Here's an excerpt from an interview with Mike Patton at Deadwinter. Patton mentions some films he likes. Eventually, I'd like to talk about his lyrics and their relation to film. In the meantime, I'm looking for Patton's comments on the subject. I know I saw an interview on the matter somewhere....
Deadwinter: You’re a big movie buff I hear.
MP: I am. I like movies.
Deadwinter: So what are some of your favorite movies?
MP: It depends. I watch movies a lot. I try to watch a movie or two a day, you know? When I’m on the road it’s a little tougher, but I just got a portable DVD player so I’m getting better at that. When I’m home I watch lots of movies. What have I seen lately, like in theaters? Like new movies?
Deadwinter: Just anything, do you like going to theaters anymore?
MP: Oh yeah, sure, I always go. A lot of crap, but… I thought Ghost World was kind of OK, just cause I know those comics and I thought it was… uh, uh, uh… smart-ass enough, I thought it captured that feeling pretty well. What else? Mmm, grrr. I didn’t see any others that really blew my head off.
Deadwinter: What about just a favorite movie that you would have overall?
MP: (shakes his head)
Deadwinter: You couldn’t say?
MP: Millions. There’s not like one that defines everything, you know? It depends, there’s like French noirs, Chinese Hong Kong shit, or….
Deadwinter: Do you like Harmony Korine at all?
MP: Yeah, yeah. He’s ok. I thought ‘Gummo’ was ok. Didn’t kill me. But… let me think about now… I don’t know, I saw a recent Japanese movie that I thought was good called ‘Brother’, have you seen that?
Deadwinter: Uh-uh.
MP: With B. Takeshi, he’s kind of a famous Japanese actor. ‘Violent Cop’ was a real famous movie of his. ‘Brother’ was very good, very good. Uhh, khe khe, uhh, khe khe, uhh. Have you seen ‘In the Company of Men’?
Deadwinter: Yeah, actually…
MP: It came out about five or six years ago. I really liked that, it was great.
Deadwinter: It was good.
MP: Very good. And nobody ever talks about that movie. It’s very untouchable (laughs). I think it’s very cool. What else? Hmm, did you see ‘The Rapture’? About maybe six or seven years ago? A weird, religious, kind of cult movie. It’s very good. A movie called ‘The Lifestyle’ about suburban swingers, a documentary on the suburban swinging scene?
3:22:55 AM 
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