Here is a list of movies
streaming on Netflix come November 1st. In the past this list has
been pretty spot-on with a few exceptions being released a day or two after the
posted date. There are also several surprises through-out the month that aren’t
on this list, so be on the lookout for those.
November 1, 2014:
Artifact (2012)
Kingpin (1996)
The Rocketeer (1991)
Spike (2008)
Total Recall (1990)
The Quick and the Dead
(1995)
Star Trek VI : The
Undiscovered Country (1991)
Hart’s War (2002)
Airplane! (1980)
Dirty Rotten
Scoundrels (1988)
Jay and Silent Bob
Strike Back (2001)
The Core (2003)
Fatal Attraction
(1987)
Addams Family Values
(1993)
Braveheart (1995)
Internal Affairs
(2004)
The Haunting (1999)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
(1992)
It’s Always Sunny in
Philadelphia: Season 9
Portlandia: Season 4
November 4th
Altman (2014) – A documentary
about Robert Altman, not one of my favorite guys, a bit self-indulgent towards
the end (I think) but still The Player and Short Cuts are pretty solid movies.
His movie Mash is streaming and I don’t know if I’ve ever seen it so I may have
to check it out.
November 5th
Fading Gigalo (2014) –
I’ve never been a fan of Woody Allen’s movies. Out of the many he has made I’ve
enjoyed two, maybe? I do really like John Turturo, though, so that makes me
feel a bit bad for not having any interest in the movie at all.
November 7th
Virunga (2014)
Scream 4 (2011) –
Finally, all Scream movies streaming on Netflix. I’m kidding of course; I can’t
believe they made 4 of these things. That being said, still, with nothing else
to watch I could see myself checking these out because of a mild curiosity to
see just how crazy they got at the end with the whole thing.
November 8th
Louder Than Words
(2014)
Nebraska (2013)
November 11th
Not Yet Begin the
Flight (2012)
November 12th
La Bare (2014) – Male Strippers!
November 13th
Small Town Santa
(2013) – I’m sure there are those who enjoy these movies. If so then why are
you here reading me? And also, stop watching these movies! There are so many
better made, better acted, better written movies with the same idea but so much
more . . . well, better.
November 14th
Chelsea Peretti: One
of the Greats (2014)
November 19th
Sabotage (2014) – I was
all set to write this off as the usual Schwarnenegger movie – which ain’t so
bad, I mean, it is what it is – but then I watched the trailer. The female
detective from The Killing and I think – did I see a glimpse of The Martin
Donovan? So this movie is now possibly cool.
November 21st
Lilyhammer: Season 3 – The second best Netflix
show streaming after House of Cards.
November 22nd
Ida (2014)
Snowpiercer (2013) – Granted this is the best
thing this month, but I’m still curious, weren’t there two different versions
of this movie? Or no. I can’t remember what happened with the studio wanting to
edit the crap out of this movie, if they lost or won? But like I said, I don’t
care, I want to see this movie!
Nikita: Season 4
November 23rd
Happy Christmas (2014)
November 25th
Beyond the Edge (2013)
Running from Crazy
(2013) – Ernest Hemingway, not my favorite author (kind of think of him as the
Robert Altman of books) but certainly interesting, and it looks like their
whole family was interesting too so I’ll definitely be watching this one.
War Story (2014)
November 29th
The One I Love (2014) –
This is probably the second most anticipated movie streaming this month. I don’t
know like anything about it but I have heard it’s good so I’m going to check it
out.
Trailer Park Boys 3:
Don’t Legalize it (2014) – I’m not . . . I mean, seriously . . . why?
Like movies? Like video games? (bonus points if you like the music of Jim Guthrie) Check out Indie Game. In fact, if you like all of those things, then why haven’t you seen it?
It’s easy to play a game and never give a single thought to what went into making the game, the amount of time and work that went into the color of the the sky and the way it changes color as you go, or even the simple drive for the game - why is your character doing any of the things it’s doing? These are the sort of things that the people highlighted in the documentary Indie Game deal with and fight with, and all of it is rewarded by the fact that you who play the game don’t know or even think about any of them.
That’s their job, they create something that is fun and takes the player away to a different world, and if you never give the people behind the game a second thought then they’ve done their job perfectly.
It seems a painful job that in the end, with the finished product, it all becomes worth it. I mean, to be able to create something that others can play, and even better - enjoy! That is something truly amazing. They’re not making up something that people are only reading about, nor are they making a movie that people are only watching, they’re making a world that other people can interact with and explore and solve puzzles. A good game is one that lets you feel as though - while you’re playing it - you actually exist in that world, you are the character. To be able to do that, to be able to get others to experience that, I would say is completely worth it - but boy would it be exhausting, and this documentary shows that it is - as well as frustrating.
I love to write, obviously, but I love to write stories, and I love video games and movies and all things theatrical, so I’ll admit I looked into how to make a video game; and again, I’ll be honest that it didn’t take long for me to change my fucking mind and laugh at myself for even thinking it was something I could do. I knew it wouldn’t be easy, but seriously. How anyone can do all of that and still have a passion for it is beyond me. I’ve written long stories and worked on them for months, adding and subtracting words and whole chapters and such - but that is nothing compared to making a video game. Sure you can make a simple video game with an app and you’re done but who wants to do that when you could make an epic plot driven character developing video game? Me, but not anymore. I’m perfectly happy with letting someone else do it and I’ll play in their world.
Indie Game is about the people and not much about the games, and not really much about the details of making the games, it’s about the industry and the people who are working on their own or with a small group. They are the small fish in an ocean of big fish.
I definitely like the indie games. Journey is a short game but one that my kids still play and I got that when it was first released, and hell I’ll even still pick it up every once in a while too. The big budget games like Mass Effect are great and amazing and I love those games, but the indie games are great too just for different things, they have an emotional and involving story, like some of the bigger video games, but the indie games - on a budget - have to use different ways to get the connection with the people playing than the bigger games do.
Journey is the perfect example.
At the end of the game I asked my kids what they thought, and my daughter thought the ending was good and happy, my son thought it was sad (I agree with my son). I played the game, my kids have played the game, and after each time we still talk about the things that happened and what the story is and what it means and what the ending means, I freaking love that! They’ve seen parts of Mass Effect and what they see they like, and it took them a while to understand that it wasn’t a movie they could watch when I wasn’t around, it was a game I was playing (like the Uncharted commercial, a game they also liked to watch me play).
I don’t get why people - parents - get so upset about their kids and video games. You want them to go outside and play, make ‘em do it, but if they’re gonna be inside playing a game, talk to them about it, get involved! So many people know so little about what the games can offer both you, and your child, and the relationship between you both. Now that’s just me, and I sure as hell ain’t no Father of the Year, but like I said, for me and my kids, some of these video games are good. They’ve even taken to do drawings of the games, and my son drew up a level for Sound Shapes so I showed him that you could actually make your own level in the game and he took to creating levels like crazy! No matter how bad of a day I’m having, or what I’m doing, I have and always will find time to sit down and play a freaking video game level that my 6 year old made. I think that is awesome!
I LOVED IT
Another documentary streaming now is Print the Legend, and this movie took me by surprise with how much I enjoyed it.
I’d heard about the 3D printers but never really gave them much thought. You can print out an object, okay . . . I’d seen the titles for articles on the printers but never clicked on them, and watching this movie is like watching the highlights of all those articles about the 3D printers, how the little guys started playing on a playground that was pretty well populated with the bigger guys; the difference being that the little guys were going to bring the 3D printers to the masses - which was something I didn’t know we needed, and I think this documentary shows that we pretty much don’t, at least not yet.
It’s kind of like a fad - for now the 3D printing is a fad, I think, most definitely. A fad that has potential to be something much bigger. I’m not belittling the accomplishments of those developing the 3D printers by calling it a fad (at least not intentionally), it’s just that there’s nothing major being done with them by the average guy who bought one and with it in his basement developed a working prosthetic hand. No, that was one of the companies that developed the printer developed the prosthetic hand, which is great and amazing but I don’t see how that’s going to get your average Joe guy to buy one, and if it doesn’t catch on then it’s gonna fade away and in turn when looked back at it all it will be seen as a fad.
Now I’m not a fan of the kid who used his printer to make a working gun, obviously that’s the worst thing that anyone could use it for, and the last thing we need is just anyone being able to make a gun in their house. I think even the NRA would be against it for no other reason than there being no way for them to come out looking good if - now think about it - ANYONE could make a gun? I don’t think anyone wants that, but I’ll be damned if that gun printing kid suddenly made the printers something more than just a fad(?).
The documentary was well done for the same reason that the Indie Game documentary was interesting and that is because these people were interesting, and what they are doing was interesting and important, both films are about groups of people changing the way things are done in either the video game industry or the 3D printing industry (which I never knew was a thing until I saw this).
Obviously this would be a rather dull film were it not for the people who are behind trying to make these printers mainstream. You have the gun guy, but the other groups working to make the printers a “thing” are entertaining because you have people who just like to mess around and invent stuff all of a sudden find themselves in charge of companies with an image and soon the infighting begins and people change as well as their ideals and not everyone makes it all the way to the end, and if it weren’t for all of this - if it weren’t for human nature - it wouldn’t be nearly as entertaining as it is.
I’m
not sure when I first rented and saw Ginger Snaps. It was a new release at the
time, so sometime around 2000 or 2001 probably. Either way it was one of those
movies that I’d heard a little bit about so that when it came to video I knew that
I’d probably like it. A young girl is bitten by a werewolf and struggles with
it alongside her non-werewolf sister, nothing too special, but for an independent
movie it looked decent enough, and though I haven’t checked it out since then I
remember really liking it. The movie was one of those lesser known movies that
spawned sequels that managed to keep the original actresses and even managed to
keep the original entertainment, even the third one which if memory serves was
set in the past – a plot point whose purpose is lost to me now but going off of
memory was just as good as the first movie.
IN MY HIGH SCHOOL EVEN THESE
TWO WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE
POPULAR THAN ME
The two girls who were playing the
sisters had a chemistry that made the story believable – and not the werewolf
part but the whole thing about two sisters – both outcasts – having to deal
with one sister suddenly becoming popular while leaving the other sister
behind. A tale as old as time I’m sure but one that was interesting because of
the actresses and the sort of emotional punch portrayed by the younger sister
of watching her older sister change. It’s not a subtle movie by any means, but
a good one certainly.
The younger sister, played by Emily
Perkins hasn’t any anything streaming on Netflix – according to Netflix. I did
a quick IMDB search (the first time I’ve done any major research for one of
these things – so you should feel especially special Mrs. Perkins) and found
that she’s in the new movie Extraterrestrial which I recall seeing the preview
for and it looked . . . okay; I mean, if it’s streaming I’d definitely check it
out, but that’s about as far as I’d go to see just about any movie now-a-days.
She was also in the movie Prozac Nation, which is streaming, but I don’t know
the extent of her part in that movie, and she was also in an episode of
Supernatural, which I’d really like to watch but Jesus there’s a lot of
steaming TV shows to watch (I’m on the second to last season of House and
burning through it at almost an episode a day, I’m also watching Attack on
Titan which was hard for me to get into but now with roughly 10 episodes left
it’s getting good, and don’t get me started on the season of shows I haven’t
started yet; third season of Continuum, the recent season of Hell on Wheels and
the second season of Longmire, and that’s just the tip of the TV iceberg that
Netflix is floating towards me).
So in school I was the loner kid,
and not in a cool way – or, it wasn’t cool to be like that all those years ago
at least. I read books and watched movies and in between I went to school, and
for all I know most of the other kids I went to school with were into all the
same things I was but I was just too shy to find out so I was on my own.
AN AMAZING ACTRESS WHO HAS A
SUBTLE STRENGTH THAT MAKES
HER VERY ATTRACTIVE AS WELL
AS AN AMAZING ACTRESS
I related to Emily Perkins in Ginger
Snaps, and wished I was like her older sister – and by that I mean popular and
cool and good looking, not female. Although the movie Ginger Snaps does a great
job of making Katharine Isabelle desirable because she is beautiful and
confident, it’s her sister who – to me – was the main character of that movie –
and every Ginger Snaps movie that followed.
Now I don’t know any of these people
in real life, so all that I have to build my perception of them on is through
their movies, and unfortunately I’m not stalker enough to go and hunt down
their movies like I am for Steve Buscemi or Adrienne Shelly, so if I stumble
across a movie and they appear in it’s a cool “Martin Donovan Moment” that
makes me think of their previous work and wonder why they’re not in more things
and then wish that they were.
I honestly didn’t even know the two
actresses’ names until I saw the movie Torment. I put it on because my wife
didn’t want to see it and she went to bed early. I was surprised to see Ginger
herself, Katharine Isabelle, and holy cow how many years have gone by and she
is still as freaking beautiful as she was in 2000. It’s rare that for over a
decade later and a person looks almost exactly the same, and maybe she just has
a face that is memorable, and of course for a boy in high school who has seen
Ginger Snaps, that shot of Katharine walking down the school hall in slo-mo – I
had to stop there because upon going to Youtube and watching the clip I felt
like a terrible old perv; plus the scene now looks like a spoof of a shampoo
commercial or something like that so maybe the movie doesn’t hold up well
today, but still it should be seen.
TRUST ME, IF EMILY PERKINS HAD ANY
PICTURES LIKE THIS I'D HAVE USED
THEM FOR HER TOO. I'M ONLY WORKING
WITH WHAT I'VE GOT, PEOPLE
Katharine Isabelle seems to favor
the independent movies, which is cool, but at the same time I wish others could
see her and see what an amazing actress she is. She’s kind of like that cool
indie band (we’ll call them Benedict Cumberbatch) you listen to on Spotify that
you dig and try to get others to listen to but they won’t, and then one day you
hear one of their songs on the radio and they’re being interviewed and kids too
young to know any better are into them and suddenly you hate that band now.
That’s probably how it would play out, and the opposite would be for Emily
Perkins (her band would be Ewan McGregor), when she makes it big you would
enjoy being able to talk about Ginger Snaps and have someone who was a fan of
her but hadn’t seen it yet to check it out. Of course they’d also ask about the
girl who played her sister in that movie and you don’t know of anything else
she’s been in because some people are cooler when there’s less people that know
about them (see: Martin Donovan, or Eddie Redmayne).
Torment was a good movie, but then
you bring in Katharine and it turns into a really good movie – mostly because I’m
a fan, but it honestly doesn’t change the movie much. To the genre, the movie
wasn’t anything new, it was pretty basic with a few interesting points (I
hesitate in calling them twists, though one is presented as such). The movie
struggles with the child of the family who isn’t the best actor and comes
across not so much as disliking his new mom as being just kind of creepy; when
the boy disappears and things get going it has everything that these movies
need and it doesn’t do any of it in a bad way at all, just nothing new.
SEE THIS MOVIE! THAT IS ALL I WILL SAY ABOUT IT
I know all of these movies can’t be
Funny Games – a movie that is at the top of the home invasion sub-genre
pyramid, and is so awesome that I refuse to say anything other than it is
awesome and if you love these kinds of movies and haven’t seen it you’re an
idiot. The pacing of that movie is slow and steady but tense like non-other.
This one isn’t about the tension (even though it tries to be), but more about
the fighting, which again isn’t really bad, just nothing new.
I
know I haven’t written in a while, and I didn’t want you to get used to not
seeing me flood your home page with me vomiting my blog onto any and all
communities who don’t instantly remove me, so here I am. Honestly though, I
know your saw my absence in the same way I imagine my wife would see my absence,
as a relief, and with little to no concern about my well-being. Well good for
you. I hope you’re happy with your life choices that have made you that sort of
person. I know the sort of person you are – don’t think I don’t – which is why
I am here. Sure, I got a movie to talk about, but more than that I am here to
let the world (read: you) know that I am still here and I am still annoying.
You may ask yourself (how did I get
here), is he going to finish his review of those weird Quentin what’s-his-name
movies? Nope. Is he gonna review We Are What We Are, his most recent
non-review? Nope.
I’m here to talk about Blue Ruin. A
revenge movie. I love revenge movies. I love the formula and will never get
tired of seeing someone beat down on a mission only to come back at the end and
finish the job. I love the idea of a regular guy, wronged, and beating the odds
to get his revenge. I love the clichés, I love everything about those movies,
and with that being said a good revenge movie can still be destroyed by poor
production values – meaning, poor acting, poor music, sub-par camera work, all
of those things can ruin any good thing.
Blue Ruin is aware of all of the clichés
of a revenge movie, which makes it so interesting and entertaining. The story has
obstacles for the one who is serving the revenge and that changes things up a
bit in this movie.
A homeless man receives word that a
man is getting out of jail for killing the homeless man’s parents, an act that
apparently sent the man into a reclusive homeless life that he seems to have
adapted to rather well. The little things about the man show that he’s not a complete
loss, he’s managed to keep his car that he’s living out of in working
condition, and even the local police are decent enough to him even when he
mentions having broken into an empty house to use the bathtub.
With word of the man’s release the homeless
man promptly collects his money to buy a gun. You never see him buy it but a
bit later he has it, only it has a lock on the trigger, he goes about trying to
break the lock and promptly breaks the gun instead. It’s things like this that
made me think, okay, maybe this ain’t gonna go like I think, and it doesn’t.
His sister and her children are put at risk, so will they become involved? His
sister is supportive of his desire and then blames him for putting them all at
risk. When things escalate he doesn’t back down, though asks for direction of
whether he should or not, and in the end it’s his high school friend who helps
him with the best advice anyone can get while on a revenge kick: No speeches,
just point and shoot. When his friends says that I instantly loved this movie.
Blue Ruin has some great acting – especially the
end. The women who end up on the bad end of the revenge stick are on screen for
maybe a few minutes at the end of the movie, but they have the presence of some
pretty mean and bad people.
This guy doesn’t know what he’s
doing, and though he’s smart enough (and lucky) to keep himself from getting killed,
he’s just an average guy with simply nothing to lose, and that can be dangerous
for those he’s going after.
In
high school, for me, there were books and movies and music. Books were my
allowed form of escape during school. Between classes I could read, and should
we be given a break, I’d read. A book a week I tore through Robert R. McCammon,
Stephen King and Dean R. Koontz (I even got into the Fletch books and a lot of
the Dragonlance books) at home though the books were traded for movies and
music. I remember when the Bravo channel first came to cable, it would show
weird artistic stuff like ballet and stuff I wasn’t too into – then one day I
stumbled upon Hal Hartley’s Trust, and it all changed for me. My passion for
the blockbuster was forced to make room for the independent movies that I’d
never ever considered interesting – hell, I probably didn’t even know they
existed. I had a passion for movies but I knew no one who shared my passion. My
brothers and parents would go to movies with me but never really helped
fine-tune my interest. I hate to consider what my life – high school life as
well as future life – would have turned out had I never become interested in
independent movies – had I never discovered Trust.
What movies do you wish Netflix had
streaming?
Sure there are a number of
blockbuster movies I wish it had streaming now (Pacific Rim, Prometheus (and
yes I pick those two to irritate those of you who hate those movies – I freaking
loved them so suck it)), but I’ll be honest – I would love to see some of Hal
Hartley’s earlier movies streaming. I wish for this not for my own benefit –
well, not entirely – because I own Trust on VHS, as well as The Unbelievable
Truth and Surviving Desire (I will never get rid of those movies), but I don’t
own Amateur, and have not seen it since I rented it when it was released years
ago, and I would love to see it (we only have streaming Netflix, my desire
apparently does have a monetary limit at the moment) – I wish for these movies
to be streaming for those who have not seen them, because everyone in the world
should see his early movies.
I think his movies worked because of
the writer / director / musician, but also because of the actors he got to work
with, and since I am a red blooded American male I must put Adrienne Shelly at
the top of the list of the best thing about his movies. She’s not in all of
his, so at that point I must admit to my die-hard love for Martin Donovan, and
then finally to Bill Sage – who brought all of this about, but more on that in
a minute.
The following is a review I wrote on
Amazon for a soundtrack I bought:
2 of 3 people found the
following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A guy from Kansas loves this music., December
2, 1998
This review is from: True Fiction Pictures:
Music From The Films Of Hal Hartley (Audio CD)
Ever since I caught Trust late at night on Bravo, I fell in love
with Adrienne Shelly (who wouldn't?) and I was also introduced to Hal Hartley.
The music accompanying the last shot was so (for the lack of a better word)
cool, that I watched the credits to catch who did the music. After years of
looking for this Ned Rifle guy, Hal released Amateur, and I got that
soundtrack, and it was awesome. Now I just got this soundtrack, and it's twice
as good. With the themes for Simple Men, the Unbelievable Truth, as well as
Trust, this is a must have for any Hal Hartley (or Adrienne Shelly) fan.
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So
I obviously had a crush on Adrienne Shelly, but seriously, how could you not.
She was the indie it girl before that was even a thing. Before Parker Posey
there was Adrienne Shelly – before the whole Manic Pixie Dream Girl had a title
or was a thing worth putting a title on, there was Adrienne Shelly. But I
wouldn’t define her as a Manic Pixie Dream Girl exactly – she’s not an empty
shell of a person who is there for the sole purpose of making a male character
understand life and its lessons – or whatever a MPDG is supposed to be. She is
the opposite; she is the main character herself, a strong girl with drive and
intelligence who just happens to be in love with a guy who doesn’t understand
the sort of things life is throwing at him. She helps him, sure, but as evident
in Trust, he helps her as well. Adrienne Shelly’s characters were more the Manic
Pixie Dream Girlfriend, she wasn’t a girl who was there to help the male
character and then fade into the background, she was there for the long haul,
she was there to help but needed help herself and if the other main character
could handle the work then things would end well. Unfortunately in Trust,
Martin Donovan was unable to handle it (at least that’s my interpretation of
it), which brings me to the man himself.
Just another reason this man is my idol.
Martin
Donovan was my idol in high school. I’d say his character in Trust was my idol
but in the Hartley films – no matter the character – he seemed to always be of
the same mentality so I go with the belief that the man Martin Donovan was –
and still is – my idol. Of course as he moved on to play more characters he
grew and changed and became a very diverse actor, but he will always be those characters
he was playing in the Hartley films. To a teenage Josh whose friends consisted
of characters from books and movies, Martin Donovan seemed like the perfect guy
to strive to be – a guy who lives by his own rules and though he may not get
the girl, he’s still ends up looking as cool as anyone could wish to be. Of
course it is Harley’s writing that makes him so cool, but the writing alone
wouldn’t work if it weren’t for Martin Donovan’s delivery and presence that
made every word he says and every action he performs a thing of defiance and bitterness
that comes across as nothing short of style.
Know why this guy is so cool?
Bill
Sage was also a recurring character that stood out during the Hartley films. He
was a youthful guy that took center stage in Simple Men, and though he often
popped up in other Hartley films, it was always in the background, but even
then he stood out as a memorable guy. Bill Sage exemplified another reason the Hartley
films were always so entertaining. Hal Hartley used the same actors in one
aspect or another throughout his movies and it was always nice to see the same
faces through different movies. They were people I was beginning to recognize
and to a lonely kid they were friends that I could go back and hang out with
whenever I wanted and unlike real people, the people in the Hartley films didn’t
get on my nerves and were cool.
Through
out the years I enjoyed seeing Martin Donovan pop up in unexpected places. The Silent
Hill sequel, Kelsey Grammar series Boss, The Dead Zone (I think, I stopped
watching towards the end but I think I saw him in a few episodes? Maybe it was
The 4400); all of it was just that much more enjoyable because I got to see an
old friend when I was least expecting him (Jesus that sounds pathetic).
What an amazing person looks like.
I
realize that none of these people knew that I existed, nor did they care, but I
still liked them and enjoyed the company that their work gave me, and when I
heard of Adrienne Shelley’s murder I was shocked – obviously – but it affected me
in a way I hadn’t expected. It was like my memories were changed. Now when I
think back to the first time I saw Trust, and the first time I saw Adrienne
Shelley, it’s all different because no matter how sweet and awesome and strong
and intelligent she seemed (and yes I’m going off of her acting and the
character she was playing as a guide to the person – but I think it safe to
assume that she was a pretty cool person in real life) someone murdered her:
"You stalked and brutally attacked my wife, silenced her
screams with your hand until you rendered her unconscious and then, in a brutal
and gruesome act of cowardice, took a bedsheet and strangled her to death,"Ostroy
said. "You tied her up and hung her the way you strung up pigs back in
Ecuador."
Shelly's death was initially thought to be suicide: The
40-year-old was found dangling from a bedsheet tied to a shower rod. Cops
zeroed in on Pillco after investigators found his dusty boot prints on the edge
of Shelly's bathtub.
Pillco, 20, confessed to attacking the
acclaimed actress-director when she caught him pilfering her purse; he pleaded
guilty to manslaughter last month.
and though I don’t give that less than a person
who took her life a thought, it’s just the fact that she is gone that makes it
different.
Billy
Sage was an actor that I seemed to be missing out on. I saw him in American
Psycho but it took me awhile to realize that was the same guy from the Hartley
films. He still had that youthful face but just something about his ability to
go deep into his characters that made him one of those actors that you see and
don’t realize until later that you’d seen him in a bunch of movies. From most
of the movies that I’d seen him in he wasn’t ever the main character, he was
always a supporting guy – which is cool – but it was like he was always lost to
both the character as well as the background, and he seemed totally fine and comfortable
with where he was.
This is why.
Now
there may be dozens of movies where he’s the main character and I just haven’t
seen them, and if there are good movies with him that I’m not aware of, let me
know and I will check them out. This is just my impression of him and he seems
to not get or take many main character roles. This was my impression of him,
and also the fact that I hadn’t thought of any of Hartley’s movies for a while,
is why when I saw We Are What We Are I had the strange feeling that I knew the
dad in the movie but he did not look like anyone I knew, but that voice, man
did that voice sound familiar . . .
