http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilsonville,_Oregon
― double bird strike (gabbneb), Monday, 9 February 2009 01:38 (fifteen years ago) link
i really loved this.i thought the security guard was this guy:
http://www.michaelvox.com/film/g/gw_301.sm.jpg
but it wasn't.
― schlump, Monday, 9 February 2009 03:56 (fifteen years ago) link
some more backstory would have been nice
I went in not knowing what to expect, and it felt ponderous when I was watching it, but the ending and Williams' performance have stuck with me. A lot of critics seem to single out the mechanic as the oddity that doesn't work, but I thought the All-American Boy Scout who busts her was worse. His exchange with the manager felt like something out of Bubble (or another bad Soderbergh movie).
― sad man in him room (milo z), Monday, 23 February 2009 05:18 (fifteen years ago) link
And re: the ending, it seems like a little bit of a cliche but reminds me of my favorite photograph. It's from Eugene Richards's Americans We: a wide-angle closeup of a homeless man on a street or in an alley, laying on a soiled mattress, clutching his mutt (with a rope for a collar) to his chest like it's the last, most important thing in the world to him.
― sad man in him room (milo z), Monday, 23 February 2009 05:21 (fifteen years ago) link
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ocean's 12?
― s1ocki, Monday, 23 February 2009 05:31 (fifteen years ago) link
also otm about backstory... soooo not ness
Has anyone read any of the Jon Raymond stories? I just read the NYRB thing about this movie and Livability, and now I am intrigued.
― caek, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 08:13 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, i read livability-the stories are good; a couple as good as the two that became the films, but the writing's kind of boring?, which isn't something i'd say about anything else; just, very minimal and concise but without the grace that is evident when some others write that way.
― peter falk's panther burns (schlump), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 14:09 (fourteen years ago) link
hmm, i was thinking about checking this guy out after watching Wendy and Lucy on Saturday. great stuff, but I think I dug Old Joy a little more.
also this is crazy pants--i don't always need backstory, i like ambiguity sometimes
some more backstory would have been nice; the phone call didn't really do it for me.
― pariah carey (Mr. Que), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 14:10 (fourteen years ago) link
totally.
― caek, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 14:14 (fourteen years ago) link
p.s. i am going to listen to this: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/culture/2009/04/08/jon-raymond-reads-from-livability.html
this was really good. i could watch a million more quiet movies like this.
i think i'd rank old joy > wendy and lucy > meek's cutoff but they are all really great.
― marcos, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link
I think about this movie all the time. I wish there were more like it.
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link
occurred to me that i would really have loved kelly reichardt to direct krakauer's "into the wild" instead of sean penn, would've been 100x better
― marcos, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
i wish i like this woman's movies more! they seem kind of art-cinema-by-numbers to me.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:25 (nine years ago) link
Old Joy really flicks my switches and i do find it quite singular and not by-numbers but i didn't like the other two at all. I found W&L relentless, gratuitous but, ultimately, uninteresting.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 00:34 (nine years ago) link