Last Movie You Watched

[SimonNZ]

I recently watched his first movie, Matewan. Wowza what a good movie about how against-human-nature is the solidarity feeling of a labor union, and how much power the ruling class has to fight back, create division, and drive wedges between that fragile alliance.

Watched Matewan tonight thanks to this reminder. And it was every bit as good as I'd heard.

Unexpected surprise: the William Oldham who plays the young preacher Danny is the same William Oldham who later became the singer Bonnie Prince Billy.

(And the scary older preacher is director John Sayles himself)

[Brian]

Will Oldham also has a wonderfully awkward lead role in a little movie called Old Joy, which is about two longtime friends who go on a hike in the woods together and start to realize that they don't have much of anything in common anymore, and that the friendship might not be worth keeping. Poignant, and has a very good dog.

[Madiel]

Heathers



Well I definitely remember seeing this when it first came out at the cinema. It was probably my introduction to the whole concept of the nastiness of American high schools. There are things I've always remembered about it. I'm not sure whether or not I've seen it since, quite possibly but certainly not for some years.

There probably are some aspects of it that have dated a bit, but when the whole thing was always supposed to be absurd and unrealistic it's still reasonably enjoyable. Certainly it developed a cult following, as evidenced by it being turned into a musical a couple of decades later.