Secret Honor
fuck 'em.
just wonderful. really doesn't feel like a play in the slightest, in spite of its textual origin; philip baker hall really breathes life into the affair with one of the best performances i've ever seen put to celluloid. he is larger-than-life, electric; really just unmatched in his charmingly irreverent emulation of a wheezing, angry, shriveled-up loser.. all the fucked-up idiot mannerisms! really an all-time crescendo, too; the mythic image of a blubbering, shrieking <PERSON> becoming distilled and diffused within the filmic atmosphere only to fade to static - i think this solidifies <PERSON> as one of the Great American Directors in my mind
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