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03/27/09
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
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Top CriticIf 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.
09/22/06
Top CriticAvant-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.
09/22/06
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.
09/21/06
Top CriticThe film's superimpositions, movie-dialogue samples, and audio-visual burps collectively suggest an acid trip.
09/11/06
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01/26/06
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'.
02/19/05
Top CriticNeither 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
04/24/03
The fullest expression of [O'Neill's] career on the periphery of the dream-factory assembly line.
10/08/02
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