Directed by Joan Micklin Silver
The staff of the Back Bay Mainline, a Boston underground newspaper that rose to prominence in the 1960s, struggles with the shifting social climate of the '70s amid rumors that the paper is about to be sold to a media giant.
Al otro lado de la noticia, 言外之意
Romania18+ 
USA Romania USA 
Wow I loved this. It’s a movie about the end of an era, the downturn of the ‘70s evolving into the capitalist fuckfest of the ‘80s. But more than anything it’s a loving character study of the death of a great group dynamic. In that way it reminded me of and felt a bit like a spiritual sequel to Next Stop Greenwich Village. This is that film about the last hurrah of that perfect golden group of coworkers (or friends) you had at that job that started with such promise and petered out when you weren’t looking. Everybody’s faults are becoming unmanageable and everybody’s patterns are fully recognizable and the only way to break the cycle, or prevent it from turning…
Couldn’t tell you the plot of this movie (which I’ve now seen twice) but I could tell you what I personally think each of these characters had for breakfast. That’s cinema.
Also, be sure to read Vikram Murthi’s excellent piece on the film here: www.vulture.com/2019/02/how-a-1970s-jeff-goldblum-film-foresaw-the-journalism-crisis.html
jeff goldblum slicked back hair khaki green jumpsuit orange bomber jacket chaotic bisexual I C O N
jeff goldblum vs the concept artist is legitimately one of the funniest scenes ever. joan micklin silver I love you
“It’s not that I’m unhappy here, I’m fucking broke.”
American labor hasn’t changed much in 40+ years, huh
The funniest bit is the alt weekly film critic requesting to be sent to Cannes for prestige’s sake
still the best 70s independent vibe. peak boilersuit cinema. completely forgot about the scene where that performance artist breaks into the office to destroy their coffee machine and jeff goldblum's response is to engage the performance artist in, like, an art-off?? and he punches a wall and rips his coworker's shirt open?? and meanwhile the whole relationship arc between harry and abbie feels so truthful?? i love their whole spat over the interview at the strip club so much. joan micklin silver is still one of the greatest.
jeff goldblum punched a wall and it didn't feel toxic that's his power
I looked like Bruno Kirby in late 2017
“Between the Lines” is the original Gen X angst hangout film. Oddly, it arrived a half decade too early to buddy up with its eventual audience.
Director Joan Micklin Silver’s work is a direct precursor to “The Big Chill,” “St. Elmo’s Fire,” and “Diner.” Like its successors, the movie marks the transition from late 20s to early 30s life through the relationships in a group of co-mingling staffers at a small local newspaper. Youthful rebellion evolves into regret about the futility of searching for success that will likely never come.
At a time when X’ers in 1977 were nearer to the sentiments and ages of the “American Graffiti” teens, “Lines” arrived as a lesser-seen omen of their adult years to…
I think every single person in this is so hot lol. I’m also in love with the way that joan micklin silver writes male-female relationships, her women are always so mean and perceptive and her men are always narcissistic sociopaths, yet her movies are never mean-spirited
Journalist Jeff Goldblum, in a fit of violent rage, calls two thugs “pernicious eel shits” and I can’t think of a more uproarious depiction on film (or anywhere else) of a pissed-off writer.
