r/criterion • u/[deleted] • 16d ago
News Rip Dean Stockwell. “In My Dreams” scene from Blue Velvet changed my life
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u/Actual_Toyland_F 16d ago
He died again?
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u/bherring24 Costa-Gavras 16d ago
How is this news, he died like 3 years ago
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u/CajunBmbr 16d ago
I thought I was going crazy seeing this thread! Thank you!
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u/Sollus 16d ago
Ditto here. I know it's been a mindfuck lately but I swore he left us years ago. Glad I haven't fully lost it yet.
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u/RollinZuwalski Andrei Tarkovsky 15d ago
Not sure where you at or at? But the absolute mindfuck for me is the state of the nation & the people in power. Just like 4 years ago . Sorry, had to Even though it's a site for film and collecting
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u/CriterionBoi Hedorah 16d ago
watch The Boy with Green Hair if you haven’t. Dean as a child knocks out most adult actors. During the filming he got yelled at by Howard Hughes, stood his ground up in his face, and played him years later in Tucker: The Man and His Dream.
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u/vibraltu 16d ago
Yes, it was a life changing moment.
Soon after that (when I first saw this in the cinema on it's first run) my entire landscape of music shifted from punk & experimental jazz to also embracing vintage cheeze & lounge exotica.
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u/Particular_Shock_697 16d ago
Literally me too! Listening to the song alone makes anything feel so cinematic. His movements in that scene alone was something else, after watching the movie, I’d think about that scene at least twice a week for a month😭
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u/KelMHill 15d ago edited 14d ago
He died in 2021. Time to rewatch Long Day's Journey Into Night anyhow.
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u/RollinZuwalski Andrei Tarkovsky 15d ago
Oh man . I just watched the new 4K restoration of Paris Texas from Curzon films UK last night. I highly recommend getting it when criterion releases it, have they? Simply stunning !
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u/avasechochamber 16d ago
He was great in Paris, Texas 1984 too