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Wilson, Luke Wilson, Robert Musgrave, Lumi Cavazos, James Caan cin Robert Yeoman m Mark Mothersbaugh Anderson got financing for his first movie after he and Owen Wilson cobbled together a short featuring a couple of the eventual film’s key scenes as a taster, but despite charmed reviews Bottle Rocket disappeared without a trace at the box office. This was a shame, since this effervescent story of a group of slackers (including Owen Wilson and his brother Luke) who lamely hold up a bookstore and then hide out at a desert hotel hangs together just as well as Anderson’s subsequent features.
12 Live Flesh (Carne trémula) 1997, 103 min cast Francesca Neri, Javier Bardem, José Sancho, Angela Molina, Liberto Rabal cin Affonso Beato m Alberto Iglesias A rare novel adaptation (the original book was by Ruth Rendell), but one deeply transmogrified by its Madrid setting. Featuring nearly all heterosexual characters, this is in every sense Almodóvar’s straightest movie. Passionate Victor (Liberto Rabal) unjustly serves time in prison for shooting a cop, David (Javier Bardem), who later becomes a paraplegic sports star.
There are bravura shots of the Cinecittà-built set, and memorable moments from supports including Willem Dafoe, Cate Blanchett and a scene-stealing Bud Cort, but very little structure to hold the whole together. Roy Andersson Sweden, 1943– W hen Roy Andersson’s Songs From The Second Floor made a big splash at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000, many assumed it was his first film, THE ROUGH GUIDE TO FILM Songs From The Second Floor (Sånger från andra våningen) 2000, 98 min cast Lars Nordh, Stefan Larsson, Hanna Eriksson, Peter Roth, Klas Gösta Ollson, Lucio Vucino cin István Borbás, Jesper Klevenås m Benny Andersson A loose collection of sketches from the apocalypse in which spectral figures break into song on the subway, the dead come back to life and a magician accidentally saws into the body of a hapless volunteer.