Mala Noche

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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 18 minutes
  • Video: Black & White / Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: October 23, 2007
  • Originally Released: 1985
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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Rating: 3/4 -- Even at the start of his career, Van Sant has always been an artist who has savored the bittersweet pleasure of sadness and pain.
Miami Herald
Sep 1, 2007
Rating: 4/5 -- A very well-made movie, terse and to the point, nicely photographed by John Campbell and written and directed by Mr. Van Sant with sardonic humor.
New York Times
Aug 31, 2004
The film is a study in infatuation and rejection, euphoria and frustration, and Van Sant observes their dance of desire and dismissal and wary coexistence without judgment. Full Review
Turner Classic Movies Online
Dec 13, 2007
Mala Noche is a study in infatuation and rejection, euphoria and frustration, and Van Sant observes their dance of desire and dismissal and wary coexistence without judgment. Full Review
Stream on Demand
Oct 6, 2017
Rating: 3/4 -- Of all Van Sant's movies, Mala Noche is the rawest, most personal, and least freighted. It's the one fans should see for the simplest inkling into Van Sant's complex artistic roots. Full Review
Boston Globe
Jun 15, 2007
Shot in high-contrast black and white and scored to gentle Tex-Mex acoustic ballads, this is an empathetic piercing movie...
Sight and Sound
Feb 1, 2008
4 stars out of 5 -- The gorgeous, dreamy misfits of Gus Van Sant's MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO could just as easily have sprung from his low-budget debut...
Total Film
May 1, 2008

Product Description:

Shot on a shoestring in 1985, this gently paced debut from Gus Van Sant (DRUGSTORE COWBOY) follows liquor-store cashier, Walt (Tim Streeter), in his one-sided affection for Johnny, a Mexican day laborer. Filmed in grainy black and white, MALA NOCHE (Spanish for "bad night") arranges itself into a series of poetic, and often heartbreaking, vignettes around Portland's skid row, as Walt pursues his reluctant obsession.

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  • Sales Rank: 87,715
  • UPC: 715515026123
  • Shipping Weight: 0.27/lbs (approx)
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