Joan Micklin Silver applies sensitive direction to Ann Beattie’s novel about a lonely guy trying to win back his girlfriend, and going about it in all the wrong ways. John Heard is excellent as Charles, who can’t understand why Laura (Mary Beth Hurt) has gone back to her husband and child. The whole thing plays out during a snowy winter in Salt Lake City… which is not the place to expect unrealistic romantic dreams to come true.
Chilly Scenes of Winter
Blu-ray
Twilight Time
1979 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 95 min. / Street Date February 7, 2017 / Head Over Heels / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store 29.95
Starring: John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, Peter Riegert, Kenneth McMillan, Gloria Grahame, Nora Heflin, Jerry Hardin, Tarah Nutter, Mark Metcalf, Allen Joseph, Frances Bay, Griffin Dunne, Anne Beattie.
Cinematography: Bobby Byrne
Film Editor: Cynthia Scheider
Original Music: Ken Lauber
From the novel by Ann Beattie
Produced by Griffin Dunne,...
Chilly Scenes of Winter
Blu-ray
Twilight Time
1979 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 95 min. / Street Date February 7, 2017 / Head Over Heels / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store 29.95
Starring: John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, Peter Riegert, Kenneth McMillan, Gloria Grahame, Nora Heflin, Jerry Hardin, Tarah Nutter, Mark Metcalf, Allen Joseph, Frances Bay, Griffin Dunne, Anne Beattie.
Cinematography: Bobby Byrne
Film Editor: Cynthia Scheider
Original Music: Ken Lauber
From the novel by Ann Beattie
Produced by Griffin Dunne,...
- 3/4/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
“Women Directors are One More Problem We Don’t Need”: Joan Micklin Silver on Chilly Scenes of Winter
Released in 1975, Joan Micklin Silver’s feature debut Hester Street is the story of immigrant Jews assimilating with various degrees of success to turn-of-the-century New York City. She followed with two contemporary works: 1977’s Boston alt-paper story Between the Lines and 1979’s Chilly Scenes of Winter. The latter is set to screen tomorrow at NYC’s IFC Center as part of the “Celluloid Dreams” series, whose premise would not have made sense in the very recent pre-dcp past: it aims to show repertory cinema on 35mm. Chilly Scenes is based on Ann Beattie’s first novel, which primarily concerns itself with Charles (John Heard) and his deathless, […]...
- 11/11/2014
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
“Women Directors are One More Problem We Don’t Need”: Joan Micklin Silver on Chilly Scenes of Winter
Released in 1975, Joan Micklin Silver’s feature debut Hester Street is the story of immigrant Jews assimilating with various degrees of success to turn-of-the-century New York City. She followed with two contemporary works: 1977’s Boston alt-paper story Between the Lines and 1979’s Chilly Scenes of Winter. The latter is set to screen tomorrow at NYC’s IFC Center as part of the “Celluloid Dreams” series, whose premise would not have made sense in the very recent pre-dcp past: it aims to show repertory cinema on 35mm. Chilly Scenes is based on Ann Beattie’s first novel, which primarily concerns itself with Charles (John Heard) and his deathless, […]...
- 11/11/2014
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
It's Sunday afternoon, or: your last chance to read all that stuff you meant to read last week before Monday brings a new deluge of things you will want to read. Below, some of our recommendations: "I Babysat the Moonrise Kingdom Kid," by Margaret Barra (TheAtlantic.com): Jared Gilman's onetime baby-sitter writes about "The Moms" on set, the danger of filming near poison ivy, and her former charge's budding movie career. "Kenneth Lonergan’s Thwarted Masterpiece," by Joel Lovell (The New York Times Magazine): The long, pretty sad story of why practically no one saw Margaret, Kenneth Lonergan's apparently excellent followup to You Can Count on Me. "Nick Slaughter for President," by Soraya Roberts (Slate): How Rob Stewart's character in Canadian detective series Sweating Bullets — all ponytail, Hawaiian shirts, and chest hair — became a Serbian phenomenon and brought down Slobodan Milosevic."The Difference Between Me and Ann Beattie,...
- 6/24/2012
- by Caroline Bankoff,Andre Tartar
- Vulture
In Ann Beattie’s 1974 short story “Wolf Dreams,” a woman staring down an impending marriage to a man she views with ambivalence channels her frustrations into a poison-pen letter to Richard Nixon. “Some girls in my office won’t write you because they say that’s crank mail… You’re the crank. You’ve got prices so high I can’t eat steak,” she fumes, closing out with “tell your wife she’s a stone face.” Nearly 40 years later, Beattie returns to flesh out the woman behind the enigmatic smile of the most private of all contemporary first ...
- 1/4/2012
- avclub.com
David S. Rubin From left: Liz Smith, Gloria Steinem, Marlo Thomas and Joni Evans, in studio at SiriusXM.
You know that Oscar party you read about in all the glossy magazines that you’ll never in a million years get invited to? Its host, Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, says it’s kind of a drag.
“I hate it, actually,” he tells Lesley Stahl and Candice Bergen in tomorrow’s debut of SiriusXM’s “The wowOwow Radio Show” (8 am Et...
You know that Oscar party you read about in all the glossy magazines that you’ll never in a million years get invited to? Its host, Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, says it’s kind of a drag.
“I hate it, actually,” he tells Lesley Stahl and Candice Bergen in tomorrow’s debut of SiriusXM’s “The wowOwow Radio Show” (8 am Et...
- 6/24/2011
- by Katherine Rosman
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Tina Brown, Peter Beinart, John Avlon, Michelle Goldberg, and other Daily Beast writers and contributors pick their favorite books of 2010.
Tina Brown
Related story on The Daily Beast: This Week's Hot Reads
It takes a daring biographer to turn her sharp eye on her own life as Antonia Fraser does so movingly and beautifully in her memoir Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter. It's a compelling diary of a passionate love affair, marriage, and 40-year conversation of two soul mates in the milieu of London's chattering classes.
Harvard superstar professor Niall Ferguson wrote a superb book, High Financier, that I hope every Wall Street banker is receiving along with their fat bonus checks because Siegmund Warburg was a banker with style, integrity, and a serious intellect-rare qualities these days.
Daily Beast columnist Peter Beinart's The Icarus Syndrome is one of the most important books of the last...
Tina Brown
Related story on The Daily Beast: This Week's Hot Reads
It takes a daring biographer to turn her sharp eye on her own life as Antonia Fraser does so movingly and beautifully in her memoir Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter. It's a compelling diary of a passionate love affair, marriage, and 40-year conversation of two soul mates in the milieu of London's chattering classes.
Harvard superstar professor Niall Ferguson wrote a superb book, High Financier, that I hope every Wall Street banker is receiving along with their fat bonus checks because Siegmund Warburg was a banker with style, integrity, and a serious intellect-rare qualities these days.
Daily Beast columnist Peter Beinart's The Icarus Syndrome is one of the most important books of the last...
- 12/18/2010
- by The Daily Beast
- The Daily Beast
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