Buffalo 66

Buffalo 66
by Vincent Gallo

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Movie Review: u pazzu italianu! Bravo Vicenzo!
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie can be compared with Jim Jarmusch's wonderful film, "Stranger than Paradise"(avaliable again, after long hiatus here on Amazon too!).

This film , Buffalo 66 has in common with Jarmusch's film , the SAME uneasy , quirky kind of feel that is its charm. Vincent Gallo's "Billy Brown" reprises John Lurie's creepy , but immenently likeable "Bela" (dont call me Bela, call me Willie"!)in "Stranger...".

The great appeal for me is that this movie is the "anti-MTV" 200000 edits per second nightmare that has become daily life in the good ol' USA. "MTV-ismo" is also starting to infect the rest of the globe - THE DREAD NEW WORLD ORDER again- as pertains to "entertainment, in this case.

The movie's static, slowly evoving scenes give the film a feel as if it were a play, and not a manic entertainment "moment" as most Hollywood films feel they must deliver. The movie shuffles along on its own terms.

Another comparison is that this film is shot in Buffalo, Ny--Jarmusch's film in "beautiful" Cleveland , Ohio. Both towns, i would describe as , how to say "cinzenta e operaria", gray working class cities-- both directors obviously love their cities in that "it aint much, but it's MY city" way, hehehehehe!

Even as Gallo's character is named "Billy Brown", an obvious decision to make the character a kind of "blend into the walls nobody", you still feel the Italian heritage of Vicenzo bleed through! He's not anonymous for me, he's an italian kid in the movie , as far as i am concerned.(Hey, the dinner scene features the "Brown" family eating trippa- tripe, not your usual WASP meal, but we had to eat this meal at our house TOO often, ih!) And what "Brown" would croon "Fools Rush IN", in that Sinatra/ Tony Bennett style --STRICTLY ITALIANO, for sure!

I hope this gives a little additional insight, I say, see the movie, it has a lotta laughs, and is strangely tender in parts.

The running theme of BB wanting to KILL Buffalo Bills football placekicker Scott Norwood can be summed up , I had a discussion about this movie with a friend of mine who is born & raised in buffalo, and he said when I mentioned Norwood's name--"That name should never be spoken!!" Norwood missed the kick, and Buffalo loses. I guess MY FRIEND lost money on the game too, hehehehehe?

Finally, if I am allowed to be a little "sexist", Christina Ricci is hauntingly, spellbindingly beautiful--- che bedda ragazza!! Does Vinnie "get the girl", buy it & find out!

Summary of Buffalo 66