Thanks for this post. I loved this movie when it came out and instantly bought the DVD when it was released. After reading this, I went to look for it and found it: both discs still there! Wish I could share it somehow.
It is so frustrating (and funny) to be limited in sharing content like this! I got used to streaming movies SO FAST, I seem to have forgotten how new it is. I'll try to hunt down a physical DVD copy from a library, somehow ...
Interesting detective work on a film I’ll admit to almost no recollection of anymore.
An older friend swore she would never get “hooked up” to streaming because she didn’t believe it would match the experience possible with an annotated DVD. She might have been right, although I generally found that watching the extras on DVDs immediately after the movie tended to deflate my experience of the movie.
Montauk? I always think Whitman when I hear that name and his late poem “From Montauk Point.”
Mierzwiak? For some reason that brings to mind the trickster character in Superman comics, Mr. Mxyzptlk. Probably has nothing to do with the movie, but does have most of the letters for a kind of ersatz anagram. Screenwriters have been known to do worse.
Oh my goodness I will have to go on a Whitman tour of Montauk!! I live in South Jersey / Philly area these days and there are some Walt Whitman landmarks around... Plus I've been to one Walt Whitman Lookalike contest at a Fishtown bar.
What is it about Montauk??? Strange and beautiful place.
I personally think I enjoyed the director's "annotated" commentary on DVDs because I was taking college courses at a time when they were popular. It can suck the spontaneity and wonder out of a film, eh? It personally reminds me of a time in my life when I just wanted to know EVERYTHING, always MORE. ... I don't feel those same impulses now!!
Thanks for this post. I loved this movie when it came out and instantly bought the DVD when it was released. After reading this, I went to look for it and found it: both discs still there! Wish I could share it somehow.
It is so frustrating (and funny) to be limited in sharing content like this! I got used to streaming movies SO FAST, I seem to have forgotten how new it is. I'll try to hunt down a physical DVD copy from a library, somehow ...
Interesting detective work on a film I’ll admit to almost no recollection of anymore.
An older friend swore she would never get “hooked up” to streaming because she didn’t believe it would match the experience possible with an annotated DVD. She might have been right, although I generally found that watching the extras on DVDs immediately after the movie tended to deflate my experience of the movie.
Montauk? I always think Whitman when I hear that name and his late poem “From Montauk Point.”
https://www.amazon.com/Walt-Whitmans-New-York-Manhattan/dp/0941533778
Mierzwiak? For some reason that brings to mind the trickster character in Superman comics, Mr. Mxyzptlk. Probably has nothing to do with the movie, but does have most of the letters for a kind of ersatz anagram. Screenwriters have been known to do worse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Mxyzptlk
Oh my goodness I will have to go on a Whitman tour of Montauk!! I live in South Jersey / Philly area these days and there are some Walt Whitman landmarks around... Plus I've been to one Walt Whitman Lookalike contest at a Fishtown bar.
What is it about Montauk??? Strange and beautiful place.
I personally think I enjoyed the director's "annotated" commentary on DVDs because I was taking college courses at a time when they were popular. It can suck the spontaneity and wonder out of a film, eh? It personally reminds me of a time in my life when I just wanted to know EVERYTHING, always MORE. ... I don't feel those same impulses now!!