Rhythm Thief
(Matthew Harrison,1994)
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Premio Sundance 1995: Mejor director
Datos Técnicos del Film
Duración: 88 min
Mezcla sonido: Mono
Color: Blanco y negro (Negative printed on Color stock)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33 : 1
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(Matthew Harrison,1994)
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Simon es un vendedor callejero, su tienda una esquina en el lower east side de Nueva York, su mercancía cintas de cassette piratas, el ambiente su "loro". Gorronea comida de
restaurantes, sobrevive a base de vodka y habichuelas, duerme en el suelo y cuida de un gato al que no quiere. Marty, que puede ser una antigua novia, le hace una visita. Nueva York en la calle,
desagradable y violenta.
Premio Sundance 1995: Mejor director
Dirección: Matthew Harrison.
Guión: Matthew Harrison, Christopher Grimm.
Fotografía: Howard Krupa.
Música: Danny Brenner, John L. Horn, Hugh O'Donovan, Kevin Okurland.
Producción Estadounidense.
Datos Técnicos del Film
Duración: 88 min
Mezcla sonido: Mono
Color: Blanco y negro (Negative printed on Color stock)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33 : 1
Rhythm Thief
(16mm -- B&W)
By Ken Eisner
A Film Crash (New York) production. Produced by Jonathan Starch. Directed, edited by Matthew Harrison. Screenplay, Harrison, Christopher Grimm.
With: Jason Andrews, Eddie Daniels, Kimberly Flynn, Kevin Corrigan, Sean Haggerty, Mark Alfred, Paul Rodriguez, Cynthia Sley.
No-budget New York item gets stronger as it moves confidently forward, weaving together the lives of some very desperate Lower East Siders before reaching a quietly devastating close.
You couldn't ask for a more marginal existence than that of Simon (impressive Jason Andrews), a tightly wound hustler who ekes out a living by sneakily recording underground bands and selling the
dubs. Mostly, he wants to be left alone in his virtually empty flat, although he's frequently pestered by sexy g.f. Cyd (Kimberly Flynn) who won't take the hint, admiring street dude Fuller (Kevin
Corrigan) who wants to be Simon's "prototype" and a pathetic junkie called Shayme (Sean Haggerty) who keeps crowding onto his corner. Then there are those leather-metal band members hot on his trail.
Much of the harsh-contrast black-and-white pic studies the emptiness of Simon's low-rent life, with his meditative bouts of eating peanut butter and ignoring the phone interrupted by the darkly funny
aggressions of his neighbors -- he spends a lot of time cleaning up plaster dust from overhead shotgun blasts.
This routine is seriously up-ended by the arrival of a strange young woman (Eddie Daniels) from his Long Island hometown. Turns out, she was in the same mental hospital as Simon's mother -- she
even has some of ma's poetry written on her arms -- and her presence releases long-suppressed feelings of abandonment. The pair heads out to Far Rockaway for a seaside respite, but Simon's
self-loathing and quirky code of honor drag him back to the city, with unhappy results.
Helmer Matthew Harrison shot the pic in 11 days, and it has appropriately slapdash energy without sacrificing the more layered rewards of a thoughtful script (although lenser Howard Krupa could let
his camera rest a little longer on grungily enigmatic subjects). The results are considerably tighter than such readily comparable, improv-heavy efforts as "Laws of Gravity" and "Amongst Friends."
All-pro cast helps, as does super-hip score, combining hip-hop, reggae and alternative tunes in a tension-building soundtrack. Pic's 16mm lensing will pose initial problems, but timely transfer could
bring "Rhythm" to selected urban auds.
Jason Andrews ... Simon
Eddie Daniels ... Marty
Kevin Corrigan ... Fuller
Kimberly Flynn ... Cyd
Sean Hagerty ... Shayme
Mark Alfred ... Mr. Bunch
Christopher Cooke ... Jules
Bob McGrath ... Rat-Boy
Alan Davidson ... Otis
Paul Rodriguez ... Eladio
Cynthia Sley ... Cynthia Sley
Chip English ... 1-900-Boxx
Steph Paynes ... 1-900-Boxx
Carla Olla ... 1-900-Boxx
Robin Levine ... Diane
A New York City music bootlegger rips off the wrong all-girl militant punk band who pursues him through NYC Lower East Side with violent consequences.
The downtown New York City street picture that started it all, RHYTHM THIEF is the original and best. A tough, uncompromising film, RHYTHM THIEF packs a punch. RHYTHM THIEF sparked
Martin Scorsese's interest in producing Matthew Harrison's KICKED IN THE HEAD
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Notas:Movies come into existence for any variety of reasons, but it is all too rare that one finds a movie that exists simply because it must. Rhythm Thief is that kind of movie, one that cárpès the
hell out of its diem. (Actually, according to the filmmakers, their diem was an 11-day shoot on a budget of $11,000. Given those numbers, let it be said that the movie lacks for nothing.) Harrison, who
received a special director's award at the 1995 Sundance festival and won the prize for best dramatic feature at the 1995 SXSW Film Festival, has crafted a film whose story and style are inextricably
linked. Rhythm Thief's clipped, edgy takes are well-suited to the disconnectedness of the film's characters. Their grimy, low-rent world of New York City's Lower East Side is in tune with the film's
16mm, black-and-white, bare-bones visual look. And the film's central character -- a bootlegger who sells his contraband music tapes on the street -- is in keeping with Rhythm Thief's go-for-broke
narrative strategies. At the heart of all this is a well-told story about urbanites at (spiritual) sea. The already compelling characters are further amplified by some superb performances. And the movie's
grit is matched by its humor. Toward the end (at the beach), the movie dabbles in a bit of gratuitous romanticism, which makes the story's finale seem more elegiac than fatalistic. Never mind,
though, Rhythm Thief's pulse beats steadily at a pure 24 frames per second.
~ Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Cronicle
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