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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781565804326
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1565804325
Label: Plum Pictures & Bns
Manufacturer: Plum Pictures & Bns
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Plum Pictures & Bns
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 22, 2005
Running Time: 91 minutes
Sales Rank: 49851
Studio: Plum Pictures & Bns
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Written, directed, and starring Cory McAbee of The Billy Nayer Show, this space western musical uses flinty black-and-white photography, rugged Lo-Fi sets and the spirit of the final frontier to bring the film, set in the dirty, isolated vastness of outer space, to life. The film also stars Rocco Sisto and Gregory Russell Cook. THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT follows the adventures of an interplanetary trader (McAbee) through his Homeric intergalactic journey to provide the all-female population of Venus with a suitable singular male, all the while being pursued by the cold-blooded and childish killer, Professor Hess (Sisto), an enigmatic figure from his past. The film features an original soundtrack by the The Billy Nayer Show.
Amazon.com:
Literally out-of-this-world, The American Astronaut is a post-Eraserhead, black-and-white comedy set on an asteroid that serves as an outpost for desperadoes, mad scientists, and paranoid travelers. Director Cory McAbee, frontman for the dynamic, experimental rock band the Billy Nayer Show, has constructed a seedy, surreal vision of conquered space that includes rocket ships operated by junkyard parts, barflies with a increasingly pathological sense of humor, and handguns that reduce people to a bucket's worth of sand. In this nightmarish, sometimes funny, sometimes tedious fantasy noir, a distressed astronaut (McAbee) agrees to swap a caged, embryonic female for a captive male on one planet and deliver the latter to the man-hungry (if peculiarly antebellum) women of Venus. The film doesn't necessarily hold up as a singular work, but there are several remarkable sequences, including a dance number in a scummy restroom and an unsettling comedy routine. Special features include an interesting interview with McAbee. --Tom Keogh
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
The American Astronaut played years ago at the Charles Theater in Baltimore, MD as part of a film festival. I remember seeing the poster and reading a small blurb about the film at the time which peaked my interest. I made a mental note to myself about seeing the film. Unfortunately, that mental note got buried somewhere in my brain and I forgot to go. Later I received an email from a friend telling me that the film was going to be shown again locally on the big screen to promote it's DVD release. ... Read More
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Music is great throughout, worth watching for that alone. The idea of cowboys in space goes back aways of course. I think it's presented very well. The low budget effects, the black and white photography seem appropriate to the theme rather than detracting from it. Lots of very dry humor. Dialog and acting come off very natural, whole thing seems well written. Good, old time serial type plot premise. The only disappointment for me is that the story isn't actually resolved. It simply stops (as ... Read More
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I'll just say if Orson Wells were alive and an indie rocker he would have made this movie. If you haven't seen it, you aren't a whole person yet. You'll understand that once you see this movie it is your civic duty to show everyone you know. One day, maybe, every man, woman, and child will have seen The American Astronaut.
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THIS IS MY FAVORITE MOVIE!!! It's so crazy because you never know what is going to happen next because it's in another reality on a different planet. But they still have super cool dirty dive bars even in space where things get REAL CRAZZZZY! Like this guy goes to the bathroom and these other two martians or something come in and start singing at him through the stall FOR NO #@%#!ing REASON. WTF-LOL!!? Absolutely incredible! It's like 2001 Space Odyssey on acid directed by David Lynch. Or Twin Peaks ... Read More
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Cory McAbee's movie is a fantastic voyage through weird-land. The story is very loose, essentially providing just enough glue to connect a series of musical set pieces. Every one of those pieces is completely hilarious, as well as being great music. Two early on in a bar (on the moon) are as wacky as anything I've ever seen; you'll know at that point whether you'll like this movie or not. If you have fairly broad musical tastes, and a hankerin for a different type of pure-entertainment movie experience, ... Read More
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