You better lawyer up, asshole, because I’m not just coming back for thirty percent. I’m coming back for EVERYTHING.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let’s say you have no idea what we do and leave it that, alright? Nada. Zip. None. If you had any idea about what we do we would not be good at what we do, would we? We be c—-s. Are you callin’ us c—-s?
Your mouth is smiling, but your eyes look all sad. WHY?
You look like you’ve got some pain behind those eyes. There’s only one cure for that. Weed! Ya got any?
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Well, take a look. It’s a goddamn Hostess truck. I could use a Twinkie.
They’re those movie titles that make you do a double-take when you see their names on nomination lists.
“I’ve never even HEARD of that!”
Those, my friends, are art house films. And they’re popping up more and more outside of the art house.
“Blue Valentine” and “Somewhere”, two of the best films of the year, are low-budget films with raw camera work, gritty realism, and powerful messages. The former stars Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling as two adults trapped in a marriage where despair and unhappiness threaten to tear them apart. The latter is Sophia Coppola’s (Lost in Translation) dive into the head of a hedonistic actor as he struggles to maintain a relationship with his young daughter.
Neither of those plot lines sound very happy do they? They’re not supposed to.
My experience with bonafide art house films is limited. They don’t come out in Atlanta, and for good reason. No one would go to see them. They have a very limited audience, and not many people want to go to a the movies and see someone wallowing in misery.
Fortunately, that limited audience gives the films all of the recognition that they need in order to make a statement to the rest of the world.
Movies are not about how many cars you can blow up in 120 minutes (Michael Bay) or how many different ways the same sex joke can be told (Judd Apatow).
Movies are about feeling and living and being and experiencing everything that you don’t get to in your normal life.
Art house films capture the lost essence of the film world and say one thing:
Movies are about something bigger than yourself.
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