| Che
anno stupendo per U'Latruni D'Arance. |
| "Woodstock Film Festival has just taken its bow. This year's winner was one of Gen Art's favorites: "The Orange Thief." Our hero in this revamped fable is a cocky, penniless young man whose dreams of owning a piece of Sicilian land is waylaid by his trips to jail. Love and magic abound from the colors, to the supporting characters and the delicate Italian spoken throughout the film. In other words, it's the perfect date movie. What's surprising about the film isn't it lovely little plot, which stands in bold opposition so some of the more gruesome or err... realistic movies playing the festival, but that it was directed by three people Boogie Dean, Vinnie Angel and Artie Wilinski. How they created such a seamless gem with six hands on the camera we'll never know." - Gen Art Film Festival |
| THE ORANGE THIEF. DIRECTED BY BOOGIE DEAN, VINNIE ANGEL & ARTHUR WILINSKI. The title The Orange Thief suggests de Sica neorealism, but this comedy's tone recalls Wertmuller's brutal send-up of the Italian social order. The eponymous fruitpoacher (played by Andrea Calabres) steals as a way to thumb his nose at the wealthy. He always ends up bloody, unbowed, and incarcerated. During one prison stay, a cellmate offers him a new life as landed gentry if he can accomplish a mission when he's sprung. This shaggy-dog tale was shot on location in Lucca-Sicula, Italy, by three Brooklyn directors—Boogie Dean, Vinnie Angel, and Arthur Wilinski—in an exquisite-corpse style. And the results are indeed exquisite, right down to the poetic cinematography and an intoxicating musical soundtrack. —JB - CHRONOGRAM OCT 2006 |
"The Orange
Thief," a penniless young man dreams of owning a piece of his beloved
Sicilian land. "It's a feature film in Italian made by Americans,"
Goldbeck says. "It's a romp, it's just delightful." |

Above,
the directors (Artie and Vinnie) winning the award this past weekend (Oct
30, 2006)
Boogie is in Argentina scouting for the next film...shooting starts January
15th
