Tracy Letts

Right.

1993, Falling Down.

You're skipping Stalin, 1992.

TV movie.

I watched it.

It is written by Paul Monash, who wrote our beloved Friends of Eddie Coyle.

Uh, it's shot by Vilmos Zigmund, uh, and co-stars, uh, Julia Orman, Joan Plowright, Jerome Crabbe, if that's how you say his name, made for HBO.

First thing ever filmed in the Kremlin, uh, as part of Gorbachev's, uh,

He decided that that would be allowed, so they filmed in the Kremlin.

Duval was very proud of this performance.

Now, the movie itself is a bit of Stalin for dummies or Russia for dummies, and I don't know that it always focuses on the thing it should be focused on.

Some of the palace intrigue and shit.

It's like, really?

Are we – we're really going to get bogged down in this stuff?

Duvall's really extraordinary in it.

Unfortunately, he's been fitted with a kind of a mask, a cowl, which hides the upper half of his face.

And –

It's really too bad because the accent sounds good.

He's working his ass off, and he was proud of it.

And the Russians apparently found the whole movie laughable, but they loved Duvall in it, and Duvall got asked to play a lot of Russian characters after he did it.