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The Decay of Fiction (2006)
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Reviews Counted:4
Fresh:4
Rotten:0
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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.
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.
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'.
The fullest expression of [O'Neill's] career on the periphery of the dream-factory assembly line.
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