Mala Noche
With its low budget and lush black-and-white imagery, Gus Van Sant's debut feature Mala Noche heralded an idiosyncratic, provocative new voice in American independent film. Set in Van Sant's hometown of Portland, Oregon, the film evokes a world of transient workers, dead-end day-shifters, and bars and seedy apartments bathed in a profound nighttime, as it follows a romantic deadbeat with a wayward crush on a handsome Mexican immigrant. Mala Noche was an important prelude to the New Queer Cinema of the nineties and is a fascinating capsule from a time and place that continues to haunt its director's work.
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Gus Van Sant
- New interview with Van Sant
- Walt Curtis, the Peckerneck Poet: a documentary about the author of the book Mala Noche, directed by animator and friend Bill Plympton
- Storyboard gallery
- Original trailer edited by Van Sant
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: A new essay by film critic Dennis Lim
New cover by Steve Chow
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Gus Van Sant
- New interview with Van Sant
- Walt Curtis, the Peckerneck Poet: a documentary about the author of the book Mala Noche, directed by animator and friend Bill Plympton
- Storyboard gallery
- Original trailer edited by Van Sant
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: A new essay by film critic Dennis Lim
New cover by Steve Chow
Cast
- Tim Streeter
- Walt
- Doug Cooeyate
- Johnny
- Ray Monge
- Roberto "Pepper"
- Nyla McCarthy
- Betty, Walt's girl
- Sam Downey
- Hotel clerk
- Bob Pitchlynn
- Drunk man
- Eric Pedersen
- Policeman
- Marty Christiansen
- Bar friend
- Bad George Connor
- Featured wino
- Don Chambers
- Himself
- Walt Curtis
- George
Credits
- Director
- Gus Van Sant
- Producer
- Gus Van Sant
- Screenplay
- Gus Van Sant
- Cinematography
- John Campbell
- Sound
- Pat Baum
- Music
- Creighton Lindsay
- Additional photography
- Eric Alan Edwards
- From the book by
- Walt Curtis
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