Swimming to Cambodia (Jonathan Demme, 1987). Jonathan Demme may not have been the best filmmaker of the nineteen-eighties, but I think there's an argument to be made that he was the most interesting. This film is a good illustration of that point. It's a film version of one of Spalding Gray's monologues, a meandering but always focused act of ( Read more... )

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( Fosse, Hodges, Lee, Mamet, Peckinpah )

( Carpenter, Donovan, Lee, Michell, Schatzberg )

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Other people go to New York City and they see the Statue of Liberty. We go to New York, and this is what we see...


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