Movie/film suggestions.

@hce1 , welcome to the movie club within the audio club!

Gus Van Zant: Drugstore Cowboys and Good Will Hunting were mentioned above, and I second those recs. Also excellent: To Die For (written by Buck Henry, with stunning performances by Nicole Kidman, Joachim Phoenix, Matt Dillon), Paranoid Park, Elephant, Milk, Finding Forrester

Although I don't pay enough attention to directorial credits I like some of your movie choices and there are a couple I am not familiar with (Paranoid Park, Elephant) but I'll do some googling and if they look interesting enough, I'll check 'on demand.'  I remember being mesmerized by Drugstore Cowboys not only because I like Matt Dillon, but also because, in my misguided youth, a few years before it came out, I had known someone who acted as a middleman for someone else (who I never met) who specialized in the Drugstore Cowboy thing.  Although I think it was a short career.  

And coincidentally, quite recently I watched The Trials Of Pamela Smart.

immatthewj

... as far as Rust:  Alec Baldwin was an actor on a movie set and someone handed him a loaded revolver ...

Baldwin was the producer of the film. 

Baldwin was both producer and star, and why on Earth was live ammo even anywhere near the set??!!

Baldwin was the producer of the film. 

Yes, and I thought of that after I posted that reply.  As well as being an actor on the movie set, he was also one of the producers.  So I guess that needs consideration as well.  If your kid is playing with another kid in your house and they come across a loaded firearm in the house and one kid shoots the other kid, as the homeowner and firearm owner I imagine that you are going to be in trouble.  So considering that, I suppose an analogy could be made between Baldwin and the negligent homeowner.

But maybe that comparison is apples to oranges.

Regardless, he was also an actor in the movie.  And actors are all the time pointing weapons at each other as part of the various scripts.  So if an actor is handed a firearm loaded with live ammunition and someone gets hit, who's to blame?  The actor or whoever loaded the firearm with live rounds and handed it off?

Baldwin was both producer and star, and why on Earth was live ammo even anywhere near the set??!!

In my mind, @thecarpathian , this is the six-million-dollar question.