Obtaining the rights to all of them may prove to be a Herculean feat; it might be easier for Criterion to just go with Soderbergh's doc and “Gray's Anatomy”.
An extremely volatile and dangerous Englishman goes to Los Angeles to find the man he considers responsible for his daughter's death. Spalding Gray … "He took the anarchy and illogic of life and molded it into something we could grab a hold of," said actor and novelist In 2005, Gray's unfinished final monologue was published in a hardcover edition entitled In 2011 a selection from his journals was published as The 2016 season of the Independent Film Channel's mockumentary television series " Quotes. One man piecing his life back together, one memory, one true thing at a time. His death came tragically early, in 2004; this compilation of interview and performance footage nails his idiosyncratic and irreplaceable brilliance. As if that weren't enough, Soderbergh contextualizes Gray's monologue (about a problem with his peepers) by including the testimony of several documentary subjects (photographed in black and white) who tell harrowing tales of the heinous shit that happened to their eyes; I'm not normally squeamish, but being ludicrously nearsighted all my life, I've always been sensitive about my eyes, and this stuff completely squeamed me. In a sense this makes And Everything's Going Fine a movie where talk and stories takes us to other places and situations (it may not be an accident that one of Gray's big influences was Andrew Gregory of My Dinner With Andre).Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. To watch all three films in sequential order is to see an amazing evolution of the melding of Gray's work with cinematic technique. Spalding sitting at that table, speaking into the mic, calling forth the script of his life from his memory and those notebooks. A look at the art of Spalding Gray who drew from real life experience to create a compelling and deeply personal series of monologues.
Spalding Gray (June 5, 1941 – January 11, 2004) was an American actor and writer.
Spalding Gray, Actor: Kate & Leopold. Of those three films (I don't count “Terrors Of Pleasure” because it was made for public TV… but it would be cool to get that into a Gray collection too), my favorite as a monologue is still “Monster In A Box”, but my favorite as a film is “Gray's Anatomy”.
Steven Soderbergh's direction of “Gray's Anatomy” was really a quantum leap in terms of Gray's screen presentation: in addition to camera movement and lighting, there were colored backgrounds, props and sets flying in and out of frame — even Gray's beloved desk occasionally took a powder. And whilst we're on the subject of Soderbergh and Gray, how's about those Criterion dudes get the rights to “King Of The Hill” — that picture is brilliant, and it's not even available on DVD! . "Spalding the storyteller... Spalding the mystical. "Gray's Anatomy" was not only a film that brought the filmmaker Steven Soderbergh together with Spalding Gray in 1998, over a decade later, Steven Soderbergh would go on to create the 2010 documentary "And Everything is Going Fine" about the life of Gray's earlier life and career. . In 1970, he joined Gray first achieved prominence in the United States with the film version of his monologue In 1987 Gray traveled to Nicaragua with Office of the Americas. He wrote an unproduced screenplay based on the experience.
"One last monologue," is how Kathleen Russo, Gray's widow and the film's co-producer, described the concept. He could be incredibly neurotic, and had a family with a history of suicide and mental illness and depression, but he someone made his sad lemons into bittersweet lemonade. The thing was wretchedly self-indulgent, and I say this as a fan).