Linda Fiorentino was in three movies in 1985. I watched one of them, Vision Quest, again Saturday night, this time in high-definition although that didn't add much to the experience. She plays the older woman in this one just as she did in her next film, Gotcha. That two different directors saw her the same way as I did is cool. She was born to play that part. The third movie in 1985 that she was in was After Hours. That was one of the more infuriating movies I ever sat through. Vision Quest is a fun movie featuring a young Forest Whitaker and a young Madonna in small parts but the movie really belongs to Mathew Modine and Fiorentino. 1985 was some year for Linda and me. She made her two first, two best, and two of my favorite films, Vision Quest and Gotcha, that year but then she made After Hours, which I hated probably more than any film I ever saw from start to finish. I don't blame her for that one, though. For that one, I blame Martin Scorsese.
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Quote of the Day
All eyes should look south, from the United States to Mexico City — to see how a country can be free and treat the naked body in art.
Spencer Tunick, Photographer
Blog of the day here.
Quote from said blog: "NewMexiKen has often wondered about life expectancy and the conventional wisdom that it was so low a century or two or more ago that 30 was old-age, etc."
I liked all three of those movies, though I don't think I'd call any of them a favorite. What was it about After Hours that infuriated you?
The buildup, buildup, buildup, and then no payoff. He got us rooting for something good to finally happen to the Griffin Dunne character. The end was disappointing. A better ending would have moved it out of the "hate" column into the "strongly dislike" column.
Thanks for the Spencer Tunick link Rob. I think a lot of the world has a healthier view of nakedness than we do.
Not everyone there was enlightened, though, Susan. From the same article:
"After shooting several group shots in Zocalo Square, Tunick photographed the female volunteers separately while the men dressed. Some women later complained that their male colleagues pulled out cellphone cameras and took some souvenir pictures, said Mireya Escalante, Tunick's representative in Mexico."
Hmmm Vision Quest makes me want to sing Crazy For You.