The Loss of Nameless Things

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06/16/2012 Beautiful and heartbreaking. See more 01/05/2011 you want to get upset? get all sad and beautiful about something? watch this. See more 07/06/2009 This documentary isn't really about the true loss of nameless things but, it is about the loss of things that a lunatic can no longer, or can barely, comprehend. He was, and I suppose is, a very interesting character. But, there was a point while watching this documentary that I found myself wondering if this documentary wasn't about the plummeting ridiculousness of a man who in different aspects could be considered the "good side of Charles Manson", or perhaps the "not so negative side of Charles Manson", to the idea that such (a) thing(s) could even possibly exist. I found Oakley Hall (Where the hell did the name "Tad" come from anyway!??) to be a very eccentric dichotomously strange fish; ...a paranoid & unpredictable self destructive sociopath on one hand and a very intelligent & talented writer with amazing potential on the other. Something of a mixture, a concoction consisting of various qualities, from such individuals as Ted Kazinski (the unabomber), Charles Manson, Francis Ford Coppola, and Samuel Clemmons (Mark Twain). Good to see that he finally shaved off the unibrow! (Or perhaps somebody shaved it for him; regardless, he definitely doesn't look as much like a crazed idiot without it!!) I would have appreciated the movie itself much more if they, at the end of the film, had put pictures up of everyone in the film who was interviewed, one right after the other with their names being displayed along with their pictures as they appeared, with perhaps a brief description of what each person does and where they were headed by the time post production on the film was wrapping up, including Oakley Hall himself! (Also, a description of why his exwife/lover "Mary" and their son apparently declined to appear in the film.) I recommend this only to those who are interested in acting and specifically in theatre. And perhaps also to those interested in self-medication with drugs and in brain injuries! See more 05/07/2009 What a strange biography of a man I had never heard of before. His tale is as dramatic as what he may have written in one of his plays and mysterious and just bizarre. See more 03/25/2009 Hippies in the late seventies start a playhouse in the Catskills, the bright light amongst them in his late twenties....needless to say likker, drugs and bridges do not always mix well. The first half is pretty age of Aquarius. The second half pretty melancholy. See more 02/21/2009 I am glad I saw this film, just to know about Oakley Hall III as a playwright before his terrible accident, and after, now, as he is. Profoundly changed, human, vulnerable, tender, curious, learning. I was really moved. See more Read all reviews

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