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Clifton Childree
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Clifton Childree
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: Not Rated
: Independent
: 90 min.
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A mechanical man within an elaborate shooting gallery at a victorian carnival lives beyond his monotonous existence. He falls in love with a broken down ride, The Wooden Embalmer, his only view outside his window. The viewer observes him, an afflicted beekeeper, having increasingly human experiences as his role in the shooting gallery and his dreamy hallucinations vacillate until they are almost indistinguishable.
GreenCine says: Fans of Guy Maddin and David Lynch - and the Brothers Quay for that matter - will want to take a look at The Flew. Full of surreal, freakshow atmosphere and creepy organ music, Clifton Childree's likeably odd and entirely original feature, shot by and starring himself, plays like a silent film, shot in black-and-white and sans dialogue. "Childree frames The Flew with a stylish visual sense that suggests a mix of deteriorating silent movie footage and sinister shadowplay that would make Val Lewton proud," wrote Phil Hall in Film Threat. "It is a great looking film, to be certain, and it presents a strong argument for making movies in monochrome."
"Cinematically stunning," adds Lawrence Raffel at Monsters at Play. "It's no Eraserhead, but it's pretty damn close, and I can honestly say without a doubt that Childree is destined to move onto bigger and better things - mark my words." And now you can judge for yourself by watching The Flew via GreenCine's constantly expanding Video-on-Demand service. (For more information on The Flew, check out the film's web site.)
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| David Lynch should sue!
by GGoodsell
June 13, 2006 - 6:45 AM PDT
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2 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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| This is the most derivative crap I've ever seen! THE FLEW merely mimics David Lynch's ERASERHEAD from top to bottom. Take a look at all these elements: creepy organ music, a messy, swathed infant who the hero kills, weird bits of organic art direction, even a vision of the afterlife lifted from Lynch! Rent the real thing instead! |
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