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The Last Late Night (2000)
Endorses hard drug use
This offensively self-important movie actually endorses cocaine. I don't say that lightly.
This single-set movie does not move literally or artistically. A sort-of funny performance out of ultra-slacker Paul does not make up for Barlow's uninspired direction and audience-insulting finale. The movie closes with a supreme cop-out, as opposed to an ambiguous open-end. I do not recommend to anyone.
Under Hellgate Bridge (1999)
corrupt and disgusting
This is the type of film that gets shown on early AM cheap cable. It's an inarticulate thug movie disguised as some sort of heavenly message. With the exception of Melia and Brian Vincent, who play convincing junk addicts, the performances are paper-thin, as is Sergio's self-important script. The entire theater audibly moaned in disgust in one particularly revolting scene in which the villain humiliates his wife over a bar table in order to prove a violently brain-dead point to his unarmed enemy. Plot holes and verging on a dozen crying scenes make this movie banal and boring!
The Girls' Room (2000)
Outstanding low-budget filmmaking
I saw The Girls' Room at the Nashville Independent Film Festival and was floored by it.
Inspired direction, a terrifically complete script, and sharp performances fill the screen. Irene Turner's directorial debut is an excellent and well-paced one. Soleil Moon Frye's Casey absolutely owns the screen as a defining sexual-existential-college-punk-grrl.
The title may make males wince, but The Girls Room is happily not a chick flick. It is a funny and knowing Gen-X movie that hopefully will find a large audience.
Trash (1999)
Powerful indie breakthrough
I saw TRASH at the Nashville Independent Film Festival and found it to be a solid notch stronger than any other competing feature at the event. Mark Annthony Galluzzo's extraordinary eye and terrific scene structure stretch the boundaries of low-budget filmmaking. Main character Anthony's harrowing conflict is reminiscent of Scorsese's Mean Streets set in the southern swamps. Jeremy Sisto's vivid performance as antihero Sonny, the tragically hardheaded rebel, set against Eric Michael Cole's meditatively trapped Anthony, makes for one outstanding scene after another. Trash is unpredictable and arresting. It's a triumph of independent filmmaking and i geniunely hope to see it get a theatrical release.