Trees Lounge (1996 Jason’s Pick)

Awesome Movie Year

The first episode of our special retrospective 20th season looks back to the awesome movie year of 1996 with the first of Jason’s three picks, Steve Buscemi’s Trees Lounge. Written and directed by Steve Buscemi and starring Buscemi, Mark Boone Junior, Chloë Sevigny, Anthony LaPaglia and Elizabeth Bracco, Trees Lounge was Buscemi’s debut feature as a writer and director.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/trees-lounge-1996), Owen Gleiberman in Entertainment Weekly (https://ew.com/article/1996/10/11/trees-lounge/), and Marjorie Baumgarten in The Austin Chronicle (https://www.austinchronicle.com/events/film/1996-10-25/trees-lounge/).

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