Quote of the Day

...It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future
if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films
wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

- Nick Hornby, "High Fidelity"

I haven't read the novel, but the film is one of my favorites. It helps if you're an undergroundish early-ninties music buff (if you ever listened to your college station or have heard of belle and sabastien, you're probably okay), but then again anyone who's ever tried to manage a jumbled love life should like it too. John Cusack is perfect in the lead role as a 30-something record store owner who constantly categlogues top-five lists and keeps a conscious running sountrack to his life. He's looking for love and purpose, of course, and a way to deal with his latest (second worst..or is it first?) breakup with his girlfriend played by an incredible Danish actress named Iben Hjejle, who since seems to have disappeared from US film/TV, working exclusinvely overseas.

It also features Tim Robbins, Lili Taylor, Joan Cusack, and Katherine Zeta-Jones. Directed by Steven Frears of "Dangerous Liaisons", "The Grifters", and 2003's "Dirty Pretty Things.

So there you go - quote of the day and my first flick pick.