The Big Picture (1989)
Country: US
Technical: col 101m
Director: Christopher Guest
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Emily Longstreth, J.T. Walsh, Jennifer Jason, Michael McKean Leigh
Synopsis:
A film school graduate wins a prize for his short film and gets a chance to make a studio picture. Before long, however, he finds himself making one concession after another to the Hollywood machine.
Review:
Guest beautifully satirizes eighties film-making in Hollywood by focusing not on product (cf. Kentucky Fried Movie et al.) but on process. The sequences of shooting compromises and absurdities are acutely observed, and Bacon negotiates the comedy with a sincere performance, helped by an adroit supporting cast.
Country: US
Technical: col 101m
Director: Christopher Guest
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Emily Longstreth, J.T. Walsh, Jennifer Jason, Michael McKean Leigh
Synopsis:
A film school graduate wins a prize for his short film and gets a chance to make a studio picture. Before long, however, he finds himself making one concession after another to the Hollywood machine.
Review:
Guest beautifully satirizes eighties film-making in Hollywood by focusing not on product (cf. Kentucky Fried Movie et al.) but on process. The sequences of shooting compromises and absurdities are acutely observed, and Bacon negotiates the comedy with a sincere performance, helped by an adroit supporting cast.
Country: US
Technical: col 101m
Director: Christopher Guest
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Emily Longstreth, J.T. Walsh, Jennifer Jason, Michael McKean Leigh
Synopsis:
A film school graduate wins a prize for his short film and gets a chance to make a studio picture. Before long, however, he finds himself making one concession after another to the Hollywood machine.
Review:
Guest beautifully satirizes eighties film-making in Hollywood by focusing not on product (cf. Kentucky Fried Movie et al.) but on process. The sequences of shooting compromises and absurdities are acutely observed, and Bacon negotiates the comedy with a sincere performance, helped by an adroit supporting cast.