Letterboxd — Your life in film

Virginia is for lovers.

Solid little tear-jerker about brotherly love. Arguably a little too melodramatic, but with performances this good who cares/gimme all you got, yaknow? Tom Hulce does a very good (and probably more subtle and nuanced) Rain Man thing, while Ray Liotta is flawless as his caring but rage-a-holic brother/keeper. Low-key scene stealer performance by Todd Graff, and David Straitharn does an effective dry-run for his abusive husband/dad role in Dolores Claiborne a few years later. Loved the Pittsburgh locations. I got all watery-eyed twice. Ray Liotta. Hell of a guy.

Found it free on YouTube.

Hey remember when David Lynch had that website?

Now I'm no expert, but I don't think this is any way for FBI agents to conduct themselves. What I'm trying to say is Matthew Modine is weird. A+ casting of Charles Napier as a flamboyant hair stylist though.

There are worse ways to spend a couple hours than watching Thandie Newton and a brutally miscast Mark Wahlberg running around Paris I guess. Mostly charmless, but has plenty of that J. Dem' chutzpah and a callback to Silence Of The Lambs that was... an interesting choice.

Absolutely insane that Demme could turn this nonsense into something not just watchable, but downright exhilarating. If those final moments don't make you want to get up and cheer then you might as well ✨pack it in✨

Do you think that Rick Springfield, in all his wildest dreams, ever thought he would be called upon to film a sex scene with Meryl Streep in 2015?

P.S. Rick Springfield is pretty cool in this imo

What I like about this movie is that Texas is like the fifth character!

"What can I say? It's not easy being human."

Pure Andersson. Probably his fiercest film? Not quite as dreamy as You, The Living or gleefully enjoyable as Pigeon, but man does it ever hit. Especially relatable to anyone who has worked a job at any point in their life.

As someone wiser than me once said, "I don’t know if I’ve seen an artist announce their aesthetic/sensibility within seconds of their film’s open the way Andersson does here."

So much gurgling!

"Too many gremlins and not enough story line"
- Roger Ebert, certified nerd-o supreme-o

Weird timing diving into both a Roy Andersson retrospective and Kids In The Hall: The Return on the same weekend since both creators seem to be similarly inspired by the idea that life is one big sick joke, but there's enough absurdity and strangeness in it to make it bearable. Same here, fellas.

I love that while Andersson's work is cynical and clearly the product of a depressive, it never feels hateful or fueled by negativity. Totally the opposite. Being able to effortlessly spin the bleak and mundane into something surreal and hilarious is such a gift. Love u Roy.

Get it, girl.