1) Saw I’m Not There and The Darjeeling Limited this week. Two films featuring trains, drugs, spirituality, and a life-altering motorcycle accident. Also include interesting casting overlaps with other films in which the same actors appear. Both are among my favorites this year. Only one has David Cross as Alan Ginsberg.
1b) Also watched Year of the Dog. I really liked Molly Shannon. This is a great little movie.
1c) Maybe next time I’m in this position I will have a one man movie festival featuring all one man titles: The Man Who Knew Too Much; The Man with One Red Shoe; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; The Man Who Wasn’t There; The Third Man; The Elephant Man; The Man Who Fell to Earth; The Man with Two Brains; A Man for All Seasons; The Man on the Train; The Minus Man; The Amazing Colossal Man; The Man with the Golden Gun; Last Man Standing; Repo Man. Maybe by that time, The Man in the Chair. Possibly Spider-Man, probably not She’s the Man.
2) “There is an African proverb that says, ‘If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.’”
My favorite roles for Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez are in Repo Man. But Tracey Walter steals the movie as Miller:
(warning… naughty words ahead)
Miller: John Wayne was a fag.
Everyone: The hell he was.
Miller: He was too you boys. I installed two way mirrors in his pad in Brentwood. And he’d come to the door in a dress.
I also give the movie a “Best Use of TV Party by Black Flag Award”.
Doesn’t David Cross play Ginsberg (Alan, not Ruth Bader)?
Ha! I’m glad you stopped by to notice that. Yes, thank you.
And, I’d pay to see Cross as Ruth Bader.