Come anticipate Brown Bunny with me

Is it worse than Boat Trip and Snow Dogs? I suspect it is.

threads=posts, obv.

That's not obvious at all!

"Come anticipate The Crush 2 with me."

If I ever see this movie, expect me to love it for all the same reasons that I hated Morvern Callar.

The film is released in Spain and Portugal on January 2nd.

I believe I remember Chloe saying that they dated at one point? Which would've probably meant that the BB job wasn't the first?

Gallo's hilarious.

yeah, I keep expecting him to show up on ILXORS - WHAT IN THE HECK DO YOU LOOK LIKE 2004 !!!.

does this open nationwide this weekend? or just NY/LA?

Your new film, ''The Brown Bunny,'' which you directed, wrote and starred in, is basically an art-house road movie that ends with a singularly raw and controversial sex scene between you and Chloe Sevigny. Why did you choose to end the film that way?

It wasn't like the choice of the mustache on Robert Redford in ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' -- should he wear it or not?

But you took this scene and blew it up on a billboard on Sunset Boulevard.

I made the billboard so that the film would appear to be a substantial event. One day the billboard is up, and five days later it's down. There is no reason and no return calls from the company. I'm so angry about it.

Who paid for the billboard?

I did. It cost $37,773. That is more money than I made from ''Buffalo '66'' and ''The Brown Bunny'' put together.

So where do you get your money from?

From my luck in purchasing things that turned out to be valuable in retrospect -- houses and land. I scrimp and scrounge, and I scrimp and scrounge.

But don't you live in that stylish new Richard Meier building by the West Side Highway in New York?

I own the place, but I don't live there. The problem I'm having is finding an emotional way to move out of my 300-square-foot apartment on Elizabeth Street that I've been in since I was 16. I've spent more time resurfacing, rearranging, cleaning and redecorating it than all the other work I've done in the world put together.

I think of you as a poet of loneliness, somewhat in the tradition of Edward Hopper. What do you think of his work?

When I was first exposed to Hopper, I was 16 years old. I got it. I understood it. But his work was not what I was looking at. To me, at that time, he didn't seem like a radical artist. But I'm a fan now.

Do you find America lonelier than Europe?

I find Europe the loneliest place in the world. To leave the cities in Europe and move toward the suburbs or the countryside is the most dark, dank, sad, drunken, cheese-riddled, depressing thing in the world.

Why aren't you married?

Intimacy always creates an urge in me that I am missing out on something.

You are. You are missing out on isolation. Do you cultivate isolation for your art?

I don't think in terms of art. I think in terms of getting things done, fixed, cleaned, finished, arranged. I am more of a custodian.

You were fairly accomplished as a figurative painter in New York when you decided to give it up.

I felt I was doing work without purpose.

What purpose does film have?

It has a general purpose. Entertainment. I like to entertain, even though it is me, myself and I who I am entertaining. When I was doing artwork, I was not entertaining myself.

I know you are fond of our president.

I relate to him in that he has become easily unlikable. In a perfect world, John Kerry would own a restaurant in Connecticut.

And Teresa?

It just makes you wonder how the money ends up in certain places.

Have you met Bush?

I've met his daughter, Barbara. Zac Posen, the designer, invited me to his show and said he would seat me next to the Bush girl because I'm a Republican.

Why are you a Republican?

If we were going to see a show of Dennis Hopper's photographs, do you think Richard Nixon or Bill Clinton would be more sensitive to the work? I see Nixon as an intellectual. I consider Bill Clinton a huckster.

There are so few right-wing actors like yourself, now that the generation of John Wayne has died off.

I agree with you. It is not an interesting group. But I would rather have dinner with Newt or Dick Armey than with Bruce Springsteen.

Perhaps you can speak at the Republican convention.

I would like to. They haven't invited me yet.

god gallo really does cut a mean trailer doesn't he

(actually he's not anymore! i saw him talk a few months ago and he's like normal weight!)

(Yet I had no problem going to see Mean Girls by myself, hmm)

So, yeah, it's definitely not a stunt cack, and it's definitely not a prosthetic. She's definitely blowing Gallo. It was weird, the tension throughout the theater leading up to the blowjob scene was incredibly powerful. Everything was completely silent. You were aware of every movement in the whole room. Fascintatingly, some guy got up and went to the bathroom right as the scene started, only to return after the beej!

But, yeah, I thought it was pretty awful. Like "Buffalo '66," Gallo totally uses hackneyed mainstream Hollywood storytelling conventions (granted, in "Brown Bunny," it's 90 minutes of generally plotless travelogue, then the typical Hollywood flick).

I have no regrets about seeing it, though. It was one of those memorable train wrecks.

Right now, the NuArt is showing the new Catherine Breillat movie, which is called "Anatomy of Hell" or something and which I was told has audiences leaving in droves because of a scene involving someone eating a used tampon or something.

Incidentally, I got a burn of the Brown Bunny soundtrack, and it's amazing... Gallo should be a trailer editor/music supervisor. He'd be the best ever.

REALLY bad, then!

and nodody told me that

(*HUGE SPOILER ALERT*)

It's a blowjob from BEYOND TEH GRAVE!!!!!!!

a few weeks ago martin scorscese kept talking about how perserving home movies was as impt as feature films because they were history, not as aesthetic objects but as historical ones.

i find guileless home movies beautiful, formally interesting, and there were two long scenes, where he drives around picking up a whore in vegas, and we see so little daytime shots of vegas, and sin city w/o neon became disarming, on purpose, and the way it was shot, it was home movie like--it reminded me of the scorcese qoute.

i felt simialrly (sp) with the long shots thru ohio.

i also really miss super long takes in movies, adn i miss being bored in a warholian sense, and this movie postively bored me sometimes, w. its long tracking shots, and its spare dialoge, and its refusal to cut.

i am glad that people are making things with such audacoity, even if its shit.

And I still think it's a dildo.

I agree with this.

I didn't find that long takes boring in any sense, though. I actually thought some of them could have been longer! The film's only an hour and a half.

I'm glad it's not me, though.

bang on.

Funny that this was mentioned -- I just rented it. I heard it was royally fucked up.

It reminded me of Elephant a bit in that a lot of it was peacefully banal and then the "story" was ramped up at the end. With Elephant, though, I was uncomfortable with how the Columbine stuff was violently shoehorned into the film, which could've been great without it. Here, I liked how the glimpses of backstory you pick up along the way coalesce at the end. It's a nice short story.

As for the blowjob: meh. I didn't doubt that it was his cock, but it didn't actually seem like he came in her mouth -- I couldn't sense the release, nor were there any visual indicators.

Also realized how similar the film is to Buffalo '66: he's playing the same sort of emotionally crippled man-child who somehow persuades these pretty, blank girls (Layla = Violet) to accompany him on a journey, part of which involves putting on a happy face for oblivious parents who seem to have lost track of their children.

Well then I guess it wasn't really sex!

As for the blowjob: meh.

Even allowing for the horrifying context behind this statement, this seems like a sad day for blowjobs everywhere.

They'll get over it.

it didn't actually seem like he came in her mouth -- I couldn't sense the release, nor were there any visual indicators.
it didn't actually seem like he came in her mouth -- I couldn't sense the release, nor were there any visual indicators.
it didn't actually seem like he came in her mouth -- I couldn't sense the release, nor were there any visual indicators.
it didn't actually seem like he came in her mouth -- I couldn't sense the release, nor were there any visual indicators.
it didn't actually seem like he came in her mouth -- I couldn't sense the release, nor were there any visual indicators.
it didn't actually seem like he came in her mouth -- I couldn't sense the release, nor were there any visual indicators.
it didn't actually seem like he came in her mouth -- I couldn't sense the release, nor were there any visual indicators.
it didn't actually seem like he came in her mouth -- I couldn't sense the release, nor were there any visual indicators.
it didn't actually seem like he came in her mouth -- I couldn't sense the release, nor were there any visual indicators.
it didn't actually seem like he came in her mouth -- I couldn't sense the release, nor were there any visual indicators.
it didn't actually seem like he came in her mouth -- I couldn't sense the release, nor were there any visual indicators.
it didn't actually seem like he came in her mouth -- I couldn't sense the release, nor were there any visual indicators.
it didn't actually seem like he came in her mouth -- I couldn't sense the release, nor were there any visual indicators.
it didn't actually seem like he came in her mouth -- I couldn't sense the release, nor were there any visual indicators.

kind of love this!

lol whut

very good film

"hypnotic" "beautiful" "lingering"

"haunting" "sad" "blowjob"

the small town footage was incredible

With Elephant, though, I was uncomfortable with how the Columbine stuff was violently shoehorned into the film, which could've been great without it.

o_O

i think the world has forgotten this movie. the french really had a boner for it when it came out.

All I remember is that feeling of driving on the interstate and heading toward some hills in a distance, and then 20 minutes later the hills are just a little bit closer, and then 20 minutes later the hills are just a little bit closer.