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A comedy about getting in over your head.
An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.
In the Soup
1992 Directed by Alexandre Rockwell
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Holy shit.
I never knew they made an autobiography about me starring Steve Buscemi.
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Steve Buscemi is a national treasure.
Though if there's anything else to be said about In the Soup, beyond its obvious love for the craft of filmmaking, it's a great film that captures what it feels like to be consumed too far into your own ideas as they conflict with how they are perceived by others. It's very funny, very deadpan - feels almost like it were a Jim Jarmusch movie too.
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If A Pretentious Film Bro Made a Film About The Life Of A Pretentious Film Bro, But Made It Good And Not Pretentious.
this honestly deserves more love, and i’m just glad this was restored for streaming services or what not, because it’s a true hidden gem of US independent cinema in the 90’s with shining performances from seymour cassel (RIP) and EARLY buscemi, who’s just a heck of a man in this. engrossing story about the struggles of aspiring filmmakers yet such a simple watch. pure life and passion and a sort of wistful energy brimming from the filmmaking. an ode to the independent spirit. you can’t go wrong with it. please watch it!!!
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- "i wanna do something new, something different. something like renoir, tarkovsky"
- "no, no, don't pull that shit"
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Steve Buscemi is Aldolpho Rollo, a broke writer-director struggling to get by in NYC and dreaming of turning his monolithic 500-page sceenplay into his first proper film, Unconditional Surrender. At his lowest ebb, his life is invaded by Seymour Cassel's Joe, a Manic Pixie Dream Gangster who offers to find the $250K needed to get the movie made.
It's a lot of fun, and if you like '90s indie fare like Bottle Rocket and The Daytrippers, you're in for a treat (it also reminded me a bit of '80s Jarmusch; of course that could be because he has a small role here). And like those films, it's less about plot and more about character-building through memorable scenes and small moments. Buscemi…
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A slow starter, but once Seymour Cassel steals a sports car while dressed as Kris Kringle, the movie shifts into high gear (see what I did there?). Buscemi is great as the pretentious, name-dropping wannabe director who worships Tarkovsky and early Godard. His 400 page script about an angel and a man seeing his past and future at the same time captures a lot of the back patting "serious" highbrow dramas I read for a living (kill me).
Cassel putting Buscemi in his place and drawing him further into cash grabbing schemes elevated In the Soup beyond mere overambitious, faux-auteur sharp shooting, though. The two leads have great chemistry, and their scenes together inject a lot of energy and, well,…
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"Correct me if I'm wrong, but I love you always sounds fresh to me. Just depends on who's sayin' it."
Down and out loser Adolpho Rollo (Steve Buscemi) scrapes by from month to month scrabbling to pay the rent. He dreams of making his unwieldy, pretentious script into a film and winning the heart of Angelica (Jennifer Beals), the woman next door. This seems like an impossibility until one day he meets enigmatic mystery man Joe (Seymour Cassel) who agrees to finance his film. The only catch is, the longer he hangs out with Joe the more unscrupulous things he finds himself put up to and the more "in the soup" he finds himself.
Shot in black and white, the…
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can’t you do a simple story? like a love story? i love you always sounds fresh to me // when i make a movie, it’ll be a love story. and i’ll dedicate it to joe.
only steve buscemi could make me fall in love with a pretentious film guy. any other man making that many tarkovsky references deserves to be shot on sight
also today i have watched two steve buscemi films and five episodes of columbo and have done nothing else... i am living the dream, baby!
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Steve Buscemi as a guy who spent too much time debating on the Letterboxd top 250