Buffalo ‘66 – Independent Cinema at its best.
Few months back i was just talking to my friend about how Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction have affected independent cinema in hollywood and how people started accepting high rate voilence in movies. My friend mentioned about “Buffalo ‘66″ and he told me that its one of his favourite movie and started praising about vincent galo’s performance he told me that this movie is on par with one of my favourite movie “American History X” that made me desperate to watch this one. Some how i got to watch it over the past weekend and my first reaction was wow! People who like movies based on character oriented than story will definetly like this one. I never heard of “Vincent Galo” b4 this one and after finishing this movie i got to know more about him and he in real life is very much like the character of “Billy Brwon”.
The main story of the movie is about Billy comming out of prision for crime he didnot commit and wants to meet his parents before taking his revenge. The movie is mostly crime/comedy kinda movie. The movie manily concentrates on character development and flow of the movie is also character driven rather than story driven. “Vincent galo” is crazy as neurotic, pyschic, irritating Billy Brown, Christian Ricci is pretty good as Lyla and rest of cast is not bad. The character of billy brown stays with you even after you have finished watching the movie. I bet not many people know about this one and I recommend this movie to every one. Its different and great. It does not have a tricky screenplay like memento or reservoir dogs or pulpfiction but the characters are simply great. There is scene where billy goes into a strip club and decides to kill someone this scene is shot very well.
On the whole great and different film go ahead and watch it.Here is a dialogue from the movie
Billy Brown: Is this a shifter car? I cannot drive a shifter car, alright, so we got a little situation here. I can’t drive these kinda cars! What the fuck is goin’ on! You think that’s funny? Would you like to know, smartass? Would you like to know why I can’t drive this kinda car? I’ll tell you why, I’m used to *luxury* cars. Have you ever heard of a luxury car? You know what luxury means? Ever heard of Cadillac, Cadillac Eldorado? That’s what I drive. I drive cars that *shift* themselves.
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
adding it to my watch list… *click*. thanks for sharing, varun.
@ Wb Sure man no probs, Hope u like it.
Thank you for the recommendation. Definitely going on my list.
“Spanning Time”!!!!
I love this film, it is one that my friends and I quote all the time, because it is sooo quotable. And, Christian Ricci was great in this film!
Vincent Gallo is a true talent, and I don’t say that because he was once one of my favourite Calvin Klein models ;)
I don’t like all of his films, all of his choices, but if Parker Posey and Chloe Sevigny are the queens of Independent film, then Vincent Gallo is the king.
Not only did he write and direct this film, but he also did the music, which is great.
But, I would not widely recommend any film he has done unless I know the tastes of the person. His humour is too subtle and dark for most people, and can verge on meanspirited. And, like many artists (he also a painter and photographer), he just may be insane.
Insane always works for me.
wow.. this film has a bit of a cult following to it. thanks varun.. will definitely give it a watch
I been dying to see this film for 6 months…just didnt get around to it….
i feel like shit everytime it comes up.
Varun did u see memories of a murder?
My membership at netflix is over.
i’m taking a break from movies. (Which means 2 movies a week instead of 2 movies everyday).
I wanna read some books in next few months. Just finished HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLTITUDE. Its awesome.
hmmmmmmm thanks bro for this.
Buffalo ‘66 in the same breath as ‘Dogs and ‘Fiction ???
Will see it soon buddy :-)
I liked the movie American History X so i think i am gonna look up this movie.
@Mainak Saw memories of murder yesterday I thought it was pretty good but not a great one I liked BGM and one of the Cops performance.
His dialogues are like crazy pshycicly funny.
Spanning time was just awesome.
varun,
if you liked ‘buffalo 66′ then you’ll surely enjoy watching these few flicks as well –
chopper(andrew dominik) , grosse pointe blank(george armitage) & the boondock saints (troy duffy)..
@ Saw bondock saints some time back but i dont remember it that well I was thinking last week that i should add it on my list.
Boondock Saints sucks….
so does the guy who made that film.
Has anybody seen the documentary about how he fucked up. its called OVERNIGHT. A highly reccomended documentary.
CHOPPER is awesome. ERIC BANA is unbelievable in that film.
Grosse Pointe Blank is a very smart & charming film too. Saw it years back on STAR TV in India.
Whats BGM Varun?
never heard about it, now its on my wishlist too!
thanks!
never heard about this movie. goes into my netflix queue.
mainak,
BGM is background music…hey i thought you worked on a couple of feature film projects, right? guess you were not involved in the post production..anyways, cheers!
WEll Ricky!
I just don’t know much you know.
Why do u think i’m still struggling?
I thought Varum was talking about those german cars & he misspelled it.
Please ignore my ignorance Ricky.