It’s an indie grab bag and a fun one this weekend with the widely pummeled TIFF-premiering Poolman, (the people will decide), Jamie Foxx in comedy Not Another Church Movie, and Eric Bana’s Force of Nature: The Dry 2 sequel. Mubi and Strand Releasing are testing the market with limited openings Gasoline Rainbow and A Prince. A24 begins a slow rollout of I Saw The TV Glow.
The widest release on 1,180+ screens is Briarcliff’s Not Another Church Movie directed by Johnny Mack, starring Jamie Foxx, Vivica A. Fox, Kevin Daniels and Mickey Rourke. Daniels is Taylor Pherry (silent p), an ambitious young man on a holy mission from God (Foxx) — to tell his family’s stories and inspire his community. But the Devil (Rourke) has plans of his own.
Vertical’s Poolman at 160+ locations is Pine’s directorial debut andhe also stars as Darren, a native Angeleno who...
The widest release on 1,180+ screens is Briarcliff’s Not Another Church Movie directed by Johnny Mack, starring Jamie Foxx, Vivica A. Fox, Kevin Daniels and Mickey Rourke. Daniels is Taylor Pherry (silent p), an ambitious young man on a holy mission from God (Foxx) — to tell his family’s stories and inspire his community. But the Devil (Rourke) has plans of his own.
Vertical’s Poolman at 160+ locations is Pine’s directorial debut andhe also stars as Darren, a native Angeleno who...
- 5/10/2024
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross’s Gasoline Rainbow is an unusually poetic road film, as it has less in common with cut-and-paste teen party flicks than it does with the existentially freighted sensibilities of The Endless Summer, Two-Lane Blacktop, and even The Outwaters. Blending documentary and fictional elements together as they have in films like Western and Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, the Ross brothers fashion an aesthetic that’s something like the best of both worlds. Gasoline Rainbow’s teenagers are rendered with unusual realism, while the imagery has the resonance and intensity that speaks of the resources and planning that’s typically associated with fictional films. It feels simultaneously “of the moment” and retrospective—a subtle yet formally extravagant teenage daydream.
For viewers who’re removed from their high school years, the realism of Gasoline Rainbow may require acclimation. The film’s teens—Tony (Tony Abuerto), Micah (Micah Bunch...
For viewers who’re removed from their high school years, the realism of Gasoline Rainbow may require acclimation. The film’s teens—Tony (Tony Abuerto), Micah (Micah Bunch...
- 5/5/2024
- by Chuck Bowen
- Slant Magazine
What happens when you gaze at yourself in a muddled puddle of self-reflection? For filmmaking duo Bill and Turner Ross, it’s all about turning the camera inward to look outward, courtesy of the cinema verité style.
The Ross Brothers’ latest feature, “Gasoline Rainbow,” follows five teenagers from small-town Oregon as they embark on one final adventure together after high school: reaching the Pacific coast, 500 miles away. Along the way, the group encounters outsiders from the fringes of the American West and discovers that the contours of their lives will be set by trails they blaze themselves. They are forgotten kids from a forgotten town, but they have their freedom and they have each other, hurtling toward an unknowable future — and The Party at the End of the World.
While “Gasoline Rainbow” has been mistaken as a documentary, the feature is, in fact, loosely scripted and relies on the improvisational techniques of its five leads,...
The Ross Brothers’ latest feature, “Gasoline Rainbow,” follows five teenagers from small-town Oregon as they embark on one final adventure together after high school: reaching the Pacific coast, 500 miles away. Along the way, the group encounters outsiders from the fringes of the American West and discovers that the contours of their lives will be set by trails they blaze themselves. They are forgotten kids from a forgotten town, but they have their freedom and they have each other, hurtling toward an unknowable future — and The Party at the End of the World.
While “Gasoline Rainbow” has been mistaken as a documentary, the feature is, in fact, loosely scripted and relies on the improvisational techniques of its five leads,...
- 4/10/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
The loose-limbed and free-spirited optimism of youth pumps through the veins of the latest film from Bill Ross IV and his brother Turner as they take a road trip with a group of teenagers on the cusp of the post-school world.
The brothers have been plying a specific brand of docufiction for years, casting non-professionals and then helping them to construct characters lightly based upon themselves before putting them into semi-structured scenarios. With the passage of time, this hybrid approach has become increasingly popular but the Ross bros still lead the way in showing how it should be done.
The film, which closed MoMI’s First Look Festival, follows Nathaly Garcia, Makai Garza, Tony Aburto, Nichole Dukes and Micah Bunch as they head out in a van that has seen much better days. Their plan mainly consists of leaving their small town of Wiley, Oregon, firmly in the rearview mirror,...
The brothers have been plying a specific brand of docufiction for years, casting non-professionals and then helping them to construct characters lightly based upon themselves before putting them into semi-structured scenarios. With the passage of time, this hybrid approach has become increasingly popular but the Ross bros still lead the way in showing how it should be done.
The film, which closed MoMI’s First Look Festival, follows Nathaly Garcia, Makai Garza, Tony Aburto, Nichole Dukes and Micah Bunch as they head out in a van that has seen much better days. Their plan mainly consists of leaving their small town of Wiley, Oregon, firmly in the rearview mirror,...
- 3/20/2024
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
New York’s Museum of the Moving Image has revealed the full lineup for First Look 2024, the 13th edition of the festival that showcases “new and innovative international cinema,” both fiction and nonfiction.
The festival, set to run March 13-17 at MoMI in Queens, will kick off with Sujo, the drama directed by Mexican filmmakers Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez that won the Grand Jury Prize in World Cinematic Competition at Sundance. The vitality of Latin American cinema is reflected in another film in the First Look 2024 lineup, The Echo, directed by Salvadoran-born and Mexico-based filmmaker Tatiana Huezo. Scroll for the full roster of films.
‘Gasoline Rainbow’
First Look 2024 will close on Sunday, March 17 with Gasoline Rainbow, a “rambunctious coming-of-age road movie” directed by brothers Bill and Turner Ross, their follow up to their acclaimed 2020 film Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets – winner of the True Vision Award at the True/False festival,...
The festival, set to run March 13-17 at MoMI in Queens, will kick off with Sujo, the drama directed by Mexican filmmakers Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez that won the Grand Jury Prize in World Cinematic Competition at Sundance. The vitality of Latin American cinema is reflected in another film in the First Look 2024 lineup, The Echo, directed by Salvadoran-born and Mexico-based filmmaker Tatiana Huezo. Scroll for the full roster of films.
‘Gasoline Rainbow’
First Look 2024 will close on Sunday, March 17 with Gasoline Rainbow, a “rambunctious coming-of-age road movie” directed by brothers Bill and Turner Ross, their follow up to their acclaimed 2020 film Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets – winner of the True Vision Award at the True/False festival,...
- 2/14/2024
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
A yearly highlight of New York (or American) programming, the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look will return on March 13 with an opening-night screening of Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez’s Sujo, close on March 17 with Bill and Turner Ross’ Gasoline Rainbow, and in the intervening days combine programming of recent cutting-edge highlights with in-person talks and seminars.
First Look’s fixture “Working on It” will run between March 13 and 15, offering “a laboratory for works in progress and dialogues about process, bringing together festival guests, filmmakers, students, writers, and the general public.” Meanwhile, writers and editors from Reverse Shot “will continue discussions begun in last year’s Emerging Critics Workshop throughout the festival.”
So says MoMI’s Curator of Film Eric Hynes:
“Now in its 13th year, First Look has carved out a unique, and we think essential, place in New York’s film and cultural landscape.
First Look’s fixture “Working on It” will run between March 13 and 15, offering “a laboratory for works in progress and dialogues about process, bringing together festival guests, filmmakers, students, writers, and the general public.” Meanwhile, writers and editors from Reverse Shot “will continue discussions begun in last year’s Emerging Critics Workshop throughout the festival.”
So says MoMI’s Curator of Film Eric Hynes:
“Now in its 13th year, First Look has carved out a unique, and we think essential, place in New York’s film and cultural landscape.
- 2/12/2024
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Gasoline Rainbow had its world premiere in the Orizzonti section at the Venice Film Festival this year with subsequent stops at London BFI and this week’s American Film Festival in Wroclaw but it has yet to premiere in the U.S. We think that Sundance and SXSW programmers will both be interested in supporting Turner Ross and Bill Ross IV once again with a showcase bonus screening following in te footsteps of their support for 45365, Tchoupitoulas, Western, Contemporary Color and Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets. Tony Abuerto, Micah Bunch, Nichole Dukes, Nathaly Garcia and Makai Garza star in the road-trip film.…...
- 11/11/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Arguably the most accomplished and enjoyable film so far for filmmaking brothers Bill and Turner Ross (the siblings behind Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets and Western), Gasoline Rainbow pays homage to all the road movies that ever were but is still its own quirky thing, uniquely of its time.
Five photogenic but regular-looking non-professional teens star as people much like themselves, i.e. kids just out of high school, who decide on a whim one night to drive 500 miles west toward the Pacific, away from the small podunk Oregon town they grew up in. Some of the friends they make along the way aren’t entirely nice, but our heroes bounce back, party on and peace out with the blithe insouciance only the young can get away with. As such, this jaunty work will appeal to viewers from the same demographic as well as those who love freewheeling low-budget cinema and...
Five photogenic but regular-looking non-professional teens star as people much like themselves, i.e. kids just out of high school, who decide on a whim one night to drive 500 miles west toward the Pacific, away from the small podunk Oregon town they grew up in. Some of the friends they make along the way aren’t entirely nice, but our heroes bounce back, party on and peace out with the blithe insouciance only the young can get away with. As such, this jaunty work will appeal to viewers from the same demographic as well as those who love freewheeling low-budget cinema and...
- 9/14/2023
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“The only difference between children and grown-ups is that the grown-ups are unsupervised.” This line, uttered in the second half of Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross’s seventh feature Gasoline Rainbow, is not particularly framed as words of wisdom. The award-winning filmmakers have explored American life through places, people, and their interconnectedness since the late 2000s in a way that’s far from linear. A multitude of voices, characters (or simply people) populate the screen, their practice exploratory before it aims at any definitive answers. The why and the why-not are irrelevant questions, yet every new offering feels as profound as life itself. Gasoline Rainbow, a premiere in this year’s Venice Orizzonti sidebar, benefits from their trademark hybrid filmmaking, placing nonprofessional teenage actors on a thrilling 513-mile journey from Wiley, Oregon, to the Pacific Ocean.
Tony (Tony Abuerto), Micah (Micah Bunch), Nichole (Nichole Dukes), Nathaly (Nathaly Garcia), and...
Tony (Tony Abuerto), Micah (Micah Bunch), Nichole (Nichole Dukes), Nathaly (Nathaly Garcia), and...
- 9/7/2023
- by Savina Petkova
- The Film Stage
In sibling directors Bill and Turner Ross’ new movie “Gasoline Rainbow,” a group of five teenagers embark on a hectic, sweltering roadtrip from rural Oregan to the Pacific Coast. Over the course of that evocative journey, they get lost, get stoned, make a lot of friends, and swap many stories. Eschewing plot for the unbridled energy of untethered youth, “Gasoline Rainbow” might strike newcomers to the Ross brothers as a pure documentary exercise, the kind of absorbing cinema vérité endeavor in which cameras follow every unscripted move.
However, this is a Ross brothers movie, and defies such labels by design. For over a decade, these innovative filmmakers haven’t troubled the barriers between fiction and non-fiction so much as they have tried to ignore them entirely — and with this one, they’re ready to move past scrutiny of that process for good.
“We are desperate not to have this fucking conversation ever again,...
However, this is a Ross brothers movie, and defies such labels by design. For over a decade, these innovative filmmakers haven’t troubled the barriers between fiction and non-fiction so much as they have tried to ignore them entirely — and with this one, they’re ready to move past scrutiny of that process for good.
“We are desperate not to have this fucking conversation ever again,...
- 8/22/2023
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
A surprise selection for Venice (only because it was off our radar), the debut fiction feature by Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross (see our Sundance trading card) will walk on over from the Lido into an eventual 2024 release (we suppose that Sundance and SXSW will duke it out for North American premiere status – unless this grabs a NYFF spot).
Deadline reports that the Mubi folks landed the film. Gasoline Rainbow preems in the Orizzonti section and stars newcomers Tony Abuerto, Micah Bunch, Nichole Dukes, Nathaly Garcia and Makai Garza. Michael Gottwald and Carlos Zozaya (We’re All Going to the World’s Fair) produced the film.…...
Deadline reports that the Mubi folks landed the film. Gasoline Rainbow preems in the Orizzonti section and stars newcomers Tony Abuerto, Micah Bunch, Nichole Dukes, Nathaly Garcia and Makai Garza. Michael Gottwald and Carlos Zozaya (We’re All Going to the World’s Fair) produced the film.…...
- 8/1/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: After producing Gasoline Rainbow, the latest boundary-pushing work from rising star filmmakers Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross, which is set to world premiere in the Orizzonti section of this year’s Venice Film Festival, Mubi has retained U.S. rights and set the film for theatrical release in 2024.
The Match Factory is handling international sales.
Starring newcomers Tony Abuerto, Micah Bunch, Nichole Dukes, Nathaly Garcia and Makai Garza, the film written, produced, shot and directed by the Ross Brothers follows five teenagers from small-town Oregon who, with high school in the rearview, decide to embark on one last adventure. Piling into a van with a busted taillight, their mission is to make it to a place they’ve never been —the Pacific coast, five hundred miles away. Their plan, in full: “F**k it.”
By van, boat, train, and foot, their improvised odyssey takes them through desert wilderness,...
The Match Factory is handling international sales.
Starring newcomers Tony Abuerto, Micah Bunch, Nichole Dukes, Nathaly Garcia and Makai Garza, the film written, produced, shot and directed by the Ross Brothers follows five teenagers from small-town Oregon who, with high school in the rearview, decide to embark on one last adventure. Piling into a van with a busted taillight, their mission is to make it to a place they’ve never been —the Pacific coast, five hundred miles away. Their plan, in full: “F**k it.”
By van, boat, train, and foot, their improvised odyssey takes them through desert wilderness,...
- 8/1/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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