➤ ROARING 20S, from p.28
aging and generational turnover. Lowell Landes
looks like an elderly hippie, with white hair
past his shoulders, but he’s only 58. He gets
into several conversations about the awfulness
of boomers that sound more like Extremely
Online debates (albeit minus the snide nastiness)
than real talk. But the damage alcohol
has done to him isn’t faked. When he continues
drinking around 5 a.m. as the bar closes for
the last time, fi nally preparing to head home,
the fi lm does convey an image of a wasted life.
Stumblingly but movingly, he warns, “There is
nothing more boring than a guy who used to
do stuff that doesn’t do stuff anymore because
he’s in a bar.”
Where the hybrid fi lm once promised an exciting
experiment that questioned the boundaries
of both fi ction and documentary (Lincoln
Center’s “Art of the Real” series was designed to
showcase such work), it’s become a formula of
its own. Some utterly conventional documentaries
have shown their subjects having make-up
applied or had a camera fi lm the other camera
before going to the usual assembly line of interviews
edited with archival footage.
“Bloody Noses, Empty Pockets” tries to be
an immersive experience, making the audience
feel like we’re trapped in a bar with these
people for 100 minutes. It might work better in
a movie theater; for home viewing, it’s too easy
to escape (and to be reminded of our own sobriety.)
At worst, this feels like a ‘90s indie fi lm
reconfi gured to make it into “Art of the Real.”
One can’t escape the impression that the
Ross brothers experimented on their subjects
to create the effect they wanted. But they also
carefully drew non-professional actors from
real New Orleans barfl ies. The fi lm balances
astringency and sentimentality. Roaring 20s
is an independent business that’s going under
despite its devoted clientele. American life no
longer has room for the people depicted here. If
they were once romanticized as “beautiful losers,”
our current culture values fl exing about
how awesome and wealthy one is, and sees
nothing beautiful about being a loser. (In this
respect, the Las Vegas setting might be metaphorical.)
Still, “Bloody Noses, Empty Pockets” is fi lled
with a mood of prickly solidarity, and even a
utopian depiction of the bar as a cross-section
of America. The closing scenes, which consist
of stills from the shoot that include the Ross
brothers and their cameras, try to incorporate
the directors into this makeshift community.
This fi lm blurs the line productively between
creating and fi nding characters, but it doesn’t
have anything else to say about the effects of
mixing reality and fi ction.
“BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS” | Directed
by Bill and Turner Ross | Utopia | Film at
Lincoln Center Virtual Cinema | fi lmlinc.org
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