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| Sam Shepard: Stalking Himself
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A documentary following Sam Shepard on the journey of writing plays - what he calls "explorations of a certain emotional territory" - that includes the first and only in-depth interview he's ever given on-camera. The intimate film portrait also features selections from his plays and prose with performances by Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise and Vincent D'Onofrio. Sam Shepard has always referred to the way he writes his plays as a journey - a quest into the idea of self, family and identity. But it is also a journey into the heartland of America - the landscape, the characters, the anxieties, and the music. This documentary catches up with Sam Shepard at a key stage along his route to self-discovery. In 1996, the Signature Theatre Company presented an entire season of his plays to the Public Theatre in New York. Spanning thirty years of writing, the season covered the one acts of the Sixties, the rock and roll plays of the Seventies, the later works that feature Shepard's recurrent preoccupation with the American family and concluded with the premiere of his latest play. Though notoriously shy about giving interviews, Sam Shepard speaks eloquently in this film about the process of writing and about the origins of his work.
- premiered on PBS's Greatest Performances |
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"an eloquent account of where he comes from and what
he is about as a relentlessly creative person... an appropriately
colorful tale. Shepard offers moving... reflections on his times...
giving "Stalking Himself" the feel of a social document as well
as a personal one." - The New York Times |
Play a clip from the film
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