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Erik Nelson (writer)
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4 June 2008 (USA)
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A documentary on speculative fiction writer and essayist Harlan Ellison. | full synopsis
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New to DVD - May 26th - June 2nd
(From SoundOnSight. 26 May 2009, 11:27 PM, PDT)
This Week on DVD: Killshot, The Sky Crawlers, Harlan Ellison: Dreams of Sharp Teeth
(From FilmJunk. 26 May 2009, 9:23 AM, PDT)
(From SoundOnSight. 26 May 2009, 11:27 PM, PDT)
This Week on DVD: Killshot, The Sky Crawlers, Harlan Ellison: Dreams of Sharp Teeth
(From FilmJunk. 26 May 2009, 9:23 AM, PDT)
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Even if you don't know a thing about him, it's funny and revealing of human nature
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(Credited cast)| Harlan Ellison | ... | Himself | |
| Robin Williams | ... | Himself | |
| Neil Gaiman | ... | Himself | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Peter David | ... | Himself | |
| Ronald D. Moore | ... | Himself | |
| Josh Olson | ... | Himself | |
| Tom Snyder | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
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Director Nelson was only 24 when he first videotaped Ellison at a typewriter for a March 1981 PBS documentary about science fiction and fantasy writers - footage that is included in this film
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Harlan Ellison:
People say to me, even Susan says to me, My God, does everything make you angry? I said, yeah, everything makes me angry. And they say, you know, you should get a little mellow. And I say, oh really? Gee, I had never thought of that.
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I had the privilege of watching this with two other people who saw Harlan Ellison with me at a now legendary appearance in the late 80's in Toronto, and we kept looking at each other and snickering. But even if you never saw him live, read any of his work, or had any familiarity with him at all, you can appreciate this documentary as being about a man WORTHY of a documentary. He's just that bloody entertaining.
The soundtrack - by Richard Thompson, the legendary Brit folkie - is amazing, by the way.
Some of the camera work is really amateurish, but most of the straight interview footage is well shot. The camera work and the parts that got left out of Ellison's bio - probably in deference to his storied litigiousness - are what knocked this down to 8 out of 10.
His initial 'interview' with Robin Williams is worth watching even if you can't spend the time on the rest of the movie. Within minutes we were all helplessly laughing.
If you're at all interested in SF, either literary or media, movies, have a love affair with the English language or just want to see what it's like to be a legendary, visionary, prolific, brilliant and uncompromising pain in the rear, see this film. I intend to watch it again as some of the dialogue went by so fast I missed it, and it was really, really funny.