Another Girl Another Planet (film)

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Another Girl Another Planet
Directed by	Michael Almereyda
Written by	Michael Almereyda
Produced by	Bob Gosse
Starring	Barry Del Sherman Isabel Gillies Bob Gosse
Cinematography	Jim Denault
Release date	1992 (1992)
Running time	56 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Another Girl Another Planet is a 1992 film written and directed by Michael Almereyda.^[1] The film is notable for being shot on a Fisher-Price PXL 2000 children's camera.^[2]^[3]

Premise

Bill struggles to find a lasting relationship and meaningful connection through a succession of women, who have all been touched in some form by the death of someone in their lives.

Cast

Barry Del Sherman as Bill (credited as Barry Sherman)
Isabel Gillies as Finley
Bob Gosse as Man in Bar
Elina Löwensohn as Mia
Paula Malcomson as Bartender
Lisa Perisot as Prudence
Nic Ratner as Nic
Tom Roma as Man in Bar
Maggie Rush as Trish
Mary B. Ward as Ramona

Critical reception

Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote "Michael Almereyda's 56-minute 'Another Girl, Another Planet' is something else entirely. It's as American as the East Village walk-up in which it was made, and as comically angst-ridden and gray as its images. 'Another Girl, Another Planet' was initially shot on a Fisher-Price Pixel toy video camera, then transferred to 16-millimeter film."^[1]

The National Society of Film Critics gave the film a special citation in its 1992 awards^[4] for "expanding the possibilities of experimental filmmaking, including the use of a Pixelvision toy camcorder."^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b Canby, Vincent (April 1, 1993). "Review/Film Festival; In Small Quarters, 2 Views of a Large Issue". The New York Times. p. 22.
^ "Pixelvision Dreams: Why Michael Almereyda Used a Children's Camera to Make Movies". No Film School. 2018-08-10. Retrieved 2022-12-30.
^ McCarty, Andrea (1997). "Toying With Obsolescence: Pixelvision Filmmakers and the Fisher Price PXL 2000 Camera". Massachusetts Institute of Technology – via CORE.
^ "Past Awards". National Society of Film Critics. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
^ Cohn, Lawrence (1993-01-03). "NSFC honors Clint, Thompson". Variety. Retrieved 2019-11-19.

External links

Another Girl Another Planet at IMDb
Interview with Michael Almereyda about the film
Review by Adrian Martin

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Twister (1989) Another Girl Another Planet (1992) Nadja (1994) Trance (1998) Hamlet (2000) Happy Here and Now (2002) William Eggleston in the Real World (2005) Cymbeline (2014) Experimenter (2015) Marjorie Prime (2017) Escapes (2017) Tesla (2020)

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