In The Soup (Rockwell, 1982): Prince Charles Cinema, 3.30pm
This film also has its London premiere at the Prince Charles on August 4th. Details here.Time Out review:
New Yorker Adolpho Rollo (Steve Buscemi) is your classic head-movie auteur. In
his mind he's creating deathless classics of the screen. Back in the
real world, he can't pay the rent on the downtown grothole he calls
home. He knows he must be getting really desperate when he puts a script
'Unconditional Surrender' - 500 pages of angst-drenched gobbledygook -
up for sale and attracts the attentions of one 'Joe' (Seymour Cassel), a
warm-hearted minor gangland figure. Director Rockwell's affectionate
screenplay pits innocence against experience, artist against philistine,
but unexpectedly weighs sympathies towards Cassel's force-of-nature mob
mentor, who's soon giving his po-faced protégé a life-lesson
masterclass in generosity of spirit, wooing the girl-next-door (Beals),
and seat-of-the-pants petty crime. Rockwell's wonderfully unassuming
movie throws a big hug around youthful ambition, b/w filmstock, and the
glowing screen charisma of Cassel. An unheralded gem.
Trevor Johnston
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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