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The Decay of Fiction (2006)
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Reviews Counted:7
Fresh:6
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.4/10
Theatrical Release:Sep 22, 2006 Limited
Reviews for The Decay of Fiction
If there were more experimental films as entertaining as The Decay of Fiction, Pat O'Neill's luminous Hollywood ghost story, the notion of a thriving avant-garde cinema might not be so intimidating to the moviegoing public.
Avant-garde filmmaker Pat O'Neill's haunting ode to pulp fiction and the now-vanished Ambassador Hotel is steeped in decaying Los Angeles glamour and the ghosts of noir thrillers past.
The Decay of Fiction is an acid trip of a movie about a piece of Los Angeles history that exists no more: the Ambassador Hotel.
The film's superimpositions, movie-dialogue samples, and audio-visual burps collectively suggest an acid trip.
Eight years in the making, this haunting and highly watchable 35-millimeter experimental feature by Pat O'Neill is partly a color documentary on the ruins of Hollywood's Ambassador Hotel and partly a speculative patchwork of its decaying 'fictions'.
Neither fact nor fiction, but some strange realm between ... a marvelous premise for a short film - but as a nearly feature-length exhibit it all begins to feel like a grueling exercise
The fullest expression of [O'Neill's] career on the periphery of the dream-factory assembly line.
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