 Schatt's Last Shot has yet to be released on home video. 1985, 10 mins.
"Touch Me Tonight" |
 His
first color film with synced sound, Schatt's Last Shot is the
film that got Solondz studio attention and the opportunity to direct his
first feature, Fear, Anxiety and Depression. Solondz plays the
lead himself, a high schooler who's about to graduate, but whose hopes
of attending MIT - and winning the heart of his beloved Bunny - are
dashed by his inability to shoot a hoop and thus pass gym class.
Finding renewed resolve, he challenges his coach to an after-school
one-on-one match to determine "who's the loser." His director of
photography was again Cedric Klapisch (The
Spanish Apartment, Un Aire de Famille), who also shot Feelings, The
Babysitter and included Solondz in
his own NYU film In Transit. |
