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Extreme Close-up
Tarnation director Jonathan Caouette turns his life story and video diary into a trippy $218.32 epic.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
02-03-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jonathan Caouette, Tarnation
Reasons to Disbelievenew
Torture reigned inside and outside movie theaters in 2004.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Susan Gerhard |
12-29-2004 |
Movies
Fractured, Frantic Tarnation Finds Salvation in Pop Culturenew
Tarnation is a chaotic, moving and sometimes histrionic autobiographical memoir of Jonathan Caouette that suggests pop culture -- whether cult movies like Liquid Sky or a Houston new wave gay club -- offered him an escape from his grim home life in a Texas suburb.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
11-18-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Jonathan Caouette, Tarnation
'Tarnation' Sensationnew
Jonathan Caouette's inexplicably perfect documentary of growing up gay in Texas is the astounding new face of do-it-yourself moviemaking.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-22-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jonathan Caouette, Tarnation
Making Art From Lifenew
Sometimes people grow up sane despite the best efforts of society to drive them mad. So it is for Jonathan Caouette, who with this film assembles his life into his art.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-22-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Jonathan Caouette, Tarnation
Brave and Crazynew
There is no denying that Tarnation is a very brave movie. Rarely is the subject of a documentary willing to lay himself bare before the camera, exposing his very consciousness to the audience, and it's still more uncommon for a director to do it.
What in Tarnation: Will Success Spoil the Filmmaker Savant?new
A macabre family album excavated from the deepest recesses of memory, Tarnation is Jonathan Caouette’s personal history reconstituted as a maelstrom of images and ideas about mental illness, mother love, homosexuality and other ties that bind.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
10-19-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Repersonalizationnew
This week we get to watch the unveiling of the next found artist, bringing on the next "future of filmmaking." That previously unknown artist is Jonathan Caouette, who is going to be ushering iMovie Nation into a theater near you.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Susan Gerhard |
10-13-2004 |
Movies
I, Movienew
Jonathan Caouette's Tarnation -- known as the $218.32 movie at the last Sundance -- is a manic peak in the year of the documentary. It's the sometimes visionary story of a gay boy who was shuttled through foster homes before being returned to the home of the grandparents who institutionalized his mother.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Johnny Ray Huston |
10-13-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
