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Written and directed by Paul Schrader (Raging Bull, Blue Collar, Affliction, Cat People).
It's about Bob Crane star of Hogan's Heroes (1960's American sitcom) and his obsession with sex and descent into addiction and mental breakdown.
As per usual with Schrader, it's hardly family viewing, chuckle-a-minute viewing but it's bloody good and a serious study of addiction.
Greg Kinnear is fantastic as Crane, I've seen him in some other stuff but he's really on top of his game here. As is Willem Dafoe as John Carpenter (no, not that one), his "friend" that gets him into taping orgies etc and leading him (albeit willingly) into the sorry state he ends up in.
Given the subject matter, man obsessed with porn/sex/swinging, it's one of the most unerotic films I've ever seen. It's hardly graphic at all, and instead deals with the effects of a man obsessed to the point of losing jobs/wives over it.
It's a low-budget study of loneliness, addiction, melancholy, friendship and feeling alien to everybody else.
Which is something Schrader does very well (and if you've read "Easy Riders and Raging Bulls", you'll know how objectionable he is as a person so no wonder he identifies with this sort of character), and Auto-Focus is no exception.
Extras include deleted scenes (of no real interest), trailers and commentaries. The one with Kinnear & Dafoe is one of the dullest I've ever listened to 50 mins of, except when Dafoe starts ranting about not being involved in shooting the home-movie sex footage because "If it's not me, I lose the ability to pretend. I was furious, I was raging about that and it didn't get used".
Auto-Focus - don't watch if you want a shag movie or something to titter over. Watch if you like bleak, stark, uncomfortable films that try to do something a little different to Big Explosion 7: CGI Returns.
Or watch it if you fancy seeing Greg Kinnear & Willem Dafoe both whacking off to a home-made porno tape next to each other on a sofa.
It's about Bob Crane star of Hogan's Heroes (1960's American sitcom) and his obsession with sex and descent into addiction and mental breakdown.
As per usual with Schrader, it's hardly family viewing, chuckle-a-minute viewing but it's bloody good and a serious study of addiction.
Greg Kinnear is fantastic as Crane, I've seen him in some other stuff but he's really on top of his game here. As is Willem Dafoe as John Carpenter (no, not that one), his "friend" that gets him into taping orgies etc and leading him (albeit willingly) into the sorry state he ends up in.
Given the subject matter, man obsessed with porn/sex/swinging, it's one of the most unerotic films I've ever seen. It's hardly graphic at all, and instead deals with the effects of a man obsessed to the point of losing jobs/wives over it.
It's a low-budget study of loneliness, addiction, melancholy, friendship and feeling alien to everybody else.
Which is something Schrader does very well (and if you've read "Easy Riders and Raging Bulls", you'll know how objectionable he is as a person so no wonder he identifies with this sort of character), and Auto-Focus is no exception.
Extras include deleted scenes (of no real interest), trailers and commentaries. The one with Kinnear & Dafoe is one of the dullest I've ever listened to 50 mins of, except when Dafoe starts ranting about not being involved in shooting the home-movie sex footage because "If it's not me, I lose the ability to pretend. I was furious, I was raging about that and it didn't get used".
Auto-Focus - don't watch if you want a shag movie or something to titter over. Watch if you like bleak, stark, uncomfortable films that try to do something a little different to Big Explosion 7: CGI Returns.
Or watch it if you fancy seeing Greg Kinnear & Willem Dafoe both whacking off to a home-made porno tape next to each other on a sofa.
Goatboy wrote:
> Or watch it if you fancy seeing Greg Kinnear & Willem Dafoe both
> whacking off to a home-made porno tape next to each other on a sofa.
EEK!
> Or watch it if you fancy seeing Greg Kinnear & Willem Dafoe both
> whacking off to a home-made porno tape next to each other on a sofa.
EEK!
Written and directed by Paul Schrader (Raging Bull, Blue Collar, Affliction, Cat People).
It's about Bob Crane star of Hogan's Heroes (1960's American sitcom) and his obsession with sex and descent into addiction and mental breakdown.
As per usual with Schrader, it's hardly family viewing, chuckle-a-minute viewing but it's bloody good and a serious study of addiction.
Greg Kinnear is fantastic as Crane, I've seen him in some other stuff but he's really on top of his game here. As is Willem Dafoe as John Carpenter (no, not that one), his "friend" that gets him into taping orgies etc and leading him (albeit willingly) into the sorry state he ends up in.
Given the subject matter, man obsessed with porn/sex/swinging, it's one of the most unerotic films I've ever seen. It's hardly graphic at all, and instead deals with the effects of a man obsessed to the point of losing jobs/wives over it.
It's a low-budget study of loneliness, addiction, melancholy, friendship and feeling alien to everybody else.
Which is something Schrader does very well (and if you've read "Easy Riders and Raging Bulls", you'll know how objectionable he is as a person so no wonder he identifies with this sort of character), and Auto-Focus is no exception.
Extras include deleted scenes (of no real interest), trailers and commentaries. The one with Kinnear & Dafoe is one of the dullest I've ever listened to 50 mins of, except when Dafoe starts ranting about not being involved in shooting the home-movie sex footage because "If it's not me, I lose the ability to pretend. I was furious, I was raging about that and it didn't get used".
Auto-Focus - don't watch if you want a shag movie or something to titter over. Watch if you like bleak, stark, uncomfortable films that try to do something a little different to Big Explosion 7: CGI Returns.
Or watch it if you fancy seeing Greg Kinnear & Willem Dafoe both whacking off to a home-made porno tape next to each other on a sofa.
It's about Bob Crane star of Hogan's Heroes (1960's American sitcom) and his obsession with sex and descent into addiction and mental breakdown.
As per usual with Schrader, it's hardly family viewing, chuckle-a-minute viewing but it's bloody good and a serious study of addiction.
Greg Kinnear is fantastic as Crane, I've seen him in some other stuff but he's really on top of his game here. As is Willem Dafoe as John Carpenter (no, not that one), his "friend" that gets him into taping orgies etc and leading him (albeit willingly) into the sorry state he ends up in.
Given the subject matter, man obsessed with porn/sex/swinging, it's one of the most unerotic films I've ever seen. It's hardly graphic at all, and instead deals with the effects of a man obsessed to the point of losing jobs/wives over it.
It's a low-budget study of loneliness, addiction, melancholy, friendship and feeling alien to everybody else.
Which is something Schrader does very well (and if you've read "Easy Riders and Raging Bulls", you'll know how objectionable he is as a person so no wonder he identifies with this sort of character), and Auto-Focus is no exception.
Extras include deleted scenes (of no real interest), trailers and commentaries. The one with Kinnear & Dafoe is one of the dullest I've ever listened to 50 mins of, except when Dafoe starts ranting about not being involved in shooting the home-movie sex footage because "If it's not me, I lose the ability to pretend. I was furious, I was raging about that and it didn't get used".
Auto-Focus - don't watch if you want a shag movie or something to titter over. Watch if you like bleak, stark, uncomfortable films that try to do something a little different to Big Explosion 7: CGI Returns.
Or watch it if you fancy seeing Greg Kinnear & Willem Dafoe both whacking off to a home-made porno tape next to each other on a sofa.