The Bad Batch press conference started at 14:30 (Italy time) and is now complete. I’ll add info as it appears.
The Film Stage has a post up with two clips from the film.
Articles
Spoiler Movies has a post up on The Bad Batch. The article is in Portuguese but translates well with the google translator.
Update X2: Yahoo! News has a post up on the press conference. Amirpour talks about the large squatter community lives off the grid in Slab City where the film was filmed and why Jim Carrey was the perfect hermit for the film. She described one of Keanu’s scenes below:
“There was no direction,” she said in working with Slab City’s residents on the film. In particular with one party scene involving Keanu Reeves speaking to the crowd from atop a giant boombox, “He was saying what he was saying and they were cheering, like he was speaking to them. I think the bad batch is everywhere. Go just leave the city and drive for three hours.”
Update X3: The Daily Mail has an article up on the Bad Batch. It sounds like most of the info came from the press conference. I haven’t seen any clips yet from the press conference. I’ll post as soon as I do.
Interviews
LoudVision has posted their interview with Ana Lily Amirpour. It’s in Italian but translates well with the google translator.
Reviews
The Hollywood Reporter has posted it’s review.
Stanza di Cinema posted their review. It’s in Italian and they ended with the following:
Not just a couple of amputated limbs, a party with cool music and neon lights, a hallucination in the desert, the constant reference to the saga of Miller and a cast of luxury actors, to transform The Bad Batch in the cult film that would desperately to be.
The story drags tired, uninteresting, never an idea, if not a plot twist. Remains, for the most part, the sense of the incomplete, lost opportunity, the copyright mess.
The Playlist reviewed the film and gave it a C. They said the following about the film:
There’s hope, to be sure: a snip-happy re-edit of the exact footage that unfurled at its Venice premiere could maybe deliver exactly the rip-roaring, grotesque, 85-minute grindhouse nasty we all hoped that the director of “A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night” would turn in for her sophomore feature, but the 112-minute version plays instead like an unnecessary, long-after-the-fact, extended cut of that film.
FILM.it has posted their review for The Bad Batch. Review is in Italian.
LOUDVISION has posted their review of the film. Review is in Italian.
Variety has posted their review of the film.
The Film Stage has posted their review. This review had more positives and offered this Keanu Reeves mention:
This oasis is operated by an enigmatic ringleader named Rockwell (played by Keanu Reeves and dressed as if Elvis was one of the droogs in A Clockwork Orange) who — similar to Mad Max’s Immortan Joe — keeps the people of Comfort sedated with drugs while cherry-picking and impregnating all the young and beautiful women on offer.
The Indiewire reviewed the film and gave it a B+. They said the following about Keanu Reeves:
Tackling a more prominent role, Keanu Reeves takes on much greater prominence in the film’s uneven final third, as a psychedelically-charged Jim Jones-like spiritual leader who holds court over Comfort from a giant boom box where the town gathers for histrionic raves. Long-haired, mustachioed and hiding behind shades, Reeves drifts into the movie like a dreamlike version of his usual introverted cinematic persona with mixed results. His monologues about supporting the town (specifically “the shit comes out all your little assholes”) have a gimmicky quality out of sync with the more fully realized aspects of the embellished scenario found elsewhere; ditto the cult of pregnant women he keeps like pets in his enclave, who wear t-shirts emblazoned with the blunt slogan “the dream is inside me.”
Cine Vue reviewed the film and gave it 2/5 stars. They said the following about Keanu Reeves’ character Rockwell:
Here, Keanu Reeves’ Rockwell – looking like a mixture of Hugh Hefner and Pablo Escobar – rules Comfort with a posse of uzi-toting pregnant women. He also lays claim to organising the sewage system: “So we take the shit away”.
Screen Daily has posted their review of the film.
Landeszeitung has posted their review of the film. Review is in German.
Cinecitta News has posted their review of the film. Review is in Italian.
Update: The Huffington Post has posted their review of sorts and it was positive.
The Guardian has posted their review and have given the film 3/5 stars.