Steven Soderbergh on Spalding Gray:
AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE
Monday 1/3 thru Wednesday 1/5 @Ritz
Advance tickets available here
AND EVERTHING IS GOING FINE is exactly what they tell you a film shouldn’t be. Pretty much 89 minutes of one talking head. But it’s a particularly unique talking head. Spalding Gray’s.
Spalding Gray (1941-2004) possessed two of my favorite qualities in a person: neurosis and gutsiness. In his case, as a monologist, these compelled him to tell his truth. The truth, mes amis, is always rare and riveting. And so is AND EVERTHING IS GOING FINE, which is directed by the often brave Steven Soderbergh (SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE, CHE, ERIN BROCKOVICH, SCHIZOPOLIS, BUBBLE).
Gray’s life was both humorous and tragic. His mother’s suicide overshadowed his whole life, and when he killed himself in 2004 we were all saddened but not especially surprised. Fittingly, Soderbergh allows Gray to tell his own story in his own words. After all, David Mamet once said of Spalding Gray, “No-one is able to do what he does, so don’t even try.”
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