Smiley Face Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/smiley-face/ Mon, 11 Sep 2023 21:20:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.4 https://cdn.theplaylist.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/14214807/cropped-cropped-media-47-1-32x32.png Smiley Face Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/smiley-face/ 32 32 ‘Smiley Face’ Gets Surprisingly Good Reviews; Film Is Actually Terrible https://staging2.theplaylist.net/smiley-face-gets-surprisingly-good-20080114/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/smiley-face-gets-surprisingly-good-20080114/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:20:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=11497 Remember “Smiley Face”? It was the film by normally sexually transgressive filmmaker Gregg Araki that was supposed to come out on 4.20.07 (4.20, get it, get it?!?).

Then it got bumped to late summer, then bumped again and then eventually got shelved to a straight-to-DVD release. However, at the last minute it made it into a few select theaters in NYC and L.A. and it gained some glowing reviews.

The Village Voice loved it, Premiere’s Glen Kenny called it, “mind-bogglingly funny” (he placed it as 19 on his top 25 list of ’07) and we all of a sudden became intrigued.

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]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/smiley-face-gets-surprisingly-good-20080114/feed/ 10 Gregg Arraki Gets Smiley In July https://staging2.theplaylist.net/trangressive-gender-bending-filmmaker-20070426/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/trangressive-gender-bending-filmmaker-20070426/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:11:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=12392 Trangressive, gender-bending filmmaker, Gregg Araki‘s (“Mysterious Skin,” “The Doom Generation“) new film is a pot-smoking comedy, “Smiley Face,” that’s on the head and shoulders of lead actress, Anna Faris (the first stoner movie to star a girl?). It was originally scheduled to come out 4.20 (duuuude), but that obviously passed. The film is now set for July 27, according to EW’s summer film preview (which isn’t really online, but this Faris interview is).

Let’s face it, his films aren’t great and polarizing at best (loathsome to many), but he’s always had some choice noisy and shoe-gaze-y soundtracks, which we’ve always loved him for (and we’re likely going to do a Soundtrack Series volume on him one of these days, but not likely anytime soon.

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