I re-watched
WOTN last night.
I saw the film in the cinema when it came out all those years ago. A small screening room in a multi-screen complex. Not many people there on the day I went. I remember that two women came in as the film was starting and making a fuss about which seats they were going to sit in.
Just my luck that they chose seats in the row behind me, lol. Then....they started opening cartons of Chinese take-away food….noisily!
For me, the film had the feel and look of a tv movie, but that’s not a criticism as such. Interesting that James Gray has been filming in TV recently, although from what he says it wasn’t a good experience for him.
I’m intrigued by the cigarette lighter in the film. Bobby has it (it’s wired) when he goes to the cocaine factory. Years ago there was a Joaquin fan forum called ‘Dear Joaquin’. I wasn’t a member (I was a member of another forum at that time) but it was open to view by non members, like this one is, and I used to go and read the posts there sometimes. When WOTN was being filmed, the owner of DJ went to New York and managed to meet Joaquin on the set.
She presented him with a cigarette lighter as a gift for his birthday
- the DJ forum had clubbed together to buy it and it looked very similar to the one in
WOTN. I’ve always wondered if it was just a coincidence or if the DJ cigarette lighter is the one which is in the film.
If there are any former members of DJ who are reading this, can you shed any light on this matter? Is that the DJ cigarette lighter? 
I always imagine Joaquin has disposable lighters. I imagine he loses or misplaces them quite easily somehow.
