Eszter Balint

Trees Lounge
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Small, Rough...but Excellent.
  • Buscemi's Masterpiece
  • Buscemi directs with a sure hand...
  • Buscemi as Bukowski
  • I was Tommy
Trees Lounge
Starring: Eszter Balint , Richard Boes , Mark Boone Junior , Elizabeth Bracco , and Michael Buscemi
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ASIN: B00005Y6X6
Release Date: 2002-03-26

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Steve Buscemi, an icon of the independent film world for years, took the opportunity to write, direct, and star in this wistful low-budget gem. He plays Tommy, a Long Island loser who gets tossed from his job as a mechanic for questionable financial antics. He spends his days at a local bar, drinking his life away even as he denies that he's doing any such thing. And when he finally works up the gumption to get a job, he winds up driving an ice-cream truck in his old neighborhood--and getting involved in an inappropriate relationship with his teeny-bopper assistant (Chloe Sevigny), earning the violent enmity of her father (Daniel Baldwin). Low-key in its approach, the film has a sad humor that is both knowing and forgiving, as well as offering one of Buscemi's best performances. <I>--Marshall Fine</I>

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Small, Rough...but Excellent. .......2007-02-28

I don't have anything controversial to say here as I basically feel the same way about Trees Lounge as everybody else. I loved it when I saw it a decade ago and my opinion has not changed in the time since. I rented it the other day and was as pleased as I was the first time around. Buscemi's virgin directorial effort could not have been more resonant. He portrays Tommy as both a hero and an anti-hero. The plot itself takes us to quite familiar places as there isn't anything too "Hollywood" about this production. It is not happy, but its realism offers great value. Trees Lounge has the type of feel that Ed Burns has tried to create continuously over his career, but was only able to do so in Brothers McMullen. All of the ambiguities shared by Buscemi and his cast in the film add up to one thing: life.

5 out of 5 stars Buscemi's Masterpiece.......2007-01-22

This movie is all about the little things; It's the awkward comments and familiar situations that make you feel like you know these people and have been in their homes. Whether it's the fact Buscemi is a mechanic who doesn't have a working car, or the fact he is constantly being cheated out of cocaine, this movie brings a smile to my face every time. This is a slice of life type movie, filled with colorful but not 'pre-meditated' characters. I always got the feeling I was watching these people, not the actors playing them. This film derives much of it's humor from the problems that can plague any of us, from drug and alcohol problems to losing someone you loved to a best friend. There is lots to laugh at here, but has a nice dramatic side when needed. This was Steve's first movie from the directors side; When you couple that with his acting here, you can't say he didn't do everthing right here. Plus I never thought in my wildest dreams I'd ever see his mug driving an ice cream truck.

5 out of 5 stars Buscemi directs with a sure hand..........2006-08-21

What a pleasant surprise this flick turned out to be. Always liked Buscemi's work as an actor, but had no idea he could direct...until I saw this film.

It's easy to relate to what this character goes through in this movie. Who hasn't been in a rut? Who hasn't felt this way?
You know you'd like to shake the Blues, get your life back on track...be happy about something, find meaning in your existance somehow...

I liked this quiet tale told in a relatively low-key way. Real nice.

5 out of 5 stars Buscemi as Bukowski.......2006-03-05

A convincing portrait of the drinking life. If you ever had a bar period in your life, you'll recognize the people and events in this movie. Steve Buscemi should be writing and directing more movies. The cast is perfect, too. I haven't seen Barfly, but this movie is dead on. It's like a Bukowski novel without the gross-outs. In short, it has a heart.

5 out of 5 stars I was Tommy.......2005-11-17

Man, what a great movie; very well done. This is funny, sad, dark, and real. Steve Buscemi (who also wrote, & produced) gives his best performance, & that's saying plenty. This movie's been reviewed well, and the story is about a guy, and the people in his life that you'll see in every town. Alcoholism is no joke, and the existance that some folks end up living in is a darkness that few understand. People don't grow up saying "I'm gonna be an alcoholic some day", but when you're in "the pit", this is what it looks like. I lived in a very similar state, and existance, and this movie struck a very special chord for me. You won't find the storyline focusing on recovery, it strictly shows you a guy after he's crossed the line, so to speak. The characters in Tommy's life a so realistic that I'd swear I'd met them before. It's not a typical "Hollywood" movie like "Clean & Sober"; this is where the lost, and the sick end up before death, or recovery.
Stranger Than Paradise
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • bored
  • WELCOME TO AMERICA ONLY IT GETS MUCH MUCH WORSE
  • How Strange That Anyone Could Endure It
  • stranger than anything
  • The Real World
Stranger Than Paradise
Starring: John Lurie , Eszter Balint , Richard Edson , Cecillia Stark , and Danny Rosen
Director: Jim Jarmusch
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ASIN: 0792846834
Release Date: 2000-09-05

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars bored.......2007-03-18

i ain't no philistine. subtlties were lost on me. check out "down by law."
that movie is a straight up 100 percent masterpiece and succeeds in every aspect that i feel this film failed in.

5 out of 5 stars WELCOME TO AMERICA ONLY IT GETS MUCH MUCH WORSE.......2006-10-14

Road film for the eighties: From Bing and Bob in the forties to Dennis and Peter in the sixties and now this in the eighties. Welcome to America. Where is the wonder? Where is the song?

This movie is the best representation of where we have come from and of where we went wrong. Where is that American Dream?

Please see this movie deeply. Let it take time. Watch Mystery Train and Ghost Dog too. You will see what there is to see and what is only whispered.

Why movies? This is why. Watch.
Nuff sed.

After this film grab a real human being by the hand and hold on tightly.
Or get a small cool old school black hat full of no hope and squeeze in.

This film comes real cheap.

You'll never see the inside of a hotel room the same way again.

This is what My Name's Earl WANTS TO BE BUT NEVER WILL DARE TO BE.

Turn this on instead and tune in.

Throw this frisbee no further than your DVD box, but deeper than your deepest understanding.

1 out of 5 stars How Strange That Anyone Could Endure It.......2006-06-13

The most astonishing thing about this film - stranger than paradise or hell could ever be - is that anyone let Jarmusch make another film after it wrapped. (That it won Best First Feature at Cannes in 1984 shakes one's faith in a rational universe.)

STP easily ranks as one of the worst movies ever made, it is so vapid and purposeless that at times one almost senses that the characters on screen are looking straight into the camera as if to say, "Please, please give us something to do, we just can't take another minute of this torture!"

Watching Stranger Than Paradise one feels compelled to laugh as the realization hits - Jarmusch wants this movie to be boring, slow, vacant, tedious, and gloomy, in short - lacking any quality that might be considered redemptive. He has a terribly clever, art-house idea; he wants to recreate the bleak existentialism of Samuel Beckett and J.P. Sartre on film, painting meaninglessness and pointlessness in broad strokes, black and white, hollow lives played out in the absence of hope, value, or passion.

What Jarmusch has missed, however, is that these writers portrayed their philosophical viewpoint in endlessly fascinating ways, masterfully crafting characters and situations. A boring, idiotic movie doesn't become interesting or consequential just because you say, after the fact, "I intended to make a boring and idiotic movie." That the art-house crowd fell for Stranger Than Paradise only shows that painfully chic intellectuals with delusions of hippitudinousness are more easily deceived than children - children can spot a naked emperor.

While it's hard to criticize a man who's worked Screamin' Jay Hawkins into two of his movies, (Mystery Train), good taste in music in not nearly enough to absolve Jarmusch. Repeated viewings will cause you to be dumbstruck with wonder over and over as you wrestle with the idea that Stranger Than Paradise is as bad as it is on purpose. Deep as a Frisbee, and with luck, you might be able to fling it as far.

5 out of 5 stars stranger than anything.......2005-12-08

A Hungarian girl goes to visit her cousin who lives in the ugliest apartment in the ugliest part of New York City; then the cousin and his best friend go to visit the Hungarian girl who now lives in the ugliest house in the ugliest part of Cleveland; then all three of them take a road trip and end up at the ugliest hotel in the ugliest part of Florida. Along the way nothing happens, and then it happens again. A great film, and an important one too, that I thoroughly enjoyed watching.

5 out of 5 stars The Real World.......2005-07-21

The real world "Gone With the Wind" & made for a few bucks. All about stuff in the heart that can't go anywhere. Willie & Eddie are the line & Eva is the light. And it's funny! Once again, let's savor Eddie's moment: This time, Eddie knows something that Willie doesn't. Willie & Eddie open a beer & Eddie gets his 15 seconds.
Trees Lounge
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Small, Rough...but Excellent.
  • Buscemi's Masterpiece
  • Buscemi directs with a sure hand...
  • Buscemi as Bukowski
  • I was Tommy
Trees Lounge
Starring: Eszter Balint , Richard Boes , Mark Boone Junior , Elizabeth Bracco , and Michael Buscemi
Manufacturer: Geneon [Pioneer]
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ASIN: 6305261490
Release Date: 1999-02-09

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Steve Buscemi, an icon of the independent film world for years, took the opportunity to write, direct, and star in this wistful low-budget gem. He plays Tommy, a Long Island loser who gets tossed from his job as a mechanic for questionable financial antics. He spends his days at a local bar, drinking his life away even as he denies that he's doing any such thing. And when he finally works up the gumption to get a job, he winds up driving an ice-cream truck in his old neighborhood--and getting involved in an inappropriate relationship with his teeny-bopper assistant (Chloe Sevigny), earning the violent enmity of her father (Daniel Baldwin). Low-key in its approach, the film has a sad humor that is both knowing and forgiving, as well as offering one of Buscemi's best performances. <I>--Marshall Fine</I>

Description

All Tommy wants from life is what everyone else has - a job, a girl, a good time. But the harder he tries, the worse things get. And the more time he spends at Trees Lounge, his Long Island neighborhood bar, the more he gets involved with the lives of the colorful characters he meets there. Deluxe Edition includes: Director's commentary, original theatrical trailer, Trees Lounge music video. Steve Buscemi, Chloe Sevigny, Anthony LaPaglia

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Small, Rough...but Excellent. .......2007-02-28

I don't have anything controversial to say here as I basically feel the same way about Trees Lounge as everybody else. I loved it when I saw it a decade ago and my opinion has not changed in the time since. I rented it the other day and was as pleased as I was the first time around. Buscemi's virgin directorial effort could not have been more resonant. He portrays Tommy as both a hero and an anti-hero. The plot itself takes us to quite familiar places as there isn't anything too "Hollywood" about this production. It is not happy, but its realism offers great value. Trees Lounge has the type of feel that Ed Burns has tried to create continuously over his career, but was only able to do so in Brothers McMullen. All of the ambiguities shared by Buscemi and his cast in the film add up to one thing: life.

5 out of 5 stars Buscemi's Masterpiece.......2007-01-22

This movie is all about the little things; It's the awkward comments and familiar situations that make you feel like you know these people and have been in their homes. Whether it's the fact Buscemi is a mechanic who doesn't have a working car, or the fact he is constantly being cheated out of cocaine, this movie brings a smile to my face every time. This is a slice of life type movie, filled with colorful but not 'pre-meditated' characters. I always got the feeling I was watching these people, not the actors playing them. This film derives much of it's humor from the problems that can plague any of us, from drug and alcohol problems to losing someone you loved to a best friend. There is lots to laugh at here, but has a nice dramatic side when needed. This was Steve's first movie from the directors side; When you couple that with his acting here, you can't say he didn't do everthing right here. Plus I never thought in my wildest dreams I'd ever see his mug driving an ice cream truck.

5 out of 5 stars Buscemi directs with a sure hand..........2006-08-21

What a pleasant surprise this flick turned out to be. Always liked Buscemi's work as an actor, but had no idea he could direct...until I saw this film.

It's easy to relate to what this character goes through in this movie. Who hasn't been in a rut? Who hasn't felt this way?
You know you'd like to shake the Blues, get your life back on track...be happy about something, find meaning in your existance somehow...

I liked this quiet tale told in a relatively low-key way. Real nice.

5 out of 5 stars Buscemi as Bukowski.......2006-03-05

A convincing portrait of the drinking life. If you ever had a bar period in your life, you'll recognize the people and events in this movie. Steve Buscemi should be writing and directing more movies. The cast is perfect, too. I haven't seen Barfly, but this movie is dead on. It's like a Bukowski novel without the gross-outs. In short, it has a heart.

5 out of 5 stars I was Tommy.......2005-11-17

Man, what a great movie; very well done. This is funny, sad, dark, and real. Steve Buscemi (who also wrote, & produced) gives his best performance, & that's saying plenty. This movie's been reviewed well, and the story is about a guy, and the people in his life that you'll see in every town. Alcoholism is no joke, and the existance that some folks end up living in is a darkness that few understand. People don't grow up saying "I'm gonna be an alcoholic some day", but when you're in "the pit", this is what it looks like. I lived in a very similar state, and existance, and this movie struck a very special chord for me. You won't find the storyline focusing on recovery, it strictly shows you a guy after he's crossed the line, so to speak. The characters in Tommy's life a so realistic that I'd swear I'd met them before. It's not a typical "Hollywood" movie like "Clean & Sober"; this is where the lost, and the sick end up before death, or recovery.
The Linguini Incident
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • "I thought that rabbit was eating your head"
  • Stuck in wrong sector of trend cycle
  • On DVD as "Shag-o-rama"
  • I can't rave enough about this film!!!!!!!
  • Bra weapons, magic tricks and one snarky Bowie
The Linguini Incident
Starring: Rosanna Arquette , David Bowie , Eszter Balint , Andre Gregory , and Buck Henry
Director: Richard Shepard
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ASIN: 6302457033
Release Date: 1993-09-22

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars "I thought that rabbit was eating your head".......2006-04-19

"The Linguini Incident" is aging better than one might have thought back in 1991. At the time, it seemed like a trendy summation of the chic and jaded in New York City: Rosanna Arquette is a would-be Houdini who makes ends meet by waitressing in a hip eatery called Dali; David Bowie is a fallen playboy/gambler and would-be U.S. citizen who has been reduced to tending bar at Dali and trying to get a waitress-any waitress-to marry him so he can get a green card; and Eszter Balint is a would-be fashion designer who doesn't seem to make any money but also doesn't seem to have another job. Together, they decide to rob Dali to finance their various dreams. And in New York City, the robbery makes Dali even more popular than it was before, of course.

All of which sounds critical, but it's not meant to be. The film has the potential to be off-puttingly cynical, but it actually works quite well due to the charisma of the cast, the consistent wit of the script, and the fact that the film veers into the absurd just often enough to keep the viewer guessing. Arquette was always good at comedy, and Bowie should have done more, as well, because he has an effectively offbeat sense of timing. Buck Henry and Andre Gregory are excellent as the egotistical and slightly daffy owners of Dali, and it's a shame that Balint only made a handful of movies after this one. She had a certain nutty charm. Marlee Matlin just has a few scenes as Dali's hostess, but she makes them count. Look for Maura Tierney in a bit part as one of Arquette's co-workers, and also keep an eye out for Iman's cameo as a guest at the big underwater escape finish. She married Bowie soon after this film was completed.

5 out of 5 stars Stuck in wrong sector of trend cycle.......2005-08-24

This is a fun screwy movie, not a laugh riot but you'll have a smileon your face through the whole things. Bowie is wonderful in it--an underutilized screen talent.

Ok, so it's almost camp? In about five years, this film, and a lot of other what I'll call "Third Generation Screwball Comedy"--items from the early-Eighties to early Nineties--will be in high demand: "Earth Girls are Easy," "Nothing but Trouble," "My Stepmother is an Alien," "Mom and Dad Save the World," "Straight to Hell," and this one, to name a few. (Alert! "Starstruck" and "Freaked" have just been released!)The kids by then will think these are fun as all heck, and we'll be sitting around yapping about the wacky and colorful "good old days" of Reagan, Bush I, Pee Wee Herman, early Madonna, Twin Peaks, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and dollar-a-gallon gas. Nostalgia? Forgetting the bad things? Not this reporter; I thought those years were a blast WHILE they were happening but, being a student of history, I knew that a Big Ugly Thing (or two or three) would eventually appear to wreck it all.

Note I say the era lasted to the early Nineties, not to 9/11. Think back and remember it started to turn sour during the Boom, when big money was flying everywhere but schools lacked funds to continue art and music programs, and political correctness turned college campuses into replicas of Pol Pot's Cambodia. I never saw so many well-off people living in a vaguely peaceful world work so hard (President included) to make a total hash of it all. Movies like these evaporated in this selfish, greedy, hyper-critical, and joyless environment. Cell phones and PC's also began their relentless domination of our lives. Sad. It's almost like we collectively willed the rancid events of this new century into being.

5 out of 5 stars On DVD as "Shag-o-rama".......2005-01-09

I'm always the last to know anything, but in case there is anyone else who might be even more "last to know" than I am, here's the scoop.

I just found out by sheer accident a few nights ago that The Linguini Incident WAS released on DVD. However, it was put out under a completely different title: Shag-o-rama. The information I found said that the movie wasn't changed a bit, except for the title credit.

Since it's already out-of-print, for copies of this DVD you'll probably have to watch eBay (I bought one there) or used DVD shops in your local area, if you have any.

And for the record, I found this to be a quirky, off-beat, romantic caper comedy. It's funny and cute, even if it is slightly over the top. (And I really loved Arquette's 1920s outfits!)

Mae

5 out of 5 stars I can't rave enough about this film!!!!!!!.......2003-11-04

Having been a huge fan of Bowie's music for years, I started renting and watching anything he appeared in. Lo and behold, I stumbled across this gem in about 1997, and still pull it out, dust off the VCR, and watch it whenever I need a pick-me-up.

This movie has it all; humor, romance, action, and intrigue. An excellent screenplay, soundtrack, cast and cinematography make this film worth the commitment to spend a couple of hours in front of the TV. Unfortunately, it's out of print... Will they ever release it on DVD???

5 out of 5 stars Bra weapons, magic tricks and one snarky Bowie.......2003-10-08

This is my favorite Bowie movie of all time. Not only are the characters downright quirky and fun, but the plot itself is funny in its own right. Who knew a pair of handcuffs could get you into so much trouble?

I just hope that it eventually makes its way onto DVD!
Stranger Than Paradise
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • bored
  • WELCOME TO AMERICA ONLY IT GETS MUCH MUCH WORSE
  • How Strange That Anyone Could Endure It
  • stranger than anything
  • The Real World
Stranger Than Paradise
Starring: John Lurie , Eszter Balint , Richard Edson , Cecillia Stark , and Danny Rosen
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
ProductGroup: Video
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ASIN: 0792846664
Release Date: 2000-09-05

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars bored.......2007-03-18

i ain't no philistine. subtlties were lost on me. check out "down by law."
that movie is a straight up 100 percent masterpiece and succeeds in every aspect that i feel this film failed in.

5 out of 5 stars WELCOME TO AMERICA ONLY IT GETS MUCH MUCH WORSE.......2006-10-14

Road film for the eighties: From Bing and Bob in the forties to Dennis and Peter in the sixties and now this in the eighties. Welcome to America. Where is the wonder? Where is the song?

This movie is the best representation of where we have come from and of where we went wrong. Where is that American Dream?

Please see this movie deeply. Let it take time. Watch Mystery Train and Ghost Dog too. You will see what there is to see and what is only whispered.

Why movies? This is why. Watch.
Nuff sed.

After this film grab a real human being by the hand and hold on tightly.
Or get a small cool old school black hat full of no hope and squeeze in.

This film comes real cheap.

You'll never see the inside of a hotel room the same way again.

This is what My Name's Earl WANTS TO BE BUT NEVER WILL DARE TO BE.

Turn this on instead and tune in.

Throw this frisbee no further than your DVD box, but deeper than your deepest understanding.

1 out of 5 stars How Strange That Anyone Could Endure It.......2006-06-13

The most astonishing thing about this film - stranger than paradise or hell could ever be - is that anyone let Jarmusch make another film after it wrapped. (That it won Best First Feature at Cannes in 1984 shakes one's faith in a rational universe.)

STP easily ranks as one of the worst movies ever made, it is so vapid and purposeless that at times one almost senses that the characters on screen are looking straight into the camera as if to say, "Please, please give us something to do, we just can't take another minute of this torture!"

Watching Stranger Than Paradise one feels compelled to laugh as the realization hits - Jarmusch wants this movie to be boring, slow, vacant, tedious, and gloomy, in short - lacking any quality that might be considered redemptive. He has a terribly clever, art-house idea; he wants to recreate the bleak existentialism of Samuel Beckett and J.P. Sartre on film, painting meaninglessness and pointlessness in broad strokes, black and white, hollow lives played out in the absence of hope, value, or passion.

What Jarmusch has missed, however, is that these writers portrayed their philosophical viewpoint in endlessly fascinating ways, masterfully crafting characters and situations. A boring, idiotic movie doesn't become interesting or consequential just because you say, after the fact, "I intended to make a boring and idiotic movie." That the art-house crowd fell for Stranger Than Paradise only shows that painfully chic intellectuals with delusions of hippitudinousness are more easily deceived than children - children can spot a naked emperor.

While it's hard to criticize a man who's worked Screamin' Jay Hawkins into two of his movies, (Mystery Train), good taste in music in not nearly enough to absolve Jarmusch. Repeated viewings will cause you to be dumbstruck with wonder over and over as you wrestle with the idea that Stranger Than Paradise is as bad as it is on purpose. Deep as a Frisbee, and with luck, you might be able to fling it as far.

5 out of 5 stars stranger than anything.......2005-12-08

A Hungarian girl goes to visit her cousin who lives in the ugliest apartment in the ugliest part of New York City; then the cousin and his best friend go to visit the Hungarian girl who now lives in the ugliest house in the ugliest part of Cleveland; then all three of them take a road trip and end up at the ugliest hotel in the ugliest part of Florida. Along the way nothing happens, and then it happens again. A great film, and an important one too, that I thoroughly enjoyed watching.

5 out of 5 stars The Real World.......2005-07-21

The real world "Gone With the Wind" & made for a few bucks. All about stuff in the heart that can't go anywhere. Willie & Eddie are the line & Eva is the light. And it's funny! Once again, let's savor Eddie's moment: This time, Eddie knows something that Willie doesn't. Willie & Eddie open a beer & Eddie gets his 15 seconds.
Stranger Than Paradise
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • bored
  • WELCOME TO AMERICA ONLY IT GETS MUCH MUCH WORSE
  • How Strange That Anyone Could Endure It
  • stranger than anything
  • The Real World
Stranger Than Paradise
Starring: John Lurie , Eszter Balint , Richard Edson , Cecillia Stark , and Danny Rosen
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Manufacturer: Fox Home Entertainment
ProductGroup: Video
Binding: VHS Tape

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ASIN: 6301802241
Release Date: 1992-08-18

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars bored.......2007-03-18

i ain't no philistine. subtlties were lost on me. check out "down by law."
that movie is a straight up 100 percent masterpiece and succeeds in every aspect that i feel this film failed in.

5 out of 5 stars WELCOME TO AMERICA ONLY IT GETS MUCH MUCH WORSE.......2006-10-14

Road film for the eighties: From Bing and Bob in the forties to Dennis and Peter in the sixties and now this in the eighties. Welcome to America. Where is the wonder? Where is the song?

This movie is the best representation of where we have come from and of where we went wrong. Where is that American Dream?

Please see this movie deeply. Let it take time. Watch Mystery Train and Ghost Dog too. You will see what there is to see and what is only whispered.

Why movies? This is why. Watch.
Nuff sed.

After this film grab a real human being by the hand and hold on tightly.
Or get a small cool old school black hat full of no hope and squeeze in.

This film comes real cheap.

You'll never see the inside of a hotel room the same way again.

This is what My Name's Earl WANTS TO BE BUT NEVER WILL DARE TO BE.

Turn this on instead and tune in.

Throw this frisbee no further than your DVD box, but deeper than your deepest understanding.

1 out of 5 stars How Strange That Anyone Could Endure It.......2006-06-13

The most astonishing thing about this film - stranger than paradise or hell could ever be - is that anyone let Jarmusch make another film after it wrapped. (That it won Best First Feature at Cannes in 1984 shakes one's faith in a rational universe.)

STP easily ranks as one of the worst movies ever made, it is so vapid and purposeless that at times one almost senses that the characters on screen are looking straight into the camera as if to say, "Please, please give us something to do, we just can't take another minute of this torture!"

Watching Stranger Than Paradise one feels compelled to laugh as the realization hits - Jarmusch wants this movie to be boring, slow, vacant, tedious, and gloomy, in short - lacking any quality that might be considered redemptive. He has a terribly clever, art-house idea; he wants to recreate the bleak existentialism of Samuel Beckett and J.P. Sartre on film, painting meaninglessness and pointlessness in broad strokes, black and white, hollow lives played out in the absence of hope, value, or passion.

What Jarmusch has missed, however, is that these writers portrayed their philosophical viewpoint in endlessly fascinating ways, masterfully crafting characters and situations. A boring, idiotic movie doesn't become interesting or consequential just because you say, after the fact, "I intended to make a boring and idiotic movie." That the art-house crowd fell for Stranger Than Paradise only shows that painfully chic intellectuals with delusions of hippitudinousness are more easily deceived than children - children can spot a naked emperor.

While it's hard to criticize a man who's worked Screamin' Jay Hawkins into two of his movies, (Mystery Train), good taste in music in not nearly enough to absolve Jarmusch. Repeated viewings will cause you to be dumbstruck with wonder over and over as you wrestle with the idea that Stranger Than Paradise is as bad as it is on purpose. Deep as a Frisbee, and with luck, you might be able to fling it as far.

5 out of 5 stars stranger than anything.......2005-12-08

A Hungarian girl goes to visit her cousin who lives in the ugliest apartment in the ugliest part of New York City; then the cousin and his best friend go to visit the Hungarian girl who now lives in the ugliest house in the ugliest part of Cleveland; then all three of them take a road trip and end up at the ugliest hotel in the ugliest part of Florida. Along the way nothing happens, and then it happens again. A great film, and an important one too, that I thoroughly enjoyed watching.

5 out of 5 stars The Real World.......2005-07-21

The real world "Gone With the Wind" & made for a few bucks. All about stuff in the heart that can't go anywhere. Willie & Eddie are the line & Eva is the light. And it's funny! Once again, let's savor Eddie's moment: This time, Eddie knows something that Willie doesn't. Willie & Eddie open a beer & Eddie gets his 15 seconds.
Trees Lounge
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Small, Rough...but Excellent.
  • Buscemi's Masterpiece
  • Buscemi directs with a sure hand...
  • Buscemi as Bukowski
  • I was Tommy
Trees Lounge
Starring: Eszter Balint , Richard Boes , Mark Boone Junior , Elizabeth Bracco , and Michael Buscemi
Manufacturer: Live / Artisan
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ASIN: B00000FAZJ
Release Date: 2002-03-26

Amazon.com

Steve Buscemi, an icon of the independent film world for years, took the opportunity to write, direct, and star in this wistful low-budget gem. He plays Tommy, a Long Island loser who gets tossed from his job as a mechanic for questionable financial antics. He spends his days at a local bar, drinking his life away even as he denies that he's doing any such thing. And when he finally works up the gumption to get a job, he winds up driving an ice-cream truck in his old neighborhood--and getting involved in an inappropriate relationship with his teeny-bopper assistant (Chloe Sevigny), earning the violent enmity of her father (Daniel Baldwin). Low-key in its approach, the film has a sad humor that is both knowing and forgiving, as well as offering one of Buscemi's best performances. <I>--Marshall Fine</I>

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Small, Rough...but Excellent. .......2007-02-28

I don't have anything controversial to say here as I basically feel the same way about Trees Lounge as everybody else. I loved it when I saw it a decade ago and my opinion has not changed in the time since. I rented it the other day and was as pleased as I was the first time around. Buscemi's virgin directorial effort could not have been more resonant. He portrays Tommy as both a hero and an anti-hero. The plot itself takes us to quite familiar places as there isn't anything too "Hollywood" about this production. It is not happy, but its realism offers great value. Trees Lounge has the type of feel that Ed Burns has tried to create continuously over his career, but was only able to do so in Brothers McMullen. All of the ambiguities shared by Buscemi and his cast in the film add up to one thing: life.

5 out of 5 stars Buscemi's Masterpiece.......2007-01-22

This movie is all about the little things; It's the awkward comments and familiar situations that make you feel like you know these people and have been in their homes. Whether it's the fact Buscemi is a mechanic who doesn't have a working car, or the fact he is constantly being cheated out of cocaine, this movie brings a smile to my face every time. This is a slice of life type movie, filled with colorful but not 'pre-meditated' characters. I always got the feeling I was watching these people, not the actors playing them. This film derives much of it's humor from the problems that can plague any of us, from drug and alcohol problems to losing someone you loved to a best friend. There is lots to laugh at here, but has a nice dramatic side when needed. This was Steve's first movie from the directors side; When you couple that with his acting here, you can't say he didn't do everthing right here. Plus I never thought in my wildest dreams I'd ever see his mug driving an ice cream truck.

5 out of 5 stars Buscemi directs with a sure hand..........2006-08-21

What a pleasant surprise this flick turned out to be. Always liked Buscemi's work as an actor, but had no idea he could direct...until I saw this film.

It's easy to relate to what this character goes through in this movie. Who hasn't been in a rut? Who hasn't felt this way?
You know you'd like to shake the Blues, get your life back on track...be happy about something, find meaning in your existance somehow...

I liked this quiet tale told in a relatively low-key way. Real nice.

5 out of 5 stars Buscemi as Bukowski.......2006-03-05

A convincing portrait of the drinking life. If you ever had a bar period in your life, you'll recognize the people and events in this movie. Steve Buscemi should be writing and directing more movies. The cast is perfect, too. I haven't seen Barfly, but this movie is dead on. It's like a Bukowski novel without the gross-outs. In short, it has a heart.

5 out of 5 stars I was Tommy.......2005-11-17

Man, what a great movie; very well done. This is funny, sad, dark, and real. Steve Buscemi (who also wrote, & produced) gives his best performance, & that's saying plenty. This movie's been reviewed well, and the story is about a guy, and the people in his life that you'll see in every town. Alcoholism is no joke, and the existance that some folks end up living in is a darkness that few understand. People don't grow up saying "I'm gonna be an alcoholic some day", but when you're in "the pit", this is what it looks like. I lived in a very similar state, and existance, and this movie struck a very special chord for me. You won't find the storyline focusing on recovery, it strictly shows you a guy after he's crossed the line, so to speak. The characters in Tommy's life a so realistic that I'd swear I'd met them before. It's not a typical "Hollywood" movie like "Clean & Sober"; this is where the lost, and the sick end up before death, or recovery.
Stranger Than Paradise [Region 2]
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • bored
  • WELCOME TO AMERICA ONLY IT GETS MUCH MUCH WORSE
  • How Strange That Anyone Could Endure It
  • stranger than anything
  • The Real World
Stranger Than Paradise [Region 2]
Starring: John Lurie , Eszter Balint , Richard Edson , Cecillia Stark , and Danny Rosen
Director: Jim Jarmusch
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00005M04T

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars bored.......2007-03-18

i ain't no philistine. subtlties were lost on me. check out "down by law."
that movie is a straight up 100 percent masterpiece and succeeds in every aspect that i feel this film failed in.

5 out of 5 stars WELCOME TO AMERICA ONLY IT GETS MUCH MUCH WORSE.......2006-10-14

Road film for the eighties: From Bing and Bob in the forties to Dennis and Peter in the sixties and now this in the eighties. Welcome to America. Where is the wonder? Where is the song?

This movie is the best representation of where we have come from and of where we went wrong. Where is that American Dream?

Please see this movie deeply. Let it take time. Watch Mystery Train and Ghost Dog too. You will see what there is to see and what is only whispered.

Why movies? This is why. Watch.
Nuff sed.

After this film grab a real human being by the hand and hold on tightly.
Or get a small cool old school black hat full of no hope and squeeze in.

This film comes real cheap.

You'll never see the inside of a hotel room the same way again.

This is what My Name's Earl WANTS TO BE BUT NEVER WILL DARE TO BE.

Turn this on instead and tune in.

Throw this frisbee no further than your DVD box, but deeper than your deepest understanding.

1 out of 5 stars How Strange That Anyone Could Endure It.......2006-06-13

The most astonishing thing about this film - stranger than paradise or hell could ever be - is that anyone let Jarmusch make another film after it wrapped. (That it won Best First Feature at Cannes in 1984 shakes one's faith in a rational universe.)

STP easily ranks as one of the worst movies ever made, it is so vapid and purposeless that at times one almost senses that the characters on screen are looking straight into the camera as if to say, "Please, please give us something to do, we just can't take another minute of this torture!"

Watching Stranger Than Paradise one feels compelled to laugh as the realization hits - Jarmusch wants this movie to be boring, slow, vacant, tedious, and gloomy, in short - lacking any quality that might be considered redemptive. He has a terribly clever, art-house idea; he wants to recreate the bleak existentialism of Samuel Beckett and J.P. Sartre on film, painting meaninglessness and pointlessness in broad strokes, black and white, hollow lives played out in the absence of hope, value, or passion.

What Jarmusch has missed, however, is that these writers portrayed their philosophical viewpoint in endlessly fascinating ways, masterfully crafting characters and situations. A boring, idiotic movie doesn't become interesting or consequential just because you say, after the fact, "I intended to make a boring and idiotic movie." That the art-house crowd fell for Stranger Than Paradise only shows that painfully chic intellectuals with delusions of hippitudinousness are more easily deceived than children - children can spot a naked emperor.

While it's hard to criticize a man who's worked Screamin' Jay Hawkins into two of his movies, (Mystery Train), good taste in music in not nearly enough to absolve Jarmusch. Repeated viewings will cause you to be dumbstruck with wonder over and over as you wrestle with the idea that Stranger Than Paradise is as bad as it is on purpose. Deep as a Frisbee, and with luck, you might be able to fling it as far.

5 out of 5 stars stranger than anything.......2005-12-08

A Hungarian girl goes to visit her cousin who lives in the ugliest apartment in the ugliest part of New York City; then the cousin and his best friend go to visit the Hungarian girl who now lives in the ugliest house in the ugliest part of Cleveland; then all three of them take a road trip and end up at the ugliest hotel in the ugliest part of Florida. Along the way nothing happens, and then it happens again. A great film, and an important one too, that I thoroughly enjoyed watching.

5 out of 5 stars The Real World.......2005-07-21

The real world "Gone With the Wind" & made for a few bucks. All about stuff in the heart that can't go anywhere. Willie & Eddie are the line & Eva is the light. And it's funny! Once again, let's savor Eddie's moment: This time, Eddie knows something that Willie doesn't. Willie & Eddie open a beer & Eddie gets his 15 seconds.
New York Beat Movie
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • An Oddity
  • Hard to watch...
  • It was Ok i think
  • Got. To. BE. Kidding.
  • a bunch of artists glorifying their scene--as they well should.
New York Beat Movie
Starring: Tomas Doncker , Ikue Mori , Maripol , Giorgio Gomelsky , and Bobby Grossman
Director: Edo Bertoglio
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00007JGJA

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars An Oddity.......2007-03-21

I thought the movie was disjointed, it lacked subject matter. Very odd.

1 out of 5 stars Hard to watch..........2006-07-10

I am also a fan of Basquiat and of Schnabel's movie.

I loved watching the taped interviews of Basquiat available at MOCA-LA during the last Basquiat exhibiit. (I believe they're available on YOU-TUBE now.)

I found "Downtown 81" extremely painful to watch as I felt Basquiat was being exploited by this film maker. For me, he was "produced and directed" and painfully not himself.

2 out of 5 stars It was Ok i think.......2006-03-14

pretty raw outlook in the life of Basquiat
I'm an avid fan so i have no regrets having this.

1 out of 5 stars Got. To. BE. Kidding........2005-09-28

OK, Basquiat, at age 19- see the actual person. PERIOD(so wonderfully played by Wright in movie "Basquiat")What a major trainwreck of film this is.Should have stayed where it was buried. Sorry, won't waste my time to list all the many, very many reasons, already wasted my money.

4 out of 5 stars a bunch of artists glorifying their scene--as they well should........2005-08-27

If you're expecting a documentary of Basquiat, you will be sorely dissapointed. If you're expecting a movie qua movie, you'll be less dissapointed, but not as much. Downtown 81 is at the very least an art film that happens to feature Basquiat, as well as the "stars" of nyc circa '79. If you have never seen films of this type you are in for a ride. Apropos of this genre, Downtown 81 is ostensibly low budget, quirky, but most of all, historical. Historical not in the sense that it is an important film, but rather historical as a document. Not since Mondo New York have i encountered a film that captures so well the feeling, mood, vibe, and color of this so very interesting period in both the underground of New York, but also the art scene. I would even add that it gives one a glimpse of life in general in what the description on the reverse of the package calls "pre-Giuliani New York"; a very different Manhatten than what we all might expect.

As both a fan of Basquiat and of Schnabel's movie, I would assume the other fans of either or both will find this film quite entertaining. Otherwise, I recommend it for anyone interested in the 80's art scene, the early nyc punk/new wave scene, or those curious about the underbelly of the nyc of this period.

Additionally, what makes this release so interesting and important are the extras, especially the segment from an early cable tv show featuring Basquiat during the SAMO years.

All in all, not a bad bang for the buck, as well as a great addition to any cd collection of one whose curiosity has been piqued by this particular time.
Linguini Incident
Average customer rating: Not rated
    Linguini Incident
    Starring: Rosanna Arquette , David Bowie , Eszter Balint , Andre Gregory , and Buck Henry
    Director: Richard Shepard
    Manufacturer: Academy Home Entertainment
    ProductGroup: Video
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    ASIN: 6302889278
    Release Date: 1993-08-16

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    3. Eva Marie Saint
    4. Eve Arden
    5. Ewa Aulin
    6. Fairuza Balk
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    8. Famke Janssen
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