Tell The Moon About The Neil Jordan Poll

I saw In Dreams maybe a year after it came out? so, quite a while ago. I remember thinking it was more interesting than the reviewers said.. that they had the wrong expectations. but maybe I'm wrong. planning to watch it again pretty soon.

Butcher Boy is really good, Crying Game is one of my favorite movies, I'm sure I've seen it at least 25 times. so much great dialogue!

There are bad actorly brogues, and there is Julia Roberts' Irish accent in Michael Collins, whoo boy..

I say The Crying Game only recently &, having been told by the world that (SPOILER IF YOU LIVE IN A CAVE) chick is a dude pior to the experience, I feel like I missed out on an important component of the narrative intrigue of the thing. Honestly, though, I was struck by how dudelike the lady looked from the outset & I was wondering if I would have objectively called him/her out as a tranny without prior knowledge of the twist. Basically, I was surprised that so many other people were surprised.

I thought the same at the time. An old woman sitting in front of me with her friend leaned to her and said, after The Revelation, "Oh, well, I guess that's the surprise..." But it still holds up by creating this Hitchcockian suspense: we know more than Stephen Rea, etc.

Forest Whitaker needs subtitles, though.

High Spirits (1988)
We're No Angels (1989)

Rough times.

for me it's wolves vs. butcher boy -- which probably i could make up some sort of female vs. male coming-of-age fantasia dichotomy about -- and butcher boy wins because it's funnier. (mona lisa and crying game are also pretty great, and in dreams has some good spookiness before it turns silly and boring.)

interview with the vampire BLEW MY MIND in 7th grade

that's a better movie than it deserved to be, really.

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Voting Mona Lisa, but The Crying Game and The Butcher Boy are both very defensible choices. Really need to see Breakfast on Venus on video. I liked it in the theater, but I really felt like I need some subtitles.

On Pluto rather, ahem.

Butcher Boy is really fucking good....easily one of the best Irish films of all time, made even better by huge swathes of Irish people I know utterly not getting it.

Had no idea In Dreams was by Jordan. Figured that for some no-name thriller director.

Company of Wolves

The Good Thief was basically a remake of Melville's Bob Le Flambeur right? I preferred the original. Nick Nolte takes his gruff shaggy dog routine to a new level in that film.

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waht

People are stupid.

I like TGT, but c'mon.

i'm surprised End of the Affair didn't get any votes, it's probably my favorite.

thriller w/ Huppert opens in NY next week

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Not sure I even knew Marlowe existed till today--it was playing at a rep on the way home, the timing was right, so why not. Not terrible, just deadly dull.