a man named pearl

Open­ing last Fri­day in the­aters in Los Ange­les (and just a few other places) was A Man Named Pearl. The Pearl of the film is South Car­olina mas­ter top­i­arist Pearl Fryar. The doc­u­men­tary doesn’t open here in San Diego until August 22 but the film is on my list. How often is it that you have a film about a gar­dener? (Let’s see…there was Peter Sell­ers in Being There…and then…any oth­ers? Would The Con­stant Gar­dener or Mid­night in the Gar­den of Good and Evil really qual­ify beyond hav­ing gar­dens and gar­den­ers in their titles?)

The film’s site has show dates and a trailer that gives you the best overview of his work. That trailer forms the open­ing part of the first of the clips below, and after­wards it goes into a forum fea­tur­ing Fryar talk­ing about his work in front of an audi­ence. The sec­ond clip is a more extended talk and includes a demon­stra­tion with him fir­ing up his elec­tric hedge clippers…


July 28 2008 10:09 pm | Categories: gardening • landscape design | Tags: • •

3 Responses to “a man named pearl”

  1. Leslie on 30 Jul 2008 at 1:01 pm #

    One of my favorites is “Green­fin­gers”, with Clive Owen.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203540/

  2. lostlandscape on 01 Aug 2008 at 9:07 am #

    Green­fin­gers: “Based on a true story about a group of British con­victs who become prize– win­ning gar­den­ers. Colin and Fer­gus are incar­cer­ated in an exper­i­men­tal facil­ity in Eng­land. They take up gar­den­ing as part of their reha­bil­i­ta­tion under the guid­ance of hor­ti­cul­ture expert Georgina Wood­house. Even­tu­ally, their dili­gence pays off and they go on to com­pete in the pres­ti­gious Hamp­ton Court Palace Flower Show.”–from imdb.com

    It’s now in my view­ing queue–Thanks!

  3. [ Lost in the Landscape ] » a fun gardening movie on 12 Jan 2009 at 5:48 am #

    […] July I did a post on the doc­u­men­tary A Man Named Pearl, and at point asked a ques­tion about what films there were about gardening. […]

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