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Avalon (1990) (Patreon)

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2024-12-03 02:17:32
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Content

Armin Mueller-Stahl, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth Perkins, Joan Plowright, Kevin Pollack, Elijah Wood

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Avalon

Comments

Joy M

I haven’t thought about this movie in decades!

Jonathan

Yes this movie is based on stories of his family and friends etc. Michael is the standin for Barry. He wanted to do something to memorialize his families story. He has a total of 4 movies that tell stories from different time periods in his childhood. I was cast to be one of Elijahs cousins in the beginning of the movie but got cut because they had too many cousins to fit the cameras. All of this is filmed on locations. Some of which you’ve seen in the wire. The flashback where Sam met his wife is the courthouse lobby where McNulty was sitting at Avon's trial.

Jonathan

The main reason they were able to do this was because the street where they lived in the city was all about to be torn down to build Camden Yards Stadium so they were on a time crunch to get everything shot, but it was all abandoned so they could use it easily for filming. The suburbs is the neighborhood in which Barry grew up his parents lived right down the street. 1990 was a great time in Baltimore because the old buildings were still there. The movie theater is still in operation it’s the second oldest theater in continuous use in the country. Every film filmed in the Baltimore area usually has a premiere there. I was there for the streetcar crash which was filmed nowhere near the theater. The cars were a mixture of from collectors and a car company out of NJ. We used them for another much lower budget period film a couple years later.

Jonathan

The 4 Baltimore films are all independent stories but Barry puts little Easter eggs in to show it’s sort of the same “world”. The Easter egg in this one is you see the building of the Diner from Diner (thank you to whoever paid for that one I was seriously considering it if you’d liked this movie)

Jonathan

I have a few memories of the cast from when I was on, set for the few days rehearsing/staging things. Joan really reminded me of my grandmother and I really loved that she ended up playing in the Dennis the Menace movie a couple years later. Elijah was very nervous he was going to screw something up. He really wasn’t looking forward to the fire scenes in case he actually did set something on fire, but he was a fun but serious professional kid. We were all impressed because back to the future two with his one scene came out while we were filming this. I remembered Kevin from this movie, and when I completely fell in love with filmmaking, after seeing a few good men, I sent him a letter via his agent congratulating him. He sent me a signed script, saying if you write a better one you better cast me in that too.

JVTrickypants

I won't usually purchase a movie just to watch along with you guys, but when I saw this one I didn't even hesitate. It is an absolutely beautiful movie and I'm happy to now own a digital copy. Also, I somewhat stole a line from this movie to make a joke I still use because I'm a bit of a grammar Nazi - From "Can I use the bathroom?" I changed it to "I realized words and grammar meant to much to me when a girl sent me a text message that said, 'Hey, can I blow you later?' I immediately responded with, 'I don't know....CAN you????' I mean, it should be may I....and you should have learned this in the 3rd grade.....the grammar part, not the blowjob part!!" Also everyone in my family knows "You cut the turkey????"

Youtalkingtome
>>157131647

Wow, that's amazing. I can't believe you got to experience that. Kevin Pollock sounds like an absolute delight as well.

Jonathan
>>157130337

Tin Men was after Diner and Liberty Heights is sort of a spiritual sequel to this

Jeff

This is so great that you're watching this just before watching "Diner"! I haven't seen this since it was first in theaters, and it really hits me differently now that I'm 34 years older. Regarding the television channels: in 1950, the three networks did not have 24 hour programming. During the day the programming was left to the local stations who usually didn't have their own programs, so the test pattern was shown until the network shows began. I'm old enough to remember when the evening programs would end late at night, and the stations would sign off with the "Star Spangled Banner" before going black.

Youtalkingtome
>>157179609

When I was a little kid, I think the networks were still signing off with "The Star Spangled Banner" when they signed off for the night.

Joy M
>>157118841

There was a great Gary David Goldberg show around this time in the early 90’s called Brooklyn Bridge. It was a family sitcom about Eastern European Jewish grandparents who lived in the same Brooklyn apartment building as the kids and grandkids in the 1950s. It has a 100% rating on rotten tomatoes. It had an amazing cast. It had a similar feel to this.