Vincent Gallo: Classic or Dud?

Buffalo 66 soundtrack: RoXoR.

ergo, Vincent Gallo: RoXoR.

anyways, yes, great

heh i have just worked out that Vincent Gallo is the Brazillian footie team of film directors - most people unquestioningly accept that he's the best/coolest thing ever and lick his arse all the time DESPITE him not actually being all that great...

I know it's bonkers but apart from that the conversation level was great. He really knows his shit about art and managed to keep me entertained for a few hours.

Well, taht would explain "Brown Bunny" then, wouldn't it?

My theory is that people think this is cool because Gallo filmed the scenes so that the shots don't match up, like in the dinner-with-the-parents scene where one of the actors will disappear from one angle and reappear in the next, etc. I think this obvious stylistic ploy -- and Christina Ricci's cute tap dance -- distracted everyone from realizing that the movie sucks donkey genitalia.

yeah,.. just not sure

"Inspiration comes to Chic Chocolatier Katrina Markoff through many mediums...this inspiration came to her from an experience with art, or rather, an artist, Vincent Gallo.

If you have had the opportunity to see a Vincent Gallo film, to listen to his music or to see his art you would know his measure...

Though, how does one go about translating Vincent Gallo into a chocolate? An artist such as he is quite difficult to simplify into any one element or ingredient. With Gallo, it was sure to be a complex undertaking. The chocolate piece must be quite contradictory, a piece that may not be understood by all palates, as well it should not..."

apparently this translates to "savory Italian truffles, ......feature ingredients such as taleggio cheese and balsamic vinegar."

Because it's fucking hilarious. He is a total asshole, and he knows he is an asshole, and meanwhile he's a complete sissy at the same time. I heard so much angry crap about what a dick he was and what an obnoxious-cruel-sexist-boring-pretentious bucket of bile Buffalo 66 was for a year or so until I had to see for myself. Turns out it's the silliest thing ever; for all his anger etc. he can't land a blow to save his life, he's completely impotent underneath, almost cuddly, which he hates, as he's an asshole. I suspect specifically a send-up of the asshole Gallo in fact is. Of course all the scenes are too long and end with a whimper if at all. Of course he's acting like it's this big statement when there's nothing being said at all. How do you feel about, say, Andy Kaufman's wrestling stuff? Not the same thing, but in the vicinity ...

My theory is ...

Um, no.

I'm SO using this line next time I have to avoid writing actual criticism.

By the way, did you ever notice the smell of redheads?

I see your unedited copy all the time, Matos. Don't sell yourself short--you've been avoiding it for years.

Vincent Gallo - indie-rock trendsetter.

From Page 6:

VINCENT Gallo was reduced to using the motto of the D list - "Don't you know who I am?" - downtown one recent night. The "Brown Bunny" director had walked into Lower East Side hotspot Schiller's around 9 p.m. with a large posse of pals and demanded a table. "The maitre d' told him he'd have to wait an hour," said our spywitness, causing Gallo to "freak out" and start screaming, "Don't you know who I am?" They did not, so Gallo left.

so excited, brown bunny is awes

meh

a whole thread about vincent gallo and nothing about how you can buy his sperm for $1,000,000?

guy is beautiful in the way that only heartless charlatans and marauders can be:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2418/2265119711_08005b546c_m.jpg

him and terry richardson and dov charney should bro out

Not in the US video cut of Arizona Dream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyISGfzoBpg

He probably reeks of B.O.

When I see his face, I want to poke one of his eyes out. I believe he'd thank me, with time.

i've no doubt he's a five star asshole but a small part of me is in awe of dude

So much I could say here *biting tongue*. He does not smell.

c'mon!!

Maybe if it were a 77 thread but not here. :/

Maybe if it were a 77 thread but not here. :/

― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Friday, April 9, 2010 2:31 AM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark

ewwwwwww don't make me want 77 access

my gallo story is that an acquaintance of mine worked with Gallo on the DVD release of Brown Bunny. Apparently Gallo micromanaged every element and was really upset when they put an umlaut over Chloe Sevigny's name (he was adamant that the umlaut only appear on foreign editions and not the US edition).'

They also begged Gallo to let them use different cover art.

he's an amusing dipshit.

i found arizona dream insufferable, but the north by northwest bit is a lovely piece of performance art

he's an amusing dipshit.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, April 9, 2010 4:42 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

that's like his main career, acting and directing are side jobs.

apparently he's big in japan!

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/IMG_0222.jpg

him and terry richardson and dov charney should bro out

― fuck in rainbows, after it rains (dyao), Thursday, April 8, 2010 8:08 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is an amazing idea, but i have no idea if they should do it on a reality show or on a barge that gets sunk to the bottom of the ocean

has any ilxor seen the new film?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promises_Written_in_Water

Reviews are mixed which to me means it might be fantastic.

Gallo being Gallo:

"I would use his (Pete Red Sky´s) crew, his cameras and his actors to pretend to be making a movie, but then I would bring in my camera and sound men, and I would be filming something else...I´d call cut here and action there, then I´d do these improvs and film people while they were on set while they were waiting for the lighting or film rehersal, or film some of the sets they had made."

"There´s 100 hours of film, so the first criteria is to reduce that to 10 hours of what the most beautiful photography was - it could be landscapes, it could be the same take of the same scene, it didn´t matter - whatever I thought was the best 10% of footage. All of it looked pretty good, so when I reduced it to 10% we´re talking about phenomenal footage."

"So now I have 10 hours of film, and the next criteria or filter is that everything has to look good aestethically. So the first two phases are aestethic only, I have no idea after that. There´s sound, but I don´t want to hear it. Now the 10 hours go down to 5 hours. The next level is I turn up the sound - by the way, this movie has 10 minutes of no sound - and the I choose anything I think is 100% honest. I don´t mean documentary, I mean no performance - no acting. So now, I cut that down to 2,5 hours of film."

"3 months go by and I´m looking at these 2,5 hours of footage and I´m not thinking about it as a film whatsoever. So I look at it, and suddenly I realise what´s happening - I see a conflict, a metaphor, a story - not all of it is on the screen but I know what it is. I now know 100% what the film is about, at least to me, I see what the universe is reflecting here out of these 2,5 hours of footage. There´s this lesson and insight about life. And from that, I cut a 77 minute film."

all that work for a 77 invite

http://www.vincentgallo.com/classifieds/index.htm

dude has good taste in gear, i'll give him that

http://style.mtv.com/2011/08/10/vincent-gallo-g-star-raw/

Shirts made by Mr. Fish of London.
http://fashionfollower.com/sharpdressedmen/?p=133

"Mark Romanek, that dark, anal photo plagiarist and his useless penis, he’s a great example of a world gone wrong"

That's him at the beginning there, right? lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMIsIQPoE4&feature=related

yeah, prince vince. fresh.

The Brown Bunny is a minor masterpiece. obviously haven't seen the Cannes cut, and Ebert did give the 93 min version a "thumbs up," but his pan reminds me of his inexplicably ignorant pan of the similarly meditative and slow and full of car rides, Taste of Cherry.

kills me that Promises Written in Water (which is supposed to be amazing) will never be released.

i saw Brown Bunny the one year i went to the Toronto fest, complete w/ Q&A with him and Chloe.

(imho: it was a dildo)

Ebert's change of heart on the shorter cut always struck me as disingenuous, an attempt to retroactively give more credibility to his original pan, making a show of being wise and broadminded.

I always thought brown bunny was fine - not as bad as its detractors say but not nearly worth all the ink spilled about it over the years.

It’s definitely better than the similar Somewhere.

Does anyone remember in early twitter days when there was the fake Vincent Gallo on twitter who pranked him by tweeting about maple syrup all the time and asking people to show up to his concerts with syrup? Probably my favorite gallo-related project at this point tbh

I think that's probably true re: Ebert. Gallo also ran with it ("ADULTS ONLY" "RATED X" in all the trailers & that billboard in LA with a still of the final scene), short term benefit that definitely hurt his career in the long run. I mean he could've made more movies after 2004 if he wanted to but judging by his reaction seems like he just gave up. the whole Promises Written in Water thing is so dumb, just release the movie dude

(imho: it was a dildo)

it was absolutely a dildo

Was gonna say fuckin monster cock on that dude

no the whole performance is a dildo, they glued a beard on it

I remember liking Buffalo 66 at the time but in retrospect this guy peaked with Grafitti Rock and m/l just coasted on general assholishness ever since. I've heard more than one firsthand account of him being a complete douchebag in person.

there's also the two movies

watched the Safdie Bros' first feature (I think) Daddy Longlegs recently and the main guy (Ronald Bronstein) reminded me of a more benign Buffalo 66. Good movie, better than Buffalo 66.

sorry a more benign version of Gallo in B66

my friend sold a vintage guitar to him and the whole thing was a suitable assholish clusterfuck

lol darragh

I think he peaked with the Buffalo 66 trailer, the one with Yes on it.

Vincent Gallo was very nice to a starstruck 18yo me, which I really appreciated even tho his douchiness was a key part of his appeal

I am still awaiting a SOURCE for the rumor that it was a dildo!

What I heard was that Claire Denis claimed that some, er, props were mysteriously missing after filming Trouble Every Day with him

I booked a show featuring one of his bands once, which ended up being one of the worst & lamest live performances I’ve ever seen. He was such an asshole i almost felt bad for him.

xxp haven't seen Brown Bunny but I liked Somewhere

WTF

“And just like you would in real life, if this were happening to you, I want you to do all of the actions necessary to do that. You won’t actually suck my dick, but you do not have the power, I have all the power. You have no control, I am in complete control,” Gallo told the woman, according to the complaint.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/jan/11/vincent-gallo-accused-explicit-audition

Also do we really need a biopic of the Golden State Killer?

Gallo and Franco, together at last.