If ever a film justified its inclusion in the Fantastic Fest lineup, it's Beyond the Black Rainbow, written and directed by Panos Cosmatos. The film is, in a word, fantastic, both as defined in the dictionary ("imaginative or fanciful; remote from reality") and as a cinematic experience that may best be considered a psychedelic head trip. Saying that may conjure up images of drug-using hippies sitting stoned at late-night screenings of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. There is most certainly an element of free association in the visual compositions pieced together by Cosmatos, cinematographer Norm Li, production designer Bob Bottieri, editor Nicholas Shephard, special effects coordinator Brant McIllroy, and the rest of the crew. Yet...
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- 10/3/2011
- by Peter Martin
- Movies.com
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