Master monologist Spalding Gray, a proven stage and part time screen actor, as well as the man behind such cinematic creations as Swimming To Cambodia, Monster In A Box, and Gray’s Anatomy, unfortunately perished in New York’s East River after a long and troubled bout with depression in 2004. Paying tribute to his friend and colleague, director Steven Soderbergh pieced together And Everything Is Going Fine, an autobiography of sorts, concocted of snippets from Gray’s many monologues, interviews, and home videos he left behind. A stirring, often funny film like this would never be possible to construct about most artists, but Gray’s unique creative expression was almost always an outpouring of personal experience, that when edited down to a single narrative, is basically his life’s story.
Like his light touch direction on Gray’s Anatomy, Soderbergh never interjects here. He allows Gray to tell his own story,...
Like his light touch direction on Gray’s Anatomy, Soderbergh never interjects here. He allows Gray to tell his own story,...
- 7/3/2012
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Gray's Anatomy Directed by Steven Soderbergh Written by Spalding Gray Starring: Spalding Gray With Stephen Soderbergh on the verge of retiring from filmmaking, one has to wonder how somebody with such an amount of creative freedom could ever feel uninspired or suffocated by the limitations of their chosen medium. He's the guy who popularized the "one for me, one for them" modus operandi and within it, has seemed to have found his rhythm. In the mid-nineties, Soderbergh faced a similar dilemma in which he overcame an artistic slump by rebuilding himself with two experiments; Schizopolis and Gray's Anatomy. While they both fall under the "one for me" category, Gray's Anatomy is fairly accessible and wholly entertaining as Soderbergh attempts to transform Spalding Gray's squeamish tale of a rare ocular affliction into something resembling Errol Morris meets Dario Argento. The story begins as Spalding, having just turned 50, discovers a problem...
- 7/1/2012
- by Jay C.
- FilmJunk
After a lifetime’s worth of straight stage work, and several decades of fine tuning his own signature craft, Spalding Gray’s final long form monologue to be converted for the big screen was the Steven Soderbergh directed Gray’s Anatomy. Two previous works (Jonathan Demme’s Swimming To Cambodia and Nick Broomfield’s Monster In A Box) were basically condensed live performances of Gray’s original monologues captured on film, but Soderbergh is not one to follow in the footsteps of previous creators. So, the live audience was scrapped, the budget was minimized, and home viewers are brought directly into the room with a neurotic man born to recount stories, his glass of water, notebook, and microphone, which is anchored iconically to his wooden desk.
In the wake of his previous successful monologues, Gray was approached to create yet another in hopes of cashing in on his then current popularity.
In the wake of his previous successful monologues, Gray was approached to create yet another in hopes of cashing in on his then current popularity.
- 6/26/2012
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
British documentarian Nick Broomfield has been on the film scene for years, and has made a few notable contributions such as the Spalding Gray movie Monster in a Box. But since the 1998 film Kurt and Courtney his documentary exposés have been characterized by sensationalism more than anything else. It's as if the emerging influence of Michael Moore took root and helped mutate his style in just the wrong direction. His latest film is Sarah Palin - You Betcha!, which is now scheduled to play [1] as part of the Toronto International Film Festival documentary program. A teaser -- really just a clip from the film -- is now available, and you can see the Michael Moore influence in glowing neon. Yes, there is another Sarah Palin documentary, the 'official' film called The Undefeated, which hit a few screens last month. That's the whitewashed, smiling endorsement of all things Palin; this is...
- 8/4/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
by Steve Dollar
Dead men tell no tales, yet through the magic of the moving image they find a new kind of life, not in the flesh but the flickering resurrection of their own archives.
Spalding Gray left behind 120 hours of film and video when he died in January 2004, following a jump off the Staten Island Ferry, a fateful occurrence that came as a shock to the public. Family and friends of the actor and monologist had long coped with his suicidal tendencies, which had been aggravated by brain damage from a dreadful 2001 car crash in Ireland. The circumstances of the accident are touched on, and poignantly so, but the very end of Gray's life isn't part of And Everything Is Going Fine. Steven Soderbergh fashioned the new documentary out of old home movies, low-key documentary footage, TV interviews and ghosty videotapes of Gray's early performances in the late 1970s...
Dead men tell no tales, yet through the magic of the moving image they find a new kind of life, not in the flesh but the flickering resurrection of their own archives.
Spalding Gray left behind 120 hours of film and video when he died in January 2004, following a jump off the Staten Island Ferry, a fateful occurrence that came as a shock to the public. Family and friends of the actor and monologist had long coped with his suicidal tendencies, which had been aggravated by brain damage from a dreadful 2001 car crash in Ireland. The circumstances of the accident are touched on, and poignantly so, but the very end of Gray's life isn't part of And Everything Is Going Fine. Steven Soderbergh fashioned the new documentary out of old home movies, low-key documentary footage, TV interviews and ghosty videotapes of Gray's early performances in the late 1970s...
- 12/13/2010
- GreenCine Daily
Welcome to another edition of Trailer Friday. Our first trailer is the latest film from Academy Award Winning director, Steven Soderbergh. It's a tribute to Spalding Gray, who known for his one man monologues, "Swimming to Cambodia" and "Monster in a Box" "And Everything is Going Fine": Official TrailerTrailer courtesy of IFC Films"And Everything is Going Fine" is the latest film from director...
- 12/10/2010
- by Anthony T
Spalding Gray was one of the most engaging talkers/performers/monologists of our time. His work has been documented in a number of films by prominent filmmakers including “Swimming to Cambodia” (Jonathan Demme), “Terrors of Pleasure” (Thomas Schlamme), “Monster in a Box” (Nick Broomfield) and “Gray’s Anatomy” (Steven Soderbergh). While brilliant, Gray was also troubled, lapsing into deep clinical depression following a car crash which left him severely injured and later, led to him taking his own life. Leave it then to the prolific and talented Steven Soderbergh to construct a fitting tribute to Gray with his latest documentary effort, "And Everything…...
- 12/3/2010
- The Playlist
The idea of documenting one's life via confessional and storytelling monologues is hardly unusual in 2010, but Spalding Gray did it before almost anyone else. And he did it better; in films like Swimming to Cambodia, Monster in a Box and Gray's Anatomy his personal histories were a gateway to perceptive observations about life and the world around us. Gray's Anatomy was directed by Steven Soderbergh. After Spalding Gray's tragic death by apparent suicide, his widow asked the director to make a documentary about her late husband. The result is And Everything is Going Fine, which is presented not as "a documentary by Steven Soderbergh," but as "a tribute by" the director. The trailer is after the break. The film takes the best possible approach to telling Spalding Gray's story: it uses his own words. His widow gave Steven Soderberg a trove of tapes -- 90 hours or so --...
- 12/3/2010
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Alberta - Spring is here and truth shall be in the air around Durham, North Carolina as the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival blossoms from April 8 - 11. This is a four day feast of prime cinema featuring real people with real lives and real issues that weren’t shaped by the beancounters in marketing. Last year’s festival featured Oscar winner The Cove and nominees Burma VJ and Food Inc. Looking through this year’s line up, there’s plenty reasons to make the trip to the Bull City if you need to escape from the unmitigated hype of Tiger Woods at the Masters.
And Everything is Going Fine is Steven Soderbergh’s biography of Spalding Gray. The monologist was the one man story machine in Swimming in Cambodia and Monster in a Box. Soderbergh directed Gray’s Gray’s Anatomy. He killed himself after seeing Tim Burton’s Big Fish.
And Everything is Going Fine is Steven Soderbergh’s biography of Spalding Gray. The monologist was the one man story machine in Swimming in Cambodia and Monster in a Box. Soderbergh directed Gray’s Gray’s Anatomy. He killed himself after seeing Tim Burton’s Big Fish.
- 4/2/2010
- by UncaScroogeMcD
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