we get together every few weeks or so to watch movies and bullshit. last friday we screened doug liman's movie go from 1999. no one, except for me and anna, ever heard of the flick. starring sarah polley the movie is 3 interwoven tales about one night - xmas eve - in lost angeles.

rather than telling you about the plot i'd urge to to see the film itself. it barely got notice upon it's initial release. liman's better known flick swingers from 1996 inspired a mini-craze of martini swilling, sinatra blasting hipster doofuses. go did not inspire, as far as i know, gaggles of groupies to take x-tacy and go to raves. pity, since this movie is my favorite of liman's career thus far.

interspersed among songs by massive attack and others the thumping score is composed by dj bt. i'm not a big fan of bt but then i have only 2 of his albums and that is not an adequate assessment of his work, i was surprised to read on the credits on this viewing that bt did indeed compose the score, which is heavy trance, esp. in the club scenes. watching the film my head and feet were trying in my own lame fashion to keep time.

crisply edited and lushly photographed the drug scenes are so genuine that it felt like i was having a flashback. the movie is an exhilarating rush of youth and recklessness. polley proves her chops here and is one tough cookie. she is amazing to watch.

our group is sometimes wary of letting me choose the films we'll watch. they suspect my tastes run only to cheap exploitation. fair enough, i say, cuz it does, but go is a film i like so much i own a copy. i watched my friends' faces as they watched the movie. not because i like watching their faces but i wanted to gage their responses to the film. and that is a pleasure in its own right. cuz not much is better than kicking back, eating a big meal, knocking back a few and watching a good movie with our friends.