Trees Lounge

I just saw Buschemi's Trees Lounge from '96 on TV - the paucity of even half-way intelligent reviews of this movie on the internet is frankly terrifying. It's a phenomenal piece of work and well worth watching: seen in some lights, and particularly if viewed as a "small" movie, it could achieve five stars. I'd avoided watching it previously, as I thought it was probably too self-conscious and pared-down: it's both of those things, but it's all the better for them.

The movie does a few things which offend a lot of people: deliberately boring the audience; failing to offer a redemptive or fulfilling conclusion; using repetitious, mannered dialogue; being episodic. If you don't think that's going to upset you, then you'll enjoy it.