Wednesday, April 28, 2004
MOVIE OF THE WEEK With some regular readers approaching their ten-year high school reunions this fall, it may be worth revisiting Jonathan Demme's odd and absorbing SOMETHING WILD.
A road flick featuring what may be the best ten-year reunion sequence of all time, the film shifts tone at least twice--in what seem like calculated efforts to rebel against genre expectations. I'm not sure that Demme and screenwriter E. Max Frye quite pull it off, but it's a blast to watch them try.
And with Melanie Griffith and Jeff Daniels--in mid-1980s incarnations--in the lead roles, a great soundtrack and (presumably for the sake of independent film street cred) both John Waters and John Sayles showing up in bit parts, what more could you ask for?
