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Harry finds AMERICAN PRINCE to be the perfect companion to Scorsese's legendary semi-Lost film, AMERICAN BOY!
I've somewhat known Tommy Pallotta as a figure of Austin film here in Austin for years, but I've never really met the guy or gotten to know him. This year at SXSW, he has a wonderful Documentary that is premiering called AMERICAN PRINCE - a project that I hadn't heard a whisper of before Tommy dropped me an email asking if I'd like to see it pre-fest. I love screeners of things as it helps to simplify my scheduling once the beast of the festival is clawing upon my back for attention.
So. What's AMERICAN PRINCE about? I didn't have the first clue before putting it on to watch. I wasn't entirely sure if I'd watch the whole thing, but as it started - and I realized what this was about and who it fixated upon... I found the film geek and historian in me giddy!
AMERICAN PRINCE is the second documentary on the life of a Steven Prince - who was a close friend and associate of Martin Scorsese. I knew of him through a terribly degraded multi-generation cherished copy of AMERICAN BOY by Scorsese - which was Marty's profile of his rather colorful friend, Steven Prince. Steven Prince was Neil Diamond's manager for a period. He's the gun salesman in TAXI DRIVER. The record producer in NEW YORK, NEW YORK. And well... His life and the stories he told in AMERICAN BOY have affected pop-culture in ways that you'd only know about if you'd seen Scorsese's scared AMERICAN BOY (which is playing at SXSW this year and is a MUST SEE!).
AMERICAN PRINCE is a reexamination of Steven Prince, the stories he told in AMERICAN BOY and how Steven has shaped a certain amount of pop culture film reality. And he also unleashes with new tales that could go on to further inspire future filmmakers to mine this amazing storyteller's tales.
This is Tommy Pallotta's debut work as a feature Documentary director and it is absolutely a success. Scorsese & Tarantino & Neil Diamond nerds MUST SEE THIS! Amazing stories are told here. Seriously, just wait till you hear about the house that Steven Prince shared with Scorsese and Robbie Robertson! Astonishing stuff!
This was my first documentary of many that I hope to enjoy at SXSW this year!
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Gyllenhall in this too?
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I remember seeing this- is it just because it's out of print?
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Look I like documentaries a lot. I love how they're almost always biased passion projects with a certain skew on what they're presenting. Kinda like most, if not all, history books. They can be fascinating things to watch, on a TV.
But to sit in a movie theater and watch a documentary, that just seems overwhelmingly absurd.
Maybe I just don't get it or maybe it's just because I almost always flashback to having a teacher throw a film case at me when I was in third grade during our Ghanna unit (naked African boobies will always make third grade age boys laugh, crazy teacher lady).
Documentaries=whiny film projectors in tiny classrooms with crazy lady teachers waiting to hurl things at small children.
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Mar 10, 2009 10:58:14 AM CDT
TELL DEPALMA TO FINISH HIS GREETINGS/HI MOM TRILOGY!!!
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I'm still waiting for a third dose of that.
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Living in that house must have been fucking insanity.
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I understand why Scorsese & Neil Diamond nerds would want to see this film. But Tarantino fans? Why exactly? Did he steal something from this guy and try to pass it off as his own creation?
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Sounds like the adrenelin story Prince describes in American Boy was used in Pulp Fiction. I need to check these out immediately. (Ah just found it on revok.com.) Thanks for the heads-up.
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on DVD with Italianamerican and The Big Shave at some point in the future. I'm pretty sure they're already out in France as well.
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not sure if it's still there. For those of you who are curious about what Scorsese actually looked like on coke, American Boy is the film to see.
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Thanks. I'll scope out youtube later. Just ordered the 3 doc bootleg. Heard stories about The Last Waltz period. Coke City. I also heard Neil Diamond wasn't invited to play the Filmore, he just showed up anyway. And nobody even knew Muddy Waters was there until his guitar player asked if Muddy could play.
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I think that's probably the best way to watch them.
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Had it on laserdisc for a while. Great short film. And, yes, anyone who knew this film had a very specific reaction when watching "Pulp Fiction" for the first time. Prince has influenced several generations of our best filmmakers now. Maybe with this film... more?
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Do you know anything about an allegedly excellent unproduced script about Scorsese and Robbie Robertson living together? I heard things...
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Re-telling the story where he shot the guy. 'American Boy' is maybe Scorsese's least known picture, but it's brilliant. I think it's on youtube. Looking forward to this.
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I know there are 16 mm prints available to rent as part or a package called "Three by scorsese." Google told me kino has a copy. I saw it in my college's indie cinema club this way. Sounds like what jimmythesaint was mentioning above.
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I am not sure of the reason, is she really a single now? I heard Kevin has come back to her some days ago.
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