I finished a film this morning which I categorically didn't like, although the component parts seemed to be there to add up to something meaningful, or at least watchable: Terry Zwigoff's 2006 Art School Confidential. I remember liking his Ghost World, although it's also in my Criterion Channel queue for a rewatch. However, Art School Confidential is a complete misfire. John Malkovich, Angelica Huston, and Jim Broadbent are completely wasted in poorly constructed small roles - to match Max Minghella and Sophia Myles being completely wasted in poorly constructed leading roles. The only interesting part of the film for me was going down a rabbit role and discovering that Matt Keeslar, who I remembered from Whit Stillman's Last Days of Disco, and who played an oddly parallel role in this film, eventually gave up acting because of the financial insecurity caused by a paucity of roles and became a certified physician assistant. That's an inspiring story, as compared to the depressing dreck of this movie.
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