The Basement

I'm Simon Crowe, a blogger and a movie critic. I've finally found a place to put all that silly fluff I don't have room for anywhere else.
Melanie Griffith in Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild (1986), just rereleased on Criterion Blu-Ray and DVD. I barely remember this film yet I do remember how Demme’s humanism and egalitarian taste appealed to me as an young movie buff. The worlds that Demme’s characters lived in seemed impossibly colorful and more cosmopolitan, to say nothing of being filled with great music. I wonder if Demme’s Stop Making Sense (1984) didn’t light some fire in me to be a performer (though you wouldn’t like me as a musician). Is there a better film about the joyous interplay of performers on a stage?

Melanie Griffith in Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild (1986), just rereleased on Criterion Blu-Ray and DVD. I barely remember this film yet I do remember how Demme’s humanism and egalitarian taste appealed to me as an young movie buff. The worlds that Demme’s characters lived in seemed impossibly colorful and more cosmopolitan, to say nothing of being filled with great music. I wonder if Demme’s Stop Making Sense (1984) didn’t light some fire in me to be a performer (though you wouldn’t like me as a musician). Is there a better film about the joyous interplay of performers on a stage?