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My Own Private Idaho

Ooh! New Line used their Freddie money to finance art movies? I think I’d almost forgotten that, but they were the ones who financed Hairspray, I think?

So I’m continuing watching 80s art house movies… but this is from 1991. It’s basically the 80s! And I think I watched this at the art house theatre at the time, but I’m not quite sure…

I mean, I’m pretty sure that I’ve seen this before, but it’s three decades ago. Perhaps it was on VHS?

Flea!

Oh, right… this one has a bunch of lines cribbed from Shakespeare…

Really!?

loosely based on Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and Henry V.

But I saw Henry V just a week ago, and there were hardly any hustlers there! But a lot more war.

Oh, right, Udo Kier.

That’s so Italy.

I really enjoyed all the scenes here… but it feels a bit disjointed? Like some kind of Frankenmovie? I mean, I love it, but it could be… more… something.

But it’s lovely. And so sad. Or possibly not.

My Own Private Idaho. Gus Van Sant. 1991.

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