Cinema Science

Okay, one more criterion relase to show here. This one is for Gus Van Sant's Mala Noche. I know very little about this film, basically just the plot outline. This is actually the first artwork or images I have ever seen from it. I didn't even know it existed until a few weeks ago when I was reading an article about Van Sant's career. Below is the info on the film from the Criterion website, click here for the specs from the DVD. I can't say if this movie is worth seeing or not since I haven't seen it. I am interested though, most of Van Sant's early work is really great.

With its low budget and lush black-and-white imagery, Gus Van Sant's debut feature Mala Noche heralded an idiosyncratic, provocative new voice in American independent film. Set in Van Sant's hometown of Portland, Oregon, the film evokes a world of transient workers, dead-end day-shifters, and bars and seedy apartments bathed in a profound nighttime, as it follows a romantic deadbeat with a wayward crush on a handsome Mexican immigrant. Mala Noche was an important prelude to the New Queer Cinema of the nineties and is a fascinating time capsule from a time and place that continues to haunt its director's work.