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In the Soup Director: Alexandre Rockwell Screenwriters: Tim Kissel, Aexandre Rockwell Institute History 1993 Sundance Film Festival in Tokyo 1992 Sundance Film Festival Description Two veteran actors in American independent film—one from the Cassavetes era (Seymour Cassel), and one from the Jarmusch generation (Steve Buscemi)—come together with zesty abandon in this loopy comic noir. Impoverished would-be film director Adolpho Rollo (Buscemi), surviving on a diet of Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, and the vitamins his mother keeps sending to his Lower East Side apartment, is down to his last dime. With his criminal landlords pounding on the door (Steve Randazzo and Frank ? in memorable bits as the Bafardi brothers), he desperately places an ad offering his epic five-hundred-page screenplay to the highest bidder. The taker is Joe (Cassel), a small-time hood looking for the perfect dupe to use in his petty scams. Joe convinces Adolpho that he'll finance his film, but in the meantime there a
