Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time - Official Trailer | HD | IFC Films
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- čas přidán 18. 10. 2021
- Opening in theaters and VOD November 19
Director: Robert B. Weide, Don Argott
Starring: Sam Waterston (voice), Robert B. Weide, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Recounting the extraordinary life of author Kurt Vonnegut and the 25-year friendship with the filmmaker who set out to document it.
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Jan 22, 1989. During the super bowl, my girlfriend and I went for a hike in Bolinas, California. We figured everyone else would be watching the game and we’d have the lonely bluffs to ourselves. It was very foggy. At one point we looked down and saw a huge dead beached whale in the sand. Walking further a figure emerged walking toward us. As he neared we all nodded and said “hello”. Fifty feet further, my girlfriend and I stopped still, stared at each other with wide eyes and mouthed “KURT VONNEGUT!!!!” to each other. One of the most brilliant and surreal moments of my life.
Haha, I hear you. That happened to me in New York with John and Yoko
Blessed with that one.
I just posted a comment. The time I met him was about the time you saw him on the beach. I bet he was on a west coast tour. I met him in Oregon.
And my girlfriend and I saw him speak at Cody's Book's in Berkeley right around that time... yep, I think it was 1989. We had our first argument that night, because she didn't like the event and I love Vonnegut.
Did you ever find out why he murdered that whale?
My favorite Vonnegut:
“The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her.
"Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?" she asked me.
"The big show is inside my head," I said.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
Aaaand I'm crying at a movie trailer. My great uncle fought along side him at the battle of the bulge. What a remarkable man.
Indeed remarkable! I grew up reading Vonnegut and still love him to this day.
Sorry to hear that. Did your great uncle live long enough to realize that we fought the wrong enemy in that war? I mean, Patton did, but he was killed in that suspicious Jeep accident right after he spoke up about it all, so maybe it was better for his health if he kept it to himself, your uncle. Oh well, trsgic either way...
I just shed a tear too.
Your uncle must have been a very interesting man too!
I'm crying reading your comment right now just as i'm about to deep sea dive and now my mask is all fogged up from the tears! Oh well, time to get some lobster.
Kurt Vonnegut is the author whose words I remember with a smile when experiencing different stages of my life. I would think, "Kurt Vonnegut was right about that."
I discovered Vonnegut through a teenage romance. That relationship ended a million years ago but Vonnegut stuck around. I'm always grateful to my ex for introducing me to this amazing author... and wherever my ex is, I hope he's happy and still writing.
I'm going to have to re-read all of his books again in preparation.
Gl
Vonnegut's "The Shape of Stories" lecture is amazing.
Cat’s Cradle is still one of my favorite books! His 1st cousin, Walter Vonnegut, lived in our small town, he and Kurt were the same age, & Kurt lived here briefly as a teenager with Walter’s family. My oldest son read Cat’s Cradle, my very old well loved 1st edition, on flight to Europe, when he was 15, When my son was 19, Walter gave me a letter for Tristan, he wanted him for the lead role in perhaps one of the last plays Walter directed at our community theater, Tris loved being in that play & loved Walter, he looked so much like Kurt, our hero!
Me and my dad met him outside The Will Rogers Follies in NY in 1991. Interesting sight to see my fiftyish father awed like a boy.
I often refer to Kurt Vonnegut as my spirit animal. This guy has provided so much insight.
Thank god he finished the film. It would be a travesty for this footage to have been forgotten to time.
OKAY. That does it.
I'm gonna go back and revisit some Vonnegut.
A man I could listen to all day. Intelligent, playful, enlightened, very funny, irreverent and judging by this, warm, loyal and gregarious!
Backed this as a Kickstarter back in early 2015 and I’m so happy to see this trailer today. Congratulations to the team!
I did too! I was wondering what had become of it, so glad to see that it made it to this point.
You guys are goddamn champions.
Thank you
Same here! So glad to see it come so far.
A communist filmmaker PRAISING ANOTHER COMMUNIST WRITER.
OMG how I loved this movie!
I've never read a single word he'd written and yet this documentary was so pleasing!
One of the great minds of our time.
I feel like a question I have had my whole life, has finally been sorta answered.
I can’t wait
I remember sobbing in the corner of my shower when he died. I miss someone I never met.
Thank you for finishing it.
I discovered Kurt Vonnegut in the late 70's when I was just a kid. I loved his novels. Cat's Cradle is still the best book I ever read. I still pick it up and read it. Never gets old.
it's the Sirens of Titan for me
Melikes Cat's Cradle too! Slaughterhouse Five is the most profound anti-war novel of all time, however.
I’m THRILLED.
I moved from adolescence to adulthood consuming Vonnegut like Popeye consumes spinach, and I consciously felt my thought processes altering, becoming firmer, and I knew that his thoughts were teaching me how to think. Then years passed as I continued to read and reread him, and at times I thought I’d drop him a note of thanks. The day came that I did, and I mailed it from my home in Brunswick, Georgia. Four days later saw the fall that led to his death. My letter had had time to reach him. Did it? Was mine perhaps the last bit of fan mail this giant in my life read? Maybe I’ll meet him on some other planet one day and ask. I’m so glad you’ve made your film; thanks for doing that!
A thought I enjoy from time to time is Mr. Vonnegut’s comment about family gatherings on a summer’s eve in the backyard in Indianapolis. He remembers an uncle who liked to say on such occasions “This is pretty nice, isn’t it?” Yeah.
Cannot wait!!!! We all need this now.
Absolutely!
I read everything of his I could find. Never had to for school, kinda wish I had to. Would have been an easy grade. Ironic thing is when I started reading his work, a few months later I wanted to write him a letter and went looking for his address but found out he had recently died. So it goes.
Vonnegut and Pratchett got me through harder times of my life. Both authors are special to me, but Vonnegut in particular for coming to me first at my lowest point. The trailer made me teary-eyed.
I’m reading the discworld now and he does remind me a lot of Vonnegut. That dry humor coupled with a truth that’s all too real. Got any other authors who are similar?
I wish I could become unstuck in time and somehow, somewhere meet Kurt
I'm so fucking keen to see this.
Cringe
@@Kman-jm9no Imagine writing "cringe" to another person on a literal Kurt Vonnegut video. I'm surprised the universe didn't implode with irony.
"Bluebeard" was such a great read. Feels like Vonnegut pretty much started where Twain had left off; cynical, humanistic humor via science fiction.
Nice take.
It’s my personal favorite of his
Interesting then that a version of that very comparison is made in the film!
This may not be the most appropriate place for this, but I really wish that Criterion Collection or someone would re-release Mother Night on Bluray. Not many of Vonnegut's stories have been adapted for film and as it should be for the most part, and for the obvious reasons that have been argued and articulated over and over. But, Mother Night was actually a very accurate and emotionally powerful, haunting film. Kurt Vonnegut's brief cameo as the lonely passerby on the sidewalk, starring down Nick Nolte at the intimate resolution of the story is so powerful.
"Mother Night" was written and produced by Robert Weide who is the same filmmaker behind this documentary.
@@MrWhatsizname interesting, did not realize that. Been awhile since I watched the movie. Thanks
Slaughterhouse-Five was the first book I read. Thoroughly enjoy his books.
The first book you read in your life was a 200-page post-modern science fiction novel? Were you unstuck in time?
@@bdtilley lol First of his books
"Stop thinking science can fix anything if you give it a trillion dollars."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr
No Einstein said that
One of my favorite writers of all time. I’m looking forward to this.
I can’t believe this is actually getting released. I read about it nearly 20 years ago!
I cannot wait to see this. As like many high school friends along with those posting in this comment section, Kurt's writings had shaped a number of my life experiences.
“So it goes,” is the greatest line in the history of literature.
Loving these comments. A friend of mine lent me Breakfast of Champions early in art school.
Changed my life forever, ended up reading everything of his I could. Watched all the films. Took in as much as was available. Even made several art pieces reflecting his work that I still have today.
Vonnegut’s books spoke to me as a young man not at me as most adults would.
Kurt was my ex-wife's favorite author and I still love that about her, even though I remember so little about him.
OMG..... I cannot wait. Have loved him since high school and I'm 53.
Met him at the Wolfeboro Inn in 96. He was charming and funny and gracious. Drew me one of his quick quirky self-portraits. One of the nicest encounters I've had.
You are a very fortunate human!
Wow. I cannot believe my eyes! Vonnegut is definitely my favorite author.
For him to point up and say that is Tralfamadore at 10 years old is so cool. ❤️
And don’t forget - movie star!!
“And another thing, Vonnegut….”
- T. Melon
One of the most amazing pieces I have ever been lucky enough to see.
Sitting in a small cinema in my hometown with my brother, who also happens to be my hero, watching this beautiful film will always be one of the most beautiful moments in the impermanence of my life. I paused briefly and said "if this isn't nice, what is?
Thank you Kurt. Thank you Bob.
So it is.
I watched this last night and I loved it. It was deeply moving. I can't explain the impact it had on me.
I don't remember exactly how Vonnegut said it, but this is how I remember it; "Artists are mankind trying to become something else." He is something else.
haven't been this excited about a new film coming out for years.
Absolute fantastic!!!! My late friend Alaor was a lover of his work. God bless them all!!!
Oh man I am so fired up for this. Watching this afternoon. I still have everything he wrote on my bookshelves. #SoItGoes #BlueMonday
I’ve just started reading Vonnegut for the first time, and his philosophy is so comforting, so funny, I’ll watch this doc tonight, I have no doubt I’ll be crying. So it goes.
Ah, I can’t wait for this! I have a cat’s cradle tattoo on my arm because of this man. I’m always mind blown when I finish anything by Vonnegut, and I’m so grateful to be able to read his work.
@@emilky2869 I wish I could post a picture to CZcams haha but it’s just of a cat’s cradle, two hands with the strings between them - very much like the black and white cat’s cradle that’s in this video
OMG!!! I can't wait!!!!
Today Commemorates Kurt Vonnegut's 100th Birthday
I think eternity is perpendicular to time, and they cross at now.
Anywho, reading Vonnegut made me enjoy looking at the world through a playfully fictional and curious lens. Thank you, sir.
Then maybe when you lay down for the last time, the two become parallel.
"He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end." -Ecclesiastes
Happy 100th birthday Kurt Vonnegut!🎉
Vonnegut was (is) a literary hero of mine. I met him at my college back in the late 80's and I just couldn't believe the moment was real. I want my kids to read him now and they just don't seem interested. It makes me sad that his voice doesn't translate to them (and their generation?) and worry that his voice might get lost in the new era we find ourselves in. I am grateful to learn about this film and will take my boys to see it. Since the power of video seems to reign supreme these days maybe that is where I have to start and then suggest the books.
I miss him quite a bit. Especially on Armistice Day.
God Bless You, Mr Vonnegut ❤
You had me at "Vonnegut."
Kurt was the initial crack that busted my skull wide open.
I am thoroughly stoked for this
Wonderful Bob... really looking forward to this... Bravo!
so stoked
what a legend of a man
You will cry. Also the goddam O in Vonnegut. That is so perfect.
Just can’t wait to see this….
This has made my year!!! Cannot wait!
A needed dream come true!
Just watched this.....its wonderful!
This is gonna make me cry. I can tell already
Holy crap!! I can’t wait to see this!
You've been sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.
He was the first grownup to really tell me truth. As Jon Stewart aptly said, “he made my adolescence bearable.” Thank you, Kurt
I can't wait to see this!
This looks incredible, must see this somehow.
"Lucky me, lucky mud."
Read my first Vonnegut novel at the ripe old age of 30, but it had an inpact on me just as if I were a teenager.
Absolutely brilliant
“It’s not the end. It’s the journey”
Looks like a great documentary, but I couldn't disagree more with 2:09. Maybe it makes sense in the context of the movie but... Art is something that can last much longer than any of us, and has the ability to resonate with people long after its maker is dead. I read Slaughterhouse-Five for the first time this year, my first Vonnegut book, and my mind was blown.
Everyone is gonna cry.
Timely... Love
Peter Gzowski! Man I miss him.
Looking forward to seeing the film.
Looks fantastic, can’t wait to watch it!
Kurt Vonnegut HYPE!!!
No way, what a great idea!
Watched it yesterday (11-19-21). Yes, it's absolutely worth watching. It was great to learn about all of the encouragement and help he received from his first wife and to see his kids and his sister's children. But his leaving his first wife, after all of her support and encouragement, just after he achieved serious fame and fortune was totally glossed over. It seemed such a s*** thing to do.
Some of the books mentioned I haven't read, which I now want to do so, and it made me want to reread some old favorites.
Cat's Cradle is incredible.
Super psyched on this
God bless the little star drawn in the 'o'
I knew someone with a great Vonnegut story. I always enjoyed hearing tell it.
Hyped
Jeez, you’ve convinced me with your pithiness!
Yes Yes!
This looks amazing!
I loved the Doc
Thanks!
Oh man! I have a feeling this one may get me sentimental. Can't wait.
Stoked it goes
I know that this film is going to open in some niche theatre ins Sydney and I'm going to miss it there. Then it will digitally stream on a service I don't subscribe to. Hopefully my cable company will show it before I die.
I read somewhere that Vonnegut was bitter about not being recognized as a great author. How bizarre it that were true
We love you, Boaz!
I saw him sitting on a bench on Third Avenue and 52nd Street in Manhattan a few years back.
The greatest.
I'm not crying, YOU'RE crying...