Finally. Finally. Finally. One of my favorite movies of all time (thank you Jordan) finally gets the DVD treatment it deserves. I can not talk enough about how great this movie is. This is Noah Baumbach's writing and directing debut. He made this, then the also underrated Mr. Jealousy and then took 10 years off and made "The Squid and the Whale" for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for best original screenplay. Noah Baumbach knows how to tell a story and what better story can I relate to than a group of college friends who graduate from college and decide to live in their small college town for one more year. Ah, what a life that would be.
"Paralyzed by postgraduation ennui, a group of college friends remain on campus, patching together a community for themselves in order to deny the real-world futures awaiting them. Academy Award–nominated screenwriter Noah Baumbach’s hilarious and touching directorial debut was one of the highlights of the American independent film scene of the nineties, speaking directly to a generation of adults-to-be unable to reconcile their hermetic educational experience with workaday responsibility, and posing the eternal question, where do we go from here? Stingingly funny and incisive, Baumbach’s breakthrough features endlessly quotable dialogue, delivered by a stellar ensemble cast." [Criterion Collection Description]
Please see this movie and then email me and tell me what you thought. I love talking about this movie and more people need to see it. It's that good. This is a movie that grows on you and grows with you. It gets better as you get older. It's a movie that you will remember and yearn to watch again.
When the screen goes black at the end (after my favorite scene in the movie) and Freedy Johnston's Bad Reputation starts playing, you already feel nostalgic for a movie you just finished watching.
I agree 100% with everything I've seen written about this film.
It's not high art, shall we say, but it seems that there are many more people than I suspected whose lives were touched by this film, like mine was. For starters, it gave me my first email alias (Grover Carey) almost 10 years ago.
It must have been the time that I saw it (I was just finishing university at the time) and the plans my girlfriend and I had at the time--we were preparing to go to Poland to live and work. Even the fact that we broke up after about a year there seemed to be connected somehow to the film.
I am of course a reasonably rational (ha!) person, and have lived my life without needing to blame it on this film, and yet, the story has stayed with me for the past decade. I am so happy to have it on dvd now; my VHS copy wore out long ago, and it pretty much disappeared from Video Stores after the dvd revolution. When The Squid and the Whale hit it big, my first thought was, "maybe they'll finally release K&S on dvd now" and lo and behold, they have. Wonderful. Check out my blog, where you'll find a few posts related to the film...
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