Tuesday, October 06, 2020

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

To Die For (1995)

Jimmy: Any time it rains, or when there's 
thunder and lightning, or when it snows, 
I have to jack off.

A happy 25 to Gus Van Sant's best movie.
All due apologies to My own Private Idaho
but this is a factual statement. Come at me!


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5 comments:

Shawny said...

Elephant left much more of a lasting impression on me than MOPRI or TDF. But I still think Gus’s best film is yet to be, and it may always be that way. I’ve never been fully satisfied with anything he’s done thus far.

Shawny said...

Just imbd’d him. His next film is about a man who takes his son to Paris fashion week, starring Will Ferrell. It’s not looking too promising. Sorry Gus...

Jason Adams said...

I am fully satisfied with To Die For and only TDF, but I get that about all his other stuff -- there;'s always an alllllllmost quality to them, enough at this point that I think that feeling might just be his voice, if that makes sense? It's very Gen X feeling though, and even if he's a Boomer age-wise his movies feel of Gen X, which I think he would take as a compliment. He's clearly always fetishized casting a younger self outward, I mean.

dre said...

Kidman was robbed I say. ROBBED.

Anonymous said...

I love this movie, too, for lots of reasons. Even the small bits, like when the camera goes zooming between the dots in extreme closeup when Suzanne is describing the physical aspects of newspaper copy. Or the nimble shift from gun on fabric to the sand on the beach. Or the change from day to evening as Suzanne rotates in the living room. And then the performances. It's a feast.