So not only do we shoot La Caada as the stand-in for our kind of upper middle-class neighborhood, but we also shoot in the deeper parts of the Valley more north, like Sylmar, where it [suggests a different class]., Yeah, Sylmar was more the latter half of the film, feeling all the dread and the emptiness, continued Broyles. Ham on Rye is a 1982 semi-autobiographical novel by American author and poet Charles Bukowski. But part of what makes Ham on Rye special is how dutifully it avoids the lack of depth that usually accompanies utilizing deliberately generic settings. Distributor: Factory 25 Were not told when the film is taking place, or where the film is taking place, or even whats the deal with this big local event all the kids are moving towards. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. Can anyone explain the end of 'Ham on Rye'? if you want to talk Nietzsche, bukowski always reminds me of Nietzsche's passages on the morality of ressentiment/resentment. As recently as four years ago the films now-29-year-old director, Tyler Taormina, maintained a website for his then-new webseries Suburban Legends, which starred Haley Bodell as Poll Flowerpot, a 12-year-old cynic [who] discovers the absurdities of the world; the site is down now, but if you search around you can still find all three episodes on certain video-uploading hubs. Fontana, Ernest. Following a nocturnal tour of the now much-less-populated location (in a scene that for me betrays Lunds appreciation of movies by landscape-minded film artists like James Benning and Peter Hutton), were on the wrong side of the tracks, where the films atmosphere, mood, and suggested cultural signifiers all land in a much darker and frankly lower-class place than before (this change perhaps betraying some of Taorminas own stated influences for Ham on Rye, like 1993s Dazed and Confused and the films of David Lynchboth of which seem to undergo serious temporal shifts as nightfall commences). Detail fetishism, he begins, before starting a new thought. Genre: Comedy. Brewer, Gay. A longtime film critic for Slant Magazine among other publications, he began writing reviews for our paper earlier this summerthough I first met him long before that, in 2014, when we had a conversation at the Harvard Film Archive regarding the films of director Wojciech J. This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register. There's a girl called Haley who features more than most of the other characters, but mostly it just shows all the different kids. I think in the first half the film is trying to make that same impression for the viewer a little bitall of this excess, all of this gravity thats applied to the mundane but ends up meaning so much [later on] that attention to the details of mise en scne was part of what made me interested in working on it. Has. For example, Henry's parents, like Bukowski's, had met in Germany after World War I. keys best up at one end of the piano where there was hardly any sound at all-- the sound the keys made was like chips of ice striking against one another. They need to prove something to themselves. Subscribe for full access to The Hollywood Reporter. Today is David Lynchs birthday, so its appropriate to be thinking about rotting picket fences right now. Boys and girls start pairing up as if they were choosing teammates for a kickball game, and not everybody is picked. 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Watch through virtual cinemas. Director of photography: Carson Lund 1985. READ MORE: The 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2021. In a varied ensemble of more than a hundred (many of them nonactors), just a few of them get names, and only a few more get to say or do enough things to project any kind of identity beyond their appearance. The destination of the walking kids is, well, a delicatessen, and this is where the films similarities to coming-of-age movies like Dazed and Confused ends. Nothing but alienation. I think you could read Ham on Rye along those exact linesits not cute anymoreand come away with a pretty fair understanding of the film. He only wanted to be left alone to drink. Composer: Deuter, Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day. Chinaski relates that he has an abusive father, and his mother does nothing to stop his father's abuse. Its roots go that far down, and spread that far wide under the strange earth of the American suburb. But it is also Inauguration Day 2021 and Ham on Rye is heartening evidence that even throughout the last few years of permanent, screeching crisis, there have been filmmakers paying attention to the smaller things, to the more mundane cruelties of our world, that will require much more than a change of administration to address. and I read PO, HOR, Women in that order, personally, just because I found PO first. Charles Bukowski. Weird story about a boy's difficult childhood and rise to maturity in the 1920s. The first part of the picture bounces around in an unnamed town (it was shot in the San Fernando Valley) that is dubiously situated in time: We see cellphones only a few times, and nothing about costumes, hair or background music roots us firmly in the present. This study guide consists of approx. He has served as a supernumerary with the San Francisco Opera for years without getting to sing a single note on stage! Brewer, Gay. We were pulling from those reference points a little bit. 65. Thats as misleading as calling Eraserhead a reluctant-groom rom-com. Taorminas youth are on their way to adulthood through ritual. Producers: David Croley Broyles, Michael Basta, Carson Lund, Sergio Uguet de Resayre, David Entin I was able to participate in a group reading of that last work quite recently and found it, somewhat predictably, to be exceptionally pictorial in natureeven on the page. Girls primp their frou-frou dresses and exchange back-spinning compliments according to arcane queen bee hierarchies, before posing on stairways as parents twitter and coo at them with cameras. A few clumps of friends are slowly making their way to the nights festivities (why are they practically all on foot? Bukowski keeps his descriptions of his hometown grounded in reality, paying more attention to the people that make up Los Angeles than to the city itself. Gleaning a sense from all these excessive details, these things you dont strictly need to see for the sake of narrative momentum, but that maybe overwhelm the characters, who are young, angsty, and kind of overwhelmed by life. Well come to identify most with Haley (Haley Bodell), a mild-mannered girl who, like her two friends (Audrey Boos and Gabriella Herrara), is more dressed for a conventional school dance than most attendees. Charles Bukowski (16 August 1920 - 9 March 1994) was a German born American poet, novelist and short story writer. His lack of publishing success at this time caused him to give up writing in 1946 and spurred a ten-year stint of heavy drinking. Michael Berkowitz, a veteran of the civil rights and anti-war movements, has been Land Use Planning Consultant to the government of China for many years. Ham on Rye is the kind of he movie that oozes off the screen as if fresh-squeezed from a brain addled with too much television and '90s junk, too many blended memories of lazy cookouts and . Carson Lund's superb cinematography, apparently influenced by photographers like William Eggleston and Stephen Shore, picks out boys riding skateboards, borrowing Dad's Volvo, and talking about the crucial [] [1] Scenes outside of Los Angeles show Chinaski as an intruder, as with an early scene where he and his family are chased out of an orange grove. , and what does it give her? The main character was a boy, born in Germany, then moved to the US, where he grew up. They literally haunt my dreams.. [3] It begins with Chinaski's early memories. She was 12, and now shes 18 going on 19 The fun little tidbit I like to say about working with her on these projects is that I only realized during the rehearsals, which was a months-long process, that the character of Haley in, is actually the same character as Poll Flowerpot from, , her curiosity always brings her closer to other peoplethats what her youth afforded to her. Always an outsider. 1985. Ham on Rye isn't a film about buried secrets. Like a spectre left haunting the grounds after her fellows have moved on, the Haley character spends the second half of Ham on Rye in emptied-out spaces like bedrooms and street curbs, completing the articulation of a metatextual idea first initiated by those kids-television cameosthe image of the child stars left behind. Cookie policy. Henry is not athletic but wants to be and therefore tries hard to improve. Production companies: Tago Clearing Film Studio, Omnes Films Twayne Publishers, New York, 1997. p. 36, 42, 43. Are we here alone? He becomes alienated from the children at school simply for somehow being different in a way that none of them could ever coherently articulate. Its a day were going to remember for the rest of our lives, says the opening dialogue, and the generic phrasing blurs certain lines to build upon the very particular biorhythmic point where Taorminas movie takes place: A kid who says that might be talking about their prom, or about having sex, or about moving out, or maybe even about school graduation, among other possibilitiesbut no matter what, theyre probably talking about something meant to happen in the period that weve come to calling the teenage years. Press J to jump to the feed. Has. Editor: Kevin Anton 5 (3): 48, Fontana, Ernest. This deliberately coy prologue begets the opening credits sequence (introducing characters with more close-ups of little details, like a tie being fastened or a nail being painted), which then feeds directly into the films real first section, where for about 20 minutes small cliques of seemingly high school-aged kids walk through various neighborhoods on their way to an unspoken happening thats eventually revealed to be a literal ceremony at the center of Taorminas debut feature. has successfully conjured up a cinematic space where all those aforementioned experiences have been quite purposefully blended together, forming a sunlit anxiety dream of a generic suburban upbringing. Haley (Haley Bodell), the closest the film has to a protagonist, flees the deli ceremony, casting herself off as Amy Irving's character was cast off in Carrie. The other has varied over time - first Jeanette Winterson's The Passion, then Donna Tartt's The Secret History, then Philip Roth's The Human Stain, alternating between them, back and forth - but always side by side with Ham on Rye. thats eventually revealed to be a literal ceremony at the center of Taorminas debut feature. Reaktion Books, London, 2012. p. 146. Written in the first person, the novel follows Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's thinly veiled alter ego, during his early years. He has only slightly better results in baseball. Where Kaufman jams his long sweeping camera shots and claustrophobic car journey with anxious forced repartee, Taormina pushes his lens uncomfortably close for extended runs with little dialogue. I doubt if it would be published in modern times (first published in 1982). works to give young adulthood some of its ceremony back. Dilbert is gone from Americas comics pages: Creator Scott Adams is The Lifespan of a Fact explores the world of true-ish journalism, The Rosenberg Case: A play reading, one night only, Congress punts decision on draft registration into 2022 or 2023. That was very hard to find. The kids have phones, but they seem to be flip-tops, seldom used, and when later some of the older boys glide off into the night on more modish electronic hoverboards, somehow the contradiction doesnt disrupt the films own little enclosed continuum. Without giving away too much, lets say the rest of the plot recalls the great Shirley Jackson story The Lottery. But theres no overt horror element, or violence, here. As Henry begins High School, his father, who is experiencing downward inter-generational socioeconomic mobility, makes him go to a private school where he fits in even less amongst all the well-heeled, spoiled rich kids with their flashy, colorful, convertible sports cars and beautiful girlfriends. Of course the same is true of books, films, and everything gathered under the sunit all goes eventually. When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. I trust that I am in honest company when I confide this, but still I am tentative to say it. In my opinion it was like a "time to grow the fuck up" wake up call for Charles. Boston Celtics well represented at 2023 NBA All-Star game. 4 [deleted] 2 yr. ago Ham on Rye opened at the Brattle Theatres Virtual Cinema on October 23, where it remains available to rent now. And I think we took that philosophy and mindset and applied it to everything. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Throughout the course of the novel, Bukowski develops his misanthropic anti-hero character that is seen in his other works like Post Office and Hollywood. Then the something-weird happens and "Ham on Rye" turns its attention to the teenagers who weren't at the dance: Haley, who left in a pique of embarrassment after being passed over by a boy . To make matters worse, Chinaski develops horrible acne so severe that he has to undergo painful, and mostly ineffective, treatments, essentially becoming a human guinea pig for various experiments thought up by his uninterested doctors. Henry agrees to teach little kid how to play a game and by the end of it he just walks out. As Chinaski progresses through grammar school, the focus of Henry's attention is on sports, violence, and girls. It's not PC, perhaps that's part of its appeal. Not sure why, but I really liked this. As a prequel to Bukowski's previous novels, Ham on Rye depicts the origin and development of many of the reoccurring themes of his work as well as the persona of Henry Chinaski. Twayne Publishers, New York, 1997. p. 36, 39, 40. We didnt want anything to seem like it was supposed to speak to some general moral or lesson, [but to] just let the mood and the vibe point in those directions instead we couldve very easily ruined the film with just a few lines of dialogue, I think, and Eric was very commandeering about us not doing that.. Taormina splits Ham on Rye into two tonally and thematically distinct segments: a sunny teenaged slice of life, followed by a grimmer, quieter look at what happens after the sun goes down. But things like that were very important [to me]. Following a nocturnal tour of the now much-less-populated location (in a scene that for me betrays Lund's appreciation . But what once had to burn or perish can now simply vanish between clicks, and without even the slightest hint of ceremony. Viewers will likely feel similarly connected to the characters whether they graduated high school in the 60s or last spring. . The girls talk about fashion and popularity. [2] The story takes place at home, at his different schools, at the doctor's office (for his never-ending acne treatments) and at various other locales around town. We learn more from the young peoples dress, groupings and actions than from the sparse and often inaudible dialogue. Promotional materials bill Tyler Taorminas Ham on Rye as a coming-of-age comedy, comparing it to Dazed and Confused and John Hughes films. All the dread and the emptiness is what comes up after the big Monty's scene, when day turns to night, and when most of Ham on Rye's first-half cast disappears from the picture. 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