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Henry Jaglom's Someone to Love |  | Director: Henry Jaglom
Actors: Henry Jaglom, Andrea Marcovicci, Michael Emil, Sally Kellerman, Oja Kodar
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 90617
Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 111 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D126734D
UPC: 097361267340
EAN: 0097361267340
ASIN: B000IHYXIU
Theatrical Release Date: April 21, 1988
Release Date: December 5, 2006
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Writer-director Henry Jaglom's 1987, ruminating romantic comedy Someone to Love has the historic claim to featuring Orson Welles' final screen appearance. Welles plays "Danny's Friend" (in real life, Welles and Jaglom, both independent filmmakers, were friends), experienced counsel to Jaglom's filmmaker character, who is in an existential dilemma over the inability of social institutions (particularly marriage and family) to gracefully accommodate a contemporary emphasis on personal fulfillment. Fascinated and bewildered by the seeming paradox of modern relationships, Danny invites a number of friends, especially women, to a condemned theater, where he films them answering his questions about such topics as loneliness and happiness. As with many Jaglom films, Someone to Love is both formed and formless, often seemingly improvised within a tight narrative structure. Jaglom himself, known to be a tough director on actors, comes across as charming and earnest, while the cast is adorned with the likes of Sally Kellerman, Andrea Marcovicci, Kathryn Harrold, Ronee Blakely, and Oja Kodar. --Tom Keogh
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Henry Jaglom's moving exploration of the contemporary heart, Someone To Love is a wonderful comedy which centers around a movie director's puzzled search for romance and his attempt to find out why life hasn't worked out quite like anyone expected it to. Aiding in his quest is Orson Welles, in his last screen role, who serves as pundit, commentator and witty Greek chorus, "summing up with dazzling eloquence, the wisdom of a lifetime," says Kevin Thomas in the Los Angeles Times. "'Someone To Love' is a whole wonderful movie unto itself." The movie also features fine and funny performances by the striking actress Sally Kellerman, angst-ridden, fast-talk artist Michael Emil and the beautiful and remarkable singer Andrea Marcovicci.
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 is there a reason his name sounds like jag-off? November 6, 2008
Bachelier (Ile de France)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Boring. Tedious. Self-absorbed. Pointless. Dull. Lifeless. Dull. Repetitive. Tedious. Dreary. Tiresome. Uninteresting. Dry. Lackluster. Mind-numbing. Droning. Emotionless. Loveless.
Narcissistic to the point of inducing vomit.
Jaglom stars and ruminates about how marriage and family and commitment suppress personal self-fulfillment.
Jaglom takes as a given that personal self-fulfillment is the world's highest moral order.
Wooden secondary characters follow Jaglom's lifeless dialogue, where the love of an old movie theatre is a higher order of commitment than any interpersonal relationship of significance or solemnity.
Sally Kellerman shames herself and appears.
Orson Welles' last film. But he is dull too. He was such a loaf by then he could not leave his chair and move. So he "acts" by asking non-p.c. questions in a dialogue with Jaglom.
The ONLY good thing about this movie is an appearance and song by Andrea Marcovicci. Who by that time had had the good sense to rid her life of Jaglom.
 Graduate of the navel academy February 15, 2008
D. Hartley (Seattle, WA USA)
The perfect Valentine's Day movie...for dateless singles. Writer-director Henry Jaglom's films tend to polarize viewers. Jaglom reminds me of Ross McElwee (Sherman's March, Time Indefinite) in some ways; although his films aren't technically "documentaries", he is like McElwee in the sense that his work is highly personal, usually steeped in the obsessive self-examination of his own relationships with women. In Someone to Love, Jaglom plays (surprise surprise) a film director, who invites all of his friends who are currently "in between" relationships to join him at a condemned movie theatre on Valentine's Day for a get-together. Once they arrive, Jaglom admits a small deception-he wants each guest to explain why they think they are alone on Valentine's Day, and he wants to document the proceedings on film. Very talky-but fascinating, thought-provoking and (to my knowledge) a genuinely one-of-a-kind movie experience. Featuring Andrea Marcovicci (who had recently broken up with Jaglom at the time of filming), Sally Kellerman, musician Steven Bishop, and, erm, Orson Welles (don't ask).
Someone to love April 13, 2005
Bomojaz (South Central PA, USA)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
An experimental film, a movie within a movie. A filmmaker throws a Valentine's Day party at a theatre that's about to be torn down and invites a bunch of people who are alone; he then goes about asking them why they are alone and do they like it. It's all pretty pretentious and self-indulgent, with some very banal comments made about a very banal society. Orson Welles appears, his last screen role before he died, and he among them all has some of the most banal things to say. There are a few interesting points, a few of the characters reveal some things to ponder (and generally be sad about), but it's not enough. So much of the acting has an improvised feel about it that one begins to wonder if a lot of it actually was. Jazz fans will notice Dave Frishberg in a fairly big acting and singing part.
 A final bow for a grand theater and for Orson Welles. February 26, 2005
Rsoonsa (Lake Isabella, California)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
In the waning days before the demolition of the Mayfair Music Hall in Santa Monica, California, the brilliant and unconventional director, Henry Jaglom, created this unique film featuring the final screen performance of Orson Welles, and utilizing Jaglom's customary methods of actor improvisation coupled with perceptive editing, with the result being a moving tour de force of romantic sensibility. A gathering of single entertainment types meets by Jaglom's invitation at the theater on Valentine's Day, sharing perceptions of relationship success and failure as the director's powerful sense of angst rises to the surface with the camera being his investigative companion. Acting honors shall go to Sally Kellerman, whose performance explores most deeply of all her self-awareness of vulnerability and emotional need, and to Andrea Marcovicci, who plays a part as Jaglom's current love, and who sings beautifully as well, and as always. Jaglom's output has been remarkable because of his steadfast determination to create genuinely independent cinema and SOMEONE TO LOVE is a prime example of his talent for showcasing a personal point of view in such a manner that it touches upon the universal.
GREAT December 29, 1999
10 out of 14 found this review helpful
How interesting can it be to film people's responses to loneliness, loss of love and women's liberation? New York filmmaker Henry Jaglom ("New Year's Day," "Eating") has taken the route of doing just that - filming people's responses to those subjects, and the result is one of the most profound, exciting and personal films of the 1980's. Henry Jaglom plays a film director named Danny who is shaken and perplexed by his girlfriend, Helen (remarkably played by Andrea Marcovicci) who wants to be left alone, much to Danny's chagrin, when she sleeps. After she brushes her teeth, Danny has to leave so she can sleep in peace. On that note, Danny flies to Santa Monica to see his brother (Michael Emil) who is in the real estate business, and who deplores Danny's profession insisting it isn't work, it is "play." His brother is co-owner of an antique theater that is about to be demolished after having sold it. Danny gets the creative idea to stage and film his old friends and acquaintances in the theater, and so he makes invitations to all who are lonely on Valentine's Day to attend. A surprising number of people show up including his emotional companion Helen, a singer; Dave Frishberg who plays the piano in a beautiful montage sequence; Sally Kellerman as a distraught, popular movie star who all the men flirt with; Kathryn Harrold as an actress who wants to have a family; Steven Bishop who gets to play the guitar; and even the sage Orson Welles, in his last role, as a film director who delivers profound insights on women's liberation, loneliness and filmmaking. And for avid film buffs, Oja Kodar makes a pleasing guest appearance as a Yugoslavian woman who admires Danny for his truth and honesty (Oja was Welles's longtime collaborator and companion and appeared with him in "F for Fake"). "Someone to Love" is an eye-opening pseudo-documentary of relationships and what it means to have a companion, and the benefits and hazards of being lonely. It is the only film from the 80's to deal honestly, and with startling candor, on such issues. The question of Danny's credibility as a filmmaker is brought up at one point when he films Helen while dancing with her and she gets visibly upset. To quote Michael Powell, is all this filmmaking healthy? Is Danny asking questions that are too personal, or does he really want his brother to mingle and meet people at this offbeat party? Could it be that Danny is the only miserable person at this party? "Someone to Love" has no real ending but it does have a stirring conclusion with Welles smoking a cigar and cracking up as he expounds on what Jaglom may or may not have accomplished in his film. "Your films are very different from mine," says Welles. "You like happy endings because you are a sentimentalist." "Someone to Love" is never sentimental but it is a love letter to all artists (and people) who are miserable, happy or unhappy about life and love, and to those who consider loneliness a virtue. Are women better off without a male companion or a marriage? Are men also plagued by the same questions? These may be questions you ask yourself everyday but rarely are these questions ever explored in a film. "Someone to Love" is a sad, passionate, funny, messy film of great magnitude by a great director. And yes, his films are very different from anyone else's.
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