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[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
I started watching it the other night at about midnight. I had work the next day, and had forgotten it's just over 3 hours long.
That said, I hadn't seen it since it's release. I enjoyed it, a lot. It just creates it's own world of characters and story. Of course, when it finished I realised it was 3am, and I was back in the world where I had to be up for work a few hours later.
I just wondered what they paid the film editor for.
Making it longer?
Worst film for that EVER: Meet Joe Black.
Kermit dance! Kermit dance!
PTA's Hard Eight
Love this movie; I really need to own that.
I started watching it the other night at about midnight. I had work the next day, and had forgotten it's just over 3 hours long.
I'm not sure how the movie as a whole holds up (I really enjoyed it when I saw it in the theater, but it had a LOT of problems), but every time I've flipped on to it on cable (always at different points in the movie), I'm just mesmerized for a scene or two, and then tell myself I really need to see the whole thing again and move on to something else.
Magnolia cemented my bone-deep love of William H. Macy. I've never before or since seen a performance so utterly simultaneously watch-from-the-hall and heartbreaking. I mean, I already loved him because I'm not insane or stupid, but that performance just killed me nine ways from Sunday.
Also, because it turns out that I have been living under a rock for years and years, I had never seen either John C. Reilly or Phillip Seymour Hoffman before, and there's not a moment in either man's performance in Magnolia that I don't just hopelessly love.
I've never before or since seen a performance so utterly simultaneously watch-from-the-hall and heartbreaking.
His performance in Boogie Nights was stunning as well.
I've never before or since seen a performance so utterly simultaneously watch-from-the-hall and heartbreaking.
And Henry Gibson (as Thurston Howell!) adding to both by just destroying him from the sidelines with his catty snark.
Fox have provided a press release for Drive. It seems to be a direct lift off the Fox page except this time Tim's actually been credited as a co-creator.
I say this all the time, but I'm so proud of my Tim cutieheadwriterboy.