Happy girlfriend!

[slipjig3]

I've discovered a good way to cheer rafaela up: hand her a Milky Way bar and a rented DVD copy of To Live and Die in L.A., starring the ever-popular William Petersen.

I just read the above sentence to Anna, who added the following: "Full-frontal William Petersen, thank you very much." I stand fully appended. (Anna: "So does he." I'm bailing out of this conversation now.)

Sadly, all the copies of Tideland were checked out, dammit, but much to my eternal surprise they actually had the director's cut of Romance, wherein "director's cut" means "oh, holy flaming bugnuts, is this NC17...." I've seen the edited version, which meant watching a severely hacked-down version, because this is Catherine I've-Got-Major-Sexual-issues-and-a-Camera Breillat we're talking about. Horribly depressing and twisted, if memory serves (well, duh, it's Catherine I've-Got-Etc.Etc. Breillat), but I always said I'd hold off judgment until I'd seen the full monty, as it were. Anna is so opting out.

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[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

the ever-popular William Petersen

I see his name, I remember that someone once called him "America's favorite bow-legged actor"...

Meanwhile, frustrating Tideland news: Terry Gilliam asked for the DVD to be matted a certain way (2.25:1) and the DVD makers didn't do it, releasing it 1.78:1. (And here's a follow-up.)

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

rafaela, reading over my shoulder: "HE IS NOT BOW-LEGGED!" (She'd know: she just got past the nude scene.)

And I suppose that after the debacles over Brazil and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, the DVD problems shouldn't be surprising. Disappointing as hell, but not surprising.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

"HE IS NOT BOW-LEGGED!"

Heh. I say heh.

That was the sex scene with the rather petite blonde, right? I'm going on nearly 20-year-old memories of seeing a snippet of the flick on cable; I've never seen the whole thing, but I have a hunch I'd like it. (I know I also saw Willem Defoe's makin'-money scene.)

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I'd planned on buying the Tideland DVD, but now I'm thinking of just renting it for me and Alicia to watch. (I turned her onto Gilliam; one of the first films she and I saw together was 12 Monkeys. The very first film we saw in a theater together? Grumpier Old Men.)

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

I've always thought To Live and Die in L.A. was an underrated movie, m'self. I should acquire a copy of the soundtrack at some point....