Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

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The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)

Guy: Goodbye, beautiful.

Jill: Watch out for the melodrama.

I've always loved that line so much -- "Watch out for the melodrama." This is such a great film, one of Peter Weir's best (and fuck if that ain't saying something, given Peter Weir's career), and no I will never let what a racist piece of shit Mel Gibson turned out to be rob me of this movie's glory so don't ask. Can it really be that this movie doesn't have a blu-ray release? Or at least an American one? Much less a 4K???? Just an old DVD!!! This is criminal! Actually what I need is for Curzon to put out one of their big beautiful box-sets of Peter Weir's filmography like they have for Lars Von Trier and Michael Haneke. Prized possessions, those beauties. 

Anyway long story short -- it's Sigourney Weaver's 76th birthday today! And we love her more than chocolate milkshakes so we wish her a very happy day. I'm going to be seeing her next new movie in a couple of weeks, and it's not just any ol' "next new movie" -- it's Bryan Fuller's Dust Bunny! As I told you it's screening at the Brooklyn Horror Fest here in NYC and I'll be there. See? There are good things still in the world. I too was beginning to wonder...