Vincent Gallo's

Buffalo '66
$14.98
Buffalo '66 is a visually beautiful movie. We're treated to wondeful shot, after shot, after shot...after shot...after shot. Unfortunately Buffalo '66 capitalizes on indie film stereotypes by taking something tragic, throwing "glitter" on it, and leaning on pretension. I honestly feel this film falls due to vanity, where the editing is overdone to the point of empty flattery, and scenes have emphasis put on everything -- even when it digresses.

The characters themselves are absolutely pathetic, self-indulgent, and whiney.
We're supposed to accept that the character of Bobby (Vallo) is so ridiculous because he had (what the movie implies as) a "bad childhood." As someone who has dealt with real childhood tragedies in myself and others, I was completely insulted. Just because Bobby got the sore end of his parents' empty marriage in the suburbs is no excuse for his behavior. I didn't find his attempts to impress his parents "sad" or "touching," but rather pathetic. I'd shudder to think how his character would be if his childhood had actually been horrible. Don't even get me started on Ricci's character. We're offered no insight into her other than nobody wants anything to do with her. It's easy to see why considering how desperate and worthless she is.

And there lies the connection between these two failures. Perhaps I lack human compassion, but it's the emotional instability and neediness of weak people like the ones depicted in this movie that make intimacy seem deplorable.

Buffalo '66 is beautiful, but exceptionally ostentatious. It tries "desperately" (like it's characters) to be an independent art film, that it's focus on character development is disjointed and frail. I really wish there were more positive things I could say about this movie, but beyond it's great -- though narcissistic -- directing, there is nothing.

The Brown Bunny
$14.94
I liked the film...esp the soundtrack choices....a little oral sex never hurt anyone.....an enjoyable experience.

When
$22.98
cranki wrote: "... (*****) scrumptious... ...mellow and naif... the perfect marriage between noveau-dyke��� folk goddesses Cocorosie and the straightforwardness of overproduced pop with a zest of jet-set high class from the Hilton sisters". as you may see in the tracklist, the first one, titled "I wrote this song for the girl Paris Hilton" can deceive about his intentions, and maybe the reputation he has built around himself as an "enfant terrible" seems to dilute in this (i think, his) prima opera, but his personal approach towards music is now clearly lost in the lontananza of his early works in the band Grey with bandmate Jean-Michelle Basquiat.

At some extent, some may say that he'll be better if quitting writting, directing and being a fashion model, to just make music.

Nenette + Boni
$24.99
Nenette and Boni

A Character Study

Amos Lassen


Nenette and Boni are teenaged siblings who were not raised together because of their parents' divorce. The mother favored Boni but she has dies. Boni works as a pizza baker and gets quite a surprise when Nenette runs away from her boarding school and comes to him. The two have a serious problem to take care of.
The film is directed by Clair Denis and she tells us a story that she supposes that we already know about. We should know that Nenette and Boni have survived an ugly divorce. Nenette (Alice Houri) went to live with her father and Boni (Gregoire Colin) went to his mother. When Nenette appears she is seven months pregnant and does not want the baby. It is too late to abort and she is approaching motherhood with indifference. Boni is quite excited about it though and he takes good care of his sister. The two become something of a couple without the feelings of incest but because of need. Nenette's pregnancy gives his life focus and purpose. He has not had a love life and this is his substitute.
The film is full of emotion and the acting is excellent. It is a feel good film that will put a smile on your face and give you something to think about.