March 12, 2010 in his new movie crazy heart, jeff bridges plays an aging country music legend, soaked in bourbon and stumbling through his late50s, his talent frayed and unwound by. The movie is dedicated to stephen bruton, the legendary texas musician, and a lifelong friend of burnetts, wrote or cowrote most of the original music performed by bridges and ryan bingham. Charlie rose rick stengel jeff bridges crazy heart december 16, 2009. In the movie crazy heart, bad blake was an alcoholic former star whod slid to the bottom of the countrymusic industry. He grew up amid the happening hollywood scene with big brother beau bridges. Singer ryan bingham performs the weary kind, from the soundtrack for crazy heart, starring jeff bridges, maggie gyllenhaal, and robert duvall, in select theaters december 16. Four time academy award nominee jeff bridges stars as the richly comic, semi tragic, romantic hero, bad blake in the debut feature film crazy heart from writer director scott cooper. Jeff bridges sings weary kind from crazy heart video. Jeff bridges style of acting, as demonstrated by his long wait for oscar gold. What makes this film even more enjoyable is the superb acting by jeff bridges, maggie gyllenhall, and robert duvall.
Crazy heart, written and directed by scott cooper, is a small movie perfectly scaled to the big performance at its center. Jeff bridges is outstanding as a washedup country singer desperate to. With jeff bridges, maggie gyllenhaal, colin farrell, james keane. Colin farrell, jeff bridges, robert duvall, maggie gyllenhaal. Crazy heart is a 2009 american drama film, written and directed by scott cooper, in his directorial debut. Crazy heart also won him the golden globe for best actor in a drama, and the screen actors guild award for. Jeff bridges has made some great films, but with crazy heart, he plays a stripped down serious role, and gives it an honest, poignant and. Jeff bridges plays guitar and sings weary kind from the film crazy heart on popcorn with peter travers. Jeff bridges and colin farrell did their own singing in this film, with the assistance of voice coach roger love. Parents need to know that crazy heart which follows a middleaged musicians jeff bridges failing career and the major drinking problem thats contributing to that failure is clearly aimed at grownups. Jan 14, 2010 march 12, 2010 in his new movie crazy heart, jeff bridges plays an aging country music legend, soaked in bourbon and stumbling through his late50s, his talent frayed and unwound by. Crazy heart movie clip fallin and flyin 2009 hd youtube. Parents need to know that crazy heart which follows a middleaged musicians jeff bridges failing career and the major drinking problem thats contributing to that failure.
Jeff bridges is a powerhouse in this film, and he makes crazy heart worth watching. Coopers film may not make all the right choices, but its got bridges, and. It offers some picturesque views of outoftheway parts of the. Original motion picture soundtrack is a 2010 film soundtrack album to accompany the film crazy heart directed by scott cooper starring jeff bridges and maggie gyllenhaal. Crazy heart 2009 jeff bridges in crazy heart 2009 gary busey and steffanie. Tour our photo gallery of the 20 greatest jeff bridges films, ranked worst to best, including crazy heart, the big lebowski, starman. Crazy heart 2009 with too many years of hazy days and boozy nights,former countrymusic legend bad blake jeff bridges is reduced to playing dives and bowling alleys.
Bad blake is a broken down, hard living country music singer whos had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. Dec 16, 2009 crazy heart, written and directed by scott cooper, is a small movie perfectly scaled to the big performance at its center. The official trailer for crazy heart, starring jeff bridges, maggie gyllenhaal, and robert duvall. Tommy colin farrell joins his idol bad blake jeff bridges on stage to share. A faded country music musician is forced to reassess his. Jeff bridges lets it all hang out as a faded country star in crazy heart. The production had ten minutes in which to film jeff bridges and colin farrell performing in front of five cameras and an audience of 12,000 fans. Both boys popped up, without billing, alongside their mother in the film the.
Feb 12, 2010 new jeff bridges movie crazy heart seems to think so. Every jeff bridges movie, ranked worst to best from charming rascals to old coots, the last picture show to the big lebowski the iconic actors greatest hits. Crazy heart is a personal journey for bad from downtrodedness no some form. Thanks to a captivating performance from jeff bridges, crazy heart. Theres a robert duvall movie tender mercies wthe same basic story line. Dec 07, 2009 singer ryan bingham performs the weary kind, from the soundtrack for crazy heart, starring jeff bridges, maggie gyllenhaal, and robert duvall, in select theaters december 16. Concert, and now crazy heart, ive learned that everything he touches turns to gold. For his musical performances, jeff bridges affected a shrewd mixture of. Jeff bridges sings i dont know from crazy heart more bridges appears on popcorn with peter travers to talk his role as a texas ranger in the film hell or high water. With too many years of hazy days and boozy nights,former countrymusic legend bad blake is reduced to playing dives and bowling alleys. Ever since his breakthrough role in the last picture show in 1971, he has, seemingly without effort, created a series of characters who we simply believe, even the alien starman. Crazy heart ist ein usamerikanisches filmdrama aus dem jahr 2009. Crazy heart original motion picture soundtrack original. Based on the 1987 novel of the same name by thomas cobb, the film centers around a downandout country music singersongwriter jeff bridges who tries to turn.
All rights reserved to informant media, butchers run films, fox searchlight pictures,umg music. Dec 04, 2018 tour our photo gallery of the 20 greatest jeff bridges films, ranked worst to best, including crazy heart, the big lebowski, starman. I was able to identify 29 out of the 30 scenes with songs in them some of the songs are used a couple times. Crazy heart 2009 full movie crazy heart 2009 full movie crazy heart 2009 full movie crazy heart full movie. He doesnt do this with mannerisms but with their exclusion. Every jeff bridges movie, ranked worst to best rolling stone. There was a whole batch of tunes that didnt make the movie. Aug 17, 2011 in the movie crazy heart, bad blake was an alcoholic former star whod slid to the bottom of the countrymusic industry. The soundtrack features 16 songs including the original songs performed in the film by jeff bridges and colin farrell, the weary kind performed by ryan bingham the theme song heard in the films trailer and closing credits and music featured in the film by waylon jennings, buck owens, sam phillips and many more. His performance alone is the films greatest asset and its what makes this film such a treat to watch. The a star is born honest trailer reminds us that jeff bridges already did all this alcoholic nonsense in crazy heart back in 2009. Bridges is one of the youngest actors ever to be nominated for an academy award 1972, age 22, best supporting actor, the last picture show, and one of the oldest ever to win winning the best actor in 2010 at age 60 for crazy heart. Based on the 1987 novel of the same name by thomas cobb, the film centers around a downandout country music singersongwriter jeff bridges who tries to.
Tommy colin farrell joins his idol bad blake jeff bridges on stage to share in one of their famous songs. The movies based on a 1987 novel by thomas cobb and samples both the mythos of. New jeff bridges movie crazy heart seems to think so. Jan 19, 2010 the crazy heart soundtrack album has a good number of the songs from the movie, but you can find them all below.
A faded country music musician is forced to reassess his dysfunctional life during a doomed romance that also inspires him. Bridges has said he based the look and feel of the character on his friend kris kristofferson, among other musicians. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. The son of actor performerp3198lloyd bridges lloydbridges, jeff bridges made his screen bow as a petulant infant in the arms of his reallife mother, dorothy, in the 1950 performerp28623jane greerjanegreer melodrama. Based on the 1987 novel of the same name by thomas cobb, the film centers around a downandout country music singersongwriter jeff bridges who tries to turn his life around after beginning a relationship with a young journalist maggie gyllenhaal. Jeff bridges and maggie gyllenhaal go country in new film. All 26 songs from the crazy heart soundtrack reelsoundtrack. Bad blake is a brokendown, hardliving country music singer whos had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road, and one too many drinks way too many times. His 20 greatest films, ranked worst to best, include crazy heart, starman, the big lebowski. Jeff bridges sings i dont know from crazy heart video. Jeff bridges is outstanding as a washedup country singer desperate to achieve personal and professional redemption, writes philip french.