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D. Cory McAbee US 2001
SF ex-pat and Billy Nayer Show frontman, Cory Mc-Abee's The Amer-ican Astronaut is a wildly audacious debut feature. Combining elements from the musical, the western and cheesy sci-fi, McAbee stars as space cowboy Samuel Curtis, whose intergalactic travels put him in contact with many strange characters. If Kubrik's 2001 was directed by David Lynch & Jim Jarmusch, you might get something like The American Astronaut. Shot in high contrast black & white and featuring low-tech special effects, refreshing in this day of over-the-top digital manipulations, The American Astronaut is destined to be a cult classic. With the music/performance-art collective The Billy Nayer Show. (94m)

The American Astronaut
		D. Cory McAbee US 2001 SF ex-pat and Billy Nayer Show frontman, Cory Mc-Abee's The Amer-ican Astronaut is a wildly audacious debut feature. Combining elements from the musical, the western and cheesy sci-fi, McAbee stars as space cowboy Samuel Curtis, whose intergalactic travels put him in contact with many strange characters. If Kubrik's 2001 was directed by David Lynch & Jim Jarmusch, you might get something like The American Astronaut. Shot in high contrast black & white and featuring low-tech special effects, refreshing in this day of over-the-top digital manipulations, The American Astronaut is destined to be a cult classic. With the music/performance-art collective The Billy Nayer Show. (94m)