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Tuesday, 29 October 2024

New York Times 2015 - Dick Miller Review


 'That Guy Dick Miller’ Pays Tribute to a Character Actor

By Nicolas Rapold  April 2, 2015

A few years ago the Los Angeles repertory cinema Cinefamily ran a screening series, “That Guy!,” devoted to character actors. The subject of “That Guy Dick Miller” warrants his own gala evening. Elijah Drenner’s jokey documentary crowds together admirers and clips in tribute to Mr. Miller, whose working-Joe look and street-savvy shtick have infused countless scenes with instant movie realism.

 

The Bronx-born Mr. Miller rubbed elbows with exploitation royalty as a prime player for Roger Corman (who appears here) and excelled in the 1959 beatnik satire “A Bucket of Blood” as an innocent caught up in macabre art-making. He became a prolific pro, recognizable through the 1980s (e.g., the veteran of “WW II” in Joe Dante’s “Gremlins”) and beyond, as his fans became filmmakers. By giving a line a dose of warmth or a shake of the head or just changing his slightly coiled stance, he could make a stock character feel genuine or put quotation marks around a comic bit.

 

That may partly explain the inordinate number of editors — famously whisker-sensitive to variations in expression — who give praise in Mr. Drenner’s film, along with John Sayles, Mr. Dante and other filmmakers. Mr. Miller turns up, now an octogenarian with bristle covering his wiseguy jutting chin, and putters around at home with his wife, Lainie (also the film’s co-producer).

 

The survey, pockmarked with sometimes dopey animations and music, feels scattered and less than the sum of Mr. Miller’s many parts. But it has its heart in the right movie-mad place.

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