Description: Further DetailsTitle: Mala Noche (The Criterion Collection)Format: DVDCondition: NewNumber Of Discs: 1Release Date: 10/08/2007Genre: DramaActors: Tim Streeter, Doug Cooeyate, Ray Monge, Nyla McCarthy, Sam DowneyDirector: Gus Van SantAudio Language: English, SpanishRuntime: 1 hour and 18 minutesRegion Code: DVD: 1 (US, Canada...)Studio: Criterion CollectionCertificate: UnratedDescription: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Gus Van Sant's 1985 debut feature is about a deadbeat who has a crush on a Mexican immigrant. Bonuses: interview, documentary, storyboard gallery, film essay. AMAZON The first thing that strikes you about Mala Noche is the raw, beautiful cinematography--a high-contrast black-and-white that captures the gutters of Portland, OR, like the setting of a long-lost film noir. Next, you'll be struck that the narrator, a convenience clerk named Walt (Tim Streeter), rhapsodizes about his love for a young Mexican hustler named Johnny (Doug Cooeyate) without guilt or fear--perhaps reflecting the rare occasion of a movie by an openly gay filmmaker (Gus Van Sant, making his feature film debut) based on an openly gay autobiographical story (by Portland poet Walt Curtis). Though the movie doesn't have much of a plot--basically, Walt alternately tries to woo Johnny and his friend Roberto Pepper (Ray Monge), gaining little more than a suspicious, combative friendship and some fervid but isolated sex--but the rough but engaging flavor of the storytelling gives the movie momentum and a rich charm. The Criterion edition features two splendid extras: First, a low-key, unpretentious interview with Van Sant (who notes that the movie had the spontaneous and low-tech spirit of the Dogme 95 movement, though made several years earlier); and a ramshackle, pugnacious documentary by Portland-born animator Bill Plympton (I Married a Strange Person!) about Walt Curtis, who proclaims himself a "jerk-off poet therapist." If there is a Portland aesthetic, this compilation captures it. --Bret FetzerDVDs ARE REGION 1 UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Title: Mala Noche (The Criterion Collection)
Director: Gus Van Sant
Actor: Sam Downey
Rating: Unrated
No Of Discs: 1
Run Time: 1 hour and 18 minutes
Release Date: 10/08/2007
Release Year: 2007
EAN: 0715515026123
Country/Region of Manufacture: USA
Region Code: DVD: 1 (US, Canada...)
Language: Spanish
Movie/TV Title: Mala Noche (Criterion Collection)
Format: DVD
Genre: Drama
Studio: Criterion Collection