OPENS BROOKLYN JUNE 7 and LOS ANGELES JUNE 14
*Sundance Midnight* *SXSW* *Maryland Film Festival*
Written and Directed by Calvin Lee Reeder
Starring Dermot Mulroney, Lindsay Pulsipher, Natasha Lyonne, James Cady, Scott Sharot
99 minutes, color, 2012
“Though Reeder shoots his film like a more traditional, “normal” indie movie, this thing is actually the screaming opposite of that. Truth be told, I feel like I need another viewing…” — Michael Tully, Hammer to Nail
“Much in the way comedians Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim push the boundaries of conventional humor with material seemingly culled from a schizophrenic’s fever dream, The Rambler presents a similarly unusual, fucked-up approach to matters of cinematic form, storytelling, and everything in between, and the results are as tedious as they are spirited. Sinister, comical, aggravating, and audacious, Calvin Reeder’s film is nothing short of an affront.” — Slant Magazine
“bold, hallucinatory and unrepentantly experimental“
Interview with Calvin at Filmmaker Magazine right here
Upon release from prison, a solitary man known only as “the Rambler” embarks on a mysterious journey en route to reconnecting with his long-lost brother. Traversing treacherous back roads, lost highways, and isolated small towns, he unearths a multitude of bizarre and wickedly depraved slices of Americana.
In this expansion of his short film of the same name, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008, writer/director Calvin Lee Reeder absorbs the audience into his surreal universe, complete with a rich visual palette and an immersive soundscape. Anchored by Dermot Mulroney’s brilliantly laconic lead performance, The Rambler is a seminal road movie, filled with bizarre supernatural hallucinations, shocking episodes of violence, and enough dark humor that some twisted minds may even call it a comedy. No matter how you attempt to categorize this film, you’re not likely to find anything quite like it for miles around. — Sundance Film Festival catalog
Calvin Lee Reeder’s work is a mix of underground horror shock and existential atmosphere. He made a name for himself with the short films Piledriver; Little Farm, which screened at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival; and The Rambler, which appeared at the Festival the following year. His feature debut, The Oregonian, divided Sundance Film Festival audiences in 2011 just as his shorts had before it. Reeder specializes in turning lo-fi splatter pics into art films by meshing high-concept thought and design with genre story lines.
Producers: Nate Bolotin, Roger M. Mayer, Christo Dimassis, James Lejsek, Clayton Young
Coproducers: Carl W. Lucas, Alan Trever
Cinematographer: David McFarland
Editor: Buzz Pierce
Production Designer: Geoff Flint
Music: Heather McIntosh, Scott Honea, Jed Maheu
SHOWTIMES
June 7–13: Brooklyn, NY reRun Theater — 21 and over, pal
June 14–20: Los Angeles, CA Downtown Independent Theater — yes with beer
June 14–20: Houston, TX Alamo Drafthouse — more beer, more beer
June 14: Dallas, TX Texas Theater — in the underground theater
June 28 — July 4: Northwest Film Forum — celebrate America
