Insignificance: Stargazing
By June 14, 2011
The dance along the artery The circulation of the lymph Are figured in the drift of stars —T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets The year is 1954: a fabulous bit of film history is about . . . Read more »
SYNOPSIS: Four unnamed people who look and sound a lot like Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, and Joseph McCarthy converge in one New York City hotel room in this compelling, visually inventive adaptation of Terry Johnson’s play, from director Nicolas Roeg. With a combination of whimsy and dread, Roeg creates a fun-house-mirror image of fifties America in order to reflect on the nature of celebrity and lingering cold-war nuclear nightmares. Insignificance is a delirious, intelligent drama, featuring magnetic performances by Michael Emil as the Professor, Theresa Russell as the Actress, Gary Busey as the Ballplayer, and Tony Curtis as the Senator.
| The Actress | Theresa Russell |
| The Professor | Michael Emil |
| The Senator | Tony Curtis |
| The Ballplayer | Gary Busey |
| The Indian | Will Sampson |
| The driver | Patrick Kilpatrick |
| Director | Nicolas Roeg |
| Screenplay | Terry Johnson |
| Executive producer | Alexander Stuart |
| Producer | Jeremy Thomas |
| Director of photography | Peter Hannan |
| Editing | Tony Lawson |
| Music | Stanley Myers and Hans Zimmer |
| Art direction | David Brockhurst |
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By June 14, 2011
The dance along the artery The circulation of the lymph Are figured in the drift of stars —T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets The year is 1954: a fabulous bit of film history is about . . . Read more »
By June 22, 2011
Theresa Russell is attracted to the very things that repel most actors. In 1976’s The Last Tycoon, her first movie (and Elia Kazan’s last), she is unafraid of seeming to do very little. Young actresses . . . Read more »
July 05, 2011
No one fractures time like Nicolas Roeg, who has given us such nonlinear marvels as Walkabout, Don’t Look Now, and The Man Who Fell to Earth. His 1985 Insignificance, now out on Criterion DVD and . . . Read more »