Friday, June 06, 2008

TIME OUT NYC highlights Between Something and Nothing!

Between Something & Nothing
Wednesday 11, 8pm
Dir. Todd Verow (2008, 105 mins)
New Queer Cinema veteran Verow (Frisk, Vacationland) used his experiences at Rhode Island School of Design to inspire this fictional cautionary tale about a wide-eyed art student named Joe (the square-jawed Tim Swain) who is seduced into the fast lane by a hard-partying classmate (Julia Frey) and into selling his body by an aloof hustler (Gil Bar-Sela). Joe’s descent is framed by Hartleyesque deadpan deliveries from the leads, but Verow leaves a small window open for comedy—mostly at the expense of his alma mater’s pompous art professors. TIME OUT NYC