Nick Cave's Proposition
I invoke the "noted in passing" convention for this post. Nick Cave has written a movie. Its called the Proposition : directed by John Hillcoat Imdb it for the standard details The Proposition (2005). It is an Australian epic western. The movie industry does not make enough westerns anymore. People compare this film to Sam Peckinpah's work. I expect from this the movie may have some level of violence... I expect a lot of folk, even folk who read this web log, are thinking "Nick Who?" Cave, Nick Cave. He used to put out records: "the vinyl is so cool, but the conversation's cruel" that sort of thing. That was back when he lived in or around Melbourne and sang with a group called the Boys next Door, later the Birthday Party. Which is the name of a Harold Pinter play. An early song of theirs was named after this film Shivers (1975). He still gets out and about, He turns up on Letterman at odd intervals, with his band the Bad Seeds. I hope everyone got a chance to see them do Bring It On on that show a few years ago. I saw him live once, he had Blixa (Bargeld) with him at that time. I recall hoping that Nick would hand over the microphone for a song, so Blixa could do his cover of Lee Hazelwood's Walking in the Morning Dew. I don't think that happened though. Hazelwood was the guy who wrote "Boots" for Nancy Sinatra
Lee Hazlewood - Wikipedia. I think Nick did do Jack's Shadow, and his song from the Wim Wenders film Wings of Desire. This Salon movie column
Beyond the Multiplex: Nick Cave talks about writing, morality and his tough new movie from last month has a good run-down of the movie followed by a short informative interview with Cave. Nick Cave is the father of twins, Wait, Nick Cave is someone's father? I noticed that when the Washington Post ran down summer movies in their Weekend section (12 May 06) the capsule for the Proposition read "Who's Who: Guy Pearce, Emily Watson, John Hurt, from Screenwriter [~] screenwriter?! [~] Nick Cave... This is the vignette for that: {Copywriter, Copyeditor} CE: "You've some non standard punctuation here, clean that up and resubmit this." CW: "Trust me, it needs to say that." The film should be out in theaters across the country by now. Of course for the entire DC metroplitan area it seems to be showing on only one screen: Bethesda Row. If I manage to see it before it flees the area all together I will be back to write a review.
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