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The GoodTimesKid

United States

2005

77 Min
Color
1.85:1
English
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DIR Azazel Jacobs

PROD Sara Diaz, Ernesto Garabito, Georgina Riedel

SCR Azazel Jacobs, Gerardo Naranjo

DP Eric Curtis, Azazel Jacobs, Gerardo Naranjo

CAST Gerardo Naranjo, Azazel Jacobs, Sara Diaz

ED Azazel Jacobs

MUSIC Mandy Hoffman, Gang of Four

Synopsis

A story about stolen love and stolen identities, literally shot on stolen film… Momma’s Man writer-director Azazel Jacobs’ effortlessly hip second feature is an absurdist comedy of errors, a punk-rock slice of DIY rebellion, and a warmhearted frolic that captures the “amour fou spirit of the early French New Wave” (The Village Voice).

Hot-tempered Echo Park slacker Rodolfo Cano (Jacobs) enlists in the army to escape a meaningless existence with his free-spirited girlfriend Diaz (Diaz). When his call-for-service letter somehow winds up in the hands of another Rodolfo Cano (Gerardo Naranjo, director of Drama/Mex and I’m Gonna Explode), a quietly dignified loner who lives on a sailboat, their three lives intersect in odd and beautifully unexpected ways. Evoking the inventive gags of Chaplin and Jacques Tati, plus the deadpan minimalism of Kaurismäki and Jarmusch, The GoodTimesKid “finds poetry in wordless scenes of observation” (The New York Times).

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Christofer Pierson

7Dec11

Worth watching for the dance scene alone.

CrazySphinx and Cezara Dinica like this

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Emily Nine

15Aug11

i really love this film

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Mark Rance

1Oct10

We will try to make this available in Europe.

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4peace

7Sep10

I can't tell if I loved this film or hated it. There were certainly parts i loved. There were certianly parts i hated. A punkd out mexican love song to Jarmusch via L.A. amateur night.

Maxim Stolyarchuk and 3 others like this

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Sundance 2011. Azazel Jacobs's "Terri"

By David Hudson on January 27, 2011

"Azazel Jacobs's profile has grown steadily since he made his striking, black-and-white debut feature, Nobody Needs to Know, in 2003," writes

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Now on DVD: "TheGoodTimesKid" (Azazel Jacobs, USA)

By David Cairns on November 17, 2009

TheGoodTimesKid has a director with a famous father (Azazel Jacobs having sprung from the loins of the prodigiously fertile experimentalist

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Now on DVD: "TheGoodTimesKid" (Azazel Jacobs, USA)

By David Cairns on November 17, 2009

TheGoodTimesKid has a director with a famous father (Azazel Jacobs having sprung from the loins of the prodigiously fertile experimentalist

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The Auteurs Daily: Azazel Jacobs and Gerardo Naranjo

By David Hudson on August 11, 2009

  "The GoodTimesKid was a title that I and the co-writer Gerardo Naranjo came up with while we were studying at AFI together," Azazel

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