Vincent Gallo

Vincent Gallo wrote Buffalo '66, which he directed, together with Alison Bagnall, and its cast holds Christina Ricci, Ben Gazzara and Mickey Rourke. On the film that came next, The Brown Bunny, he took on the writing, the directing, the editing, the cinematography, the costumes and the make-up himself. He told the story of a motorcycle racer travelling from New Hampshire to California in long takes and sharp lens flares, tying it to a rhythm that holds the loneliness of driving a long road, and the film was loudly booed at its 2003 Cannes premiere. As a performer he turned up in Claire Denis's Nenette et Boni, in Emir Kusturica's Arizona Dream, in Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro and in Abel Ferrara's The Funeral.