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Too Many Movies and Books

Breakfast on Pluto is a great new movie with Cillian Murphy as an Irish transvestite in the 70’s. I watched tonight and was blown away. Another great story from writer/director Neil Jordan who also wrote and directed The Crying Game. Both are entirely worth your time - though this one is distinctly more positive (in its own little way) than the earlier. And Patrick ‘Kitten’ Braden rivals any of my uninterested heroes - defining a new, more intriguing, niche in the genre (The Dude (Big Lebowski) and Cool Hand Luke being other favorites).

Speaking of The Dude: Last night’s film was The Hudsucker Proxy, another Coen Brothers favorite of mine (co-written with Sam Raimi (who caught that the name ‘Hudsucker’ was stolen from an earlier Coen/Raimi collaboration (starring who else)? come on, people, try to keep up). Tim Robbins is great, I love Paul Newman, and I expected Bruce Campbell (I already linked to him) but suddenly I was seeing Steve Buscemi in a bit part and John Mahoney (who I loved on stage at the Steppenwolf in Chicago “I Never Sang for my Father”) as the newspaper editor. oh - the connections. i love (pseudo)indi-film.

Today I also ordered several books:

  • Stone Cold Dead Serious by Adam Rapp
  • Fat Pig by Neil Labute
  • Indian Killer Sherman Alexie
  • The Saint Plays Erik Ehn
  • Passion Play: A Cycle by Sarah Ruhl

I’m most excited by those last two, with Sherman Alexi close behind (though this doesn’t look like his most interesting book (i’m not the thriller sort)).

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2 Responses to “Too Many Movies and Books”

  1. michelle Says:

    June 5th, 2006 at 3:06 pm

    I looked up the Breakfast on Pluto book a bit too. Looks interesting. This page has a chapter excerpt. Maybe this will be next on my reading list.

    I also loved the soundtrack. Maybe that will be next on my listening list. On the other hand, here is a list of all the songs (they’re not all on the official soundtrack). Maybe I’ll try to collect them and make my own mix…

  2. carl Says:

    June 6th, 2006 at 1:11 pm

    I’ll be curious what you think of Indian Killer. I found the thriller aspect itself only mildly interesting, but there’s a lot more to it than that. One of his themes (present in his other work, harsh and in-your-face in this one) is the underlying inherent enmity between (all) Native people and (all) colonizers, despite the best intentions of some of us to the contrary. Makes for a tough and thought-provoking read, perhaps especially if you happen to be a white guy living on a reservation.

    Review it when you finish it.