Jul 10, 2026 · 5 min · 8 segments
Today on KIOS at the Movies, host Joshua LaBure explores the 2006 indie drama “Old Joy,” which plays in Omaha tonight at Projecting Underground Cinema as part of their “Independent, Actually” series.
Joshua LaBureHost
Not through any single dramatic moments, but through its atmosphere, its patience, the way it trusts silence to do the emotional work that dialogue usually handles.
Mark and Kurt drive into the Cascades for a weekend that promises reconnection and delivers something closer to an elegy.
It's also the film that introduced me to Will Oldham, Bonnie Prince Billy, whose music I've become a deep fan of.
I can't hear a Bonnie Prince Billy song without thinking of wet forest roads and hot springs steam.
What Old Joy understands, and what I chase in my own work, is that drift is not the same as conflict.
There's no betrayal, no confrontation, no scene where one of them finally says the true thing.
The sense the two people who once shared a whole interior life now share only its outline.
Not through any single dramatic moments, but through its atmosphere, its patience, the way it trusts silence to do the emotional work that dialogue usually handles.
Mark and Kurt drive into the Cascades for a weekend that promises reconnection and delivers something closer to an elegy.
It's also the film that introduced me to Will Oldham, Bonnie Prince Billy, whose music I've become a deep fan of.
I can't hear a Bonnie Prince Billy song without thinking of wet forest roads and hot springs steam.
What Old Joy understands, and what I chase in my own work, is that drift is not the same as conflict.
There's no betrayal, no confrontation, no scene where one of them finally says the true thing.
The sense the two people who once shared a whole interior life now share only its outline.
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