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YsabellWeatherwax
@YsabellWeatherwax

“Gytha Ogg, you wouldn’t be a witch if you couldn’t jump to conclusions, right?”

Nanny nodded. “Oh, yes.” There was no shame in it. Sometimes there wasn’t time to do anything else but take a flying leap. Sometimes you had to trust to experience and intuition and general awareness and take a running jump. Nanny herself could clear quite a tall conclusion from a standing start.

― Terry Pratchett, Maskerade

MayaGay
@MayaGay

RIP Shelley Duvall

I just watched Altman's Popeye last night and was struck by her performance. Sweet and funny and weird and kinda messed up, all in one, all over the other.

Her collaborations with Altman are the stuff of legend. Buffalo Bill and the Indians. McCabe & Mrs. Miller. Brewster McCloud. 3 Women. Nashville. That alone would be worthy of any Hollywood royalty status. But on top of that you have The Shining, Time Bandits, Twilight of the Ice Nymphs. And who can forget Suburban Commando? She was always a light on the screen, and if you haven't had a chance to watch her series Faerie Tale Theatre now is as good a time as any to catch up.

She wasn't really treated right by Hollywood, not really. Her willowy earnestnest and doe eyed zeal wasn't seen for the magic that it was in her time. Much has been said about Kubrick's treatment of her on The Shining set (and the fact she gave such a phenomenal performance is only a testament to her skill as an actress) and her self exile from the film industry in the years after. But I want to share something director Guy Maddin shared on Instagram a couple days ago:

Happy Birthday, Shelley Duvall! In 1996, I worked with Sunday birthday girl Shelley Duvall on a movie called Twilight of the Ice Nymphs. What an astonishingly warm and wonderful person she was! Pure delight, generous with laughter and stories (Kubrick! Altman!), and alarmingly friendly with everyone she met, from crew members on set to the countless Manitoba folk we met on the many road trips we took deep into the countryside after she extended her stay by a few weeks when shooting wrapped. I rode shotgun while she took the wheel and decided where we would go -- and we went everywhere possible in this vast province. Careening wildly down the highway, she was frequently overwhelmed by how big and blue our skies were and, suddenly rolling down her window, with one of her dozen disposable cameras joyously fired off shots straight up at that azure prairie dome, chucking the spent cameras into the back seat as they filled with images. (I picked up the developed photos later, hundreds of them, all blue and nothing else!) She loved it up here, and we all loved her! On set, Shelley once wished out loud that someone would make a movie with "just time- lapse clouds." Production diarist Caelum Vatnsdal included this wish in his account of the shoot. Years later, my filmmaker friend Andy Smetanka read Caelum's diary and decided to make the cloud movie for Shelley. He asked his Finnish friend Jarmo Saari if he would compose a score, and he did! His work for Theremin and glass harp is beautiful! And so here it is! Shelley's film! Just in time for her birthday. The full 10-minute version linked below. Andy: "I wish more movie ideas turned into movies as effortlessly as Drifting Clouds--a product of housebound COVID restlessness that refreshed my ties to Jarmo (a Finnish national treasure!) and to two of my favorite Winnipeggers, Guy and Caelum, who unwittingly set things in motion a quarter-century earlier. What better way to present this collaboration, finally, than as a fond birthday wish to the woman who inspired it.

One of the greatest American film actresses. Rest in peace.