From: Samuel TRUONG (sammy_at_zxvf.net)
Date: 2003-05-21 19:29:05
* Citrona Recordings (info_at_citrona.net) [2003/05/21]:
> Has anyone seen his new film "The Brown Bunny"?
>
> He's one of my all time favorite actors not to mention directors
> and I'm dieing to see this new film....
>
> How new is it anyway?
>
> Is it even out yet?
An utterly timely posting, Christina! Apparently, it's showing today
at the Cannes Film Festival. I suspect it will take a while for the
film to trickle stateside -- maybe sometime this fall?
http://www.screendaily.com/story.asp?storyid=12578
>[...] it sees Gallo setting himself a challenge: how boring can I
>make this film and still make the official Cannes selection? In a
>festival year that saw the US and France lock horns in a stand-off
>that was as much cultural as political, and in a festival whose most
>eagerly-awaited competition film, Lars von Triers Dogville, was
>interpreted by a certain variety of critic as a rabid piece of
>anti-Americanism, Vincent Gallo has smuggled his all-American secret
>weapon into the heart of the Palais. "You want auteurs?" we hear him
>snicker in his strangled Buffalo drawl. "Okay: Im gonna be such a
>fuckin auteur Im gonna make Andrej Tarkovsky look like James fuckin
>Cameron. And you know what else? Im gonna put the blow-job right at the
>end so you sit through the whole fuckin two hours."
Vincent Gallo is masterful.
Also, rumour has it John Frusciante's responsible for the score.
sammy!
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