It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie The Week podcast dedicated to a classic film in the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Keith Phipps, suffering a little bit from the after effects of a cold, here again with Scott Tobias. Tosha Robinson and Genevieve Koski. In the first half of this conversation, we talked about Stranger Than Paradise, Jim Jarmuisha's 1984 breakthrough. Now we're going to turn our attention to Jermitia's latest, Patterson, a film about bus driving, Patterson, New Jersey, poetry, the awfulness of dogs, and much more. Patterson, like Stranger Than Paradise, is easy to describe and hard to capture. Adam Driver stars as Patterson, a bus driver in Patterson, New Jersey. The film unfolds over one week and we watch as Patterson goes through roughly the same routine each day. He wakes up while his wife, Laura, played by the Iranian actress Goldshifte Farhani, usually drowses. He goes back to work, chats with a coworker, travels his route listening to the conversations of his passengers, breaks for lunch and works on a poem, returns home, has dinner with his wife, then walks the dog to a local bar when he has a beer and chats with Doc, a bartender steeped in New Jersey lore. Each day has its own variations. Laura, for instance, decides to order a guitar and learn to be a country singer. One of what seems to be a series of passing fancies that Patterson greets with a stone face that doesn't quite hide some mixture of amusement and annoyance. The bar invites some drama, particularly from Everett, a love struck struggling actor. Mostly, however, life rolls on and Patterson rolls with it. Yet over the course of the film, Patterson keeps inching toward a greater understanding of his place within the history of his town, and with it, his place in life. We'll talk more about Patterson after the break,

then bring it all back home by considering it next to Stranger Than Paradise.

We hope you'll stay with us.

Imagine a breakfast wrap.

You know the one, because there really is only one.

Sausage, egg, cheese, bacon, and a potato rusty all wrapped together.

Yep, there it is.

I think my work here is done.

Serve them until 11 a.m.

You drive the bus, right? Your name really Patterson?

My real name is Patterson.

Well, that's kind of crazy, right?

Working on a poem for you.

A love poem?

Yeah, I guess if it's for you, it's a love poem.

I had a beautiful dream.

We had twins.

Twins.

All your poems are still in that one notebook, your secret notebook.

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