Tag Archives: Matt Dillon

Teenage Wasteland

I’m not sure how I didn’t get around to seeing Over the Edge until now. (Holy crap, the whole movie is posted on Youtube in 10 parts!) I was totally in this movie’s target demographic at the time it was made. My family Christmas card in 1977 shows me wearing a Yes belt buckle just [...]

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The Genius of the Crowd

Matt Dillon nailed Charles Bukowski in the movie Factotum. He never smiles and got the cadence just right. Someone should cast him again in another Bukowski / Chinaski novel turned movie. Mickey Rourke missed in Barfly. There’s a man playing a lonely trumpet outside. I turn on WNYC and listen to the talk radio people [...]

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