Scottish Posession

It’s a little disconcerting when you catch yourself midsentence and realize you’ve been talking to yourself for hours. In a Scottish accent.


But I’ve been watching Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar today (a truly great film from my current absolute favorite filmmaker) so I like to think that makes the running Scottish-accented self-dialogue slightly less disturbing. It’s a flight of fancy, an imaginative homage, not a psychotic break. Yes, that’s right.


You need to see this movie, though, along with everything Lynne Ramsay has made. She has a great talent for making dirt beautiful, yet still dirt. Not romanticized, not bullshit magic realism. Dirt.

Mystic River Agreement

Yay, someone other than me didn’t buy the Mystic River bullshit. So many critics–even respected ones–liked this movie that I was starting to feel very alone in my bitterness.


Link stolen, again, from Greencine, the best film site ever.