These I summarily recommend...
Please, believe me, you must see this documentary. I can not even explain how hauntingly worth it it will be: Gray Gardens "Little Edie" Beale .
Gray Gardens is one of THE most amazing documentaries I've ever seen. Reality TV; eat this.
Next, for a thriller of a most unusual (while still a little familiar) sort, you may like to rent Hard Candy. Then, you'll have to come up with your own opinion about it. I personally thought it was pretty damned good, even when it was bad. The thing is, if you don't have to know everything to be satisfied, in fact the very fact is satisfying, you'll love it. If you like things spelled out for you, forget it. It's the kind of film you can't say much about unless you want to ruin the plot (and there is one), so I won't say much about it. The reviews are split down the middle...but they don't stop coming in...and that's saying something. I err on the "two thumbs up" side.
For those I don't want to think or be thrilled nights, rent A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon. The box would scare you off if you saw it in the vid store, but you know what they say about covers. You think, akk, and then, ummm, no. You wouldn't think an 80s movie would be so beautifully weird, but I thought it was way weird. I mean creepy and enjoyable because of its incredibly uncomfortable a little over half real and the rest of the way unreal idiosyncrasies. Weird in that highway accident public wreck kind of way. River Pheonix, sex, smokes, drinks, cars, dad, future, what? SO weird. Not the Breakfast Club. How is it I never saw it in the 80's? Well, I don't think it was every in the theater, or I wasn't. Good with gin and tonics after midnight.
Gray Gardens is one of THE most amazing documentaries I've ever seen. Reality TV; eat this.
Next, for a thriller of a most unusual (while still a little familiar) sort, you may like to rent Hard Candy. Then, you'll have to come up with your own opinion about it. I personally thought it was pretty damned good, even when it was bad. The thing is, if you don't have to know everything to be satisfied, in fact the very fact is satisfying, you'll love it. If you like things spelled out for you, forget it. It's the kind of film you can't say much about unless you want to ruin the plot (and there is one), so I won't say much about it. The reviews are split down the middle...but they don't stop coming in...and that's saying something. I err on the "two thumbs up" side.
For those I don't want to think or be thrilled nights, rent A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon. The box would scare you off if you saw it in the vid store, but you know what they say about covers. You think, akk, and then, ummm, no. You wouldn't think an 80s movie would be so beautifully weird, but I thought it was way weird. I mean creepy and enjoyable because of its incredibly uncomfortable a little over half real and the rest of the way unreal idiosyncrasies. Weird in that highway accident public wreck kind of way. River Pheonix, sex, smokes, drinks, cars, dad, future, what? SO weird. Not the Breakfast Club. How is it I never saw it in the 80's? Well, I don't think it was every in the theater, or I wasn't. Good with gin and tonics after midnight.
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