Buffalo '66
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Movie Reviews of Buffalo '66
Movie Review: An Instant Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of my favorite independent movies. Vincent Gallo writes, directs, and stars in this film. He plays Billy Brown, a young man recently released from prison who has a plan to get revenge on the kick of the the Buffalo Bills who lost the game on which he had bet a large sum of money. While in prison, he didn't tell his parents that he was in prison. Instead, he told them that he was married and working in another city far away. After being released from prison, he decides to visit his family. His mother insists that he bring his wife along. In desperation, Billy kidnaps Leila, a tap dance student played by Christina Ricci. Billy makes Leila play the part of his wife. The visit is a total disaster and we learn that Billy has the worst family in the world. Billy then focuses on his plan to get revenge.
This movie has a strong charcter driven plot. Even though Billy is a terribly unlikable in the beginning, you grow to pity him as secrets about his childhood are revealed. He becomes a hurt child lashing out at everyone. Leila also has strong emotional needs, which in some strange way, Billy fulfills. She becomes a sort of mother figure which tries to bring Billy back from the brink of his abyss. This has to be the most unromantic love story, but in it's own way, it shows that even just a seed of love can grow on the most infertile soil. This movie is definitely worth checking out.
Movie Review: A man adrift; an unexpected touching turn
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a movie about a man, a loser, adrift after getting out of prison. The cinematagraphy perfectly captures upstate New York of an indeterminate but depressed time period, the world of repeated screw-up Billy Brown. The story and the movie are gritty and realistic. Through flashbacks, director/star Vincent Gallo shows us the tragedy and misfortune which shaped Billy into the lying, emotionally unstable, islated man he was upon his release from prison.
Gallo and Christina Ricci both shine as they play off each other as Billy and his kidnapee/confidante Layla. Their relationship grows increasingly complex as the movie progresses, and the acting is superb. Of course a movie like this can't end with everyone lying in a bed of roses, but there is an unepected turn that touches the viewers heart without seeming out of place.
Angelica Huston is outstanding as Billy's mother. She creates a character the audience will love to hate, a woman so subtly wretched that she makes the woman Billy kidnapped want to be nice to him.
Gallo has gotten recent press for his latest movie, The Brown Bunny. It is similarly gritty and bleak, focusing on a man adrift, but overall it fails while Bufflo '66 succeeds, mostly due to its overly snail-like pace. Buffalo '66 is a shining star for director and actor Vincent Gallo.
Movie Review: A QUIRKY LITTLE FILM
Summary: 5 Stars
How my ratings work:
5 - I really liked/loved it
4 - I liked it
3 - Could've been better/worth a look
2 - Just didn't live up to the potential
1 - Simply awful
I first saw Buffalo 66 on the Independent Film Channel (IFC) and at fisrt it confused me, but as I started getting more into the fim I started liking it more and more. Billy Brown (Vincent Gallo in an excellent performance) gets out of jail after 5 years with plans of murdering the guy he believes is responsible for hs life being so terrible. First he has to itroduce his parents (Anjelica Huston and Ben Gazarra)to his "wife". Billy told is parents years ago that he was working for the CIA so wold be gone a lot. Needing a wife he kdnaps Layla (Christina Ricci) at a dance studio (she pretty much let him kidnap her) and she agrees to pose as his wife. At first you don't feal sorry for Billy, until you meet his family and see flashacks to his childhood and you begin to see why he is so messed up. What imprssed me the most s that Gallo drected, co-wrote, and scored the music. The camera work is cool and te cinematograhy is out of this world. I reccomend this to anyone who is a true fan of movies.
Movie Review: Great Independent Film
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the better indi films that a lot of people missed. Vincent Gallo did a great job directing, writing, producing, and starring in it. He plays Billy Brown, a lonely man who was just recently released from jail, who's visiting home for the first time in years. Before he was locked up, he told his estranged parents a pack of lies so they would never know he was in jail, one of those lies was that he married his "high school sweetheart, Wendy". His parent's acceptance is very important to him, so he kidnaps a dancer, Layla (Christina Ricci), to pretend to be his wife Wendy. Their reunion is full of awkward, sad, and funny moments.
As the film progresses, more and more about Billy Brown's life is revealed, and you really start to sympathize with him. He and Christina Ricci, both kind of outcasts, fall in love. I don't want to give anything away because it's really interesting to find out about Gallo's mysterious character Billy through the course of the film. Everyone was perfectly cast, Angelica Houston was almost unrecognizeable as Billy's mother and Rosanna Arquette's cameo was great. See this movie if you're looking for a unique black-comedy with a great cast.
Movie Review: Gallo tells us whats real
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the one of the movies which has changed my life and ive watched it over and over again.
In every details:scenario, you can feel Gallo's sensitive and dedicative passion and his perspective to the life as well as movies.
He pours all his soul and sorrow into the movie with some association of his own childhood in the movie. Christina Ricci plays a great role in this movie and apparently amplify the fascination of the movie. She does such simple act in the movie such as puting and silent,however those attract us miraclly in that way and express far more deep feelings than speaking many words.
Overall the scenario is somehow a little awkward and unrealistic. However, i guess maybe it should not be so realistic since it is a movie and it can be any ways as long as it tells us art and the producer's thought.
In many many meanings, it is one of the best movies i ever watched.