Aguaespejo
2May13
https://www.facebook.com/tim.streeter Brewing beer in Portland apparently
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Frankly, Mr. Shankly
9Apr13
High contrasted black & white, impossibility of love and sex, despair, beautiful mexican chicos, marginal characters, night trains, cheap hotels, neon lights, street walking, spanish music: Kerouac meets Louis Malle in a walk on the wild side. Not Van Sant's best but wonderfully full of heart and soul. An incontestable treasure of queer cinema. Tim Streeter, where have you been?
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DT
8Mar13
Captured in passing in the 8mm fragments of Drugstore, Idaho and Paranoid Park, Mala Noche proves the strongest distillation of Van Sant’s early aesthetic, stripped of any retroactive affectation: rough, frenetic editing, high contrast B+W, as well as the Portland milieu, gay lovers and earnest template of ambiguous relationships separated by sexuality and demography. Indeed, its earnestness emerges its most striking feature - a flurry of edits and grain, masking its constraints in niftily stitching together montage with teleplay. Resnais-esque?
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Aguaespejo
17Feb13
I found the film remarkably free of gay cliches for when it was made. But while I appreciated the fact that Van Sant doesn't milk his sentimental streak at climaxes, I couldn't help but feel like there is a basic implausibility to the whole story: like an upper middle class white boy decided to imagine what a lower class white boy obsessed with an immigrant mexican would feel like...
eric
14Oct11
They say that the first time is always the best, and that's definitely true for Gus Van Sant's cinematic feature film debut. His gritty adaptation of Walt Curtis's semi-autobiographical novel "Mala Noche" captures the nicotine-stained edges and rain-soaked pavement of Portland's Skidmore / Old Town with an unlikely amor fou between a grocery clerk and the young Latino freight-hopping drfiters new to town. Excellent.
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lolo341
15Jun11
I like this quote from Stylusmagazine.com's review: "Mala Noche concerns urban bohemians, Mexicans, and homosexuals—and makes all of them all-American." Good call, and a fine point to make. Admittedly, for a first film and shoe-string budget, it can hardly be faulted. I just wish I could enjoy the Van Sant ride more than I tend to.
lolo341
15Jun11
I LOVED Drugstore Cowboy, but I'm perplexed by the mystique surrounding Private Idaho, To Die For, Good Will Hunting and now Mala Noche. I did like Mala better than the others. Will I watch more Van Sant? Probably. Milk was very good and Elephant and Paranoid Park sound good, but I'm prepared for disappointment. Not sure why I keep coming back. Mala Noche kudos: Tim Streeter, B&W cinematography, the soundtrack.
Arisa
24Apr11
The main guy is obnoxious. No, I take that back; he's pathetic. Though I suppose it's understandable. That Johnny kid was pretty cute.
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EastyBoy
10Mar11
Really good first film from Gus Van Sant, I loved the black and white cinematography.
David Ehrenstein
13Dec09
This is where I discovered Gus. The critics award I got him encouraged on-the-fence finance to back "Drugstore Cowboy" and the rest is history. Tim Streeter's perfomance is superb, and he has made several very great films since.
Andres Pff
12Oct09
is it bad that the best film from gus van sant, is his first one? its just so heart breaking... being in love is a bitch.
