Out of the Blue (1980 film)

Out of the Blue
Directed by	Dennis Hopper
Produced by	Paul Lewis Gary Jules Jouvenat Leonard Yakir Aaron Sadovnick
Written by	Leonard Yakir Gary Jules Jouvenat Brenda Nielson
Starring	Linda Manz Dennis Hopper Sharon Farrell Don Gordon Raymond Burr
Music by	Tom Lavin
Cinematography	Marc Champion
Editing by	Doris Dyck
Release date(s)	May 1980 (1980-05)
Running time	93 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English

Out of the Blue is a 1980 film featuring and directed by Dennis Hopper. The film was written and produced by Gary Jules Jouvenat. It competed for the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.^[1] This was the first film Hopper directed since his ill-fated film The Last Movie in 1971, stepping in at the last minute to replace the original director (screenwriter Leonard Yakir^[2]).

Film Critic Jonathan Rosenbaum considers it one of the 15 best films of the 1980s.^[3]

It centers on Cebe, a rebellious young girl (Linda Manz) interested in Elvis Presley and punk rock music, her ex-convict, truck driver father Don Barnes (Dennis Hopper), and her high-strung mother Kathy (Sharon Farrell). The title is taken from the Neil Young song "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)".

The film was made in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and various icons of Vancouver in that era are featured in the film, as are also the Pointed Sticks, one of the leading bands of Vancouver's punk era.^[4]

The original version of "Out of the Blue" was banned in the UK, but was aired in full on UK TV Channel 4 in a series of banned movies on January 10, 1987. The available formats of this film are all the legal edited versions.

The track "Kill All Hippies", from British Rock band Primal Scream's 2000 album XTRMNTR is named after a piece of Manz' dialogue in the movie and features a sample.

Cast

• Linda Manz - Cebe aka Cindy Barnes
• Dennis Hopper - Don Barnes
• Sharon Farrell - Kathy Barnes
• Don Gordon - Charlie
• Raymond Burr - Dr. Brean
• Eric Allen - Paul
• Fiona Brody - Carol
• David L. Crowley - Anderson (as David Crowley)
• Joan Hoffman - Jean
• Carl Nelson - Cabby
• Francis Ann Pettit - Nancy
• Glen Pfeifer - Glenn
• David Ackridge - Teacher
• Jim Byrnes - Party Singer (as Jim Byrne)
• Glen Fyfe - Bouncer
• Pointed Sticks - Band in the Nightclub

References

1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Out of the Blue". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/1794/year/1980.html. Retrieved 2009-05-28. 
2. ^ "Films You May Have Missed: Out of the Blue". http://www.blastitude.com/19/FILMS.htm. Retrieved 2010-03-13. 
3. ^ "Jonathan Rosenbaum's Top Ten Lists 1974-2006". Alumnus.caltech.edu. http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~ejohnson/critics/rosenbaum.html. Retrieved 2010-07-29. 
4. ^ "Out of the Blue", Dorothy Woodend, TheTyee.ca, Nov. 11, 2010

External links

• Out of the Blue at the Internet Movie Database