The Wild Party (1975)
- Directed by
- James Ivory
- Genre
- drama film, independent film, comedy drama
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 4.9 of 10 from 22 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An aging silent film star from the 1920s throws a party to try to revive his career by showing his new movie. The event becomes a chaotic and sad evening for the faded entertainer and his guests.
melancholicwistfulslow-burncharacter-drivenbittersweetunderstatedtragicomic
What happens
The Wild Party is a 1975 American comedy-drama film directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant for Merchant Ivory Productions. Loosely based on Joseph Moncure March's narrative poem of the same name, the screenplay is written by Walter Marks, who also composed the score. The plot follows an aging silent movie comic star of the 1920s named Jolly Grimm (James Coco) attempts a comeback by staging a party to show his new film. Shot in Riverside, California, the poem was also made into two musicals, a Broadway show, composed by Michael John LaChiusa, which followed the poem very closely, and an off-Broadway production, composed by Andrew Lippa, which took some artistic liberties but still less than this film. A dance scene was choreographed by Patricia Birch. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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