"I am a star / A Hal Hartley movie / I read my lines / Straight faced in the mirror"
Kind Of Like Spitting, "Your Favorite Actor"
Here's another Matador soundtrack from the mid 90s, this time from Hal Hartley''s fifth film, 1994's Amateur.
Does it feature Martin Donovan? You bet it does.
Is Parker Posey in it? She is not.
It does star Isabelle Huppert, a secret crush of mine, as an ex-nun named "Isabelle" who gets wrapped up in criminal hijinks spining out of her new career as a pornographer.
Did you get all that? I was told recently I had a way with log lines, but I dunno.
This is one of the places where Liz Phair, My Bloody Valentine, and the Jesus Lizard could comfortably rub elbows back in those days. And I find the Ned Rifle/Jeffrey Taylor score to be a pretty great appendix to what would have otherwise been a decent Lollapalooza 1995 sampler.
8/10. Now go watch the movie. You're going to have to find a physical copy, tho; it's ain't on streaming here in the States.
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