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.
Magnolia: I loved the directing and the performances, but I found I could not care a whit what happened to the characters.
I watched Magnolia when I had a very, very bad day. Because it was long and I wanted to think about something else for a few hours.
I only remember bits and pieces about it now, but I think I might have been better off listening to NIN and The Cure on repeat for a few hours.
but I think I might have been better off listening to NIN and The Cure on repeat for a few hours.
This can often be better than Prozac... Well, for those of us coming of age in the late eighties and early nineties, at least.
