Which have a bit of psychedelia to them, and that gauzy look. Distributor: Factory 25 It focuses instead on the vaguely insidious side of life that we not only tolerate, but embrace. Henry agrees to teach little kid how to play a game and by the end of it he just walks out. Ham on Rye Review: Coming of Age, With Existential Unease, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/movies/ham-on-rye-review.html, From left, Haley Bodell, Gabriella Herrera and Audrey Boos in Ham on Rye.. In this case, the transgression is, oddly enough, staying at home with your familyand its definitely not a cool one. And then some of them are magicked away, a process that happens here with a crude, pencil-eraser-style effect the whole film is drenched in old-fashioned stylistic flourishes, that somehow manage not to foreground themselves but create a mood of heightened ambiguity: long, slow-fading dissolves; abrupt sound edits; janky close-ups; and sudden, non-sequitur inserts, like of a father giving his son a manly, go-get-em pep talk. However, he rarely is completely confident with his own abilities and often second-guesses himself. Though of course Taormina can pull the episodes whenever he wants, or Youtube or Vimeo could take them down for any reason including none whatsoever, and then theyd be left to a small handful of hard drives, at most, where a random crash might erase them on any given sunday. Brewer, Gay. Following a nocturnal tour of the now much-less-populated location (in a scene that for me betrays Lunds appreciation of movies by landscape-minded film artists like James Benning and Peter Hutton), were on the wrong side of the tracks, where the films atmosphere, mood, and suggested cultural signifiers all land in a much darker and frankly lower-class place than before (this change perhaps betraying some of Taorminas own stated influences for, and the films of David Lynchboth of which seem to undergo serious temporal shifts as nightfall commences). Director Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) ratchets up American gothic to psychological horror as he distorts time, place and relationships, scattering uneasy references to the musical Oklahoma, the film Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, and poetryIntimations of Immortality. Louisa may be thinking of ending itbut Jake may actually be the one to end it after all! Screenwriters: Tyler Taormina, Eric Berger Are we here alone? Quiet and carefully made but cryptic, it relies on the viewer to complete its metaphors. Like Henry, the rest of the Chinaskis are modeled after Bukowski's own family. Same goes for something that Taormina said to, in early 2019, which seems way too key not to reproduce here: The script was born through that feeling of nervous confrontation to [rituals] and then it bloomed into What happens to those who dont get selected?,, Yet by placing its emphasis on the shared cultural detritus of American teenagerdom, like all those tokens of first cars and first kisses seen in the loving insert shots that dominate the first halfrather than underlining its more specific themes or subtexts (which Broyles, Lund, and Taormina say were pared back even further than expected during editing), reaches a very interior place: an evocation of an experience, or maybe even just a feeling, rather than a, Transgression becomes even more unfathomable when an entire global generation seems to share the same path in gentrifying the cities, Taormina, (also suggesting one of his films many productive contradictionsthat its a lament for the loss of a suburban experience produced almost exclusively in urban spaces). Director of photography: Carson Lund Promotional materials bill Tyler Taorminas Ham on Rye as a coming-of-age comedy, comparing it to Dazed and Confused and John Hughes films. One also notices that while before the dialogue was ambiguously foreshadowing, now its ambiguously looking backwards (the way Lund put it is, in the second half the dialogue becomes more textural than expository.) And this all leads to a backyard cookout populated by a large group including some faces at least vaguely familiar to viewers of the millennial demographic: Lori Beth Denberg of All That (1994-98), Danny Tamberelli and Aaron Schwartz of The Mighty Ducks (1992) and The Adventures of Pete & Pete (1992-96), and Clayton Snyder of Lizzie McGuire (2001-04). We had done a music video right before going into production on this that was very psychedelic, with a lot of superimpositions and really garish lighting schemes, so maybe that was feeding into it as well.. I just thought, I knew the actor, the kid wed hired for that role, and I knew I wanted to have an object kind of move from the kids space to the [adults] space, and I also very pointedly wanted it to be handled very differently by these two people I dont know. To make matters worse, Chinaski develops horrible acne so severe that he has to undergo painful, and mostly ineffective, treatments, essentially becoming a human guinea pig for various experiments thought up by his uninterested doctors. Then the ba-boom of a Phil Spector-ish anthem kicks in (by a 60s girl group called The Teardrops), and things get serious. What defines Ham on Rye insteadoverwhelming all the foreshadowing and other narrative suggestions littered throughout its first halfare its faces (even the youngest ones seem tired and weathered, like kids in films made before our time), its sense of humor (which comes out via strange turns in dialogue and even stranger turns in performance, like a small boys mechanical golf-clap or a moms oversized chomps at lunch), and its numerous motifs, which include picture frames and oblique references to swine. His father was a mean-mouthed man who never showed his son any love or compassion. Nothing but alienation. Haley (Haley Bodell), the closest the film has to a protagonist, flees the deli ceremony, casting herself off as Amy Irving's character was cast off in Carrie. He has served as a supernumerary with the San Francisco Opera for years without getting to sing a single note on stage! Charles Bukowski. And Tyler loves grunge from the 90s. As Mass Reconsiders Life Without Parole For 18 To 20-year-olds, Will Race Matter? This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. Reaktion Books, London, 2012. p. 146. He becomes alienated from the children at school simply for somehow being different in a way that none of them could ever coherently articulate. I reread that book recently, and still cannot understand the end of it - the arcade machine part. In other parts of town, slightly older kids, a bit disheveled and aimless, drive around in cars, tune guitars and look dissatisfied. He only wanted to be left alone to drink. But then, ringleader Gwen (Audrey Boos) really has to shit and skips across a lawn to up to a house, and however, the shot is framed and lit, it looks like 70s De Palma, all glowy and romantic with a foretaste of horror. And itll cause you a lotta grief. and come away with a pretty fair understanding of the film. Ham on Rye is a 1982 semi-autobiographical novel by American author and poet Charles Bukowski. Throughout the course of the novel, Bukowski develops his misanthropic anti-hero character that is seen in his other works like Post Office and Hollywood. Ham on Rye is a 1982 semi- autobiographical novel by American author and poet Charles Bukowski. This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register. Production companies: Tago Clearing Film Studio, Omnes Films Filed Under: A+E, Film. So not only do we shoot La Caada as the stand-in for our kind of upper middle-class neighborhood, but we also shoot in the deeper parts of the Valley more north, like Sylmar, where it [suggests a different class]., Yeah, Sylmar was more the latter half of the film, feeling all the dread and the emptiness, continued Broyles. More curious about the origin of the prop than about its meaning, I asked Taormina where the small plaything came from. A hauntingly. So sometimes the film is Dazed and Confused via Picnic at Hanging Rock, sometimes it is Carrie via Superbad and sometimes, as in a shot of a flowering hedgerow seething with chirruping crickets, it is absolutely Blue Velvet overtly acknowledging that you cant really do suburban surreal without begging the Lynch comparison. Written in Bukowski's characteristically straightforward prose, the novel tells of his coming-of-age in Los Angeles during the Great Depression. The hoagie sandwiches arrive right before the ceremony itself, which blends the standard beats of school dances with suggestions of awkward youthful sex and celebratory school graduations, not to mention just about every other young-adult maturation ritual you can think of, at a spot named Montys Deli. One also notices that while before the dialogue was ambiguously foreshadowing, now its ambiguously looking backwards (the way Lund put it is, in the second half the dialogue becomes more textural than expository.) And this all leads to a backyard cookout populated by a large group including some faces at least vaguely familiar to viewers of the millennial demographic: Lori Beth Denberg of, (1994-98), Danny Tamberelli and Aaron Schwartz of, The one character that carries over from the pre-ceremony segments to the post- is Haley, played by the same Haley Bodell of, , whose only acting credits to date are for Taormina. Cinematic didacticism has given way to filmmakers content to raise questions they wont or cant answer. If this novel is basically autobiographical, the author leaves himself no place to hide. As Chinaski progresses through grammar school, the focus of Henry's attention is on sports, violence, and girls. The few friends he made he drove away with his hatefulness. Werent most of us? Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Henry is not athletic but wants to be and therefore tries hard to improve. Jake seems intent on displaying his shaky self-worth. Its depiction of the American Suburbs feels less like a screenwriters nostalgia trick and more like the visual translation of a genuinely mental image, rich with detail and specificity. This interview with the Ham on Rye crew was facilitated by Lund, whose byline you might recognize from DigBoston itself. has successfully conjured up a cinematic space where all those aforementioned experiences have been quite purposefully blended together, forming a sunlit anxiety dream of a generic suburban upbringing. A stylish twist on the end-of-high-school dramedy, Tyler Taormina 's " Ham on Rye " offers the ethereal echoes of "The Virgin Suicides" with the gossamer veil of a humid summer's day . For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Like his previous autobiographical novels, Ham on Rye centers on the life of Henry Chinaski, this time during his childhood and teenage years. For example, Henry's parents, like Bukowski's, had met in Germany after World War I. I think in the first half the film is trying to make that same impression for the viewer a little bitall of this excess, all of this gravity thats applied to the mundane but ends up meaning so much [later on] that attention to the details of mise en scne was part of what made me interested in working on it. So, , was the realization I made about her character.. Executive producers: Tyler Taormina, Eric Berger, Kevin Anton Brewer, Gay. In my opinion it was like a "time to grow the fuck up" wake up call for Charles. The girls talk about fashion and popularity. We didnt want anything to seem like it was supposed to speak to some general moral or lesson, [but to] just let the mood and the vibe point in those directions instead we couldve very easily ruined the film with just a few lines of dialogue, I think, and Eric was very commandeering about us not doing that.. The parents dramatically age and regress throughout the evening. Charles Bukowski. About to read Post office next. Its kind of about how you grow up and curiosityespecially curiosity about systems and societal functionsis not welcomed. ". In a varied ensemble of more than a hundred (many of them nonactors), just a few of them get names, and only a few more get to say or do enough things to project any kind of identity beyond their appearance. At the start of the film, before the dance, you get a sense of the excitement and hope for the future. It became about the suburbs I grew up in, and those teenagers left when college began and they didnt come back and a whole generation of teenagers disappeared and who was left? Taormina sets us in suburban America, among high school students, walking through a social ritual of conversation, dance, and food at a local deli. 5 (3): 6. Inside the shop, the boys form one line, the girls another, music begins and, with hand gestures for language, the kids pair off into couples. This was a book I would rather not have read. Twayne Publishers, New York, 1997. p. 36, 39, 40. Brewer, Gay. 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But in the bazillion short stories and poems and recorded interviews, you do eventually start to hear some of the same stories again. As they wend their way through more or less quiet streets, the boys talk, crudely but with awkward innocence, about sex. Charles Bukowski. Ham on Rye isn't a film about buried secrets. The destination of the walking kids is, well, a delicatessen, and this is where the films similarities to coming-of-age movies like Dazed and Confused ends. Ham on Rye makes no such assurances which of course makes it more honest, even if its oblique lessons will be heard by a tiny, tiny fraction of the number who navigated adolescence by the. Ham on Rye makes no such assurances which of course makes it more honest, even if its oblique lessons will be heard by a tiny, tiny fraction of the number who navigated adolescence by the. 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As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. [3] It begins with Chinaski's early memories. Charles Bukowski (16 August 1920 - 9 March 1994) was a German born American poet, novelist and short story writer. While its eventually seen that some of the kids have mobile phones, Taormina purposefully dresses his cast and designs their environment in a way that throws them into a sort of temporal never-never land. So to both make and spruce up the required disclosure, let me say that I not only consider Carson Lund a close friend, but that I also consider myself a dedicated fanof. The Review of Contemporary Fiction. To make matters worse, Chinaski develops horrible acne so severe that he has to undergo painful, and mostly ineffective, treatments, essentially becoming a human guinea pig for various experiments thought up by his uninterested doctors. , Taormina said. Ham On Rye was an absolutely enthralling experience and taking this journey with Henry "Hank" Chinaski was nothing short of a delight. It may not display this or other websites correctly. Transgression becomes even more unfathomable when an entire global generation seems to share the same path in gentrifying the cities, Taormina wrote for an interview published by Film Comment (also suggesting one of his films many productive contradictionsthat its a lament for the loss of a suburban experience produced almost exclusively in urban spaces). Now, as a memory growing more distant every day, all thats left is the dreamlike impressions of these places Ive loved so much and then abandoned. Chinaski relates that he has an abusive father, and his mother does nothing to stop his father's abuse. On the spectacularly well-chosen soundtrack, sixties bubblegum pop sits alongside electronic drones and the inspired reclamation of German New Age flautist Deuters shimmery, folk-horror melodies. Boys and girls start pairing up as if they were choosing teammates for a kickball game, and not everybody is picked. Interesting view into the life of a boy who just never caught a break. Throughout the course of the novel, Bukowski develops his misanthropic anti-hero character that is seen in his other works like Post Office and Hollywood. The air is often dead, even when people are ostensibly being social: Asking a question or making an observation is no guarantee anyone will say anything in reply. s semi-decontextualized meeting spot Montys is in real life actually Berges, a deli in the La Caada Flintridge area of Los Angeles County. 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Press J to jump to the feed. Of course the same is true of books, films, and everything gathered under the sunit all goes eventually. Where Kaufman jams his long sweeping camera shots and claustrophobic car journey with anxious forced repartee, Taormina pushes his lens uncomfortably close for extended runs with little dialogue. 1985. And with the exception of a couple of surprising mood changes on the dance floor and off, thats about all in the film you could describe as a plot. Editor: Kevin Anton Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is Copyright 2009-2022, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Same goes for something that Taormina said to AwardsDaily in early 2019, which seems way too key not to reproduce here: The script was born through that feeling of nervous confrontation to [rituals] and then it bloomed into What happens to those who dont get selected?, he said back then. 0:00 / 1:45 Ham on Rye Theatrical Trailer Factory 25 618 subscribers Subscribe 247 Share 33K views 2 years ago "Ham on Rye has the uncanny echo of a disturbing real-life dream. 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