Friday Night Movie Club
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The future feels unfathomable.
Why not escape into the past?
(Think Paris Hilton, orGirls Gone Wild.)
They could be precious and over-aestheticized, but there was also something shaggy and handmade about them.
For a pretentious nerd, it was catnip.
(Searchlight was owned by Fox, of course, while Focus Features was part of Universal.)
If you missed it, the next one didnt come for another hour.
When these movies are discussed now, its often with a slight cringe.
Values have shifted; hyperarticulate sensitivity has given way to moral forthrightness.
(For more, readthis essay onGarden Stateby my colleague Jesse David Fox.)
Why make it more complicated?
This movie was simply too integral a part of my identity to risk its memory being tarnished.
But as a man once said:Everybodys gotta learn sometimes.
Lets take the train out to Montauk, and see what we find.
