The American Astronaut: The Sci-Fi Musical From Nowhere

Wed, 11 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Every so often a film arrives with no visible parents and no obvious peers, a thing that seems to have assembled itself in a garage out of spare parts from four incompatible genres. Cory McAbee’s The American Astronaut (2001) is one of those. It is a black-and-white science-fiction Western musical made by the frontman of an art-rock band, and I have never successfully described it to anyone who then watched it and said I had oversold it. If anything I always undersell it, because the sentence “sci-fi Western musical” makes it sound like a stunt, and the film is far stranger and far more sincere than a stunt could ever be.

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The American Astronaut: The Sci-Fi Musical From Nowhere