And Everything Is Going Fine
United States • 2010 • 1h 29m
Director
#617Criterion Collection →Synopsis
From the first time he performed Swimming to Cambodia - the one-man account of his experience of making the 1984 film The Killing Fields - Spalding Gray made the art of the monologue his own. Drawing unstintingly on the most intimate aspects of his own life, his shows were vibrant, hilarious and moving. His death came tragically early, in 2004; this compilation of interview and performance footage nails his idiosyncratic and irreplaceable brilliance.
Synopsis
From the first time he performed Swimming to Cambodia - the one-man account of his experience of making the 1984 film The Killing Fields - Spalding Gray made the art of the monologue his own. Drawing unstintingly on the most intimate aspects of his own life, his shows were vibrant, hilarious and moving. His death came tragically early, in 2004; this compilation of interview and performance footage nails his idiosyncratic and irreplaceable brilliance.
Credits
Crew
DirectorSteven Soderbergh
ComposerForrest Gray
EditorSusan Littenberg
ProducerAmy Hobby, Joshua Blum, Kathleen Russo
Cast
Spalding Grayas Self (archive footage)