well let me help you in here so you can rest by my fire...
a simple and poignant movie that seems to me an indie film before indie was a word. Glad I watched it.
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I want to get a copy of Tomorrow, both in writing and the movie. How can I do this?
Well, Papajimbob .. First thing ya gotta do is change that name! Don't ya know that people with three names can't be trusted.. That's Gary Busey's line. It was a joke.
Ahh that movie.. William Faulkner's short story "Tomorrow" is in a collection of stories called "Knight's Gambit". It's one of his best books and you may find it at Abe's Books on the net out here, or on any of the other 45.000 used book stores online... Myself, I've been looking for the complete short stories of Erskine Caldwell in hard back.
Tomorow is one of my very favorite movies. I first saw it early one morning on the Independent Film Channel "IFC." Good thing they usually play morning movies later in the day sometimes because I lost a day of sleep waiting for it with my VHS tape sweating in the turned on machine. I must have watched the film 30 times in the last few years. And when I do get the urge, it's always at about 5:30 am, the breakng twilight of day..
It shouldn't be too difficult to find the film. It's out on DVD now..
Olga Bellin was wonderful... so beautiful, fragile and saintly.
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Gary Busey is always full of wisdom! Erskine Caldwell is great, too. What a solid post!
Since you've watched this movie more than once. Here's something I've been trying to find out. On the DVD when you put it on "Menu" and it's on the title. There is a lovely guitar piece playing. Sometimes I just put the DVD on to listen to it. Beautiful. Do you happen to know who that is playing? Thanks in advance!
The only name in the credits in regards to this film's music is Irwin Stahl. Stahl was a composer/arranger and music teacher out of NYC. He taught jazz guitar and was a fine jazz guitarist himself. "Tomorrow" was the only film he ever worked on. It's quite possible he himself played these stark, moving pieces we hear in this picture. A blending of two old pieces of pure Americana together in a new arrangement. ("I Am A Pilgrim and a Stranger" and "Wayfarin Stranger") makes up the whole of this soundtrack. I believe the piece you love has a banjo as a main instrument? Am I correct? The fact that this movie was made on an obvious shoestring budget makes the music arranger/player an entirely plausable scenerio.
Tomorrow is one of my "go to" pictures. It has something not many, or possibley not any, other film has. The atmosphere in this movie is overwhelming and to think Faulkner mentioned the female lead only in passing in his original short story making the real genuis of this hidden American Treasure none other than the late, great Horton Foote. Duval said he based Jackson Fentry's accent on a man he met long ago while travelling the back roads of America in search of the diamonds in the rough that made up the greatness of his homeland. A man he met while walking the foothills of the Ozark Mountains, Duvall said, gave him the voice of Jackson Fentry. A voice so unforgettable that it clung to the inside of his heart. The man spoke like a cow. If cows could speak human and in some sort of English.. they would have sounded exactly like that man he met in the Ozarks. Always made me wonder if that man he'd met in the Ozarks was alone...This film and the man who spoke like a cow always reminds me of the little known Porter Wagoner song called "Albert Erving"
Whither goest thou, America, In thy shiny car in the night? ~ Jack Kerouac