MALA NOCHE - DVD-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1986
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: With its low budget and lush black-and-white imagery, Gus Van Sant's debut feature, Mala Noche, heralded an idiosyncratic, provocative new voice in American independent film. Set in Van Sant's hometown of Portland, Oregon, the film evokes a world of transient workers, dead-end day-shifters, and bars and seedy apartments bathed in a profound nighttime, as it follows a romantic deadbeat with a wayward crush on a handsome Mexican immigrant. Mala Noche was an important prelude to the New Queer Cinema of the nineties and is a fascinating time capsule from an era that continues to haunt the director's work.
• Cast: Tim Streeter, Doug Cooeyate, Ray Monge, Nyla McCarthy, Sam Downey, Robert Lee Pitchlynn, Eric Pedersen, Marty Christiansen, George Conner, Don Chambers, Walt Curtis, Kenny Presler, Conde Benavides, Cristo Stoyos, Matt Cooeyate, Dieter Reshhe, Frank Euward, Maruja Muñoz, Arturo Torres, Gus Van Sant
• Director: Gus Van Sant
• Runtime: 1:18
• Company: Janus Films, The Criterion Collection, Meno Film Co
• Media Format: Movie