Michael Buscemi

After a falling out with his editor, a fading political journalist is forced to interview an extremely popular, but seemingly vapid soap actress.

Before moving to Oregon, Kelly Reichardt made a fugitive film set in the Florida wetlands—more like the grungy filmmaking of Jim Jarmusch than her later slow cinema. Tailing wastrel lovers on the run, River of Grass shows she has been committed to America’s margins and outcasts from the very start.

A 31-year-old auto mechanic who just lost his job and girlfriend drinks his days away at the corner bar downstairs from his Long Island apartment.