rubin and ed
the trailer for trent harris' s 1992 film rubin and ed, starring: crispin glover as rubin farr, howard hessman as ed tuttle and karen black as rula .
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she will be replacing ed rubin, who is leaving the company. his new job is expected to be announced next week .
exclusive: scott free london, ridley scott ’s uk production banner, is expanding its team and has hired former origin pictures’ ed rubin as managing director starting in january .
reclusive rubin farr teams up with vocal but unsuccessful multi - level salesman ed tuttle on a quest to bury rubin' s dead cat in the
perfect spot .
their trip takes them across utah' s desert where they have run - ins with ed' s ex - wife rula and an elusive andy warhol critic .
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origin pictures head of film and television ed rubin has joined ridley scott ’s u. k. production outfit, scott free london, as managing director as the company looks to expand further .
origin pictures head of film and television ed rubin has joined ridley scott’s u. k. production outfit, scott free london, as managing director as the company looks to expand further. rubin will join in january to grow the company’s activities across film and tv, and oversee the strategic and creative direction of the company, working with [ … ]
rubin and ed is a 1991 independent film starring crispin glover and howard hesseman, directed by trent harris. an offbeat and often - trippy comedy, it tells the story of self - imposed hermit rubin farr (glover) and middle - aged pyramid scheme recruiter ed tuttle (hesseman). ed is desperate to find someone that he can drag to his group' s upcoming seminar. meanwhile, rubin' s mother is nagging him to make a friend and bring said friend over to dinner. while on their respecive missions, the two men meet. hilarity ensues. weirdness ensues too. the plot winds up going in an unexpected direction, and our heroes spend most of the movie lost in an arid utah desert .
at it’s core, rubin and ed is a bizarre buddy film in which two recent acquaintances trek across a desert landscape hauling the thawing corpse of a cat in a cooler. rubin farr (crispin glover) is a vehemently disagreeable recluse who lives with his mother and is grieving over the death of his only friend in the world, his pet cat. ed tuttle (howard hesseman) is a tightly - wound, loud - mouthed divorcée with low self - esteem attempting to make big bucks in the real estate game. after impatiently awaiting the return of his mother in order to introduce her to his begrudgingly made new friend, rubin steals ed’s car, set on finding the absolutely most pristine place to bury his quickly putrefying feline friend. ed goes along for the ride, desperately attempting to convince rubin to attend a pyramid scheme seminar with him .
i recently purchased trent harris’s rubin and ed on dvd after hearing that it was an obscure film starring crispin glover – so obscure and rare, in fact, that a used vhs copy will run you anywhere from $ 40. 00 to $ 100. 00, while a “new” copy is $ 200. 00. perhaps best known for plan 10 from outer space, which debuted at raindance in 1996, rubin and ed is actually harris’s first full - length film and has slowly gained cult status in certain circles .
despite ed and rubin’s characters being so absurd, you still relate to and empathize with them because they are both such losers. having relatable characters, along with an awesome villain (which in this case is themselves) makes for good film. you may want to peg rula, rubin’s mother or the world as the villain, but really rula and rubin’s mom want them to succeed whether it be socially or financially… they’re just bitches how they go about expressing that .
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filmmaker: the other film that’s showing this week is rubin and ed. you’ve mentioned its initial reviews, and the 92nd street y’s website calls it “underappreciated. ” do you feel like it’s still underappreciated? what do you appreciate about it as you look back on it ?
if you have a love of bizarre cult films and / or crispin glover you should check this movie out. you’ll be pleased as punch you did. you can actually get your own copy of rubin & ed on dvd right from the trent harris’ website .
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“ed has played a key part in the founding and growth of origin and we will all be very sorry to see him leave. he has been a great colleague and champion of our projects. i am pleased to say that we now have the strongest slate we have ever had across film and television and i want to thank ed for his key part in this, ” commented origin’s ceo david thompson .
harris: i actually got sued by ed wood’s estate. they came in saying, “you can’t use that title, ” and i said, “oh, come on. ” it wasn’t ed wood or anybody, it was some guy who had bought the rights to ed wood’s films. i can’t even remember his name now. but it was ridiculous; you can’t copyright a title, but they sure tried to make me stop. which turned into good publicity there for a short period of time. i mean, gosh, getting sued by ed wood? (laughs )
for one or two shots, rubin' s shoe faces the wrong way as it spins towards rula and jimbo' s car .
rubin will be responsible for expanding the company’s activities across film and tv, working with head of film jack arbuthnott, head of tv kate crowe and head of business and commercial affairs carlo dusi .
featuring beautiful cinematography by bryan duggan the the film was shot in utah’s goblin state park and the quirky electronic score by frederic myrow makes for a stellar pairing. actress, singer, songwriter, and screenwriter karen black stars as ed’s nagging ex - wife, rula, whose screen time, unfortunately, is minimal, but whose role is quite pivotal to ed’s character development .
rubin will join in january to grow the company’s activities across film and tv, and oversee the strategic and creative direction of the company, working with head of film jack arbuthnott, head of tv kate crowe, and head of business and commercial affairs carlo dusi .
harris: well, i like all of my stuff. i think of them as children. each one of them has a problem but you love them all. and a lot of people like beaver trilogy, but different groups like different movies. there’s a whole kind of special cult around rubin and ed, and there’s another one around plan 10, you know. sometimes they cross over and sometimes they don’t .
harris: no, not at all. actually what i was saying, since the critics gave me such a bad time for rubin and ed, was, “i’m going to make a movie and call it plan 10, i mean what are they going to say, 'it’s worse than plan 9 ‘? ” i thought it would be great publicity. and that’s really where the title came from .
filmmaker: well there’s the mormon element but there’s the ed wood element as well, starting right with the title. were you embracing the campiness of your lack of a budget ?
rubin, e. s. and h. zhai, “the cost of carbon capture and storage for natural gas combined cycle power plants, ” environmental science & technology, 46: 3076–84 (2012) .
rubin said: “joining scott free as m. d. is too exciting an opportunity not to seize, and i relish the prospect of working with ridley and joining the team in london, particularly at this time of expansion and growth. ”
yeh, s. and e. s. rubin, “a review of uncertainties in technology experience curves, ” energy economics, 34 (3): 762–771 (2012) .
rubin said: “i’ve spent eight hugely enjoyable and rewarding years at origin pictures and have had the great privilege to work with an array of amazing writing and directing talent. joining scott free as md is too exciting an opportunity not to seize, and i relish the prospect of working with ridley and joining the team in london, particularly at this time of expansion and growth. . ”
rubin, e. s. et al. , “the outlook for improved carbon capture technology, ” progress in energy and combustion science, 38; 630 - 371 (2012) .
rubin and ed (friday), also starring crispin glover, is one of cinema’s most unlikely road trips and a bit of the anti - searchers, with two misfits setting off into the desert to find a place to bury a frozen cat. decried as one of the worst films ever made upon its initial release, it has built up a loyal following and is being shown in a rare 35mm print. we had a chance to talk to harris before the screenings .
mantripragada, h. c. and e. s. rubin, “techno - economic evaluation of coal - to - liquids (ctl) plants with carbon capture and sequestration, ” energy policy, 39: 2808–2816 (2011) .
zhai, h. , e. s. rubin and p. l. versteeg, “water use at pulverized coal power plants with post - combustion carbon capture and storage, ” environmental science & technology, 45: 2479–2485 (2011) .
fun fact: although the movie came out in 1991, crispin glover created the rubin character years before. in his andy kaufman - esque stunt on david letterman' s show in 1987, he appeared in - character as rubin (well, we think it was a stunt; it' s just as possible that glover is just plain weird). he also mentions
mr. farr
in his 1989 song
clowny clown clown
and makes a brief appearance in costume as rubin in the video thereof .
versteeg, p. and e. s. rubin, “a technical and economic assessment of ammonia - based post - combustion co 2 capture at coal - fired power plants, ” international journal of greenhouse gas control, 5: 1596–1605 (2011) .
“scott free london has come of age and continues to grow, ” said scott. “ed has a fantastic track record and exactly the right credentials to push this expansion. he joins a formidable team in kate, carlo and jack at a pivotal time in the company’s growth. the global landscape for film and tv drama is evolving rapidly, and i want scott free london to play a significant part in this revolution. it is a unique moment to be making standout work. ”
rubin leaves origin having most recently produced feature film “the sense of an ending, ” directed by ritesh batra and adapted by nick payne from julian barnes’ booker prize - winning novel, and starring jim broadbent, charlotte rampling and emily mortimer; the film will be released in 2017 by studiocanal in the u. k. and cbs films in the u. s .
“ scott free london has come of age and continues to grow. ed has a fantastic track record and exactly the right credentials to push this expansion, ” scott said. “he joins a formidable team in kate, carlo and jack at a pivotal time in the company’s growth. the global landscape for film and tv drama is evolving rapidly, and i want scott free london to play a significant part in this revolution. it is a unique moment to be making standout work. ”
rubin, e. s. ,
understanding the pitfalls of ccs cost estimates ,
international journal of greenhouse gas control, 10: 181 - 190 (2012) .
delusional and spoiled maureen and her eccentric brother howdy decide to track down and meet their estranged mother, all while the drama of dysfunctional relationships, disastrous weather conditions and a dark family secret ensue .
rubin added: “after spending eight incredible years at origin pictures, it is very sad to move on and leave behind all the terrific projects on the slate. i have such admiration and fondness for david, whom i’ve worked with now for almost twelve years since bbc films. his fierce passion, drive and wealth of experience has steered origin so effectively, and he’s also made it a thoroughly fun and fulfilling place to work. ”
professor rubin' s research focuses on technical, economic and policy issues related to energy and the environment. his group pioneered the development of the integrated environmental control model (iecm), a widely - used stochastic simulation model used worldwide for designing and evaluating cost - effective emission control systems for fossil - fuel power plants, including advanced process for carbon capture and storage (ccs). dr. rubin also studies the nature and pace of technology innovation for energy and environmental systems and the factors that influence it, particularly the role of government policies. insights from this work have been used to estimate future cost trends for advanced power systems, and the influence of technological change climate mitigation strategies. additional research on renewable energy systems and other topics is being pursued in collaborations with the carnegie mellon electricity industry center (ceic), the climate and energy decision making (cedm) center, and the scott institute for energy innovation .
rubin’s hire marks a sure vote of confidence for the london - based team, which has been increasingly productive in the uk with recent productions such as sean foley’s buzzed feature comedy mindhorn; tv series taboo, written by steve knight and starring tom hardy; and jonas akerlund’s lords of chaos .
you know, i could see that there was a certain kind of denial about their own history. and i thought this was the special stuff, they shouldn’t be denying it. so that was part of it. it was never meant to poke fun at the mormon church, and i don’t think it does, and a lot of people agree who really watch the whole movie. you know, most of it’s based on actual mormon doctrine. i made up a few things but most of that stuff’s real. part of what had happened was after rubin and ed came out, it got such terrible reviews and was yanked out of theaters quickly. and i had another project that i was working on that had been green lit, we were doing location scouting, they just immediately pulled the plug on that. basically i got extremely angry at l. a. and hollywood and the whole thing, and i said, “i’m just going to go back to utah and make a film with my friends that we want to make, and everybody else can just go fuck off. ” so i went back and i put that film together so quickly. i mean, it was written, shot, and premiered at sundance in about eighteen months. so that’s pretty dang quick. you know, raising money and everything .
rummage sale reject: rubin farr' s usual mode of dress includes horn - rimmed glasses, an ugly button - down polo shirt, bell - bottomed pants with pinstripes, and high - heeled platform shoes. and, optionally, a leather jacket for outings in the desert. he wears these clothes because he
likes them .
he joined david thompson when origin pictures launched in 2008 and became head of film and television, overseeing all the projects on origin’s slates .
next up for origin is fiona seres’ adaptation of author wilkie collins’ “the woman in white, ” which starts production early next year. rubin has served as executive producer on origin’s television productions, including bafta - nominated miniseries “the crimson petal & the white” and p. d. james’ “death comes to pemberley” for the bbc .
a date with rosie palms: rubin' s addiction to squeezing his cat' s squeaky toy while listening to mahler is presented as a metaphor for this, egged on by his fantasies of a bikini - clad girl on a poster in his room .
farrell is currently running origin’s development slate and has more than ten years experience at a senior level in development at working title and ruby films .
rubin started his career in 2000 working for production company mission pictures across a number of films, including danny boyle’s “millions, ” before going on to work for companies including working title, ealing studios and the u. k. film council. he joined bbc films in 2005 as development executive, where he worked across the slate of film projects, including “red road, ” “fish tank” and “eastern promises. ”
crispin glover fans may recall a 1987 david letterman interview in which a nervous glover wore tight striped pants, a wig, and huge platform shoes and nearly kicked letterman in the face. what you may not know is that he was dressed and in character as rubin farr, never mentioning the possible upcoming movie… guerilla advertising at its best. the farr character also makes an appearance in glover’s music video “clowny clown clown” from his album the big problem ≠ the solution. the solution = let it be .
next for scott free london is james kent’s “the aftermath, ” starring keira knightley, jason clarke and alexander skarsgard, for fox searchlight and bbc films .
at carnegie mellon, dr. rubin was a founding member of the epp department, and founding director of the center for energy and environmental studies and the environmental institute. he is a fellow member of asme, recipient of the cmu distinguished professor of engineering award for outstanding achievements in engineering research, education and public service, and recipient of the awma lyman a. ripperton award for distinguished achievements as an educator. he has served on advisory committees to various state and federal government agencies, including the u. s. department of energy, the u. s. environmental protection agency, the state of california energy commission, air resources board and public utility commission. he is a national associate member of the national academies and serves regularly on its boards and study committees. among his international activities he was a coordinating lead author for the intergovernmental panel on climate change (ipcc, co - recipient of the 2007 nobel peace prize), an advisor to the alberta energy ministry of canada, and is currently a board member of the uk ccs research centre .
well - rounded nerd, writer, and artist, she grew up in the misty mountains of west virginia where she was constantly ridiculed for being a
weirdo .
now residing in austin, she works a day job at a print shop and creates puppets and fiber art by night. in her free time she enjoys reading comics, watching horror and sci - fi films, and cosplaying .
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next up for scott free london is james kent’s the aftermath, starring keira knightley, jason clarke and alexander skarsgard for fox searchlight and bbc films. in addition to this and mindhorn and taboo, india in a day, the latest iteration of the company’s successful in a day franchise, recently premiered at the toronto film festival before launching in india .
filmmaker: i saw a trailer for luna mesa a few months ago and it’s wild and zany; it looks like it would fit in with your other films quite nicely .
harris: well, it’s kind of about the khmer rouge. it’s really about a young man who was in the khmer rouge. he laid landmines, and now he goes out and clears them. you find out a lot about the khmer rouge through the film, but it’s really more a story about his redemption. i mean, he was like eight years old when he was doing it, but he laid thousands and thousands of landmines and then he decided he was going to clear landmines. i mean, he’d go out in an afternoon and he’d get forty. they’re not hard to find. and he goes out and clears them with a stick and a pocketknife. there’s one video i had that actually went viral of him clearing landmines. you know, it’s just a short clip of him digging one of them up, and it’s pretty frightening .
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harris: well, i mean there’s the initial sundance premiere and then everybody went, “well, you’re out of your mind making a film about mormons. ” and i thought, “why? ” and then it went on immediately and took first prize at the raindance film festival. people said, “nobody’s going to understand this unless they’re a mormon, ” and i said, “i don’t think that’s right. people in london liked it. ” so you don’t have to know about it in order for the film to operate. and since then it plods along. there’s a certain little cult that likes it. one thing is that it was extremely difficult to show a 16mm film or distribute it in any fashion at all. and then there’s no money for publicity or anything like that. and now it’s twenty years later and the book of mormon ’s the number one thing on broadway .
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hannah farrell is being promoted to head of film and television at origin pictures in the new year .
harris: well, hell, people are still talking about it, and that’s been fifty years .
recent productions include sean foley’s comedy “mindhorn, ” to be released by studiocanal next year, and tv series “taboo, ” written by steve knight and starring tom hardy for bbc one and fx networks, co - produced with hardy son and baker. “india in a day, ” the latest iteration of their successful “in a day” franchise, recently premiered at the toronto intl. film festival before launching in india .
feature film credits include period ghost story “the awakening, ” starring rebecca hall; morgan matthews’ “x + y, ” starring sally hawkins and rafe spall; and “woman in gold, ” starring helen mirren .
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harris: you know, i can’t look at it anymore. honestly i haven’t sat down and looked at it for a long time now because i just spent so long with it. you’ve got to realize it’s been over thirty years that this thing has been with me. and if there’s a screening of it the last thing i’m going to do is sit down and watch it again. (laughs) i mean, i made it three times, and then when it became popular and people started to show it, and then when people started to ask me questions about it…you know, i can’t watch the movie anymore .
origin are currently developing television series with partners including bbc, sky, eone, bell media and im global, as well as feature films with partners including bbc films, bfi, film4, lionsgate and fox .
pre - production has started on a five - part adaptation of wilkie collins’ novel the woman in white for the bbc and other upcoming projects include new projects from william nicholson and the night manager ’s david farr .
harris: well, it came from a lot of different places. i mean, i grew up mormon so i knew quite a bit about mormon doctrine, and when i began to make the film i started to dig a little bit deeper. and to me, all of my favorite parts of mormonism were the parts that the mormon church didn’t want to talk about: you know, porter rockwell and polygamy and the planet kolob and the doctrine of eternal progression and the deseret alphabet—all of that stuff was my favorite stuff. i’m kind of disappointed that when i went to church when i was small no one would ever talk about any of that. (chuckles )
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harris: the next thing is called welcome to the rubber room, and it’s a kind of a strange beatnik nightclub that’s full of eccentrics, and it’s the last night that this place is open. it’s going to be shut down and turned into a yuppified art gallery. so it’s about that and their kind of wild efforts to save it. i’m just working on the script, but if all goes well we’ll shoot it this summer so it can show at a retrospective of my work, including my paintings and collages, at the utah museum of contemporary art early next year .
filmmaker: let me ask you about plan 10, or first let me tell you a story about it. i’m almost finished writing a book about mormonism and cinema and, in 2006, i taught a class on it at byu. i opened the first evening with a documentary by the church— called to serve, directed by blair treu—about calling missionaries and preparing them to go out and be clean - cut with white shirts and ties, and most of the students had actually already seen that. and then i showed about ten minutes of plan 10, centering around the nightclub scene. (harris laughs) i wanted to show the breadth of what we were going to talk about in the class. then we took a short break, and three people never came back, out of fifteen students. (harris laughs) they dropped the course right then. i wanted to show the strangest moment of cinema related to mormonism, and plan 10 was the best example i could find. so where did it come from in your mind? what were you trying to say with it ?
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“i am delighted that hannah farrell will be taking over and carrying the torch as origin moves forward with many exciting projects. she has massive experience in the industry, along with great relationships with so many writers, real flair and great taste. ”
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origin’s latest film the sense of an ending, based on julian barnes’ booker prize - winning novel, will be released in 2017 by cbs in the us and studiocanal in the uk. previous feature titles include morgan matthews’ x + y. and the awakening .
filmmaker: i even really enjoyed plan 9 from outer space. there’s a lot of heart, and it’s a great little film .
this definitely fits in with the zany comedy trend of the late 80s to early 90s, but it' s not hard to see why it' s unknown. it really is strange and odd through and through, and whereas someone like me embraced that aspect, the general public may dismiss it as stupid. stupid is quite far from what this film is, i would say brilliant. the humor is just so odd and genius and it also says alot about human nature. it' s really sad that this hasn' t seen a dvd release yet, or at least if it has it' s out of print. i demand a special edition with commentary !
trippy indie madeline' s madeline is the movie that lakeith stanfield and boots riley from sorry to bother you want to see the most .
harris: well i just haven’t had a chance. it’s hardly been shown. i showed it in london, and that’s just about it. i actually showed it in orem once, and there was a little sneak preview in brooklyn. really it hasn’t been shown. i sent it out to various festivals and nobody wants it. i think seattle’s going to include it as part of their retrospective. but again it’s a very different kind of film and i’m not sure it’s accessible to people. what i think is going to happen is that in about ten years they’re going to look at it and say, “oh yeah, that’s fine. ” i mean, i think it’s one of those. that seems to be what happens to my movies. they’re never popular when they come out and after a while they gain a following—through word of mouth only .
it' s a character study, a road comedy, and (ultimately) a story about two lost souls trying to make their way in the world .
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plan 10 from outer space (thursday) is a satire of utah’s dominant mormon culture. it features a young woman who discovers a 19th - century artifact that reveals that one of brigham young’s polygamous wives was actually a space alien who is now returning to wreak vengeance on earth. it’s both a brilliant send - up of mormonism’s oddest beliefs and iconography (space aliens with beehive heads and monocular “all - seeing eyes”) and an homage to the b - science fiction films of earlier decades .
filmmaker: i’ve heard you say that you’re tired of talking about the beaver trilogy. but it’s the film that’s opening the series and that seems to be your most popular and enduring work. why do you think the beaver trilogy is the first thing most people think of, when you’ve done so much other work as well ?
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harris: well, i think it’s taken twenty years that it finally has gained a following. and i‘m happy that it’s as appreciated as it is at this point .
harris: i started making films when i was eighteen, and i’ve made so many films i’ve lost count, in terms of documentaries, experimental films, and i think i’m on my seventh feature now. they’re all different and they’re all the same; it’s hard to describe. except for the tv work i do, that just is cookie cutter to make money. i just try to make movies that i would like to go see; that’s really it in a nutshell. and i just have fun making them. i mean, that’s the reason i make them. i’m not going to make any money off of any of this stuff. i just enjoy it. i wouldn’t quit doing it for a second .
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it’s funny, i realize i haven’t watched any of those older films for quite a while. i mean, you don’t after a while. i did recently look at plan 10; i was surprised, i thought, “that thing still holds up. ” after a while you forget the movie so you’re able to look at it freshly. right after i make them, i look at them and all i can see are the mistakes. but now i’ve forgotten all of that stuff, so they’re kind of fresh to me. but the beaver trilogy is not fresh, to me. it’s something that’s just been such a part of my life for so long. i mean, there has been hardly any time in the last thirty years that it hasn’t been somewhere or other in the forefront of something that i’m doing. even when it wasn’t being shown i was worrying about it not being shown, or i was worrying about what would happen if it was shown. and then people would say, “show it, ” and we’d have to say, “no, ” and it was just a never - ending thing, it’s just gone on and on and on .
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trent harris has paid his dues. the salt lake city - based filmmaker has made more films than he can count, mostly shorts, documentaries, and experimental films. but his narrative feature films are among the best examples of underground cult films, including three that will show tonight, tomorrow, and friday at the 92 street y’s tribeca location. harris will be in attendance for a post - screening discussion every night .
filmmaker: it’s a bit of a mixed blessing because a lot of your fame and notoriety stems from that. do you feel like it overshadows a lot of your other work, work that you might like better ?
harris: no. you know, i think he’s kind of gotten a bum deal, too. i look at some of his movies, like glen or glenda, and it’s a really good, wonderful piece .
harris: it’s not what i’d call a funny film, so i think that’s the difference. but i’m not sure beaver trilogy ’s a funny film, to tell you the truth. i mean there are funny moments in the first part. but luna mesa was a different thing. i was actually going to make a narrative, dramatic film, but i was going to make it as if it were a documentary. so what i did was i went out and started to document what happened to me, traveling around the world for a year and half with this beautiful girl, and turned it into a narrative. it’s a very strange experimental documentary, it’s almost like a diary in some ways. so right now i’m too close to it and i don’t want to look at it for a while, but i’ve got a suspicion that it’ll rear its head again .
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harris: whatever my genre is. i’m not sure myself. but yeah, i like that movie. actually the one that i’m working on right now has gone back to that, it has the same wild absurd dialogue, strange people in strange locations. it’s something i enjoy doing. the last movie i made was called luna mesa, and it was a complete departure from everything. it was me trying to make a real serious movie in a strange documentary form. i’m not sure how successful it was. but it took me a long time and it was very painful and right now i want to get back to more fun stuff that i was doing earlier .
i know that in a way it’s a very different form that i don’t think anybody had seen before, so i think that’s part of it. and then the other thing is that the kid is just so compelling, the real kid. and his story is just so compelling. he’s also an outsider in his community and i think that resonates because so many people feel like outsiders. we all feel like we’re on the outside looking in, at least a lot of people do. in fact, i think people who respond to my work are usually outsiders, people who feel a little bit outside the mainstream—maybe they didn’t get invited to the prom or something. [ chuckles ]
a chance meeting in a parking lot in 1979 between filmmaker trent harris and a young man from beaver, utah inspired the creation of an underground film that is now known as beaver trilogy. but the film itself is only part of the story .
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filmmaker: it feels like they all do. one that stuck out to me today that i had never heard of before was the cement ball of earth, heaven, and hell. is that a straight - forward documentary about the khmer rouge ?
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harris: well i certainly see myself as an outsider. and i certainly understand, at least i think i understand, where he was coming from. i grew up in a very small town not unlike beaver. you know, it was a small town in idaho that had 2, 700 people, so i sort of understood the social dynamic of what he was going through in a town like that. you don’t just dress up like olivia newton - john and expect people not to get cranky. i mean, it isn’t going to happen .
a brilliantly wacky movie. i absolutely love it. crispin plays a charmingly weird guy you can' t help but love, and he' s so funny too. the whole movie is full of zany comedy. one of my favourite movies of the 90s, i highly recommend it .
harris: boy, you know, i’ve asked myself that same question. what is it about that film? to tell you the truth i’m not sure. i mean, i was completely surprised when it struck the chord that it did. well, i wasn’t surprised that people liked it, i guess. what i was surprised at was how much critical acclaim it got. i’m not used to getting anything but bad reviews. it’s still a mystery to me why it’s so critically acclaimed and as popular as it is .
the beaver trilogy (wednesday), his best - known work, is broken into three parts, each filmed years apart. the first is a documentary about groovin’ gary (richard lavon griffith), a young man from the small town of beaver, utah who unexpectedly performs as olivia newton - john in full drag. in the second segment a young sean penn plays the role of groovin’ gary in a no - budget remake of the documentary as a narrative film. the third section casts crispin glover in the role, increases the budget, and expands the narrative to include more plot developments .
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harris: no, it really wasn’t. (laughs) i mean it was really crazy at the time. it actually made me angry: it wasn’t that the reviews were bad; they were mean. you know? it was like, why are you trying to kill this little film? if you don’t like it, fine, but there’s no reason to, you know…it really felt vindictive in a strange way. “the worst movie of the decade, ” i mean, come on. actually when they said that i thought, “god, i’m on to something. ”
filmmaker: do you think that you were? because that kind of originated the “trent harris film, ” your genre or style .
filmmaker: i believe i heard richard dutcher call luna mesa hands - down the best thing you’d ever made .
harris: cult filmmaker means that you don’t make any money. that’s what a cult film is: a film that makes no money. (laughs )
filmmaker: so people aren’t necessarily talking about your newest work, but the things you made ten, twenty, thirty years ago .
filmmaker: which is what i was going to say. when i think of the “brand” of “a trent harris film, ” wherever that came from, i don’t think of a documentary about clearing landmines in cambodia .
harris: if you see it, i think you’d recognize my style in there .
filmmaker: i suspect that you have a broader view of what is fair game for your filmmaking than a lot of the rest of us have.
rubin & ed is an american independent comedy-buddy film written and directed by trent harris and released in 1991 . it is about an eccentric , unsociable young man who is forced by his mother to make some friends before she 'll return his stereo to him . he is joined on a trip through a desert by a pyramid scheme salesman , to assist in finding a location to bury a frozen cat . crispin glover appeared on late night with david letterman in 1987 in-character as rubin farr . this caused much confusion to david letterman as he , after almost being kicked in the face by glover , walked off his own set while still on the air . it has never been confirmed by glover whether or not this was a performance . 
rubin & ed is an american independent comedy-buddy film written and directed by trent harris and released in 1991. it is about an eccentric, unsociable young man who is forced by his mother to make some friends before she'll return his stereo to him. he is joined on a trip through a desert by a pyramid scheme salesman, to assist in finding a location to bury a frozen cat. crispin glover appeared on late night with david letterman in 1987 in-character as rubin farr. this caused much confusion to david letterman as he, after almost being kicked in the face by glover, walked off his own set while still on the air. it has never been confirmed by glover whether or not this was a performance.
rubin & ed is an american independent comedy-buddy film written and directed by trent harris and released in 1991. it is about an eccentric, unsociable young man who is forced by his mother to make some friends before she'll return his stereo to him. he is joined on a trip through a desert by a pyramid scheme salesman, to assist in finding a location to bury a frozen cat. crispin glover appeared on late night with david letterman in 1987 in-character as rubin farr. this caused much confusion to david letterman as he, after almost being kicked in the face by glover, walked off his own set while still on the air. it has never been confirmed by glover whether or not this was a performance.