posted by caroline under arts and literature, media |
Truthfully, there are three HotDocs 2010 documentaries I’d been most eagerly awaiting: “And Everything is Going Fine,” on monologist Spalding Gray, “Anne Perry – Interiors,” about the crime writer’s murder past, and “Blank City,” an exploration of punk rock in 1970s New York. So far, I’ve caught only one out of the three films —…
Truthfully, there are three HotDocs 2010 documentaries I’d been most eagerly awaiting: “And Everything is Going Fine,” on monologist Spalding Gray, “Anne Perry – Interiors,” about the crime writer’s murder past, and “Blank City,” an exploration of punk rock in 1970s New York.
So far, I’ve caught only one out of the three films — “And Everything is Going Fine,” Steven Soderbergh’s tribute to Gray using interview clips and excerpts from performances. Using the timeline of his life to tell Gray’s story, Soderbergh captured him in many introspective moments, some in which one would imagine the man would want to be left on his own. He was, however, a poetic journalist, as he put it — always documenting everything for the public to see.
