Viva M. Emmet Walsh

A night watching movies yesterday resulted in a very important lesson about 1980s film: M. Emmet Walsh can do no wrong.

If you haven't seen Blood Simple or Blade Runner, you owe it to yourself to go out and find them. Granted, the characters Walsh plays in each film aren't necessarily ground-breaking. He's either a Texan in a VW Beetle or a haggard police chief, but both of these movies are, in my opinion, essential viewing.

I appreciate the director's cut of Blood Simple, which tightens up the pacing a bit, and the director's cut of Blade Runner is really the only canonical version you should view for a variety of reasons.