Letterboxd — Your life in film

Jesus this town is like a Hellmouth of sadness

I feel like I need to go take a shower

Read the book then rewatched the movie and this has gotta be the ultimate example of an adaptation discarding massive amounts of the source material (ya gotta, it’s a dense book) but keeping the heart and spirit of it and managing to make something just as good

Okay “old chum,” you’re telling me life is a cabaret, but this cabaret doesn’t look like much fun at all!

Preston Sturges to himself upon meeting Henry Fonda: “I will make this handsome man fall down over and over and over again”

I love that this was Gene Siskel's favorite movie and he was obsessed with it because it was about the fun exciting youth he wished he'd when it's really a pretty bleak movie about realizing all your friends are pieces of shit and sometimes they die and you need to get out of your hometown

A lovely, deeply moving film where in one scene Colin Farrell does a Werner Herzog impression

Finally a movie about people ordering anime blu-rays

I’m starting to think Harvey Keitel wasn’t serious about wanting to learn to play the piano

That’s it I’m moving to Oslo

I know there’s way more important stuff here but I have to point out that the 2-door red Saab is one of the best movie cars I’ve ever seen. Just a truly excellent car. Lots of character.

I never would’ve guessed this was exactly what I wanted from a new Matrix movie in 2021 but wow I guess it is