| Buffalo 66 | | Cast : | Vincent Gallo, Christina Ricci | | Director : | Vincent Gallo | | Studio : | Lions Gate Home Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | June 26, 1998 | | DVD Released Date : | June 17, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 17, 2005 | | Summary | A QUIRKY LITTLE FILM | Content
 | I first saw BUFFALO 66 on the INDEPENDENT FLM CHANNELL (IFC) and at fisrt t confused me, but as I started getting moe into the fim I started liking it more and more. BILLY BROWN (VINCENT GALLO in an excellent performance) gets out of jail after 5 years with plans of urdering the guy he believes is responsible for hs life being so terrible. First he has to itrduce his parents (ANJELICA HUSTON and BEN GAZARRA)to hs "wife". BILLY told is parents years ago that he was woing for the CIA so wold be one a lot. Nedding a wife he kdnaps LAYLA (CHRISTINA RICCI) at a dance studio (she pretty much let him kidnapp her) and she agrees to pose as his wife. At first you don't feal sorry for BILLY, until you meet his family and see flashacks to his childhood and ou begin to see why he is so messed up. What imprssed me the most s that GALLO drected, co-wrote, and scored the music. The camera work is cool and te cinematograhy is out of this world. I rcomend this to anyone who is a true fan of movies. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 09, 2005 | | Summary | Buffalo '66 = Absilutly, Positivly Fantastic | Content
| one of my favorite movies ever. the idea is wonderful, the music is awesome, and the ending hopfull. gallo is one of the best modern directors along with wes anderson, and richard linklater. i can't wait to see "The Brown Bunny." |
| Rating | | | Date | July 07, 2005 | | Summary | A Minor Masterpiece | Content
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Buffalo '66 is evidently a very personal film for Vincent Gallo, who directs, writes, stars in, wrote the music for, and did the coffee runs for the movie. Some would accuse it of being indulgent. And it's true it does come off as something of a geek's fantasy: Geeky Billy Brown (Gallo) meets beautiful girl, Layla (Christina Ricci) who falls inexplicably in love with him despite his manifest problems and character flaws.
I'm sure every geek in America dreams of such a scenario. Unfortunately not every geek in America can make such a fine film of it. Gallo here has worked wonders with a very slim premise, and deserves all the accolades heaped upon him. "The best independent feature of the last decade"? Yes, still probably the case.
Billy Brown, fresh from prison and heading to his parents' house before he goes on a mission to revenge himself on the person he blames for landing him in jail in the first place, kidnaps Layla from a dancing class to pose as his wife. He wants his parents to think he's been leading a successful life these past five years.
The kidnap is hilariously implausible - Layla just kind of lets Billy take her without much of a struggle, possibly because she has nothing better to do with her afternoon - and the scenes that follow over dinner with the dysfunctional Brown family (Anjelica Huston on particularly fine form as Billy's mother) are both unbearable and hilarious. It emerges that Billy's mother wishes he'd never been born because she missed Buffalo's super-bowl win while she was in labour.... As Layla says dead-pan: "Wow."
Buffalo 66 mixes a variety of genres and styles - from broad comedy through romance to melodrama - and makes it all hang together beautifully.
It's a fairly slow-paced movie and probably not one for the popcorn brigade, but it has more than its fair share of moments and is evidently very heart-felt.
The scene where Billy and Layla are in a photo kiosk getting snaps to send to his mother and father, and she keeps messing around is one of the best in contemporary cinema. "We're a couple, and we love each other, but we don't touch. We're the couple who don't touch," he advises her.
Ultimately it's a movie about the redemptive power of love, and it's very well-crafted and put together in an unusual way that keeps it interesting throughout and recalls some of the directors of the French New Wave of the nineteen-sixties, particularly Jean-Luc Godard who similarly used to mess around with cinematic conventions and string together styles that wouldn't seem to naturally go together within the same film.
Funny, moving, engaging and unusual Buffalo 66 is something of a treat and already a classic. A minor masterpiece. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 22, 2005 | | Summary | Make it good, good one | Content
| Hello. While this film may be labelled as pretentious or as an overly self-indulgent trip to the center of Vincent Gallo, I, to use a Herzog phrase, truly like that one. Alternately hilarious, touching and cinematically inventive, Buffalo '66 stands as one of the truly unique films of the last decade. This film speaks to me on a certain level and for that I am relieved to be able to watch the films of such directors. Admittedly Gallo is no Fellini or Kubrick or Bergman, but he represents the canon of a gritty new American cinema which is certainly a welcome change to the doodoo we are force fed in the US. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 18, 2005 | | Summary | Gallo tells us whats real | Content
| This is the one of the movies which has changed my life and ive watched it over and over again.
In every details:scenario, you can feel Gallo's sensitive and dedicative passion and his perspective to the life as well as movies.
He pours all his soul and sorrow into the movie with some association of his own childhood in the movie. Christina Ricci plays a great role in this movie and apparently amplify the fascination of the movie. She does such simple act in the movie such as puting and silent,however those attract us miraclly in that way and express far more deep feelings than speaking many words.
Overall the scenario is somehow a little awkward and unrealistic. However, i guess maybe it should not be so realistic since it is a movie and it can be any ways as long as it tells us art and the producer's thought.
In many many meanings, it is one of the best movies i ever watched. |
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