Trees Lounge (1996 Steve Buscemi & scr)

Another good example of drip feed writing - we begin to understand exactly how fucked up Steve Buscemi's life is as it goes along, but as he tells his ex in hospital "Things are worse now".

The key moment in the film is that very last fixed shot - Buscemi looking at the sad couple at the bar, and thinking about his old pal in hospital, and then... not having that whisky. 

Carol Kane, Mark Boone Junior, Bronson Dudley, Anthony LaPaglia, Elizabeth Bracco, Debi Mazar, Chloe Sevigny, Seymour Cassel, Michael Imperioli, Samuel L Jackson, Daniel Baldwin.

Photographed by Lisa Rinzler open matte:

Edited by Kate Williams. Released through Orion.