Frownland: Freaks and Freaks - - Film+TV - Los Angeles - LA Weekly
The creepy intensity of Ronald Bronsteins debut feature
By Scott Foundas Wednesday, Apr 22 2009
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Ronald BronsteinJosh SafdieCarlos ReygadasDore MannSean Williams Like a signal flare rising above the streets of the Fairfax District, Frownland announces that underground cinema is alive and well and taking up residence — at least for the weekend — courtesy of Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theatre. That’s where the devil-may-care programmers have booked the debut feature by veteran New York film projectionist Ronald Bronstein for a belated commercial run (more than a year after it opened in Manhattan), and it’s difficult to imagine how this derelict, malformed brainchild of a movie would reach the masses otherwise. Even the most risk-taking of independent distributors, after all, tends to shy away from movies whose core audience would appear to consist of shut-ins, sadists and manic-depressives, and which are guaranteed to offend the remotely well-adjusted.
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