SmileyMcGrouchpantsJrEsqIII
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From the opening quote from Joan Didion, to the first scene's depiction of a car ride being given and its feeling that the *whole country* was like this at the time, kids off from school, meeting each other ... you feel like you're on to something special, and in the hands of a gifted director.
From Mary Harron, director of Jim Jarmusch's favorite film of all time (check the Internet), 'American Psycho' (2000), and depicted *herself* in the Alan Rickman 'CBGB' movie from some years ago, a milieu Jarmusch would have been familiar with, comes a story of the twilight's last gleaming.
Should be later with Paul Thomas Anderson's film of the Pynchon novel, 'Inherent Vice,' as part of not just re-remembering the '60s but the effort, gently but firmly, to replace an awful lot of our historians with artists firing on all cylinders maybe taking a step aside to deal with other realities (see Jarmusch's own 'Gimme Danger,' his documentary about the Stooges, for more).
I recommend it!
It's good.
Get *entranced* ...
Portland, over and out.
;)
#YEAH.
From Mary Harron, director of Jim Jarmusch's favorite film of all time (check the Internet), 'American Psycho' (2000), and depicted *herself* in the Alan Rickman 'CBGB' movie from some years ago, a milieu Jarmusch would have been familiar with, comes a story of the twilight's last gleaming.
Should be later with Paul Thomas Anderson's film of the Pynchon novel, 'Inherent Vice,' as part of not just re-remembering the '60s but the effort, gently but firmly, to replace an awful lot of our historians with artists firing on all cylinders maybe taking a step aside to deal with other realities (see Jarmusch's own 'Gimme Danger,' his documentary about the Stooges, for more).
I recommend it!
It's good.
Get *entranced* ...
Portland, over and out.
;)
#YEAH.
It's surprising how well-*informed* this movie is. In a way, it reminds me of James Foley's 'At Close Range' (which I finally caught up with on Tubi, after watching the Madonna video over and over again on MTV during my teen years): the part when Christopher Walken disabuses his son, played by Sean Penn - and implicitly the *audience* - of certain presuppositions about crime, and criminals, and the criminal *life* ... he laughs and says (something *like*) "What do I *do ... ?? I know - *guys*. We do - *things*." It's the sort of offhand arrangements that goes on down South with drug dealers, with arrangements to work together being canceled & renewed, and a term like "cartels" being a convenience of the RICO statues to *catch* them, being a squirming worm of many segments to pin down most of the time *otherwise*.
It's really good ... !!! It'll keep your dander up.
And James Caan doesn't just seem like he's playing Sonny from 'The Godfather,' although his character is equally intense.
And Willie Nelson is good in this movie too. I never could stand his hits "Always on My Mind" and "On the Road Again," so it's nice to see him in something I approve if, since everybody likes him so much.
So.
Cheers!
Michael Mann fans will rejoice.
*It's never too late to start catching up with things* - if you really *want* to, that is.
Portland, over and out.
;)
#YEAH.
It's really good ... !!! It'll keep your dander up.
And James Caan doesn't just seem like he's playing Sonny from 'The Godfather,' although his character is equally intense.
And Willie Nelson is good in this movie too. I never could stand his hits "Always on My Mind" and "On the Road Again," so it's nice to see him in something I approve if, since everybody likes him so much.
So.
Cheers!
Michael Mann fans will rejoice.
*It's never too late to start catching up with things* - if you really *want* to, that is.
Portland, over and out.
- finis. -
;)
#YEAH.
