And Everything Is Going Fine (2010)

And Everything Is Going Fine
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
USA/2010
Washington Square Films
FilmStruck/First viewing

[box] I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the right way after Ivy League college and onward and upward. And it rejected me, I rejected it, and I ended up as a kind of refugee, really. Spalding Gray [/box]

I’ve loved all the filmed monologues of Spalding Gray.  It was a cinch I’d love Soderbergh’s post-mortem look at his career.

Steven Soderbergh directed Gray’s Anatomy (1996), Spalding’s final monologue film.  He returned to the subject to make this documentary six years following the artist’s suicide. The film includes many clips from various performances and interviews.  Gray is as charismatic as ever.

If you already love Gray, this is a must-see.  If you are not acquainted with him, I would recommend starting with Jonathan Demme’s Swimming to Cambodia (1987) in which Grey tells the story of his experiences as as actor in The Killing Fields (1984).

I watched this on FilmStruck. A complete version is also currently available on YouTube.

Trailer