Buffalo '66

Vincent Gallo has created a film that shows the stylized beauty his vision holds. Simple in its story, there's a nice blend of humor, sadness, anger and, most importantly, love. Christina Ricci is lovely and wonderfully cast as Layla, while Billy... Full review

The movie has a dark atmosphere but it's frightening how realistic it is. Great acting, and at the end you will see what the movie is actually about. One of the interesting things is that Miki Rourke is in the movie... Full review

Considering that Vincent Gallo made a film that i pretty much hated, THE BROWN BUNNY, It's reassuring that he still has made this great film. I really had a ball watching this one. From the opening sequence of him leaving... Full review

My all time top 5.It's a masterpiece, a true gem of a movie.Vincent Gallo Rocks.I seen it a dozen times with different people and never got bored.... Full review

Billy Brown (Vincent Gallo) has just gotten out of prison, he has a plan to kill Scott Woods (Bob Wahl). He walks into a dance studio where Layla (Christina Ricci) is practicing tap. He asks Ricci for a quarter to place... Full review

"Buffalo '66" is a different kind of low budget film. It is the kind of film that most high budget films should attempt to emulate!Tons of congratulations to Vincent Gallo. He wrote the story and screen play, directed the film,... Full review

This is the best movie i've ever seen...see it now! Masterpiece. Crazy crazy visuals. All Killer, no filler! Vincent Gallo is one of the best directors out there today. He shoots from the hip and takes no prisoners!... Full review

I rented this movie because I heard about it in the Howard Stern show. It is awesome. The characterization of Billy, his parents, and Layla is perfect. Dont miss this simple yet powerful movie.... Full review

the movie realy draged to much for me. the story was to down and grey, a surreal set up. the flash backs are real artistic. but other then that to much dragging. i would recomend brazil to anyone who likes this.... Full review

If you take the time to watch this movie you will lose 2 hrs of your life you'll never get back. Take a nap instead, cause once the movie rolls you'll be asleep anyway....... Full review

Gallo's obsessiveness with perfection translated on the set of Buffalo 66. It paid off, because the film ended up a commercial and critical success. His adolescence and early adulthood was entrenched in New York's frenetic underworld art scene. ... Full Review

The film describes only too well the paradox and struggle of the underdog/victim, yet retains all the humour and hope that propels us into a stimulating journey of innovative filmmaking. Buffalo 66 is striking, exciting cinema showcasing Gallo as a filmmaker, writer and actor to be reckoned with goddam, he even composed the music! ... Full Review

Roger Ebert proclaimed Gallo's "universally derided" film "the worst ever in competition. ... Full Review

Christina Ricci, looking appropriately bored and ready for a change, steals the film with her inscrutability while Gallo digs in and chews on the overwritten and oversentimentalized role he gave himself, seeming aware that he and the film would have looked better if he had made his victim do more talking while saying a lot less himself. ... Full Review

Alternately satirical and romantic, full of pain and humor, "Buffalo '66" is a winner. For Christina Ricci's Layla is not only beautiful, blond and bosomy, but intelligent and needy. ... Full Review

Movies about ex-convicts and their difficulty assimilating back into society generally begin with the prison release, during which the protagonist typically looks downright miserable. At first thought, I recall the opening of Vincent Gallo's Buffalo '66 , which ironically exaggerates... ... Full Article

On a continuous basis, Hollywood would rehash another romantic comedy to stimulate your lady's emotions and sucker you into a film you don't want to see. ... Full Article

Before the motor-mouthed Vincent Gallo delivered the Cannes-blasted Brown Bunny, a ponderous road-trip flick fuelled by 20 gallons of pure ego, he was Billy Brown in this freeform eye-opener, made in 1998. ... Full Article

BY ROGER EBERT / January 1, 2004 Cast & Credits Aileen: Charlize Theron Selby: Christina Ricci Thomas: Bruce Dern Horton: Scott Wilson Vincent Corey: Lee Tergesen Gene: Pruitt Taylor Vince Newmarket Films presents a film written and directed by Patty... ... Full Article

THE PUBLICISTS for "Buffalo '66" describe the movie as a "hybrid of kitchen-sink reality and fairy-tale romance."Oh boy, are they laboring under delusions.The category this actually falls under is Revenge Movie, subcategory: Cartoon. ... Full Article

Actor Vincent Gallo (The Funeral, Palookaville) made his feature directorial debut with this drama about convict Billy Brown (Gallo), released after half a decade spent behind bars. ... Full Article