Buffalo '66
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Movie Reviews of Buffalo '66
Movie Review: Interesting story, kinda reminds me of A catcher in the rye
Summary: 4 Stars
This is an interesting tail of a guy, billy brown, that has been in jail for 5 years, and somehow managed to hide it from his parents. He now finds himself released and returning home to visit the parent. He's told them hes making great money, and he has a wife. Now, how does he find a wife in the matter of a few minutes...oh yeah, kidnap one (christina ricci). Soon we find out that Billy has grown up in a unique household, and also that he went to jail under unique circumstances. Finally, how does he reconcile his mind from what he has obsessed about for 5 years with what actually is occuring today. A decent story, and some good performances, but now that I really objectivly look at it, so much like a film version of a catcher in the rye, but modified a bit, but essentially the same. Substitute Christina ricci's character for Holden's sister, and Billy being Holden Caufield, and walla, a catcher in the rye. Check it out anyway.Movie Review: A great film by Vincent Gallo.
Summary: 4 Stars
Buffalo 66 is both a woderfull and very compeling film to watch, it stars Vincent Gallo and was also written and directed by him. The film starts when Vincent's character Billy Brown is released from prison after five years he soon ends up in a dance class where he kidnaps a blond girl named Layla played by the very talanted Christina Ricci and he tells her to lie to his parents who they soon meet up with. His parents seem to be cold and heartless but also funny at the same time, Layla does not seem to have a problem with this and tells them that she met Billy at his work in the C.I.A. and that she was working as a secretery. I think what Vincent has done with this film is that he provided us with some realistic characters and that a difficult person like Billy has some qualities that we can relate to, so some viewers might not like it but I thought it was interesting like how the revenge plot seemed to change at the end.Movie Review: I still remember scenes seven years later
Summary: 4 Stars
Vincent Gallo's "Buffalo '66" is a minor classic that sticks with you. The story itself is relatively implausible (e.g., Christina Ricci's character seems blithely unconcerned about her kidnapping by Gallo's Billy Brown), but these leaps of faith required by the viewer don't deter from the train wreck-like fascination of watching the tale unfold.
The standout scenes by far are those with Billy's parents, portrayed indelibly by Ben Gazzara and Anjelica Huston. Huston is particularly noteworthy - in a dysfunctional family (one can only imagine this is very close to home for writer/director Gallo), she's the most dysfunctional - she's invented a completely unique character that words can't describe. Her compelling, fascinating performance will lodge itself in your brain for a long time - you'll not see another one like it.
Movie Review: Make it good, good one
Summary: 4 Stars
Hello. While this film may be labelled as pretentious or as an overly self-indulgent trip to the center of Vincent Gallo, I, to use a Herzog phrase, truly like that one. Alternately hilarious, touching and cinematically inventive, Buffalo '66 stands as one of the truly unique films of the last decade. This film speaks to me on a certain level and for that I am relieved to be able to watch the films of such directors. Admittedly Gallo is no Fellini or Kubrick or Bergman, but he represents the canon of a gritty new American cinema which is certainly a welcome change to the doodoo we are force fed in the US.Movie Review: VINCENT IS MESMERIZING
Summary: 4 Stars
It's hard to explain, but ''Buffalo 66'' touched me in a way that other films and the way they are made don't do so well. Vincent was engaging as Billy Brown. The way it was made and acted just felt real to me and not over the top, and a lot more true to real life(aspects of it).I loved the ending. I was really hopeing that I wouldn't be left with a depressing ending which would of seemed predictable, but boy, I really felt joy with the out come, Vincent definitely won me over. Vincent has given me something to think about that won't be leaving my head any time soon.by justine ryan