Call it the COVID effect: 2022 has been a year of directors returning to their past and reinterrogating it. Alongside prominent works of autofiction like James Gray’s “Armageddon Time” or Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans,” there’s a less conventional but no less revelatory work that also emerged this year: Mark Pellington’s “Going All the Way: The Director’s Edit.” Note the semantics of the title. Pellington doesn’t provide a director’s cut here, with him simply making a few tweaks to present a slightly altered version of what audiences first saw.

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It’s been a hot minute since we heard from filmmaker Mark Pellington, known for “The Mothman Prophecies” and “Arlington Road.” Pellington famously got his start in MTV-era music videos directing Pearl Jam’s “Jeremy” video to great acclaim, including winning four MTV awards in 1993, including Best Director and Video of the Year. Pellington used that success to move into dramatic live-action features, which segues nicely into his latest (re) release. Oscilloscope Laboratories has teamed with the director to present the never-before-seen 4K re-edit of his vibrant Sundance Film Festival hit and directorial debut, “Going All The Way: The Director’s Edit.”  

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Originally released in 1997, Pellington’s debut was based on Dan Wakefield’s best-selling novel about two young men facing an uncertain future in 1950s Indiana after their return from the Korean War.

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Clark Duke Headed To 'The Office'; Mark Pellington Directing ABC Pilot 'Red Widow'

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Review: 'I Melt With You' Is An Intensely Familiar Look At Male Midlife Crisis

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Review: 'I Melt With You' Is Disillusionment At Its Dullest

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Porn star Sasha Grey along with along with Zander Eckhouse (“Huge”), Abhi Sinha (“The Social Network”) and Arielle Kebbel (“Red Mist”) have joined the film about “a group of college buddies (Jane, Lowe and Piven) who, now as adults, look within themselves and find emptiness when they have their annual summer reunion.

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Few actresses are in as much demand at the moment as Carey Mulligan. After breaking through at Sundance last year with her astonishing performance in “An Education,” the young star has another potential awards contender coming up with “Never Let Me Go,” as well as a high-profile role in “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” and she’s going to be filming “On Chesil Beach” with Sam Mendes in a few months, and has been linked to Wentworth Miller’s script “Stoker,” alongside Jodie Foster.

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Over at Pellington Films, we have our first look at what the resulting film might look like.

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Pellington’s wife died suddenly in 2004, leaving the father to tend to his 2 1/2 -year-old daughter by himself.

While he did some work in the iterim, episodes of “Cold Case” and the concert film, “U23D,” the director finally followed up 2002’s “The Mothman Prophecies” with the feature-length film, “Henry Poole Is Here.”

Clearly inspired by this tragedy, the picture is essentially about a man who has given up all hope, and decides to drink himself to death.

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As we reported in January, hack director Mark Pellington (“Henry Poole Is Here,” “The Mothman Prophecies”) is sitting in the director’s chair, which means Del Toro’s “executive producer” title is pretty meaningless and we can’t imagine he’ll be looking over this film too carefully considering he’ll be full of hobbits in a couple of months.

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We wrote, “somewhere along the mid-way point, the film bursts wide open into the great blue yonder of terrible.

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Obviously the guy went through hell and back to make it through such devastation, so when you’re reading the press notes of ‘Henry Poole’ is here before the movie starts and being informed of all this tragedy, you can’t help but feel for the guy, side with him and understand his motivations to make a film rooted in touching and spiritual themes of life, death, love, loss, etc., even if those sentiments can be rather cliche.

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This summer’s indie-flick “Henry Poole Is Here” will feature songs by Bob Dylan, Badly Drawn Boy, Ben Harper, Eels and Blur (sounds like the StereoVegan wheelhouse). We know this because we used our eyes when watching the trailer (see above).

But let’s back up a bit.

So Mark Pellington used to be a music video director – he made his name directing Pearl Jam’s most famous video, “Jeremy,” and also lensed lots of famous clips for NIN, Foo Fighters, The Flaming Lips and Alice In Chains – then he went on to make direct “U2 3D” and a bunch of other crap (“The Mothman Prophesies”).

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