The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on October 20, 2015

We learned last week of the passing of lovely star Joan Leslie at the age of 90. Timothy was lucky enough to share the screen with her (and Sterling Hayden), however briefly, in one of his earliest film appearances. That film was Hellgate (1952), the entertaining Western prison drama written...   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on October 18, 2015

Tim Carey’s total face time in film noir probably doesn’t add up to an hour, if that. But oh, what a face! That uber-creepy countenance and mad-genius acting methodology make almost all of his performances unforgettable. It certainly seems that Carey commanded far more camera time than h   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on October 14, 2015

Here’s another one from the archives. It’s Timothy’s pivotal scene from John Flynn‘s The Outfit (1973), with a crackling screenplay by Flynn from Donald Westlake‘s novel. Tim’s ill-tempered gangster Jake Menner learns a hard lesson from bent-on-vengeance Earl Mack   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on October 12, 2015

“Ransom for a Dead Man” (3.1.1971) “Dead Weight” (10.27.1971) “Fade In to Murder” (10.10.1976) Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on October 11, 2015

The casting of the supporting players took a similarly far-flung approach. Off-Hollywood fringe dweller and everyone’s favorite lunatic Timothy Carey and the clearly bemused and bewildered former matinee gargoyle Victor Mature are the film’s guest stars: Carey as its all-purpose Maldoror, an avatar   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on October 7, 2015

We received the sad news today of the passing of Gail Zappa, Frank Zappa‘s widow and the fierce guardian of his legacy. It seems appropriate, then, to reach back into the archives and re-post this video of young Zappa’s appearance on The Steve Allen Show back in 1963. He talks...   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on October 4, 2015

Provocatively disavowing, then, the realist documentary mode, The Killing instead embraces a kind of ironic quotation that repurposes popular genre conventions and formulas. Take, for example, one of The Killing‘s most stingingly cynical moments, the charged scene in which a deranged sniper, p   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on September 29, 2015

To celebrate the birthday anniversary of the great Ted de Corsia, born in Brooklyn this date in 1903, we take another look at Crime Wave (1954), directed by Andre’ de Toth. This is a publicity still for the film under its original title, The City is Dark. Also appearing here...   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on September 27, 2015

Scene 1957 / Paths of Glory – Timothy Carey kills a cockroach. U.S. Director: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Ralph Meeker, Timothy Carey. Why It’s Key: A quintessential character actor achieves his apotheosis when his character kills a bug. To cover up his vain blunders, a French general (George Macready) i   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on September 20, 2015

The Insect Trainer’s main character, Guasti Q. Guasti, is convicted of murder after farting so powerfully that a woman falls from her chair, hits the floor and dies. The play is characteristic theatre of the absurd, full of non-sequiturs and jarring stage action. Carey was hard at work rehearsing th   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on September 17, 2015

In anticipation of tonight’s airing of the Lillian Roth biopic I’ll Cry Tomorrow (1955) on Turner Classic Movies (9:00PM PST, 12:00AM EST), we present another screen shot from Timothy’s don’t-blink-or-you’ll-miss-him appearance about halfway through the film, as a sweat   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on September 16, 2015

OK folks. This week’s video is a prime example of how not to present a video online. As today is the birthday anniversary of the late great Peter Falk, I was hoping to share one of the three episodes of Columbo in which Timothy appears. I found this one on...   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on September 13, 2015

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The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on September 9, 2015

Our video this week is John Cassavetes‘ comedy/romance/slice-of-life drama Minnie and Moskowitz (1971) in its entirety. Timothy’s cameo near the beginning of the film, verbally sparring with Moskowitz (Seymour Cassel) is justifiably famous. It’s only about 5 minutes long, but it&#8   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on September 7, 2015

Once again by request of my dear husband, we take another look at Moose, the hep-cat bookie of the Mannix episode “The Odds Against Donald Jordan”. We first met Moose on March 1, 1969. Here he discusses the gambling history of the aforementioned Mr. Jordan with a none-too-pleased Mannix   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on September 6, 2015

“I was stuck in a TV series [21 Jump Street] that was—you know, not to bite the hand that fed me, it put me on the map, so to speak—but it was very frustrating because you realize you end up saying more of someone else’s words in the span of...   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on August 31, 2015

Today’s my birthday. You know what that means. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using...   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on August 30, 2015

“A bad actor is rich, unique, idiosyncratic, revealing of himself,” Jack Smith once wrote. Timothy Agoglia Carey (1929–1994), subject of a 10-day retrospective at Anthology Film Archives, was surely all of those things, but he was not exactly a bad actor—this Brooklyn-born, apparently self-taught Me   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on August 26, 2015

Our video this week is a thoughtful analysis by essayist Colin Marshall of John Cassavetes‘ The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1978 director’s cut) as it relates to the city of Los Angeles itself. Timothy is briefly glimpsed in the restaurant scene in which Mort (Seymour Cassel) delivers t   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on August 23, 2015

Although some directors consider Carey “hard to work with” his talents have been used in devious ways many times. He’ll do an incredible screen test, they tell him “thanks but no thanks” and have another actor study his performance and copy it for the actual film!  Timothy’s son, Romeo Carey,...   read more