No.14137
I love films set in those forgotten places of the United States, wacky towns with wacky people in the middle of the country, stillness, comfyness. It just seems like a parallel dimension where nothing happens and at the same time everything can happen. I've never been in the US but my mind often gets lost in those landscapes from film, remembering memorable fictional people. I love westerns too but let's keep them out the discussion and discuss contemporary (post WW2 till now) settings. What are your favorite films with a distinct American setting? what are your favorite stills, places, characters from those works? Do you have real-life anecdotes of those places? if you live in metropolitan areas, how do you feel about rural America?
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No.14139
>Do you have real-life anecdotes of those places?
In the age of 21st century all small towns in America have either gentrified or are poor and trashy, cities here have no culture aside from pop culture and those that do are rare and hidden away. Tight communities and optimism have been replaced by recreational drugs and dullness if not economic and social decay as seen in West Virginia and dingy towns in the middle strip of the country. Your movies chosen don't represent small town life either, the small towns in those movies are used as a backdrop rather than an integral part of the film so I'm not really sure what you mean. Try these.
>Twin Peaks (TV series, the third season is essentially a movie)
>Gummo
>Stand By Me
>Dazed and Confused
>Bernie
>Donnie Darko
>Nebraska
>SLC Punk (it's a city but at the time it felt like an overgrown town)
>Out of the Blue (Canadian but aside from Toronto the whole country is just an extension of the northwest; America's hat)
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No.14140
>>14139
>Your movies chosen don't represent small town life either,
I've never claimed they do, I'm well aware of the differences in fiction and real life. Thanks for the recs tho
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No.14141
Maybe you'll enjoy this OP, a documentary about small town girls basketball. It seems fairly accurate. I've only seen the first part but I like the people in it.
https://youtu.be/3FaULNDPFzU?t=40s
NBA coach Phil Jackson is on hand to give the project some credibility. He comes from the same type of background.
The documentary is only 90 minutes, but unfortunately the public TV channel included an hour of fundraising breaks in this upload.
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No.14147
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No.14162
Based on your examples I think you might like White of the Eye (1987) and Red Rock West (1993). Neither are amazing films but they both have a cool western vibe.
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No.14185
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Small Town Ecstasy (2002)
>Scott's a 40-year-old preacher's son and a raver, enamored by marijuana and the synthetic drug Ecstasy, who puts his children's future at risk through his lassez faire approach to child-rearing.
The title says "small town" but I don't remember it being especially small. It's a sad documentary though. Small town boredom drives some people to use drugs or booze for excitement.
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No.14443
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PAYDAY is a cool 70s movie about a country music singer touring the rural south
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No.14670
I liked The Last Picture Show very much.
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No.14671
>>14670
Yeah it's a nice one for this thread. I was thinking of LPS lately for some reason. Larry McMurtry is a very good writer of stories about small western towns. Hud is another noteworthy film based on one of his novels. I think it's supposed to take place in the present (or when it was written). However it's more in the vein of a traditional western since it involves cattle ranching.
Last Picture Show, Hud and Lovin' Molly are "Larry McMurtry's first three novels, all set in the north Texas town of Thalia after World War II". I'd never heard of Lovin' Molly before, but it was also adapted into a film directed by Sidney Lumet. It looks like that film is not nearly as good as the other two.
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No.15086
True Stories, directed by and starring David Byrne from Talking Heads.
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No.15165
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>>14671
Last Picture Show is really good.
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