This weekend, I attended Butt-Numb-A-Thon at the Alamo Drafthouse. BNAT is a 24 hour celebration of Ain’t It Cool News’ birthday. You go in totally blind with no prior knowledge of the films that will be playing. Half are new and sometimes world premieres and half are repertory pictures. This year, we were treated to Martin Scorsese’s new film, SHUTTER ISLAND. Seeing this film made me go back and start digging for a film he had made that I had wanted to see for a long while and I actually found it on YouTube in its entirety. The film is called AMERICAN BOY: A PROFILE OF STEVEN PRINCE. It’s essentially Scorsese and some friends pointing a camera at the VERY interesting Prince and letting him tell stories about his one-of-a-kind life. Most of you would probably recognize Prince as Easy Andy the gun dealer from TAXI DRIVER:
Terror Tuesday’s Zack Carlson and Weird Wednesday’s Lars Nilsen had been recommending this movie to me for a long time and I’m very foolish to just now be watching it. The stories he tells in this film are truly amazing and are so detailed they couldn’t be made up. I’m guessing Quentin Tarantino has seen this film before, too. I won’t say what makes me think that exactly, but if you watch the six part film below, you’ll know what I mean. Let me know what you think of it in the comments!
THE FIRST PIECE ISN’T ALLOWED TO BE EMBEDDED SO CLICK HERE TO VIEW IT. THE REST ARE BELOW.
-Justin
Steven retold one of his stories from American Boy in the animated movie I was in in 2000, Waking Life. They kind of threw everything and the kitchen sink into that movie to see if anything would stick and I think Steven Prince was living in Austin at the time (he may still be). Nice guy. I was tempted to ask him for a gun and a tank of nitrous oxide.
its a great film. when i saw the headline i thought i was going to see an american boy poster! that would have been sweet.
Back in the dark days of vhs in the uk this was a rare treat and took a lot of hunting down. I remember seeing this and “whos that knocking at my door” and being totally blown away. Also worth tracking down is the Scorsese interview on the Southbank show when he is promoting raging bull. He is very intense and sporting a thick beard!
You get intense and hairy when you have been snorting enormous rails of blow off Liza Minelli’s cheeks for a month.
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