The Village Voice, March 22nd, 2006
LONESOME JIM
Directed by Steve Buscemi
IFC, opens March 24
PLAINS LOUNGE
Steve Buscemi's miserablist home movie tracks sullen scribe's homecoming
With an overture of soundtrack harmonica, wintry Midwestern loneliness, hardscrabble road-movie keynotes, and a general air of mute foreboding, Steve Buscemi's new film Lonesome Jim makes a big bid for '70sness-the desolate, figures-in-a-landscape vibe epitomized by, say, Barbara Loden's Wanda, Jerry Schatzberg's Scarecrow, and Monte Hellman's Two-Lane Blacktop. But something's missing-the '70s themselves, a moment of meaning when social pessimi...
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