In 1984 film director gus van sant drugstore cowboy and good will hunting began his career with a small, blackandwhite independent movie called mala noche. Mala noche was an important prelude to the new queer cinema of the nineties and is a fascinating capsule from a time and place that continues to haunt its directors work. Gus van sant masterfully weaves an atmospheric blackandwhite imagery with lush sound in his debut feature mala noche set in his hometown of portland. Mala noches technique is far rawer than latterday van sant. Veronica castro was filming the telenovela rosa salvaje at the time. Sep 14, 2007 video made by me from some scenes of the movie mala noche gus van sant, 1985. Theatrical rerelease trailer for gus van sants first feature film, mala noche.
The former being a personal favorite of the mala noche staff for its unwavering satirical take on the youthful decadence of spring break in america. Music by the thrills last night i dreamt that somebody loved me. Following a romantic deadbeat with a wayward crush on a handsome mexican immigrant, it is a fascinating capsule from a time and place that continues to haunt its directors work and an important prelude to the new queer cinema of the nineties. Walt is madly in lovelust with a young illegal mexican immigrant. Mala noche 1985 gus van sant synopsis, characteristics. Starring doug cooeyate, tim streeter, sam downey, nyla mccarthy. Veronica castro artist biography latin star veronica castro born veronica judith sainz castro on 19 october 1952 began working as an announcer on a local tv show while attending singing and dancing classes at a young age.
When cooeyate spurns his advances, streeter plies him and his friends with money, food. Feb 24, 2012 disponibile in streaming e download, in lingua originale con sottotitoli in italiano, su girato in 16 mm con appena 25. The first thing that strikes you about mala noche is the raw, beautiful cinematographya highcontrast blackandwhite that captures the gutters of portland, or, like the setting of a longlost film noir. It marked gus van sants directorial film debut, and stars tim streeter. In other words, mala noche is so openly gay that it may be more useful to think of it as incidentally gay. The theme of homosexual love apparent in the story would manifest with varying degrees of subtlety in many of van sants later films. Mala noche 1985, his first featurelength film, centres on a drugstore clerk obsessed with a young mexican immigrant. With its low budget and lush blackandwhite imagery, gus van sants debut feature mala noche heralded an idiosyncratic, provocative new voice in american. High resolution official theatrical movie poster for mala noche 1988. Mala noche tim streeter doug cooeyate ray monge 1987 a gay portland, ore.
The film portrays the unanswered love of an american man toward a young mexican man. Mala noche is a tone poem to sexual masochism, to the part of us that seeks an assignation with a wild child, smoldering with threat, in a back alley off lifes meanest streets. The gorgeously gritty debut film from gus van sant drugstore cowboy. The beach bum seems like a movie that just by existing, proves there truly are such things as miracles in the film world.
Campbell in mala noche 1986 doug cooeyate in mala noche 1986 tim streeter in mala noche 1986 doug. Calvache wrote the script of the movie impulso impulse, winner of the gran premio flechazo 2009 award of the toulouse latin america film festival. Mala noche by gus van sant na movie to download on lacinetek. Video made by me from some scenes of the movie mala noche gus van sant, 1985. Van sant has more universaland more particularconcerns in mind than the simple fact of walts sexual orientation. The theme of homosexual love apparent in the story would manifest with varying degrees of. Despite the fact that mala noche 1987 was a hit on the festival circuit. Mala noche is the film debut from director gus van sant. However, the object of his unrequited affection doesnt even speak any english and finds walt really strange and undesirable. Disponibile in streaming e download, in lingua originale con sottotitoli in italiano, su girato in 16 mm con appena 25.
With its low budget and lush blackandwhite imagery, gus van sants debut feature mala noche heralded an idiosyncratic, provocative new voice in american independent film. Submerged in velvety black and white shadows, it charts the romantic longings of a quixotic portland grocery store clerk streeter who develops an infatuation with a mexican immigrant cooeyate who neither speaks english nor returns his affections. With tim streeter, doug cooeyate, ray monge, nyla mccarthy. Mala noche also known as bad night is a 1986 american drama film based on walt curtis autobiographical novel. Large database of subtitles for movies, tv series and anime at opensubtitles. He had one of the most striking first acts in contemporary american cinema. The first feature from acclaimed director gus van sant drugstore cowboy, last days, mala noche is a hauntingly beautiful blackandwhite meditation on lust, love, obsession, and class. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing mala noche near you. The film is an anatomy of desire, and a good deal tougher and thornier than its air of pensive distraction might suggest.
Mala noche s technique is far rawer than latterday van sant. Next, youll be struck that the narrator, a convenience clerk named walt tim streeter, rhapsodizes about his love for a young mexican. Oct 06, 2007 in other words, mala noche is so openly gay that it may be more useful to think of it as incidentally gay. Stuck behind the cash register of a convenience store in portlands skid row, young walt tim streeter becomes infatuated with johnny doug cooeyate, a. The film was shot in 16 mm with blackandwhite at portland, oregon. Malanoche miedocridad by malanoche, released 11 april 2014 1. Marca 100% colombiana dark clothing disenos exclusivos handmade en nuestro taller. Mala noche is a 1986 american drama film based on walt curtis autobiographical novel. Una pelicula dirigida por gus van sant con doug cooeyate, ray monge, nyla mccarthy, robert lee pitchlynn.
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