Movie - The Horse's Mouth

Very funny.  Sfter the movie we went to Diane and Karl's for another movie - the 9139 movie "midnight".  Also very funny.

Arena Theater Film Club
Monday March 11, 7 p.m.The Horse's Mouth (1958)


With an Oscar nominated screenplay by Alec Guinness.
Director: Ronald Neame Runtime: 97 minutes
Guinness was in the full bloom of his stardom when he suggested, scripted, and starred in this wonderfully odd 1958 adaptation of Joyce Cary's novel. The film is a perceptive examination of the struggle of artistic creation and also considered director Neame's comic masterpiece.
As Gulley Jimson, a gravel-voiced, antisocial painter, whose artistic drive is as single-minded (and as self-absorbed) as a terrier's, Guinness sketches one of his carefully constructed marvels: Gulley inhabiting (and mostly destroying) a penthouse apartment when the upper-crusty owners go on holiday for six weeks, or marshaling an army of apprentices to create a masterpiece on a giant wall in a condemned building. Departing from the novel, Guinness concocted the movie's madcap ending, which is guaranteed to bring a smile. Adding verve is the music, adapted from Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kijé, which fits Gulley like the paint under his dirty nails. The artworks are by John Bratby. (Paul McCartney has been a collector of his works.)