Crispin Glover puts on a really big (slide) show
By DAVID DELLECESE
Observer-Dispatch
May 11, 2006
He's talked to rats, fought Charlie's Angels, and had his son travel through time to set him on his "density- I mean, destiny."
And with a career that's spanned more than 20 years so far, Crispin Glover is just getting warmed up.
On Saturday, Glover, who has acted in movies such as "Back to the Future," "Willard," "Charlie's Angels," "River's Edge" and many more, will be at the Palace Theatre in Syracuse.
His performance will include his "Big Slide Show," a dramatic reading of excerpts from his 10 published books, with accompanying slide illustrations.
"A standard reading just would not work with the books because they're so heavily illustrated that the illustrations become a part of the storytelling itself," he said.
He'll then introduce the main event: his directorial debut, the film "What Is It?", which the Internet Movie Database describes as "a bewildering, unnerving, surreal, blackly comic film ... that tells the inner and outer struggles of a young man facing villains and demons on multiple planes."
The film is a labor of love for Glover, 9 1/2 years in the making. Originally, Glover had co-written a different screenplay, for which David Lynch agreed to be executive producer. In order to convince a corporate film entity to overcome its concerns about a film in which a majority of the actors had Down syndrome, Glover made a short film to show them the concept could work.
"And that short film then ended up turning into its own feature film," Glover said.
Glover finds himself consumed by his passion for creating his own films, and takes on a variety of acting roles, sometimes, in part, as a way of financing his own work, a method very reminiscent of Orson Welles.
"The fact that I divorced myself psychologically from the output of those films and just go in wholeheartedly to act in them means that I don't feel a negative element about doing those films," he said. "I feel positive about them."
Glover's appearance is just one of many ongoing film events in the region, brought together by the B-Movie Film Festival in Syracuse, and its founder, Ron Bonk.
"It's a chance to see one of our finest young actors perform live. I think it will be a fantastic thing to study and learn from. It's also a chance to see a very rare film that the buzz indicates is quite brilliant," Bonk said.
Observer-Dispatch
May 11, 2006
He's talked to rats, fought Charlie's Angels, and had his son travel through time to set him on his "density- I mean, destiny."
And with a career that's spanned more than 20 years so far, Crispin Glover is just getting warmed up.
On Saturday, Glover, who has acted in movies such as "Back to the Future," "Willard," "Charlie's Angels," "River's Edge" and many more, will be at the Palace Theatre in Syracuse.
His performance will include his "Big Slide Show," a dramatic reading of excerpts from his 10 published books, with accompanying slide illustrations.
"A standard reading just would not work with the books because they're so heavily illustrated that the illustrations become a part of the storytelling itself," he said.
He'll then introduce the main event: his directorial debut, the film "What Is It?", which the Internet Movie Database describes as "a bewildering, unnerving, surreal, blackly comic film ... that tells the inner and outer struggles of a young man facing villains and demons on multiple planes."
The film is a labor of love for Glover, 9 1/2 years in the making. Originally, Glover had co-written a different screenplay, for which David Lynch agreed to be executive producer. In order to convince a corporate film entity to overcome its concerns about a film in which a majority of the actors had Down syndrome, Glover made a short film to show them the concept could work.
"And that short film then ended up turning into its own feature film," Glover said.
Glover finds himself consumed by his passion for creating his own films, and takes on a variety of acting roles, sometimes, in part, as a way of financing his own work, a method very reminiscent of Orson Welles.
"The fact that I divorced myself psychologically from the output of those films and just go in wholeheartedly to act in them means that I don't feel a negative element about doing those films," he said. "I feel positive about them."
Glover's appearance is just one of many ongoing film events in the region, brought together by the B-Movie Film Festival in Syracuse, and its founder, Ron Bonk.
"It's a chance to see one of our finest young actors perform live. I think it will be a fantastic thing to study and learn from. It's also a chance to see a very rare film that the buzz indicates is quite brilliant," Bonk said.
