Saint Jack celebrates its 30th year at the National Museum
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Catch this film screening plus conducted tour of movie sites this November at the National Museum of Singapore! More details are available here.
Venue: Gallery Theatre, Basement
Date: THU 26 NOV 2009 7:30pm & FRI 27 NOV 2009 1:00pm
The only American film to be shot entirely on location in Singapore, Saint Jack was completed in secrecy in 1978 and then swiftly banned for nearly three decades. It’s an adaptation of an early novel by Paul Theroux about a middle-aged Italian-American drifter called Jack Flowers (played by Ben Gazzara), hustling a living in the seedier corners of Singapore. Director Peter Bogdanovich and his team set out to tell his story as authentically as possible, and spared no effort in scouting locations and casting locals. What they created was a vivid, colourful document of the swinging Lion City of the ‘70s, capturing the high and low-life, the gangsters, the towkays, the Brits, the Yanks, the good-time girls and boys, the glitzy hotels and the crumbling mansions with immense wit and style. Watching Saint Jack is a chance to return to a forgotten time and a vanished city.
Members of the cast and crew will be present at the screening on Thursday 26 November, 7.30pm, which will be hosted by Ben Slater, author of Kinda Hot: The Making of Saint Jack in Singapore.
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Posted by: malcolmyoung91
Posted on: November 22nd, 2009
I read about this event on Ben Slater's "Kinda Hot" blog a few weeks ago. I would love to attend this event, and also the bus tour of the locations used in the film, but alas I am in the Middle East at present. Ironically, I am passing through Singapore on the way back home just 2 weeks after. It would be interesting to hear from those that attend the tour which sites are visisted.
Posted by: xcetera
Posted on: November 23rd, 2009
There was an article in the New Paper yesterday on Page 17. As for the sites,I think Amoy Street, Clarke Quay, the Goodwood Park hotel and the Instituition Hill and Bugis Street (or whatever's left of these places) would probably be included.
Posted by: malcolmyoung91
Posted on: November 23rd, 2009
What about "Lorong J Telok Kurau"? If anyone ever works out which house (or the address of the former house) that was used in this film, it would be intriguing to find out. Not sure whether the current owners would find it intriguing though!
Posted by: xcetera
Posted on: November 24th, 2009
Well..you might want to ask Ben Slater about that. Ben has amassed quite a collection of movie notes and stuff whilst researching materials for his book Kinda Hot. The other person who might know is Tony Yeow, the films unit manager. They'd both be conducting the tour. I'll ask them if I remember.
Posted by: malcolmyoung91
Posted on: November 24th, 2009
I had discussed this with Ben around 3-4 years ago at the time he was writing "Kinda Hot". Around that time, he obtained an enormous amount of information about the film from a University in the USA. I recall him mentioning - and there is a paragraph or two in his book describing this - how the physical addres of that house on Lorong J was conspicuously absent from the location notes. So there would be very few people know where it was actually filmed. As for Tony Yeow, I have never met him but as he was the film unit manager, he maybbe one of the few that caan remember.
Posted by: foo
Posted on: January 19th, 2010
The other 100% made in Singapore Movie was Troma Vision's ''G.I. Executioner'' - likewise available on Amazon and eBay
Posted by: ben
Posted on: February 3rd, 2010
Sorry for late response, but no, I don't think Tony was there that night and because it was a real premises of ill-repute they were careful not to write down the address on the reports.
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