Comments on: Strange Interlude (1988)

By: GREGORY

GREGORY — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 10:57:12 +0000

STRANGE INTERLUDE which is a notorious long haul, ran close to 5 and 1/2 hours (not counting intermissions !!!) when Jackson performed it on stage. PBS’ GREAT PERFORMANCES ran it on two or three consecutive nights commercial free even after judiciously cutting it. That initial version was shown only once and then never appeared again.
The variant here appeared in a two VHS CASSETTE boxed set about 10 years later.
Thanks for the email — I’ll let you know when I have rediscovered it.

By: Jon W.

Jon W. — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 07:57:55 +0000

In reply to GREGORY.

Hey Gregory,
Oh wow, I had no idea a longer version existed, I thought this was the whole thing! I did see that IMDb has a longer runtime listed for it compared to this version that is 3h long but I thought that maybe that was because they included commercials? I think they sometimes list runtime of things as 90 minutes when in reality some tv specials/episodes are actually 60 mins but with 30 mins of commercials to fill the 90 mins slot. Please do let me know if you find those discs, my email is [email protected], we can sort out everything else the most important thing is that you actually find them! haha I have movies stored in all kinds of different places both online and offline so I kinda know how that feels, keep me updated please, then I can see if your copy is better quality than this one I’ll just use your copy, if not I’ll combine both to create the best quality copy possible out of the two versions. Thanks so much!
Take care,
Jon.

By: GREGORY

GREGORY — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 03:06:55 +0000

This is such an amazing performance by Jackson. It really shows what made her the penultimate Modernist actor. Bits and pieces of its forceful and often quite artificial (as in “artifice”) styling can be seen in films throughout her career but here it comes out full force. Genius does not begin to describe what she did and here she has excellent support through other fine actors who generously step back and background her display.
Somewhere, stashed away, I don’t know where at the moment I have the complete original broadcast which has an extra act, some extraneous material at the beginnings of the acts present here and runs about an hour and fifteen minutes longer. If I find it I will let you know, Jon. I don’t understand uploading but I can certainly send you the discs.

By: Jon W.

Jon W. — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 09:24:13 +0000

In reply to Kevin H Kaufman.

Hi Kevin,
What do you mean by ‘could not hear it’? Volume too low for you? or no audio at all? Please let me know.

Thank you,
Jon.

By: Kevin H Kaufman

Kevin H Kaufman — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 20:56:29 +0000

i could not hear it – very disappointed – I love your Site