Harry Dean Stanton: S/D

oh and "repo man" and especially "paris texas"

the straight story would have been better if he got to stanton's porch in the first 10 minutes, and they just sat there for the next two hours.

Yes I did! SHUT UP!

i love him so much. he looks like he's already internalized an inevitable crushing defeat. i've seen him in old tv shows and movies when he was young, and he looks the same.

i like the end of "the straight story."

(that's a good thing)

He just looks like he's seen things beyond our understanding. Like the Ancient Mariner.

much of ry cooder's stuff on there is based on one blind willie johnson song, "dark was the night--cold was the ground."

IF IT IS A GIRL SHE WILL BE NAMED MARY DEE

his version of the william bell classic "you don't miss your water" is AWESOME.

my barman friend just told me his mom had a HS dance w/ him

my fav qoute remains

"Ordinary fuckin' people... I hate em"

From last night's "Avengers" premiere. Egads.

http://i2.cdnds.net/12/15/618x890/pa-13282371.jpg

wait is he IN the Avengers?!

readymade anti-tobacco ad

Man, Neil Young has lost a lot of weight

He plays Thor.

No, actually, I don't know. I don't think so, though. Just showing up at the premiere.

xp Morbs OTM

tbf looking good/healthy has never been Harry Dean's style

Also, unrelated but Seth Green may be the luckiest human being alive.

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0gPv991093c8F/613x459.jpg?fit=scale&background=000000

it was nice of HDS to leave his tomb for the premiere

omg @ Harry. I haven't seen a pic of him in a long time. Jeez.

aside from the hair, he doesn't look that different than he did on Big Love.

Paris, Hell

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he's 86 years old dude, cut him a break. also, he's awesome.

I'd still kiw him

not 86 til July, apparently

yes I'm too tough w/ the age jokes 'round here

people who live in glass retirement homes shouldn't throw stones~!

i keed i keed

Is that... his real hair?

would you get fake hair that looked like that? I think it's real

I know, that was my thought! It just seems inexplicably colored

Beginners would've been fun if he had the Plummer role.

Alice Cooper's looking rough.

he should have replaced brad pitt in tree of life

someone needs to take away his and al pacino's Just For Men supply

I think HDS's hair color is just 'haven't washed it'

Watching Escape from New York on TV and wondering if there's an HDS biography or autobiography out there I might have overlooked. I wish I knew more about him - he's always seemed like such a fascinating guy and I bet there's a million fantastic stories I've never heard.

Love this Dan Winters portrait of him:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uiarJGT9bk8/TN8TJ6WDlXI/AAAAAAAABfc/Vza2vI4ajyg/s1600/hds.jpg

I almost don't like him because I am jealous of him

This doc about him has been getting good "buzz" at the Venice Film Festival: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2372776/

Geez, that looks great (brings to mind the Cazale documentary).

YESSSSSSSS

My dayjob is sending me to Paris, Texas, in mid-Feb

Paris, TX sucks, was there in December for just a week. Sucked for me, was not in the mood for a small town and it's issues. Maybe later I'll end up there and like it. Rusty's Tacos had really yummy tacos. The Mexican restaurants in town though...meh at best.

Harry Dean Stanton has a cameo in The Last Stand. He plays a crusty old man.

was legit afraid this thread getting bumped meant he died

Some friends my ex knew/knows manage to get him in their small films. Twink Caplan too...
Carlos Spills the Beans
9 Full Moons
On Holiday

Best damn thing about him I've read in years.

http://bitterempire.com/drove-one-thousand-miles-see-harry-dean-stanton-sing-twenty-minutes/

phew! whenever this gets revived i worry that the guy has died.

Same here.

just saw him in an early '60s Hitchcock TV ep, teaming up with Murray Hamilton to menace Burt Reynolds.

http://images.tvrage.com/screencaps/13/2534/4601.jpg

http://s3.amazonaws.com/navyphotos.togetherweserved.com/2291236.jpg

<3

wish i could find clips of his lines in inland empire

HDS is cool but damn that is some overwrought nonsense about road trips

agreed, i couldn't get through it

I'm afraid so..

Then again..

http://en.mediamass.net/people/harry-dean-stanton/deathhoax.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YurR6xZeBCk

Really looking forward to this, super awesome he's getting another lead picture this late in life. Turn on Twin Peaks the other week was a good reminder that his talent outweighs his legacy. Lynch in an acting role is always appreciated as well.

yup tup

yup

directed by John Carroll Lynch (!), one of those character actors most people would recognize but couldn't name (I had to look him up). recently he played LBJ in Jackie and one of the McDonald brothers in The Founder. hope this comes to theaters and isn't some straight to streaming thing

& he was in twin peaks too, maybe/prob not same days as hds

o scratch that :|

I caught his breakthrough role in Cisco Pike (1972) last month, where he plays a junkie musician friend of Kristofferson's. Slept-on movie, maybe cuz it's hard to find these days.

great film

21-film retro in NYC

https://quadcinema.com/program/also-starring-harry-dean-stanton/

He's predictably solid in Paris, Texas, which I saw again for the first time since the mid '90s. It's still not a great film.

What- yes it is!

Feel like he could be this generation's Is He Still Alive? actor, it used to be Alec Guinness.

Everyone with taste is aware he's still alive.

How many people have taste?

None, they're all dead now.

They died while watching Paris, Texas.

Tom - he appeared in more episodes of Twin Peaks: The Return than most of the original series cast members, and plays the titular lead in a current release film out now, so awareness probably higher than usual right this minute

Feel like he could be this generation's Is He Still Alive? actor, it used to be Alec Guinness.

no that was Abe Vigoda, whose death in 2016 really put a point on the surreal nature of so many celebrities & artists dying.

HDS doesn't fit either because he's still a working actor, I see him a lot: he was in the new Twin Peaks, & he's starring in a film called LUCKY opening soon. Pretty amazing for a chainsmoker in his 90s.

Man, you were the best.

RIP Harry :(

still WICKEDLY lolling at Alfred's post from last week tho!

Fuck

Reading the Ian Penman essay/profile for the first time in years, damn it's good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KrANPZhoFI

one of my best friends in college wanted to start a band just so she could call it Harry Dean Stanton

he was the fucking best

He's got a line in Straight Time that I count as one of the funniest of the '70s. Reunited with a just-paroled Hoffman, he's barbecuing in his yard and seemingly living a life of domestic bliss. His wife, after some gushy endearments, goes to fetch beer. Stanton, turning to Hoffman: "Get me out of here."

He served in the Pacific during World War Two and won a commendation for 'coolness under fire'.

I finished watching Alien literally half an hour ago, and goes to bed to read this. Shit.

So long, icon. Amazing run.

My favorite fact about him is that he was in the battle of Okinawa. How any actor can play so copacetic after something like that...

liked him a lot, but as i said to KJB during the Lucky trailer last weekend. "Lucky to be 90."

Travis :-(

Went through his filmography quickly and count 27 films of his that I've seen--probably missed a couple--going all the way back to Hitchcock's The Wrong Man. I'm sure some of you have seen more. A few cameos and small parts in some very famous films. Two Godfather II deaths in the same week; one from the sequel half, the other from the prequel half. I said on a thread I just started that Straight Time was his best film (i.e., my favourite); forgot about The Straight Story, might go with that instead.

is the entire chain gang from Cool Hand Luke dead now?

i love when his hitchhiker comes on to Warren Oates in Two Lane Blacktop.

I have about 19 DVDs out from the library, and I figured immediately he must be in one of them. He is: Farewell, My Lovely.

Make that two! Pork Chop Hill.

He's probably in all of them.

I literally just watched the scene with him playing guitar and singing at the trailer park about 10 minutes ago.

― Moodles, Friday, 15 September 2017 22:25 (yesterday) Permalink

rewatched that episode a few days back and wondered if that was meant to be a tip of the cap

You spend a little time in Irvine, KY where Harry Dean Stanton was from and his film persona will make total sense. You could easily see him fitting in perfect walking around with a milk jug filled with water along the side of the road there like he was in Paris, TX.

I used to have to go over to Irvine, KY every so often for work and dated a lady from there for a bit. It's different.

getting kinda choked up tonight looking back at all the movies he was in that i loved, that easy languid style & excellent accent

i know everyone has their time & he had a pretty impressive innings, but still...it's like, my whole life he was always there & now ... *poof* ...

veg <3

RIP Harry

Feel like he could be this generation's Is He Still Alive? actor, it used to be Alec Guinness.

― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 16:30 (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Dead within a fortnight. RIP HDS.

Played alongside Ant and Dec too..

This btw might be the best response I've ever gotten to a question. pic.twitter.com/v2IJcnhPgz

— Bilge Ebiri (@BilgeEbiri) September 15, 2017

Harry Dean....hung w u....stoned w u....played w u...acted w u...I'm a lucky guy. RIP. Say hi to Oates! Will miss you both forever. 😔

— Peter Henry Fonda (@iamfonda) September 16, 2017

:-(

Harry Dean Stanton photographed by Michael Tighe pic.twitter.com/bwSCHONk2m

— priscilla page (@BBW_BFF) September 15, 2017

Alas, no Kris Kristofferson Twitter account, except for some Russian guy.

What a face

love how he puts some Kentucky bible-thumpin' into Paul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaUuSJx-VDA

Can anyone find a still of his reported uncredited appearance in Hitchcock's The Wrong Man? I've had a quick GIS but no luck.

http://thisdistractedglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/harry-dean-stanton-the-untouchables-1961.jpg

in The Untouchables, 1961. He always looked like that!

Also in "Four O' Clock" according to this: https://thehitchcockreport.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/alfred-hitchcocks-two-tv-rarities/

"(As a side note, one of the thieves in Paul’s house is played by a young Harry Dean Stanton.)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5fQ8e_8KMs&t=19m57s

oh fuck it - go to youtube & then watch?v=b5fQ8e_8KMs&t=19m57s

he opens the door and HDS is there (he's always looked old, apparently) :-)

The Wrong Man: don't know, the only cop who kinda maybe looks like him is the one on the right here IMO, but he's not on screen more than half a second & not very clearly:

http://i68.tinypic.com/2j3law9.jpg

http://i68.tinypic.com/4tqdte.jpg

http://i65.tinypic.com/x3enmx.jpg

or maybe here, on the right? (man, this is hard)

http://i65.tinypic.com/21o33ft.jpg

Really like to know more about his politics,opinions, drug use and so on. Have you guys read any good articles about that sort of thing today?

I reckon that last one could be him. Thanks Stan.

My recollection is that when you watch the film, HDS is as recognizable as Ted Knight in Psycho.

https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/21740625_2009015472666130_3918933960182899799_n.jpg?oh=afc0568ed5ddd0fa6001be4425d5e66f&oe=5A5894CE

Mack Theater in Irvine, Ky. in HDS' hometown.

Tried to listen to the Doug loves movies episode with him on, struggled with it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/movies/harry-dean-stanton-dead-actor.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

There was no immediate information on his survivors.

Just wondering whether he kept this part really private or what? Can't remember the last obit I've read with that comment.

he's great in a small part as a racist, smug police detective in Farewell, My Lovely, sassing Mitchum as John Ireland's sidekick.

Mr. Stanton’s onetime roommate Jack Nicholson.

This possibly explains something I'd always thought was cool, which was HDS's name appearing as graffiti both in the jail cell in Easy Rider and on a site in Drive, He Said.

Not sure if this has been posted here yet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTuu7r9imtw

obit roundup

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4929-the-daily-harry-dean-stanton-1926-2017

Lynch tribute entirely in character

Films that would have been enlivened by the presence of HDS:
The Thing
Badlands
Taxi Driver (in the role Scorsese took)
Any gangster film pretty much
In fact most films, bar any Tarantino

Allison Anders:

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4969-a-moment-with-harry

I only just barely skim any writing on a film I haven't yet seen--reviews, ILX--so I actually went to Lucky thinking I was going to see a documentary. Two minutes in I thought "This is really going to be conceptual," then another two minutes and it was "Um, this is not a documentary." I spent the next 10 minutes being mad at the film, because obviously it was the film's fault, not mine, but I slowly warmed to it after that. John Carroll Lynch seems to have been aiming for that short list of famous films about getting old--Tokyo Story, Umberto D, etc.--and I'm sure many people will be very affected by it. It has its moments, but I doubt I'll be thinking about it years later like I do The Straight Story (also with Harry Dean; its director has a good part in Lucky). Wouldn't be surprised if Tom Skerritt turns up all over year-end lists of supporting performances for his one scene.

thanks for sharing the Anders link, Morbs. Beautiful story.

ha that is awesome clemenza, i can see going into Lucky thinking it's a doc. i've seen the trailer 2-3 times & it definitely seems like everyone is just playing themselves

This is what I thought I was going to see three weeks ago:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2372776/

I must have seen it on a rental shelf at some point and got them confused. Partly Fiction's playing somewhere here tomorrow night, but I've got to choose between it and a Richard Avedon documentary in the morning--can't drive downtown twice.

Wow, I just saw a young(-ish) HDS playing a singing hobo on an ep of Checkmate, an early sixties detective show w/Sebastian Cabot they were rerunning today on the Decades channel.

From an April 13, 1975 Louisville Courier-Journal piece; Harry Dean Stanton explains how the death of his father led to his at-long-last career breakthrough. Wise words! pic.twitter.com/4V8VxRWwJY

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Just rewatched Alien and decided to google Harry Dean Stanton because I knew I recognized him from 'Wild At Heart' and something else and WTF. He was in so much. Seriously crazy this guy's career. I saw there's a doc about him, I think I need to watch it.

i've only seen a fraction of the things he's been in, but wasn't he in Bonanza and stuff like that early on? so fucking cool

i saw the last film he was in, Lucky, when it was in theaters. as mesmerizing as ever. i enjoy watching him just be himself. he was a fucking legend imo

pic.twitter.com/SEBD4Gj09n

— SNL Hosts Introducing the Musical Guest (@snlhostsintro) October 1, 2021

His first IMDB credit is 1954--and he was already 28. I think Paris, Texas was something of a breakthrough in terms of name recognition, after which he was everywhere for the next few years. (He was everywhere in the '70s, too, but he was just "that guy.")

Or maybe Repo Man was the breakthrough the year before.

Straight Time may have been the first HARRY DEAN STANTON role.

I dunno, cases could be made for Rancho Deluxe or Dillinger, or even Cisco Pike.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBQl0hCmV5I

what's awesome about that SNL Replacements clip is that it was the legendary performance that got them banned from SNL (and effectively, tv) for years afterward, and HDS was drinking with them backstage beforehand, according to the Trouble Boys bio

to me, HDS is a legend because there's just no way you're at the right place at the right time doing things exactly the right way that many times in a row

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_p4NsgH05E

I'd bet money that Paris, Texas was the first time he was billed first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd2EzQsZteA

He was great in lots of films before that, but he was the ultimate character actor (and went back to that soon enough).

He was good in Renaldo and Clara too.

On Twitter last night---don't know if he really said it but it's worth saying:
|I'm 87 years old.,. | only eat so I can smoke and stay alive. The only fear |
hove is how my consciousness is gonna hang on after my body goes. I just
hope there's nothing, like there was before I was born. I'm not really into
Religions, they're all microcosms of the ego. When man began to think he was
a separate person with a separate soul, it created a violent situation...

The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness.

Anybody else you interviewed bring these things up? Hang on, I gotta
toke this call...Hey, brother..That's great, man. Yeoh I'm bein interviewed...
We're talkin’ about nothing..I’ve got him well-steeped in nothing right now.
He's stopped askin’ questions.
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For the longest time I got him and Dean Stockwell mixed up and was always puzzled that the guy from Quantum Leap was so lauded.

the guy from quantum leap was also good imo (at least in Blue Velvet)

When I saw David Lynch introduce the DC-area premiere of Inland Empire someone asked him what HDS was like and he replied "Harry Dean... is the funniest person I have ever met." He then told a story about going out drinking w/ HDS, Angelo Badalamenti and someone else, and that Harry Dean started telling some story that had them all rolling laughing. "This story kept getting funnier and funnier, and I thought... there's no way this guy can go further with it. BUT HE DID!" He never mentioned what the story was.

Yeah, Stockwell played a Blue Velvet-y creep on the Battlestar Galacta too, and he's good--much younger, with shoulder-length hair, yet kinda--cleancut---compared to Bruce Dern and Jack Nicholson, whom he's understandably overshadowed by, in Psych-Out:

Psych-Out 1968 (Director's Cut 2015 Blu-Ray Edition) [HD] 1080p
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHcNjetHydM

Galactaca *reboot* I meant duh sorry

https://fabulousinfayette.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/IMG_5543-1024x768.jpg

Found this pretty interesting (from Wikipedia): "Paris, Texas appeared on a posthumous list of Akira Kurosawa's 100 favorite movies."

Talk about Dean Stockwell last night on this thread--eerie.

^^ Thought the same thing this morning.

whoa, wait I thought that had something to do with the mention here...

sorry dean

is this the dean stockwell RIP thread now?

Stockwell was a longtime friend of musician Neil Young, and the pair co-wrote and co-directed the little-seen 1982 film “Human Highway.” Long an artist, Stockwell designed the cover art for Young’s album “American Stars ‘N Bars.”

i did not know that!

Oh there's more:

“Stockwell’s screenplay is long lost” is truly a heartbreaking statement. pic.twitter.com/yVhaMzbaQ6

— Steven Hyden (@Steven_Hyden) November 9, 2021

Stockwell designed the cover art for Young’s album “American Stars ‘N Bars.”

That's actually one of his cooler album covers, even if the album itself is not all that stellar

maybe neil young didn't know that "stars and bars" has long been a name for the confederate flag, just like "stars and stripes" is for the US flag. but he probably did.

The title pops up in a rhyme on the inner sleeve.

https://crimereads.com/harry-dean-stanton-is-the-hero-of-every-noir/

Brother Bud’s philosophy is, “Everybody ought to believe in something. I believe I’ll have another drink.” Sounds a lot like the guy holding court at Dan Tana’s twenty-five years later, who was fond of saying, “We’re all gonna live forever. But I’m gonna outlive all you motherfuckers.”

Rewatched "Lucky" last night and thought it would be a great double feature with "The Straight Story". It's a great little film.

I'm 2-1/2 hours into Renaldo and Clara. He gets to make out with Joan Baez.