The
Billy Nayer Show
Thursday
17 November 2006
Also
showing the full length movie "The American
Astronaut"
About The
American Astronaut:
Words
may not do this film justice – Film Threat
Nothing short of phenomenal! – New York Times
A tale that
evokes Brecht, Beckett, and Ed Wood – New York Times
Part western,
part musical, part Kubrick, part Godard, very strange and
very free – Newsday
Has all the
makings of a cult classic – Details
Arguably one
of the most original American films of the past twenty
years -- Boxoffice
Magazine
Inventive!
Plays like a dreamy fusion of David Lynch's Eraserhead and
Sam Shepard's
The Tooth of Crime. -- Chicago Tribune
The film is
filled with psychotic Astaire-style musical sequences,
Three Stooges-esque
humor, slimy nightmare imagery, and hilarious Flash
Gordon-inspired space scenes. – The New Yorker
Something
virtually unique in American independent film – Filmmaker
Magazine
Imagine a
long Laurel & Hardy skit directed by Salvador Dali –
Entertainment
Weekly
Homegrown
American surrealism. – LA Weekly
A true
independent -- Los Angeles Times
Brings forth
new ideas to the world of film – eFilmCritic
An
astonishing joy ride through the outer reaches of the id –
Washington Post
A beautifully
crafted black and white fairy tale with a decidedly John
Ford feel. --IFC
Rant
Do I go as
far as to call this brilliant? Yes, I think I do – Digitally
Obsessed
The only
thing you can truly be sure of by the end of Cory McAbee's
retro-chic futuristic space western-film noir-rock opera is
that knowledge
is worthless. -- San Francisco Bay Guardian
May be the
most wonderfully strange film experience you have this year
– Elle
Magazine
Both
irreverent and emotive; at once laugh-out-loud funny and
also quietly
disturbing – Sci-Fi London
An unforgettable, irresistible stylistic hybrid that's part
space opera,
part western, part noir thriller and all hyperintelligent
comedy – Orlando
Weekly
Surreal,
gritty and nutso all at once. – Hollywood Reporter
It is a film
in equal measure funny, strange, dark and beautiful. –
Leeds Guide
(UK)
The whole
movie, including the music, is infused with an odd mix of
working-class
sensibilities and intellectual irony. – Movie Habit
One of the
most novel, outrageous and magnificent movies ever made – DVD
Talk
…juvenilia
elevated to critical theory and high art, heady and delirious
with passion and the freedom to stretch – Film Freak
Central
A cross
between Eraserhead and Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang – Movie
Magazine
International
extraordinary
in its humility, exuberance, and eccentricity… it is
also a graceful
and entertaining film -- CinEncanto
…as
reminiscent of Fritz Lang silents as of Flash Gordon serials
– San
Francisco Chronicle
…hugely
imaginative, genuinely weird -- San Francisco Examiner
Not to be
missed, The American Astronaut is like eating a Rice Krispies
treat laced with a hallucinogenic – Sundance Film
Festival
…arch and
serenely ridiculous – Village Voice
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