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Gallo's Humor

Fledgling filmmaker Vincent Gallo scores audacious debut with Buffalo 66

By Paul Cullum
Aug 6, 1998

Vincent Gallo, a left-field character actor whose best work has been in the films of mainstream eccentrics like Emir Kusturica (Arizona Dream), Abel Ferrera (The Funeral) and Alan Taylor (Palookaville), arrives as full-blown auteur with Buffalo 66, the million-dollar art project he directed and co-wrote that made the covers of...
Gross Encounter

There's Something About Mary--and it's funnier than Dumb and Dumber

By Paul Cullum
Jul 16, 1998

For those who thought Dumb and Dumber signaled the end of the world as we know it, my advice is duck and cover. Comedy avatars Peter and Bobby Farrelly, the odium savants behind what some have considered Jim Carrey's Hamlet--as well as its follow-up, the mondo bowlerama Kingpin--have turned their...
Keen With Envy

Mr. Jealousy is funny that way

By Paul Cullum
Jul 2, 1998

In Mr. Jealousy, director Noah Baumbach (Kicking and Screaming) takes on the most coiled and resilient of the seven deadlies. Even as Eric Stoltz's romantic comedies were becoming forced and generic by the time of Kicking and Screaming, in this bright comedy of manners his amiable every-mannerisms are sharpened by...
Radical Act

Middle-class kids play revolutionaries in '60s Brazil; brilliant Four Days in September shows their folly

By Paul Cullum
Feb 19, 1998

Brazilian director Bruno Barreto is best known on these shores for the lush romanticism of the Sonia Braga travelogues Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands and Gabriela, and in his country for teen fluff like The Boy From Rio. With the Oscar-nominated Four Days in September, he's likely to establish...
Kith and Kennedy

The House of Yes hosts a quirky Camelot

By Paul Cullum
Oct 9, 1997

It's hard to fault The House of Yes, the wry toast of this year's Sundance Film Festival, for its limitations as a film. In fact, it's hardly a film at all--rather, it's a barely staged, five-handed farce that trails its amiable cast around a looming Victorian mansion during the course...

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