Finding Forrester Gus Van Sant 2000 US/Canada (1st time) A teenager with a talent for basketball and English strikes up a friendship with a reclusive writer. Van Sant further lending himself to studio filmmaking, and the result is perhaps as solid a film can get when full of the old-fashioned clichés of such dramas. A thematic rehash of Good Will Hunting, with a few variations here and there, it is difficult to believe the director made Gerry a year later.
Mystery Train Jim Jarmusch 1989 US/Japan (1st time) Various lost souls spend the night in separate rooms at a Memphis hotel. A film which explores nothing in particular while working on many levels. Jarmusch has a look and pace of his own, and the humour is deadpan enough to often bewilder some yet to adapt; in this wry, episodic piece, he seems to be splashing many cultures onto the canvas with the same brush, complimented by Robby Müller's vibrant explosions of colour.
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