Reilly had a major role in "Hard Eight," the 27-year-old director's only previous feature, which was slow and stagy in ways that gave no inkling of this. Reilly as Eddie's main sidekick in this wild new world. The shady financier who, like Jack Horner, is so discreetly excited by young talent Ricky Jay as the unflappable cameraman, and John C. Nice for porn stardom William Macy, in a wig borrowed from the Partridge Family, as the crew member whose wife enjoys embarrassing him most unmistakably Philip Seymour Hoffman as Eddie's most ardent admirer Robert Ridgely as
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"Boogie Nights" doesn't depict much nudity or sex (except during a lengthy sequence showing Eddie's first movie scene), but does make its point with sly, expert reaction shots of crew members watching Eddie, um, act.Īmong his colleagues: Julianne Moore, wonderful as the vaguely lost soul whom Jack has transformed into a porn queen (her studiously bad acting in movie-making scenes is perfect) Don Cheadle as the aspiring cowboy who is much too Anderson has great fun with the mundaneness of his porn filmmakers, who remain unflappable almost all of the time, except for when they first see Eddie take off his pants. The movie's first hour watches him attain all this during He does all this with captivating ingenuousness and not a single false move.Įddie's room in his parents' unhappy home is covered with posters: bathing beauties, sports cars, martial arts, all the elements of his particular American dream. To arrogant cokehead, behave as if he thinks Dirk Diggler (Eddie's nom de porn) is a really grand name. Wahlberg must do many things here: attract all the film's other characters, rise credibly from naive kid The movie's special gift happens to be Mark Wahlberg, who gives a terrifically appealing performance in this tricky role. New star, thanks to his exceptional anatomy, about which he says, "Everyone's blessed with one special thing." In the disco on that first night, Jack's eyes alight on a busboy named Eddie, whom he pronounces "a 17-year-old piece of gold." Eddie, who has already learned to peddle himself to $10 customers, will soon become Jack's Like Jerry Lewis in "The King of Comedy," he gives the role an extra edge by playing a swaggering, self-important figure very close to the bone. Most suavely funny performance in many years.
("Before you turn around you've spent maybe 20, 25, 30 thousand dollars on a movie!") Burt Reynolds rises to this occasion by giving his best and The godfather of this motley group is Jack Horner, porn auteur. The great Copacabana shot from "Goodfellas," has no qualms about borrowing from the best.Īs the camera roams with incredible agility through a disco in the San Fernando Valley (in a long, bravura shot that Anderson apparently rehearsed and filmed in a single night), the movie introduces all of its major characters with thrillingĮase. The film's unofficial family group is immersed in exploitation movies, which becomes the same collective eccentricity that country music was for "Nashville." Anderson, who begins his film spectacularly with a version of "Boogie Nights" further ratchets up the raunchiness by taking porn movies and drug problems entirely for granted, and by fondly embracing a collection of characters who do the
Confidential" and now this one - have invoked a sleaze-soaked Southern California as an evillyĪlluring nexus of decadence and pop culture. Some of the most distinctive American films of recent years - "Pulp Fiction," "The People vs. Theĭirector, Paul Thomas Anderson, whose display of talent is as big and exuberant as skywriting, seems to mean this as a way of telling viewers to brace themselves. Verything about "Boogie Nights" is interestingly unexpected, even the few seconds of darkness before the film's neon title blasts onto the screen. An Actor Whose Talents Are the Sum of His Parts
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