New in Theaters:
Road to Nowhere
Road to Nowhere
Filmmakers from Fellini to Ferrara who have centered their work around a director character have had the foresight to make the man (it’s always a man, of course) a fool. At best he’s a naïve dreamer, at worst he’s a destructive cretin. Either way, he’s utterly complicit in his own demise. It’s difficult to know exactly how seriously long-absent director Monte Hellman (Two-Lane Blacktop) is taking his somewhat ridiculous director character, Mitch Haven (Tygh Runyan), in this densely packed and deliberately obscure film. That uncertainty unfortunately also extends to the film itself, which skirts laughability more than once but also casts a certain kind of spell…
Road to Nowhere is playing now in limited release. You can read the full review at Film Journal International.
