Medium Cool (1969; yeah, yeah, real clever that he combines real & fictional. So what; it's just not very well done.)

Aside from crummy movies like that, we're on a regular literary tear. Last week we saw Noon Wine (1985), a made for TV movie based on the Katherine Anne Porter story, with Fred Ward, the poor man's Charles Bronson, Stellan Skarsgard, the poor man's Max von Sydow, and Lise Hilboldt, the poor man's Susan Sarandon. It was OK, but the last half hour dragged a little, and it didn't really seem reasonable for Fred Ward's character to behave as he did.

Speaking of Max von Sydow, he sure has been in a strange collection of movies. Or maybe not--I guess that sardonic/ascetic aspect serves him well.