Steve Tucker Movies
- 1999
Renowned experimental artist Matthew Barney directs this lyrical, challenging work about America, mythology, and death. Believing that his grandmother had an affair with Harry Houdini (Norman Mailer), noted murderer Gary Gilmore (Barney) wanders through the afterlife -- depicted here as a gold-colored honeycomb maze filled with two-stepping cowboys and rodeos -- hoping to find the magician. In the process, Barney constructs a personal narrative from elements and symbols of the American west. Cremaster 2 was shot on high-definition digital video and transferred to 35mm. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Norman Mailer, Matthew Barney, (more)
- 1992
Philosophical musings punctuate and perhaps even motivate the activity of Jim, who is on an inconclusive quest through forest and lake country. One of his goals, apparently, is to meet the author of the book "Mick Prophet" so as to better understand his work. Jim is assisted in his quest by Kym (who reads excerpts of the book to him), a real-estate agent (who is one guise of the prophet), and a young guttersnipe whose speech is peppered with vulgarities. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1980
The Skid Row derelicts that occupy most of the screen time in this uneven drama about the effects of alcohol addiction do nothing to gain an audience's sympathy. Sam (Donald Moffat) has kicked his habit and picked himself up out of the gutter only to find that no avenues are open to take him away from the gutter. Then he learns that his friend C.G. (Ralph Waite, also the director) is in trouble. As one sequence of aimless, drunken behavior follows another and the audience is regaled by C.G.'s commentaries delivered in an alcoholic stupor, it is hard to understand why Sam is teetering on the brink of sloshing around in this world again. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ralph Waite, Donald Moffat, (more)
