Written in the first person, the novel follows Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's thinly veiled alter ego, during his early years. But then, ringleader Gwen (Audrey Boos) really has to shit and skips across a lawn to up to a house, and however, the shot is framed and lit, it looks like 70s De Palma, all glowy and romantic with a foretaste of horror. Fontana, Ernest. Like Henry, the rest of the Chinaskis are modeled after Bukowski's own family. Ham on Rye isn't a film about buried secrets. Henry agrees to teach little kid how to play a game and by the end of it he just walks out. I trust that I am in honest company when I confide this, but still I am tentative to say it. I dont get it. He doesn't repeat a lot of stories in his novels since they all take place at different parts in his life. Ham on Rye is the kind of he movie that oozes off the screen as if fresh-squeezed from a brain addled with too much television and '90s junk, too many blended memories of lazy cookouts and . ". One passage that always reminds me of Nietzsche was from factotum ". The parents dramatically age and regress throughout the evening. I was like, this is going to be fun to shootits like shooting a bunch of still lifes, he continued. This was surprisingly tender in places amongst his usual cynical and brutal musings on life. Ham on Rye is a captivating story that makes you attached to the book all the way to the end. Like his previous autobiographical novels, Ham on Rye centers on the life of Henry Chinaski, this time during his childhood and teenage years. Taormina has an unusually firm grasp on the intangible uneasiness of bland middle-class Americana, and in his debut feature, he drags into the foreground the kind of stuff that usually happens in the corner of your eye. He has only slightly better results in baseball. But what once had to burn or perish can now simply vanish between clicks, and without even the slightest hint of ceremony. The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. 2023 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. [2] The story takes place at home, at his different schools, at the doctor's office (for his never-ending acne treatments) and at various other locales around town. Which have a bit of psychedelia to them, and that gauzy look. Ham on Rye is roughly age 0-20, Women is in his fifties, and Post Office is somewhere in between those. One also notices that while before the dialogue was ambiguously foreshadowing, now its ambiguously looking backwards (the way Lund put it is, in the second half the dialogue becomes more textural than expository.) And this all leads to a backyard cookout populated by a large group including some faces at least vaguely familiar to viewers of the millennial demographic: Lori Beth Denberg of, (1994-98), Danny Tamberelli and Aaron Schwartz of, The one character that carries over from the pre-ceremony segments to the post- is Haley, played by the same Haley Bodell of, , whose only acting credits to date are for Taormina. For example, Henry's parents, like Bukowski's, had met in Germany after World War I. Carson Lunds superb cinematography, apparently influenced by photographers like William Eggleston and Stephen Shore, picks out boys riding skateboards, borrowing Dads Volvo, and talking about the crucial importance of boning, like its a philosophy, like theyre the first ones ever to have had so original a thought. Were not told when the film is taking place, or where the film is taking place, or even whats the deal with this big local event all the kids are moving towards. Get help and learn more about the design. The first part of the picture bounces around in an unnamed town (it was shot in the San Fernando Valley) that is dubiously situated in time: We see cellphones only a few times, and nothing about costumes, hair or background music roots us firmly in the present. Bukowski's Ham on Rye and the Los Angeles Novel. The girls talk about fashion and popularity. What defines Ham on Rye insteadoverwhelming all the foreshadowing and other narrative suggestions littered throughout its first halfare its faces (even the youngest ones seem tired and weathered, like kids in films made before our time), its sense of humor (which comes out via strange turns in dialogue and even stranger turns in performance, like a small boys mechanical golf-clap or a moms oversized chomps at lunch), and its numerous motifs, which include picture frames and oblique references to swine. 5 (3): 5, Fontana, Ernest. And its here that the film matures into a weirdly sorrowful look at what our world does to teenagers, at the exceptionalism peddled to them without any sense of what they are exceptional from, and how much more likely it is, when you deal in the currency of exclusivity, that you will end up among the excluded. Ham on Rye is a 1982 semi- autobiographical novel by American author and poet Charles Bukowski. The novel focuses on the protagonist, Henry Chinaski, between the years of 1920 and 1941. In a varied ensemble of more than a hundred (many of them nonactors), just a few of them get names, and only a few more get to say or do enough things to project any kind of identity beyond their appearance. With the snow falling heavily, the ride back itself may only substitute one danger for another. It is an uneasy journey where some find purpose, escaping their suburban constraints, as others remain behind, their blank faces reflecting more circumscribed lives. Though calling them characters is a bit of a stretch. Its held at a local sandwich shop called Montys, and begins with everyone dining quietly. 4 [deleted] 2 yr. ago As they wend their way through more or less quiet streets, the boys talk, crudely but with awkward innocence, about sex. So of all the quotes we could end on Im most partial to one that centers the unconscious, just like the film itself. Same goes for something that Taormina said to AwardsDaily in early 2019, which seems way too key not to reproduce here: The script was born through that feeling of nervous confrontation to [rituals] and then it bloomed into What happens to those who dont get selected?, he said back then. They need to prove something to themselves. We're pleased to share the exclusive trailer premiere for Tyler Taormina's Ham on Rye, which will be released virtually on October 23rd in 20+ theaters nationwide.An unorthodox teen coming-of-age movie with an increasingly sinister twist whose details are best left unspoiled, Taormina's debut feature premiered at last year's Santa Barbara International Film Festival before making its . Thats as misleading as calling Eraserhead a reluctant-groom rom-com. His young people reveal themselves in their dress and facial expressions. Detail fetishism, he begins, before starting a new thought. [1] Scenes outside of Los Angeles show Chinaski as an intruder, as with an early scene where he and his family are chased out of an orange grove. in emptied-out spaces like bedrooms and street curbs, completing the articulation of a metatextual idea first initiated by those kids-television cameosthe image of the child stars left behind. He only wanted to be left alone to drink. A hauntingly. But it quickly morphs into a different sort of anticipation, the distinctly pleasurable dread of the wholly unfamiliar, or rather, the deeply uncanny, the thing that looks so much like life that all you can see are the ways it is not at all lifelike. Director: Tyler Taormina Football is difficult for him, but he enjoys the violence that comes with it. Taormina sets us in suburban America, among high school students, walking through a social ritual of conversation, dance, and food at a local deli. He locks himself away inside himself to protect himself from the expected loathing from others never allowing himself hope that someone would love and under him. All the dread and the emptiness is what comes up after the big Montys scene, when day turns to night, and when most of Ham on Ryes first-half cast disappears from the picture. Calonne, David Stephen. Whats established instead are countless signifiers of a semi-contemporary American upbringing: from overarching universal stuff like scenes of characters preparing for something like a prom (three girls in frilly dresses being photographed by their overexcited parents, see above), and then carpooling there (the parents now waving at the door like the first day of school, another ceremony) to smaller details seen in briefer shots like the decor of a longhair musicians car (beads on the rear view, bandana on the passenger seat), or a particularly rebellious-looking kid scraping a stick against a fence (which in this context cant help but recall Tom Sawyer, ur-text of the American coming-of-age storya narrative lineage that Ham on Rye is of course very much bound up in). By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Ham on Rye has been one of my two favourite novels for almost thirty years. However, he rarely is completely confident with his own abilities and often second-guesses himself. Then the something-weird happens and "Ham on Rye" turns its attention to the teenagers who weren't at the dance: Haley, who left in a pique of embarrassment after being passed over by a boy . Ham on Rye can be taken as an allegory for middle-class suburban life in America, but its got added value as a potent mood piece, accomplished with a bare minimum of means. Brewer, Gay. But it is also Inauguration Day 2021 and Ham on Rye is heartening evidence that even throughout the last few years of permanent, screeching crisis, there have been filmmakers paying attention to the smaller things, to the more mundane cruelties of our world, that will require much more than a change of administration to address. What's immediately delightful about Ham on Rye is the ghostly sense of escalation. One also notices that while before the dialogue was ambiguously foreshadowing, now its ambiguously looking backwards (the way Lund put it is, in the second half the dialogue becomes more textural than expository.) And this all leads to a backyard cookout populated by a large group including some faces at least vaguely familiar to viewers of the millennial demographic: Lori Beth Denberg of All That (1994-98), Danny Tamberelli and Aaron Schwartz of The Mighty Ducks (1992) and The Adventures of Pete & Pete (1992-96), and Clayton Snyder of Lizzie McGuire (2001-04). It became about the suburbs I grew up in, and those teenagers left when college began and they didnt come back and a whole generation of teenagers disappeared and who was left? While its eventually seen that some of the kids have mobile phones, Taormina purposefully dresses his cast and designs their environment in a way that throws them into a sort of temporal never-never land. But things like that were very important [to me]. At the age of three, he came with his family to the United States and grew up in Los Angeles. Football is difficult for him, but he enjoys the violence that comes with it. She is, in fact, a victim of her husband's brutality as well. In a mainstream teen film, that sense of social abandonment is a unifier, redeemed in one way or another with the promise that life has something better in store. It's not PC, perhaps that's part of its appeal. Both are extremely uncomfortable. The novel focuses on the protagonist, Henry Chinaski, between the years of 1920 and 1941. Researching the creative figures behind, (2020), what stuck out to me was the inevitability of certain voids. To make matters worse, Chinaski develops horrible acne so severe that he has to undergo painful, and mostly ineffective, treatments, essentially becoming a human guinea pig for various experiments thought up by his uninterested doctors. In the beginning, and just for a little while, Tyler Taorminas Ham on Rye seems like every other no-budget suburban coming-of-ager youve ever seen, if maybe better shot. Of course the same is true of books, films, and everything gathered under the sunit all goes eventually. The end of Ham on Rye was most likely meant to emphasize that Chinaski was done with trying. Chinaski relates that he has an abusive father, and his mother does nothing to stop his father's abuse. This interview with the Ham on Rye crew was facilitated by Lund, whose byline you might recognize from DigBoston itself. Now, as a memory growing more distant every day, all thats left is the dreamlike impressions of these places Ive loved so much and then abandoned. Taormina splits Ham on Rye into two tonally and thematically distinct segments: a sunny teenaged slice of life, followed by a grimmer, quieter look at what happens after the sun goes down. Twayne Publishers, New York, 1997. p. 36, 39, 40. The specifics are never explained, but we suspect that some years ago, he was in Haleys shoes. This deliberately coy prologue begets the opening credits sequence (introducing characters with more close-ups of little details, like a tie being fastened or a nail being painted), which then feeds directly into the films real first section, where for about 20 minutes small cliques of seemingly high school-aged kids walk through various neighborhoods on their way to an unspoken happening. Nothing but alienation. Following a nocturnal tour of the now much-less-populated location (in a scene that for me betrays Lunds appreciation of movies by landscape-minded film artists like James Benning and Peter Hutton), were on the wrong side of the tracks, where the films atmosphere, mood, and suggested cultural signifiers all land in a much darker and frankly lower-class place than before (this change perhaps betraying some of Taorminas own stated influences for, and the films of David Lynchboth of which seem to undergo serious temporal shifts as nightfall commences). As the story progresses the reader follows his life through the school years and into young adulthood. Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness, The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship, Portions from a Wine-stained Notebook: Short Stories and Essays, Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ham_on_Rye&oldid=1056996657, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 24 November 2021, at 20:05. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. The post-facto rationalizations they concoct for their hostility, however, involve his inability to play sports and his being viscerally revolted by cruelty to animals, the latter being one of the favorite past-times of neighborhood men and boys alike. Does Massachusetts Underestimate Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions? How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so? This stems in large part from his home life, in which he is beaten frequently (often for no reason) by his father. Its late spring in the suburbs, and boys and girls of high-school age are dressing up not quite in prom wear, but in sundresses and ties and jackets, headed to some kind of event. They are as uneasy with the past as they are nervous about the future. Both Ham on Rye and Im Thinking of Ending Things deal with the tensions of young Americas uncertain future. , which starred Haley Bodell as Poll Flowerpot, a 12-year-old cynic [who] discovers the absurdities of the world; the site is down now, but if you search around you can still find all three episodes on certain video-uploading hubs. Increasingly fearful Louisa insists on returning to her own apartment. My writing partner Eric Berger was very, very keen on being as cryptic and removed as possible from mentioning what is essentially the basic premise of the film, explained Taormina, whos from Long Island and based in Los Angeles, during a zoom call that also included the films producer/first assistant director David Croley Broyles and its cinematographer Carson Lund. Watch through virtual cinemas. Written as a biography of a young boy growing into manhood lacking self confidence and love and always fighting with feelings of self loathing. As Lund has written about himself in an indispensable piece for Filmmaker Magazine headlinedOver 100 Cast Members and No Permits: How I Shot Ham on Rye in Los Angeles, the films faceless neighborhood locations were stolen from various spots across that cityso for example Ham on Ryes semi-decontextualized meeting spot Montys is in real life actually Berges, a deli in the La Caada Flintridge area of Los Angeles County. , and a screenplay that he co-wrote and hopes to direct sometime in the near future. However, this thread would be disingenuous if I did not say that I identified so strongly with Hank. Though of course Taormina can pull the episodes whenever he wants, or Youtube or Vimeo could take them down for any reason including none whatsoever, and then theyd be left to a small handful of hard drives, at most, where a random crash might erase them on any given sunday. The reader eventually follows Chinaski to college and reads of Henry's attempt to find a worthwhile occupation. It may not display this or other websites correctly. but you can choose how you rise above, some with words, other with action. Ham on Rye is a 1982 semi-autobiographical novel by American author and poet Charles Bukowski. Even the oddest moves seem welcome. Charles Bukowski. As Henry grinds his way through Junior High School, he discovers the manifold pleasures of alcohol and masturbation. She was 12, and now shes 18 going on 19 The fun little tidbit I like to say about working with her on these projects is that I only realized during the rehearsals, which was a months-long process, that the character of Haley in Ham on Rye is actually the same character as Poll Flowerpot from Suburban Legends but grown up in Suburban Legends, her curiosity always brings her closer to other peoplethats what her youth afforded to her. A puzzling but artful look at teenage alienation. Costume designer: Niki Firanek He becomes alienated from the children at school simply for somehow being different in a way that none of them could ever coherently articulate. The next negative influence that Henry faces is from his mother since she is never really there for him and has no real connection with Henry other than being her offspring. Where are the writers and directors who are thinking of beginning things?! Ham on Rye 's second half is informed with a kind of survivor's guilt that's also reminiscent of Carrie. 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This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register. The second half is darker and lonelier, following those left behind, especially Haley (Haley Bodell), who ran from the diner when her humiliation became too great and is now, like all her fellow rejects, apparently condemned never to escape this world of duck ponds, wisteria-draped driveways, and doorbells that are never answered. thats eventually revealed to be a literal ceremony at the center of Taorminas debut feature. Probably more than anything else, Ham on Rye works to give young adulthood some of its ceremony back. About to read Post office next. So not only do we shoot La Caada as the stand-in for our kind of upper middle-class neighborhood, but we also shoot in the deeper parts of the Valley more north, like Sylmar, where it [suggests a different class]., Yeah, Sylmar was more the latter half of the film, feeling all the dread and the emptiness, continued Broyles. This detailed literature summary also contains Topics for Discussion and a Free Quiz on Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski. No. Subscribe for full access to The Hollywood Reporter. 1985. Like a spectre left haunting the grounds after her fellows have moved on, the Haley character spends the second half of Ham on Rye in emptied-out spaces like bedrooms and street curbs, completing the articulation of a metatextual idea first initiated by those kids-television cameosthe image of the child stars left behind. 49 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Ham on Rye. The post-facto rationalizations they concoct for their hostility, however, involve his inability to play sports and his being viscerally revolted by cruelty to animals, the latter being one of the favorite past-times of neighborhood men and boys alike. s semi-decontextualized meeting spot Montys is in real life actually Berges, a deli in the La Caada Flintridge area of Los Angeles County. Production companies: Tago Clearing Film Studio, Omnes Films In Im Thinking of Ending Things (134 minutes), Jake (Jesse Plemons) drives Louisa (Jesse Buckley) through snow-covered country roads to meet his parents at their remote farm. As the story progresses the reader follows his life through the school years and into young adulthood. Bukowski keeps his descriptions of his hometown grounded in reality, paying more attention to the people that make up Los Angeles than to the city itself. ), being told to make the most of the big night by parents while occasionally expressing some ambivalence about attending. Dilbert is gone from Americas comics pages: Creator Scott Adams is The Lifespan of a Fact explores the world of true-ish journalism, The Rosenberg Case: A play reading, one night only, Congress punts decision on draft registration into 2022 or 2023. Charles Bukowski (16 August 1920 - 9 March 1994) was a German born American poet, novelist and short story writer. We had done a music video right before going into production on this that was very psychedelic, with a lot of superimpositions and really garish lighting schemes, so maybe that was feeding into it as well.. I just thought, I knew the actor, the kid wed hired for that role, and I knew I wanted to have an object kind of move from the kids space to the [adults] space, and I also very pointedly wanted it to be handled very differently by these two people I dont know. This type of description does not venerate or idealize the city, a contrast to other so-called "Los Angeles Novels". It seems like in some poems somewhere I've seen Bukowski talk about reading the great philosophers and he seemed to work his way out of the classes, to become his own man free from all the constraints of the working man.It took a hell of a long time, but he did it through perseverance. Interesting view into the life of a boy who just never caught a break. Brewer, Gay. This was a book I would rather not have read. To make matters worse, Chinaski develops horrible acne so severe that he has to undergo painful, and mostly ineffective, treatments, essentially becoming a human guinea pig for various experiments thought up by his uninterested doctors. When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Distributor: Factory 25 5 (3): 6. Has. Ham on Rye opened at the Brattle Theatres Virtual Cinema on October 23, where it remains available to rent now. , . The rest of the movie wanders among townsfolk later that night, fixing our gaze on empty strip malls and loose social gatherings. has successfully conjured up a cinematic space where all those aforementioned experiences have been quite purposefully blended together, forming a sunlit anxiety dream of a generic suburban upbringing. But part of what makes Ham on Rye special is how dutifully it avoids the lack of depth that usually accompanies utilizing deliberately generic settings. So, , was the realization I made about her character.. Ham on Rye (1982) is not only a loosely constructed autobiographical novel of Bukowski's distressingly poor childhood during the Depression, but it also qualifies as the novelist's version of. Ham on RyeNot rated. However, he rarely is completely confident with his own abilities and often second-guesses himself. Bukowski's words aren't going anywhere at this point. His only love was drink. with miners, and was an officer of SEIU. For a complete list of virtual cinemas exhibiting the film, see factorytwentyfive.com/hamonrye. For example, Henry's parents, like Bukowski's, had met in Germany after World War I. Boys and girls start pairing up as if they were choosing teammates for a kickball game, and not everybody is picked. This deliberately coy prologue begets the opening credits sequence (introducing characters with more close-ups of little details, like a tie being fastened or a nail being painted), which then feeds directly into the films real first section, where for about 20 minutes small cliques of seemingly high school-aged kids walk through various neighborhoods on their way to an unspoken happening thats eventually revealed to be a literal ceremony at the center of Taorminas debut feature. These films are unlike earlier genres of self-satisfied materialism or later rebellious promise. Same goes for something that Taormina said to, in early 2019, which seems way too key not to reproduce here: The script was born through that feeling of nervous confrontation to [rituals] and then it bloomed into What happens to those who dont get selected?,, Yet by placing its emphasis on the shared cultural detritus of American teenagerdom, like all those tokens of first cars and first kisses seen in the loving insert shots that dominate the first halfrather than underlining its more specific themes or subtexts (which Broyles, Lund, and Taormina say were pared back even further than expected during editing), reaches a very interior place: an evocation of an experience, or maybe even just a feeling, rather than a, Transgression becomes even more unfathomable when an entire global generation seems to share the same path in gentrifying the cities, Taormina, (also suggesting one of his films many productive contradictionsthat its a lament for the loss of a suburban experience produced almost exclusively in urban spaces). 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