« You're either on the bus or... | Main | Moving to Mars? » Elliot Gould Elliot Gould is getting some of the recognition he deserves and has largely missed over the years, via a series at BAMcinématek in NYC calld "Elliott Gould: Star for an Uptight Age." I first recall seeing him as Billy Minsky in William Friedkin's "The Night They Raided Minsky's." He's done a ton of of work since then, the best and most memorable being his films with Robert Altman – "M*A*S*H," "California Split," and Altman's great contemporization of Raymond Chandler's "The Long Goodbye." He also made a strange, neurotic film with Ingmar Berman, called "The Touch," which isn't listed on his IMDB page. In a New York Times writeup about the film series, Gould explains his popularity in the 70s: "For an awkward audience that didn’t necessarily understand the order of things, I would perhaps say I was someone to identify with. One of the things about me is that I’m vulnerable. You can see through me." I think that nails why I've always appreciated his work. jon posted this at 8:01 AM |
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Another great Gould movie is Nashville where he plays himself. Watching his movies as a film student in the nineties, it seemed like Gould was only a star in Altman's universe, and I read the scenes of reporters following Gould around as a nod to that.
Posted by: McChris | August 2, 2008 11:03 AM