My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant, 1991)

[arizona_jules]

Comments

[filmstills]

i will always love this film; it's very important to me personally. i remember seeing it as a teenager (15 or so) and realizing that film can tell different types of stories than the ones i saw at the multiplex, that it could be poetic and beautiful and different. i don't think i'd be a filmmaker without it.

xo kat

[arizona_jules]

Awesome! It's cool to hear about the films that affected other people like that.

[cahiers_du_2006]

I can almost remember it word-for-word, and I don't know why.

god. how can you forget hearing George McKnight uttering the word "blowjob" ?

[arizona_jules]

Hahahaha! Yeah, I thought about that, too! I figured that had to be the reason why I remembered it so well. In fact, I noted that in one of my very very first entries on my other livejouranl.