What’s Aged the Best?
Indie films; Leonard; costumes; Sevigny and Beckinsale; soundtrack; gay-day joke; club outfit; Criterion; Dan; New York; unnamed club; railroad apartments
In the discussion (12)
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- Late 1990 s independent films receive a choice.
- Robert Sean Leonard remains a welcome performer despite not becoming the anticipated movie star.
- Sarah Edwards’s costumes endure, especially Alice’s blue, striped, opening and subway red outfits; their contemporary appeal is praised.
- Young Sevigny and Beckinsale are reiterated.
- The soundtrack is called a first-ballot Hall of Famer, with the breadth of its playlist praised.
- Wednesday being gay day remains a favorite joke.
- A clubgoer’s bull’s-eye outfit is funny.
- The Criterion release, Stillman commentary and matching illustrated trilogy packaging are appreciated.
- Department Dan’s activism and remarks about bourgeois women working are praised.
- New York functions as a living room for young people escaping cramped apartments.
- The club evokes Studio 54 without naming it, avoiding the feeling of exclusion from a specific famous scene.
- Railroad apartments and Alice’s noisy pots and toilet business evoke unpleasant shared-living realities.