Quiet City details
| Format: | TBC DVD |
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| Starring: | Erin Fisher, Cris Lankenau, Sarah Hellman, Joe Swanberg, Tucker Stone, Liz Bender, Karrie Crouse, Keegan DeWitt, Daryl Nuhn, Michael Tully |
| Director: | Aaron Katz |
| Genre: | Drama - General |
| Studio: | ICA Cinemas |
| Name | Discs | |
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Quiet City |
TBC Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 18 minutes |
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| Rental release: | Not currently released |
| Main languages: | English |
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Zero stars for zero content.
By JohnnyX (100 reviews) from Bristol , 21 Aug 2008[Highly rated reviewer]
This film is about an uneventful day in the life of two aimless people who accidently meet in a New York underground station.
It is a typical mumblecore film, which is a movement much like punk rock - no skill, cheap, all hype and no merit. I fervently hope that this emerging idiosyncratic genre fizzles out as quickly as it has appeared.
As well as the lack of content, there is also a total lack or only minimal presence of any of the various elements which one looks for in a film. This includes an unsure improvised dialogue i.e. no script; undirected acting, which is often wooden or inappropiate; a minmal soudtrack; poor camerawork, interspersed with a few beautiful photographs; and no pacing or any real direction.
Perhaps real life is also like this, but so what. This film is an answer to a question which no-one has ever asked, or the solution to a problem which doesn't exist.
Real life should be lived, not filmed and watched. What I look for in a film, or in any work of art, is something which I cannot get from real life, or, at least, a perspective on real life which I don't usually notice or appreciate.
This is the film equivalent of TV soap operas, and exploits the same kind of audience. The medium of film and cinema was never meant to be used in this way; it was always meant to be a medium which transmits significant events, not the uninteresting trivia of everyday life.
Compared to poetry, this is thirty pages of blank verse; that is, thirty pages which are completely empty. It is not poetry, it is not a film, it isn't really anything at all.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(1)Zero stars for zero content.
By JohnnyX (100 reviews) from Bristol , 21 Aug 2008This film is about an uneventful day in the life of two aimless people who accidently meet in a New York underground station.
It is a typical mumblecore film, which is a movement much like punk rock - no skill, cheap, all hype and no merit. I fervently hope that this emerging idiosyncratic genre fizzles out as quickly as it has appeared.
As well as the lack of content, there is also a total lack or only minimal presence of any of the various elements which one looks for in a film. This includes an unsure improvised dialogue i.e. no script; undirected acting, which is often wooden or inappropiate; a minmal soudtrack; poor camerawork, interspersed with a few beautiful photographs; and no pacing or any real direction.
Perhaps real life is also like this, but so what. This film is an answer to a question which no-one has ever asked, or the solution to a problem which doesn't exist.
Real life should be lived, not filmed and watched. What I look for in a film, or in any work of art, is something which I cannot get from real life, or, at least, a perspective on real life which I don't usually notice or appreciate.
This is the film equivalent of TV soap operas, and exploits the same kind of audience. The medium of film and cinema was never meant to be used in this way; it was always meant to be a medium which transmits significant events, not the uninteresting trivia of everyday life.
Compared to poetry, this is thirty pages of blank verse; that is, thirty pages which are completely empty. It is not poetry, it is not a film, it isn't really anything at all.- Was this review helpful to you?
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