Are you on the Perfect Days train? (Asking because it’s another Wenders.)
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I liked it but Paris is a masterpiece. Hard to match.
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I have read about it but never seen it.
I almost went with Jerry Maguire instead. Idk there’s something magical about YGM. Even if Tom Hanks is a gaslighting monster.
But now Tom Hanks knows who Meg Ryan is, and she doesn’t know, so for the whole last third of the movie he’s basically gaslighting her. How long does this go on? At least a season, considering it’s spring by the end of the movie. It gets worse when he basically forces himself into her apartment (so romantic) when she’s sick and in her pajamas and asking him to please go away, and demands that she become his “friend.” This scene is very, very odd—especially the part where Meg Ryan gets into bed when a relative stranger is in her apartment. The thought gives me chills.
Despite agreeing with a lot of the analysis, the movie is so charming that I can’t help but love it. That’s the magic of Tom Hanks.
For a 1940 movie, it is remarkably unavailable. I keep keeping my eyes peeled.
Definitely an interesting comp to be had since YGM was just a remake of that movie and, for all the talk of Tom Hanks as this generation’s Jimmy Stewart, it’s the one time he most directly just played a Jimmy Stewart role.
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of movies with computers as a central plot element, it has by FAR the most realistic depiction of how computers actually operate/are used in the film’s depicted timeframe
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The opening modem crawl gives me flashbacks. I remember when using AOL cost $20/hour.
Those CGI graphics too lol
I guess it is on DailyMotion. Didn’t realize there were a bunch of full-length old movies hanging out on there. Not sure if you have a way to stream this onto a bigger screen, but in case you’re interested.
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If you’re wondering: “is there a cult movie so goddamn weird even Trolly isn’t into it?” Yes, and it’s on Criterion now. I recommend you watch anything else but this. Watch an Argento movie instead.
No way to stream it on something bigger than my laptop, but I don’t mind watching it on my phone with headphones.
DailyMotion looking alrighty arrrrrrr 
I watched The Terminal the other day and it’s not a good movie, and Tom Hanks isn’t that convincing as an Eastern European guy, but he’s probably the most convincing and charming you could get someone to be who’s playing an Eastern European guy to be.
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Trap is on max today
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I’m trying to think of movies about publishing. I’ve got a nice list but a bunch are more about writers than publishing.
Publishing/Writing movies
- The Proposal
- Stranger than Fiction
- You’ve Got Mail
- The Shop Around the Corner
- Wonder Boys
- Adaptation
- Misery
- Sideways
- The Shining
- Julie and Julia
- Barton Fink
- The Majestic
- Shakespeare in Love
- As Good As It Gets
- Elf
- Young Adult
- The Devil Wears Prada
- The Last Days of Disco
- Fatal Attraction
- Knives Out
- Little Women
- Bridget Jones’s Diary
- Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- The Wife
Agree with you. He does about as good a job as he could. I still found myself wondering why they didn’t just get an Eastern European actor. Aside from Tom Hanks guaranteeing the box office obv
You Hurt My Feelings (2023)
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Also The Muse since you’re including screenwriters. And American Fiction for literary. 13 Going on 30 is magazine publishing. French Dispatch for newspapers since I know you’re a big Wes Anderson fanatic.
EDIT: The Intern (Hathaway/De Niro) too.
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The Paper (1994)
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Have you ever seen The Words (2012)?
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Never heard of it no
When shallow wannabe-writer Rory (Bradley Cooper) finds an old manuscript tucked away in a bag, he decides to pass the work off as his own. The book, called “The Window Tears,” brings Rory great acclaim, until the real author (Jeremy Irons) shows up and threatens to destroy Rory’s reputation. Cut to Clayton Hammond (Dennis Quaid), a writer whose popular novel “The Words” seems to mirror Rory’s story, leading to speculation that the tome is Hammond’s thinly veiled autobiography.
This sounds good. Reminds me of the book Yellowface R. F. Kuang. That’s about a white women who steals a Chinese American’s unpublished manuscript and passes it off as her own.
American Fiction.
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