such good films, such a fine actor -
who seems to choose only films projects that actually interest him as an artist,
not just to make a million bucks.
when i learned that my play 'refuge of lies' was going to run off-off-broadway,
i looked up the theatre and an obscure ethan hawke project had just closed in the same space.
it would be chronological,
so we would see him age.
that seems apt,
so many of his defining films -
i guess i'm thinking especially about the ones with richard linklater -
are about the passage of time:
before sunrise,
before sunset,
before midnight,
boyhood,
predestination,
24 hours to live.
i suppose i could use progressive scenes from boyhood to mark the passage of time
from, what, 2003 to 2013?
so many other films i've enjoyed, admired -
or sometimes, which are memorable,
or that i want to see,
or would simply have to be in the montage:
dead poets society,
dad,
white fang,
a midnight clear,
quiz show,
gattaca,
great expectations,
snow falling on cedars,
hamlet,
waking life,
tape,
training day,
chelsea walls,
assault on precinct 13,
before the devil knows you're dead,
what doesn't kill you,
brooklyn's finest,
daybreakers,
cymbeline,
good kill,
10,000 saints,
born to be blue,
maudie,
first reformed,
juliet, naked,
stockholm.
