'Smile Time'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Aw, some love for Fire Walk With Me. Slightly angry love, actually, but hey.
It needs all the love it can get. I know why so many people hated it (it didn't wrap up the series, it was way, WAY more grim - and weird - than the show, the inevitable David Lynch backlash, etc.), but I loved it when I saw it in the theater and I still do. Sheryl Lee and Ray Wise deserved some kind of recognition for some very difficult and disturbing work.
11 Ace In The Hole
Not surprised, but happy to see this on there. (I don't know if I'd call it "lost" exactly, since I feel like Film Forum screens it at least once a year, but it's really needs to be out on DVD, like, now.)
22 Safe
LOVE this movie. It's so sparse, and deliberately unbeautiful.
Unfortunately, I'm under-impressed with just about all of the films I've seen on the list (okay, five of them) but that doesn't bode well for how excellent I'd find the others, if I ever found them.
Save the Last Dance ? Really? Heh.
I did like Beautiful Girls.
Save the Last Dance ? Really? Heh.
My reaction exactly. Interracial romance and all, it was still an incredibly...um...standard bit of movieness. Though it did contain Julia Stiles giving the most earnestly white, WASPy read ever to the line, "Oh, I would never pop a cap in your ass!" Which is the first and the last time I've ever loved Julia Stiles.
Just saw Narrow Margin on TMC (they did a terrific day-long series of films set on trains) and it was amazing.
When Hec gets to work and has a moment to pop in, he'll be very happy about the Fire Walk With Me love.
I do remember Save the Last Dance being surprisingly watchable, and Sean Patrick Thomas being irresistable.
It was a good movie, yeah, but I wouldn't have considered it a "lost classic."
Oddly enough, I just read about Cockfighter yesterday.
I love this movie, but I'm all into Warren Oates.
There's some great movies on that list. I love The Swimmer, Safe, Ride Lonesome (anything by Budd Boettischer, really, but this one is one of the best), Cockfighter (natch), Wise Blood, and Two-Lane Blacktop (which is just astonishing and recommended to everyone who loves existential car race movies starring pop stars). Had no idea that anyone had made a movie of Housekeeping, a book that I love despite the troubling disconnect between Robinson's musical prose and her dull protagonist. I think y'all are right that some of those movies must be more underground across the pond, because quite a few don't seem so lost to me.
I like Save The Last Dance, but classic? Although I like Julia Stiles...she reminds me of myself if I could look elfin, that is.