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Living to Be 100One of the stories from LIVING TO BE 100, "Glissando," was made into a full-length film in 2002 by Chip Hourihan. The film won a number of awards at film festivals around the country.
Director: Chip Hourihan Producers: Chip Hourihan & Vivian Holtzman Writers: Chip Hourihan (screenplay) & Robert Boswell (story) Director of Photography: Luke Eder Editors: Stephanie Argamaso, John Balcom, Marco Coppiardi, Molly Fitzjarrald, Daniel Hasenstaub, Paul Kuldkepp, Bobby McFarland, Dan Rockwell, Sebastien Touta Principal cast: Petra Wright, Paul Frediani, Chris Van Strander, Ned Van Zandt, Vivian Holtzman Glissando's soundtrack features a number of 1970s songs covered by Danielle Howle, Kevn Kinney with Drivin' n' Cryin', Lenny Kaye (from the Patti Smith Group), Tom Clark and the High Action Boys, Tim Easton, Tarnation, Jeffrey Dean Foster (from the Pinetops), Tom Shaner, and the Emmy-award winning John Kimbrough. It also features one original song inspired by the film, "Careless Driver," written by Tom Shaner and performed by Tom Shaner and Danielle Howle. A review of the movie GLISSANDO
Los Angeles Times, March 13, 2003 Kevin Thomas, Times Staff Writer The American Cinematheque's Alternative Screen showcase presents tonight the L.A. premiere of a terrific independent feature, Chip Hourihan's "Glissando," based on a short story by novelist Robert Boswell. In this low-key, minimalist first film, Hourihan reveals a real gift for establishing mood and character with economy while evoking deeply a sense of time and place; he allows us to ramble around with his people only to catch them up short -- and us. The story starts in a bleak black-and-white present in which a middle-aged man (Ned Van Zandt) arrives in an Arizona town to retrieve his long-estranged father's corpse, which has been found in a dumpster. Troubled memories of the past flood over him as the film switches to color. In going for small truths, Hourihan drives them home with more force, not to mention succinctness, than countless filmmakers do in striving for the profound. "Glissando's" images of seedy Southwestern locales are as evocative as those of "Paris, Texas," and Hourihan has rounded out his film with an array of fresh takes on '70s pop songs. "Glissando" is a quiet knockout. The stories in LIVING TO BE 100 were published in the following magazines:
"Rain" and "The Good Man" in the New Yorker. "Glissando" and "Living to Be 100" in the Iowa Review. "Living to Be 100" also appeared in Best American Short Stories of 1989 "Brilliant Mistake" appeared in the North American Review "The Earth's Crown" appeared in Ploughshares "The Products of Love" appeared in Voices Louder than Words, an anthology to raise money to combat hunger in America. "Others" was a PEN Syndicated Fiction winner and appeared in a number of newspapers. "Grief" appeared in the Antioch Review "Imagining Spaniards" appeared in the Southern Review "Salt Commons" was not published elsewhere. |
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