Скачать или смотреть The Loved One Q&A: Haskell Wexler, Anjanette Comer and Robert Morse

Released on October 11, 1965, The Loved One was promoted as "the motion picture with something to offend everyone." Refined English writer Evelyn Waugh made a temporary move to "a little town called Los Angeles," resulting in his satirical novel on which Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood based their script. The Loved One was said to be unfilmmable, and no less a director than Buñuel threw up his hands before Tony Richardson managed to tell the twisted tale of Dennis, a wide-eyed English poet (Robert Morse) who arrives in Los Angeles to visit with his old Hollywood uncle (Sir John Gielgud). Unceremoniously let go from the studio to whom he's dedicated his life, the uncle promptly commits suicide, forcing the boy into a number of horrifically funny situations as well as a romantic entanglement with naïve mortuary cosmetologist, Aimee Thanatogenos (Anjanette Comer). Jonathan Winters plays dual roles as a studio flunky and Reverend Wilbur Glenworthy, calculating owner of Aimee's place of work (loosely based on Forest Lawn). The Loved One also features a completely deranged Rod Steiger as head embalmer, Mr. Joyboy, Paul Williams as a boy genius and Liberace as a coffin salesman, as well as cameos from everyone from Milton Berle to Chick Hearn. The darkest of black comedies, it is a litmus test, very rarely screened, and we dare not give away any more of the plot lest we scare anyone away. This American Cinematheque screening was a demented dream come true, followed by a Q&A with Wexler (who it turns out, had acquired the rights to the book), Annjanette Comer (Aimee) and Robert Morse.

-- Skylaire Alfvegren, LA Weekly