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Behind-the-scenes of ‘Harold and Maude’
07.07.2014
12:06 pm
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Here are some delightful behind-the-scenes photographs from one of my all time favorite movies Harold and Maude. I wish I could have found more, but sadly it looks like this is most of ‘em. If you know of any other BTS photographs that exist, please feel free to post them in the comments.


Director Hal Ashby prepares one of actor Bud Cort’s fake suicides
 

Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon
 

Bud Cort and Hal Ashby
 

Suzanne Somers was originally to appear in a cemetery scene but the sequence was cut
 

Ruth Gordon and Hal Ashby
 

Bud Cort and Hal Ashby
 

Hal Ashby, Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon
 

Ruth Gordon, Hal Ashby and Bud Cort
 

Hal Ashby and the DP of ‘Harold and Maude’ John A. Alonzo
 

Hal Ashby serves up a model of Bud Cort’s head for one of Harold’s fake suicide attempts
 

Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon
 

Harold and Maude reunion: Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon and friend, 1981
 
Below, a short video with a few more behind-the-scenes photos:

Posted by Tara McGinley
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07.07.2014
12:06 pm
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Wrapping Cats With Bad Boy Bubby

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Instead of Hal Ashby, what if Nick Cave (circa And The Ass Saw The Angel) directed Being There?  It might look something like Rolf de Heer‘s Australian ‘93 cult comedy, Bad Boy Bubby.  We first meet Bubby (fearlessly played by Nicholas Hope) as a 30-something man, imprisoned by his mother all his life in a shitbox room for reasons never fully explained.  Maybe it’s ‘cause “mum” so enjoys bathing and having sex with him?

Anyway, even as an “outside-fearing” captive, Bubby’s got his hobbies: he’s a gifted mimic, and he enjoys wrapping cats in cellophane.  To say any more might spoil this film’s many, often moving, surprises.  The arc of Bubby does, though, follow the familiar “holy fool” trajectory: change brings growth and maturity, which almost by definition entails some loss of innocence.  Still—cellophaned cats!

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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08.27.2009
04:44 pm
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