Gas Food Lodging
|
List Price: Our Price: $21.75 You Save: $3.20 (13%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Category: DVD See more DVD releases |
|---|
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
Movie Reviews of Gas Food Lodging
Movie Review: Watch both the widescreen and pan-and-scan versions.
Summary: 5 Stars
There is quite a bit of artistry here for such a low-budget film. Both the widescreen and pan-and-scan versions have their faults as well as their good points.The widescreen version shows much more of the brilliant cinematography. The dreary desert, the railroad station, even the trailer park really come alive here. On the other hand, during the famous sex scene in the acid-trip cavern, the picture is cropped right above Ione Skye's breasts, whereas in the pan-and-scan, there is a full view.
This has led me to wonder if this is a "false" widescreen -i.e., the film was shot with standard, @16:9 cameras and cropped to make it look widescreen even if it never was, as Disney did with Peter Pan. It would be nice if standardized and accurate information about aspect ratio was printed clearly on all DVDs.
By the way, the MOVIE is one of the best tearjerkers I've ever seen. The performances are perfect, as is the script. The picture is beautiful. Of course if I actually had to live in a desert trailer park, I don't think I'd be so impressed with the scenery.
Movie Review: My Fav movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I am so excited this is coming on DVD!!This has been one of my fav movies for years. I have seen it like a 100 times. I remember stumbling on this video when I was 17 and thought independent movies were the best. This movie dealt with real life teenage issues, unlike the new teenage wave of movies. Ione Skye is so good in this film, as well as Faruza Bulk. They face the hidden pain, of not having a father, in their own ways. One acts out for attention of boys, and the other searches for a mate for their mother while on the sly looking for their real father. Allison Anders is such a unique filmaker, I thank her for making this film. People think its a little depressing but I think it's the opposite. The mother may always look bleak but she is a struggling single mother, how is she suppose to look? I think its refreshing and very familiar to many young people with dreams. Like Shade she loves Spanish movies and dreams of so many things. I think most people can relate to her when they were that age.
Movie Review: THERE'S MORE HAPPENING IN THE DESERT THAN WE CAN SEE...
Summary: 5 Stars
Three woman share the long and slow days of Laramie, New Mexico. Nora, the mother of Trudi and Shade works hard everyday and tries to find a sense for her life and her daughters'. Trudi looks for a reason to survive in the desert of her hometown and her life and tries to find it in boys. Shade is looking for a movie-like love, and tries to find it in the screen and in her plans to reconstruct her family. The three of them will fight, will cry and will learn hard but important lessons in the heat of the desert. Excelent movie, very well directed, with a good photography and great actresses. Really a beautiful story with a little bit of hope for everyone.Movie Review: what a great movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a fantastic film. For anyone who is a fan of Ione Skye or Fairuza Balk, it's definitely a must-own flick! Both ladies are in their prime here. I originally saw the movie only because of J Mascis' involvement musically (and a small cameo) but I've fallen in love with the movie as well as the young adult novel it was based on, 'Don't Look and it Won't Hurt' by Richard Peck.Movie Review: A Young Woman's version of "The Last Picture Show"
Summary: 4 Stars
My initial impression of "Gas Food Lodging", midway through the film, was that it didn't have much to say to me. I saw a younger teenage daughter in a broken home, a nice well-meaning mother who is exasperated with the older teenage daughter, the older daughter who seems destined for trouble, and some supporting cast that lead me to wonder what was in the town's water. Things happen and more scenes of disfunction appear. I began to see that some things were connecting while others were falling apart. Still no redeeming message until the very end. At that point all that had happened came together in a most beautiful yet poignant way. The message was delivered and the film, from my perspective, was endowed with purpose.
The next day I thought more and more about "Gas Food Lodging". I understood it as a "coming of age" story of a teenage girl. She saw the redeption of everything in her life coming in the form of expected love. However, every expression or exanple of love that she witnessed was broken or never real in the first place. Things kept descending along with her faith that all would be well if everyone could just let it happen. Her search to find the answers failed until the answers found her.
Once the impact of the movie finally sunk in, I was reminded of "The Last Picture Show" of 20-some years earlier. In that book and movie we saw a teenage boy realizing his coming of age in a small Texas town in the middle of nowhere. Sonny also had trouble finding structure as everything around him seemed to fall apart. His outcome was not as reassuring as our young heroine's but it, too, ended with hope emerging from tragedy. Being a teenager is no easy task especially when there is a lack of good role models. It's easy to get lost, misguided, or trapped in solitary confinement. "Gas Food Lodging" leads us in all those directions and then shows us a future of hope. Nicely done.
More Movie Reviews:
1 2
1 2