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Thursday, February 22, 2007
COCAINE ANGEL OPENS IN NYC 


If you're in NYC this week, check out Michael Tully's Cocaine Angel, which opened at the Pioneer for a weeklong run yesterday. Tully was one of our "25 New Faces" last year, and here's what Matthew Ross had to say about the film:

Filmmaker, musician, blogger and housepainter Michael Tully has been keeping himself busy the past year. It was only about 13 months ago that he and writer-star Damian Lahey finished tearing a festering little hole into the drug-addiction film subgenre with Cocaine Angel, a dime-bag-budgeted, grime-covered crawl through a Florida cokehead’s sunshineless state. With its claustrophobic apartments, torn carpets, drawn shades and teetering, visibly scarred supporting characters, the film looks like it wasn’t so much filmed in the Jacksonville drug culture as actually discovered there, stained into the floors, reeking like a week-old bender and oozing something nasty, so real was its grasp of place and aura.


And over at The Reeler, S.T. Van Airsdale has a good interview with Tully in which he discusses the film's long journey to the screen.


# posted by Scott Macaulay @ 2/22/2007 12:45:00 PM
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