Loren Cass
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Loren Cass - a Chris Fuller film
Female
102 years old
SAINT PETERSBURG, Florida
United States
Last Login: 12/14/2009
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Loren Cass's Film Bio
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| Website | LorenCass.com | | Directors | Chris Fuller | | Awards | IFP Gotham Award "Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You" (nominated)
Starz Denver Emerging Filmmaker Award (nominated)
EntreVues Film Festival One+One Music Award (winner)
Locarno Golden Leopard (nominated)
CineVegas Grand Jury Prize (nominated) | | Festivals | Cineesquemanovo
Indie Mostra de Cinema Mundial
Sarajevo Film Festival
Titanic Budapest Film Festival
Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporaneo de la Ciudad de Mexico
Entrevues Festival du Film Belfort
Gijon International Film Festival
Starz Denver International Film Festival
Ljubljana International Film Festival
Vienna International Film Festival
Helsinki International Film Festival
Locarno International Film Festival
CineVegas Film Festival
Bradford International Film Festival (UK)
Hudson Valley Film & Video Festival
Atlanta Underground Film Festival | | Professional Affiliations | Jonesing Pictures, Inc. |
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Loren Cass's Interests
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| General | Film | | Music | Don Caballero, Hayden, Stiff Little Fingers, Husker Du, Propagandhi, Billy Bragg, Choking Victim, Circle Jerks, Black Flag, The Dwarves, DJ Shadow, Dillinger Four, Jawbreaker, Leftover Crack | | Movies | Trans, Slacker, Suburbia, Gummo, The Hawk Is Dying, Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, Taxi Driver, Downtown 81, Repo Man, Sid and Nancy, The 400 Blows, Jules and Jim, A Clockwork Orange | | Books | The Catcher in the Rye, On the Road, 1984 |
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Loren Cass's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Hometown: | St. Petersburg, Florida | | Zodiac Sign: | Libra | | Smoke / Drink: | Yes / Yes |
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Total Plays: 8788 |
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THE FILM
A “starkly radical film debut of uncommon power and artistic principle,” Chris Fuller’s "Loren Cass" is a vivid tale of troubled youth that “makes even Larry Clark ("Kids") look tame by comparison” (Variety).
Utilizing a small cast of unknowns (including writer/director Fuller, under the name “Lewis Brogan”), acutely detailed 16mm photography, and “extraordinary sound work” (The New York Times) that mixes disembodied voices ranging from Charles Bukowski to French poet Robert Desnos with graphic news footage of the American Dream turned nightmare, "Loren Cass" conjures an authentic and menacing emotional landscape shared by three young people in contemporary suburban Florida. Though scripted by Fuller in the aftermath of the 1996 St. Petersburg riots when he was just 15 years old, this “lyrical portrait of angry, disaffected teens” (Village Voice) evokes the unquenchable need, psychic pain and seething rage of disenfranchised youth from any era. Jason (Travis Maynard), a pierced and inked skinhead, takes impulsive and self destructive chances with everyone and everything around him, while his garage mechanic friend Cale (Fuller) embarks on a fleeting, benumbed romance with Nicole (Kayla Tabish), a promiscuous diner waitress.
“A tour de force of mood and milieu” (The New York Times), Jason, Cale, and Nicole’s coolly hypnotic, realistic journey to nowhere reveals the bruised young underbelly of a new American century.
Official Website: http://www.LorenCass.com
REVIEWS
"...one of the best and boldest films of the year...remarkable. Some people keep diaries to deal with trauma. Others make art. A select few start careers of singular, exquisite promise."
-Nathan Lee, NY Times
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"A starkly radical film debut of uncommon power and artistic principle, Chris Fuller's Loren Cass announces a genuinely original filmmaking talent who literally pulls no punches in his depiction of teen angst and racial warfare on the streets of 1997 St. Petersburg, Fla. Suffused with pessimism and an overarching sense of the loneliness of modern American life, the pic affirms a vital alternative to the usual adolescent drama, making even Larry Clark look tame by comparison. Sure to be deemed commercially toxic, the pic deserves a brave distrib that knows how to work the angles. Major fest berths are a lock."
-Robert Koehler, Variety
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"Loren Cass is one of the most radical, most courageous and most impressive films of the year."
-FM4 (Austria)
"Quite an achievement for a first-timer behind the camera, self-taught about cinema through public library collections and the kind of self-made-man confidence only raw talent can exude."
-Steve Persall, The St. Petersburg Times
"Set against the backdrop of racial unrest in 1996 St. Petersburg, Florida, Fuller's striking debut feature presents a trio of disaffected, angry, and frequently bored teens who yearn for change but mostly just drift and hook up in lonely diners and nocturnal parking lots in this 'dirty, dirty town by a dirty, dirty sea.' Precisely shot and sound-designed, Loren Cass fully evokes a state of aimless frustration and barely suppressed rage that extends its relevance far beyond its particular period setting."
-Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
“Chris Fuller’s debut film, Loren Cass, is a dark portrait of St. Pete youth set in one of the city’s bleakest times, the period following the ’96 riots. The film chronicles the coming of age of three St. Petersburg adolescents, their lives tied to the cycle of violence, suicide and destruction that surround the city post-rebellions. Cale (Lewis Brogan) and Jason (Travis Maynard) drive the streets while Nicole (Kayla Tabish) keeps falling for the wrong men. On a chance encounter, Cale meets Nicole at his job, starting a fruitless relationship, while Jason spirals more out of control. Although Fuller has no formal training in filmmaking, Loren Cass is hardly sophomoric; it has the persuasive acting, stellar soundtrack and quality look of a studio production.”
-Alex Pickett, The Weekly Planet
"Aggressively rough-edged and in-your-face chronicle of disaffected youth in St. Petersburg, a coastal Florida city perhaps best known for being the place where Jack Kerouac died in 1969. Just under three decades later, the area was the site of race riots which made national headlines; Loren Cass is set in the immediate aftermath of these events, pungently evoking a volatile environment where violence is seldom far away. Amid this downbeat moodiness, writer-director Fuller (who also pseudonymously stars) inserts a lightly-sketched, laconic, nocturnal romance which is all the more convincing for being so casual and unforced. Dialogue is sparse and terse, while the 'plot' is a jagged, fragmentary, episodic affair which "samples" various 'found' audio and visual material (including a spectacularly messy real-life suicide, captured on live TV). Fuller's stylish technique occasionally gets out of hand, resulting in some moments of affectation here and there - but this is an impressively surly and uncompromised debut from a confident, promising young filmmaker."
-Neil Young, UK film critic (rating 7/10)
“A moody portrait of St. Petersburg during a defining era in the city’s history. Call it ‘sunshine noir’, perhaps. A mature film, very interesting.”
-Jon Wilson, The St. Petersburg Times
“Totally fresh and original. Reminded me of the first time I saw Nina Menkes’ film The Bloody Child. Awesome work.”
-Julian Goldberger, director of Trans and The Hawk is Dying
“A strong sense of place, a dreamlike pace and feel. Really captures the dark side of Florida. It almost seems as though the viewer is visiting the lives of the characters in a dream rather than following a plot in the traditional sense. We are examining them in their own stillness and subconscious entrapment. This movie is different. Different is very good.”
-Jesse Michaels, front-man for punk rock legends Operation Ivy
“Very raw and very real…disturbing.”
-Mike Vallely, professional skateboarder
"Brilliant!"
-Ronna B. Wallace, executive producer of Reservoir Dogs and Bad Lieutenant
"The most nihilistic movie I've ever seen."
-Robert Hawk, producer of Chasing Amy and The Slaughter Rule
"The most dangerous film in America."
-Hudson Valley Film & Video Festival
TECHNICAL DETAILS
Running Time: 83 minutes
Film Format: Super 16mm
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Language: English
Country: USA
Production Company: Jonesing Pictures, Inc.
Copyright Holder: Kino International
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