SUN., 7-2
(times ET)
11:00
pm
Inside Moves (1980)
1h 52m | Drama
After a failed suicide attempt, Rory (John Savage) finds himself frequenting an Oakland bar. There he meets other wounded individuals and manages to heal himself, and others, with humor and care.
".....Much of the movie is an affectionate character study of the little community. Max's personable, funny regulars are the wheelchair-bound Blue Lewis (Bill Henderson), the blind Stinky (Robert Altman regular Bert Remsen) and the handless Wings. Wings is played by Harold Russell, the disabled actor who won two Academy Awards 34 years earlier for The Best Years of Our Lives; he reportedly returned to acting only after director Donner agreed to change his character's name, which originally was, "Hooks". ....
Known as a master of fantasy and horror, Donner returns to his roots in dramatic television to stretch his profile as a director. His scenes are relaxed and character-driven. Inside Moves won the approval of disabled viewers, who have remarked that it presents people with handicaps as no different than anyone else. The rowdies at Max's display their share of odd behavior and petty resentments. They're associated by their infirmities, but refuse to be defined by them...."
See:
https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/79269/i ... eId=238920
Director
Richard Donner
Cast
John Savage, David Morse, Harold Russell, Marie Halton, Darnell Hillman, Ashley Howard
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The Garden of Delights (1970)
1h 35m | Comedy
Antonio Cano, 45 years old, is an important businessman who was severely injured in a car accident. Because of this, he is temporarily paralyzed and suffers memory loss. His family, friends and business associates all try to recreate scenes from his life in order to revive his memory which, little by little, does begin to return. Each day Antonio is placed in his beautiful garden where he relives many memories, both real and imagined. ...
Director
Carlos Saura
Cast
José Luis López Vázquez, Mayrata O'Wisiedo, Julia Pena, Luis Pena
".....Recent (i.e. 1930's) Spanish politics are by no means ab sent from “The Garden of Delights,” but now they are made explicit and they become dramatically useful to the Pirandellian permutations of a brilliantly playful and wonderfully funny comic invention.....
I have my doubts about the machine shop and about much of the movie‐mechanical whimsey in “The Garden of Delights,” but not about its fantastic sense of character situation. For the best dramatic moments are those that Antonio begins spinning out of his own head—wickedly erotic, or simply wicked —that constitute a totally private, perfectly obsessive world.
The portrait of Antonio that emerges, a mercantile fascist in the old days, is mostly unpleasant, but in his present impotence one feels for him.........
All the performers excel, and I especially admired Francisco Fierrá as the grand old dad, Charo Soriano as the false (and darkly tragic) mother, and Lina Canalejas as the loving aunt of Antonio's dirty dreams. Mr. Lópaz Vázquez is by turns hilarious and pathetic and even terrifying, and with his spastic voice and immobilized face, and mostly from his wheel chair, he achieves a magnificent tour de force..."
see:
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/12/arch ... turns.html
