Bye Bye Monkey
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Uploaded by cornellwoolrich on Jun 7, 2007
For more clips like this, and a most enjoyable guide to pop culture, visit the blog for the NYC cult cable-access show Media Funhouse, located here:
www.mediafunhouse.blogspot.com
Regular viewers of the Funhouse in Manhattan will be aware of my abiding love for the work of over-the-top Italian filmmaker Marco Ferreri, and my interview with him shortly before his death. "Bye Bye Monkey" stars the always game Gerard Depardieu. Here Gerard becomes obsessed with his adopted "son," a chimp that his friend Marcello (yes, that Marcello) has discovered near the body of a giant dead ape (Marco got a Kong from his pal Dino). The dead ape's body is located right near where the World Trade Center used to stand, so the central clip I'm excerpting is an eerie moment in which a prescient lullabye is sung by the always-aged actress Geraldine Fitzgerald. I follow this with the exchange that became an early favorite on the show: Gerard's revelation that his chimp pal has been consumed by the eternal inhabitants of our fair city. His tormentor/boss is played by the inimitable James Coco, he of "Calucci's Department" and "The Dumplings" fame (there's nothing sweeter than a failed sitcom to jog the memory, is there?).
Information about the Funhouse can be found at
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I'm really interested in seeing this! Is it available anywhere on DVD?
Bizarronumber4 2 weeks ago
This is a really strange film, but I remember I liked it!!!! It also has some strange views of New York City at that time (1978).
MowgliX 1 month ago
Ferreri was such a genius and so overlooked as one of the finest auteurs in film, not only Italian cinema. So many great pictures.
MrButtcrackJones 7 months ago
This movie made no sense to me, but Abigail Clayton aka Gail Lawrence was terrific!
Mark271792 8 months ago
OK, I love obscure weirdness and consider myself to be fairly knowledgeable about pop culture but this one got by me. Wow. And James Coco too?!?!
feverdeanmg 1 year ago
ROTFL, I was looking 4 footage of Battery Park (Hudson Bay) Landfill ...but this is just wack; a giant dead monkey right smack there. My monkey is DEAD!! *_* French filmakers in NYC, LOL. Au revoir mon singe ...au revoir!!! sniff-sniff ^_^
parcolympique 2 years ago
great
PatrickSchabus 3 years ago
Ciao Maschio!
erploco 4 years ago
Mastroianni and Gail lawrence are great in this film!!!
miljenkoskoknic 4 years ago