Castaway

[Richard Bensam <rabensam@earthlink.net>]

Stormin' wrote:

>The original "Be Kind To My Mistakes" is, I believe, played in full in
>the movie it came from, "The Castaways."  A friend of mine made a copy
>of it eight years ago (taped audioly directly from the video), along
>with audio recordings of her concert (direct from video) and the
>current B-sides he had (I now have them on TWW) and Ferry Aid's "Let
>It Be."
>
>The main difference between the two versions is there's an
>instrumental pause between verses, and the conclusion of the original
>has her repeat "One white rose" over and over again.
>
>Right now I'm too busy to make any copies.  I still owe others out
>there, some (Hi, Emmy.  :) .  Speaking of which, I should write to
>you.)  You may, however, easily tape it audioly from the movie (I hope
>I have the movie title, right.  I haven't even seen it yet,  Though I
>caught the end of "The Innocents" on PBS last night.  :)   )

According to the Gaffaweb Dictionary at
http://www.gryphon.com/gaffa/diction/  "Castaway" is a 1987 film directed
by Nicholas Roeg, starring Oliver Reed and Amanda Donohoe.  It's based upon
the autobiographical book "Castaway" by Lucy Irvine, in which a middle-aged
man places an advertisement in a London paper for a woman (Irvine herself)
to spend a year with him on a desert island.

Be warned that even the person who wrote that Dictionary entry has never
seen the film although he did own the soundtrack album; the film was never
properly released in the United States, and to my knowledge had *one*
screening in a theatre in New York City.  This is moderately surprising
because the original book actually did fairly well over here!  I'm not
aware of a US video release, but given Roeg's cult popularity it's much
more likely that the film will turn up on cable television on some
arts-oriented channel.


RAB

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