Ok kids, new category: FilmTip. Yes, since we got TiVo I've been watching more quality TV than ever before. Hell, I can't watch as fast as that mofo keeps recording my favorite shows and some other stuff I don't even know what it is or where it came from. So here is my first FilmTip: "Buffalo 66". That movie is just to cool to be true. Actually it's so cool because it rings so true. I have rarely if ever seen an portrait of a deeply fucked up and dysfunctional family and a destroyed person in such a perfect, quiet little love story. When the movie begins you just know in the end you'll want to slit your wrists. But Vincent Gallo pulls it off to swing it all around for his protagonist. We even get some kind of a happy ending without any of the cheese that is usually necessary in movies coming out of my new home, the US of Disney. I don't think the whole movie officially qualifies as a love story though. It's more as if the audience were allowed to peek into this guy's life just as he reaches some kind of acme on his personal curve of despair and we get to witness a defining moment where life proves to be more important to him than his self destructive driving force. The tone of the movie is the most lyrically depressing winter and there are no heroes and no flying cars. Buffalo 66 is so beautiful and modest it could be a scandinavian movie. Yes there, I said it. It actually paints a very carefully observed picture of contemporary american life. Vincent Gallo came up with the story, wrote the script, directed and stars the movie while the rest of the cast is equally impressive. Christina Ricci, Ben Gazzara, Mickey Rourke, Anjelica Huston. So go and rent this movie, you heard me. It's worth it.