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Release date: Jan 1, 2003
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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. Sep 22, 2006 | Rating: 3.5/5
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.
Stephen Holden
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. Sep 21, 2006 | Rating: 3.5/4
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.
V.A. Musetto
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'. Feb 19, 2005 | Full Review…
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'.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The fullest expression of [O'Neill's] career on the periphery of the dream-factory assembly line. Oct 8, 2002
The fullest expression of [O'Neill's] career on the periphery of the dream-factory assembly line.
J. Hoberman
Avant-garde filmmaker Pat O'Neill's haunting ode to pulp fiction and the now-vanished Ambassador Hotel is steeped in decaying California glamor and the ghosts of noir thrillers past. Sep 22, 2006 | Full Review…
Avant-garde filmmaker Pat O'Neill's haunting ode to pulp fiction and the now-vanished Ambassador Hotel is steeped in decaying California glamor and the ghosts of noir thrillers past.
Maitland McDonagh
The film's superimpositions, movie-dialogue samples, and audio-visual burps collectively suggest an acid trip. Sep 11, 2006 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
The film's superimpositions, movie-dialogue samples, and audio-visual burps collectively suggest an acid trip.
Ed Gonzalez
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 Apr 24, 2003 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
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
Brian Mckay
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