BUFFALO '66

This dazzlingly innovative film was directed, co-written, and composed by Vincent Gallo, who also stars as Billy, a grunge who has just been released from prison. After some difficulty finding a bathroom, Billy kidnaps Layla, a kewpie-doll tap dancer. Layla is forced to pretend to Billy's parents that she is his wife whom he met on CIA business. A dinner with Billy's Buffalo-Bill-obsessed mother, Anjelica Huston, and Ben Gazzara as his frustrated singer of a father, is a scene not to be forgotten. Nor is Christina Ricci's performance as Layla, who tales increasing delight in her role in this coerced fantasy.