A high school senior drives cross-country with his best friends to hook up with a babe he met online. He’s a man-child a 20-something homebody who works in a grocery store obsessively build models of 1967 Mercury Cougars has an unnatural attraction to his drugged-out sister and an unusual curiosity about a kid who may be his better looking doppelganger.
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He’s a virgin. Judging from his perilous outbursts he probably has a mental illness. Bipolar disorder comes to mind.The pressure to make sense of all this — and the dissolution of his parents’ marriage — drives “The Sentimental Engine Slayer ” which made its commercial movie theater debut Friday at Premiere Cinemas at Bassett Place after a summer run of film festivals in Europe Australia and the United States including New York’s Tribeca Film Festival and two sold-out shows at the Plaza Classic Film Festival last August.
It’s an odd but inspired bit of filmmaking from former El Pasoan Omar Rodriguez Lopez best known as the prolific guitarist and writer of psyched-out rockers the Mars Volta. Make no mistake. “Engine Slayer” is not a commercial film. There are no car chases shootouts or big-name stars. It’s a small low-budget film (supposedly financed in part by his parents who appear in it); one that comes from the heart.
The issues it raises including incest and other seual are unsettling. It’s also a little frustrating in its inability or unwillingness to delve deeper into them.But it’s also an impressive debut for the wildly imaginative southpaw guitarist whose prolific output rivals that of another music talent who’s dabbled in movies — Prince.
“Engine Slayer ” which was shot entirely in El Paso in the summer of 2007 (the Mesa Inn the Tap the mountains the star are all there) marks Rodriguez Lopez’s directorial debut. He wrote the script composed the music (which plays a key role) produced and stars as Barlam the dangerously mixed up kid trying to find his way through a world of noisy conflicts and anxious expectation.It’s a confusing world to be sure and “Engine Slayer” is an occasionally confusing movie probably because its creator is just learning the vocabulary of filmmaking.
The action centers around Barlam’s inexperience opening with Barlam’s uneasy and nearly fatal encounter with a hooker at the Mesa Inn. That sets the tone for this movie where you’re pulling for the guy yet can’t help but feel like he’s one bad experience away from doing something really wrong. A couple of well-meaning
friends — his beer-swilling womanizing boss Oscar (played by Nomar Rizo also known as Frontera Bugalu bassist Ramon Villa who also plays a pimp) and his sister’s dopey boyfriend Zack (Kim Stodel) — make the ill-advised move of hiring the hooker. His doped up sister (Tatiana Velazquez) is oblivious. Watch Drive Movie Online
Barlam has other misadventures including one with a transvestite (played by one of his real-life brothers) but you’re never sure what’s real and what’s fantasy. Which is the point. As if adolescence isn’t hard enough mental illness can blur lines the rest of us see and feel.
Rodriguez Lopez who has a natural boyish charm on screen (despite being in his 30s) illustrates this effectively not just visually but with his inventive use of sound. From the TV static in the hotel room to the white guitar noise in his head Rodriguez Lopez gets you right inside Barlam’s muddled brain. To View The Full HD : Free movies to watch online
Watch Drive Movie Online
He’s a virgin. Judging from his perilous outbursts he probably has a mental illness. Bipolar disorder comes to mind.The pressure to make sense of all this — and the dissolution of his parents’ marriage — drives “The Sentimental Engine Slayer ” which made its commercial movie theater debut Friday at Premiere Cinemas at Bassett Place after a summer run of film festivals in Europe Australia and the United States including New York’s Tribeca Film Festival and two sold-out shows at the Plaza Classic Film Festival last August.
It’s an odd but inspired bit of filmmaking from former El Pasoan Omar Rodriguez Lopez best known as the prolific guitarist and writer of psyched-out rockers the Mars Volta. Make no mistake. “Engine Slayer” is not a commercial film. There are no car chases shootouts or big-name stars. It’s a small low-budget film (supposedly financed in part by his parents who appear in it); one that comes from the heart.
The issues it raises including incest and other seual are unsettling. It’s also a little frustrating in its inability or unwillingness to delve deeper into them.But it’s also an impressive debut for the wildly imaginative southpaw guitarist whose prolific output rivals that of another music talent who’s dabbled in movies — Prince.
“Engine Slayer ” which was shot entirely in El Paso in the summer of 2007 (the Mesa Inn the Tap the mountains the star are all there) marks Rodriguez Lopez’s directorial debut. He wrote the script composed the music (which plays a key role) produced and stars as Barlam the dangerously mixed up kid trying to find his way through a world of noisy conflicts and anxious expectation.It’s a confusing world to be sure and “Engine Slayer” is an occasionally confusing movie probably because its creator is just learning the vocabulary of filmmaking.
The action centers around Barlam’s inexperience opening with Barlam’s uneasy and nearly fatal encounter with a hooker at the Mesa Inn. That sets the tone for this movie where you’re pulling for the guy yet can’t help but feel like he’s one bad experience away from doing something really wrong. A couple of well-meaning
friends — his beer-swilling womanizing boss Oscar (played by Nomar Rizo also known as Frontera Bugalu bassist Ramon Villa who also plays a pimp) and his sister’s dopey boyfriend Zack (Kim Stodel) — make the ill-advised move of hiring the hooker. His doped up sister (Tatiana Velazquez) is oblivious. Watch Drive Movie Online
Barlam has other misadventures including one with a transvestite (played by one of his real-life brothers) but you’re never sure what’s real and what’s fantasy. Which is the point. As if adolescence isn’t hard enough mental illness can blur lines the rest of us see and feel.
Rodriguez Lopez who has a natural boyish charm on screen (despite being in his 30s) illustrates this effectively not just visually but with his inventive use of sound. From the TV static in the hotel room to the white guitar noise in his head Rodriguez Lopez gets you right inside Barlam’s muddled brain. To View The Full HD : Free movies to watch online
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