Steve Buscemi

I'm on a major Buscemi kick right now. Have all of the Coen Bros. movies, and alot more that he is in, but the 4 recent Buscemi movies I've gotten have all been particularly great. 

Trees Lounge. Sundance Channel staple of 2000. Still a great movie, set on Long Island, my old home. Loser's in a bar. The first movie he directed.

Interview. This is an amazing movie. Basic plot is a news journalist is assigned to do a pop-culture interview with the starlet-of-the-month. It goes well beyond that. He directed this, too.

Double Whammy. Made by the guy who made Lost in Oblivion, Tom Dicillo. This one is slapstick humor, not quite on the level of Hot to Trot, but it's pretty ridiculous. Basically all of the characters are idiots, especially the red suit wearing wannabe screenwriters and the stereotypical puerto rican gangsters. Liz Hurley, Denis Leary, and Luis Guzman are great, Buscemi is good in a small role as Leary's cop partner.

Delirious. Same director as Double Whammy. A drama, about a homeless kid taken in by a paparazzi. A nice character piece. Buscemi is a real weasel in this one. Mel from Flight of the Conchords has a small part.