''Venice Bound'' is a 1995
indie film by American
filmmaker James O'Brien. It details the lives of three mysterious, off-beat strangers who meet by chance in
Venice Beach and agree to pull a robbery. It was shot in color
Fujifilm with a
16mm
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Eclair camera in
Venice, California and
downtown Los Angeles
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in March 1994.
''Venice Bound'' premiered in 16mm at the
Directors Guild of America in
Hollywood
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* Hollywood, Los Angeles, a neighborhood in California
* Hollywood, a metonym for the cinema of the United States
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in 1995 and then later in
35mm at
the Orpheum in downtown LA. It made its international premiere at the 1995
Cannes Film Festival, where it was championed by
Mark Cousins, film critic and curator of the
Edinburgh Film Festival
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. Cousins selected it for official competition in the Rosebud category of his ’95 festival, opening the door to a
European festival run, including official competition in such festivals as the
Filmfest Hamburg,
Leeds International Film Festival, the National Festival for Wales (later the
Cardiff Film Festival
The Cardiff Film Festival (''Gŵyl Ffilm Caerdydd'' in Welsh) was an annual film festival that took place in Cardiff, Wales. It had previously been called the Cardiff Screen Festival.
Background
Commencing in 1989, it was originally held annua ...
) and
Italy's Mystfest.
''
Variety magazine'' called O’Brien a “talent in the raw” and said the film "keeps you glued to the screen.”
Robert Osborne of ''
The Hollywood Reporter'' did a story on the making of the film for his Rambling Reporter column, comparing the film to
Robert Rodriguez's ''
El Mariachi''.
Osborne, Robert. ''The Hollywood Reporter'' (1994)
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Plot
Cast
*Jackson Price as Spoon
*Gary Douglas Kohn as Seb
*Eric Kopatz as Linus
*Carl William Grant as Frank
*Tara Steilen as Amy
*Carol Dolan as Lynn
*Nina Ameri as Susan
*Stephen Bruno as Jimmy
Release
''Venice Bound'' was released theatrically in 1996–97, playing an extended run at the Aero Theatre
The Aero Theatre is a single-screen movie theater in Santa Monica, California, built in 1939 and opened in 1940.
History
Named in tribute to the aerospace industry, the Aero Theatre was built by aviation pioneer Donald W. Douglas of the Douglas A ...
in Santa Monica, and at the Laemmle Sunset 5 (now Sundance Sunset Cinemas). It also played on the east coast at the Cable Car Cinema in Providence, Rhode Island.
References
External links
*
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K51fQOff9Lk&t=636s
1995 films
Films shot in 16 mm film
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