Negative Space: seventies
- All the President’s Men
- Probably one of the most influential events in journalism history made into one of the best films of the seventies.
- Almost Famous
- This is the best DVD I’ve seen yet. It has not one, not two, but three discs: the third disc is a CD with music by Stillwater, including the Led Zeppelin-like “Fever Dogs”. Thought the snippets of that song was cool, it was too bad they didn’t write the whole thing? Fret no more, they did write the whole thing, and at least five other songs, all on the CD.
- Boogie Nights
- The movie that inspired my sideburns. Filled with extras (this is the “platinum edition”), that apparently couldn’t even fit on one disk. Two commentaries, ten or so deleted scenes--also with commentary--and a music video.
- Detroit Rock City
- Four Cleveland high school kids ditch school in 1978 to see KISS at Cobo Hall in Detroit. Along the way they pick up Natasha Lyonne. What a trip!
- Dick
- Hey, if you can’t make fun of Watergate, what can you make fun of? Unfortunately, while they’ve ferreted out a number of jokes, they don’t go very far with them. The best jokes, are, of course, the “Dick” jokes, but Watergate really should be much funnier than this.
- North Dallas Forty
- The “Any Given Sunday” of 1979, and probably as controversial. I was willing to see Nick Nolte in any number of crappy movies after North Dallas Forty (I think I gave up after 48 hours).
