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Nice Girls Don't Explode 1987
A forerunner to the quirky pyrokinesis comedies of the early 90's (PYRATES and WILDER NAPALM). While the gleeful weirdness of the script and the three lead performances (with Wallace Shawn thrown in for good measure) are charming enough, the movie can't balance its goofy tone and its dark psychological humor: coming in at under 80 minutes, it still feels stretched beyond durability and probably would have been better as a one-act play.
Which is a shame, especially considering how we…
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L.A. Without a Map 1998
What kind of pull did Aki Kaurismäki's brother have that he could convince Julie Delpy, who'd already done the Kieślowski films and BEFORE SUNRISE and should have been considered an A-list international star, to play best friend to the girl from LADYBUGS in this oversaturated satire of superficial Los Angeles? Getting Monte Hellman, Joe Dallesandro and even Johnny Depp to show up I can wrap my head around, but it's shocking the narrative never shifts to Delpy being the female lead. Judy Greer would have thrown this script in the trash.
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Hotel Room 1993
Early 90's American auteurs were obsessed with hotels and bellhops, as evidenced by BARTON FINK, MYSTERY TRAIN and the collective group of indie darlings who came together to create FOUR ROOMS (interesting fact: Steve Buscemi turned down the part of the bellboy in that one, not wanting to essentially reprise his role from FINK). Lynch wasn't about to be left in the lurch, producing his own hotel-based anthology film as a television project: three stories, all set in the same…