Tuesday, June 03, 2003

The Village Voice sets the record straight on Vincent Gallo's Brown Bunny. See Movie City News for more if you are interested. Also Roger Ebert.

I must say the film seems very interesting! I will probably be willing to see it, though I am more interested in Gallo as an actor than as a director. Ever since Buffalo 66 (where I also first saw the grown up version of Christina Ricci--the movie is essentially driven by the considerable personality of two great actors) I have wanted to see him in more movies, but he has only appeared in small parts and foreign films (and a music video). He has a great presence on screen. The scandal at Cannes makes my ever paranoid mind think he is up to some Lars Von Trier style media-manipulation-as-performance-art, even enlisting the great french director Claire Denis in his little conspiracy! (Check out the part about him being a conservative republican and match that up with the picture below to get an idea of what I mean.)

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