Gallo’s masterpiece. Very cool performances. Unpredictable and unbelievable yet convincing plot. Talented cast, younger and older, male and female. Very entertaining and rewarding watch. I wish Gallo would make more films. Not for action heads.
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Great film! So glad I could add it to the collection
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Funny and endearing movie. Hard to get on streaming services. Real classic of the independent style
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Great thanks
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Frustrating watch of a movie that one wonders how it ever got made.
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Brilliant inspired spellbinding performances from all actors - superb
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The Review Buffalo '66 is a film from 1998 which is directed by, acted in and score composed by, Vincent Gallo. It has received a nice 7.3/10 from www.imdb.com, one of the higher possible scores, and also stars Christina Ricci and Anjelica Huston, along with a small role for Mickey Rourke. The film starts with Billy Brown being released from prison after serving a five-year sentence. Initially you may think he's just another criminal and you would be mistaken for thinking this from his behaviour in the first half hour of the film but as it progresses we are shown neat little flashbacks about the actual story behind his jail term. I'll try not to give too much vital information about the story away, but I will tell you that Billy has lied to his parents about where he's been for five years, and has concocted quite a story about being in the CIA and that he has gone and got himself married. Obviously he wants to go and see his parents but his mother insists on seeing his new bride, leading Billy to his first quandary. Poor Layla (Christina Ricci) therefore gets kidnapped by Billy. She is at first reluctant but once they get to Billy's parents' house she gets carried away with the role, making up all sorts of elaborate stories about their past together. After visiting the parents, Billy and Layla become attached and the whole film centres around just one day and part of the night. The two gradually warm to each other in a very odd way - the ways they go about it are quite different to the conventional courting you might usually see in the movies. Throughout the film you are treated to excellent acting from both Vincent Gallo, as the confused and slightly psychologically damaged Billy and from Christina Ricci, as the caring lost soul that is Layla. Christina Ricci looks very nice in this film, and if you are a fan you will not be disappointed by her appearance in the film. If you like Vincent Gallo this is a must-see, as he directed, acted and composed the score for the film (which is also very nice). The direction is too good not to be mentioned; flashbacks emerge from the middle of the screen as a small enlarging rectangle, views of the characters in Billy's parents' house are shot very nicely, and towards the end of the film there are some very nice special effects too. The whole film, however, is quite slow and the screen seems somewhat "grainy", probably to add to the realism of the story. Anyone looking for a film from "outside the box" will revel in this oddly amusing love story, but if you're an action junkie, don't expect anything too exciting. Overall, an surprisingly good film which is going to stay in my DVD collection and in my mind for a good while to come, and well worth the £3 I spent on it. The Extras Disappointingly, apart from the standard scene selection and subtitles, the only thing you get are some trailers for other films, and nothing about Buffalo '66 whatsoever.Read full review
In Buffalo '66 twisted,but strangely alluring parolee Billy Brown has, in the hands of Vincent Gallo -- writer, director and star of this bleak, outstandingly creative film -- a seething, angered depth, molded by a lifetime of parental abuse, poor judgment and very bad luck and his wounded, embittered performance is captivating, and so is his filmmaking. Greasy, resentful and just released from a five-year turn in the pokey -- he'd made a false confession to get out of a $10,000 debt to a bookie -- he has returned to his home town of Buffalo, New York, because he is desperately grasping for anything familiar to give his life some semblance of control. He visits his vile, hateful parents (Anjelica Huston and Ben Gazzara)but only after wandering into a dance studio and impulsively kidnapping Layla (Christina Ricci), an innocently voluptuous tap student, to pose as his wife. It's a pathetic attempt to persuade them he has beaten the odds of his unfortunate upbringing, but it backfires. "Buffalo '66" is a gloomy, slice-of-life drama about people with miserable lives, but at the same time it's a vicious satire of dysfunctional suburbanites. Failing to find security at home, Billy drags Layla to the bowling alley of his childhood championships -- only to succumb to gutter ball syndrome. Later he demands she pose with him for photo booth snapshots to mail home the next few Christmases and feign that they're a happy couple "spanning time." Adorably Rubenesque and dyed platinum blonde, Ricci gives a gradually and subtly revealing performance as Layla that helps cement the creative vivacity of the film. Employing picture-in-picture flashbacks, subjective cameras, and an optically shocking, pioneering technique of pivoting around within a freeze-frame, "Buffalo '66" has an edgy, experimental air to it without feeling gimmicky. But as distinct as Gallo's style is -- the whole picture has a slightly grainy, over-developed look to it -- his visual stunts are used mostly to pry inside Billy's head, aiding the film's emotionally profundity instead of distracting from it.Read full review
a classic cult film, worth every penny and cant believe its not more well known and respected as an awsome film! if you like pulp fiction or true romance you will like this. a great understated film with a hot actor who happened to write and direct the film too!
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