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Nomi Song, The
Palm Pictures
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Klaus Nomi,
Ann Magnuson,
Gabriele Lafari,
David McDermott,
Page Wood,
Tony Frere,
Man Parrish,
and
Kristian Hoffman
A portrait of late German artist Klaus Nomi, this film is part documentary, part music film, part sci-fi, The Nomi Song is a "non-fiction film," or maybe even an oral history. It's not just the tale, it's the telling. (Palm Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Documentary
|
Foreign
|
Musical
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Andrew Horn
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Andrew Horn
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: June 14, 2005
Theatrical: February 4, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
96 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Germany |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
English / German |
Teddy Award, Best Documentary Film, 2004 Berlin International Film Festival

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91
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Forget Devo, Nico, Bowie, or Beefheart: The most mesmerizing freak show in the history of rock & roll was Klaus Nomi.

80
Variety
Leslie Felperin
An absorbing homage to obscure but fascinating late '70s-early '80s German stage artiste Klaus Nomi.

80
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Made with considerable wit and style, Horn's thoughtful celebration of the era and its most uncanny diva could function as the show's ("East Village USA") supplement.

80
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
Horn, who knew Nomi, does an excellent job of evoking the exhilaratingly hedonistic period the film covers as well as the long shadow that the coming of AIDS casts over it.

80
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Intriguing and affecting documentary.
78
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Thankfully, The Nomi Song should go a long way toward re-cementing this striking creature's legendary status.

75
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Succeeds at its main tasks. It re-creates new wave New York with Proustian force, from the Kiev (the diner) to Fiorucci (the clothing store).

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Neva Chonin
With The Nomi Song, Horn does more than simply pay homage to a late artist. He uses his subject to revisit the euphoria of artistic and musical culture at a crossroads, and in the process brings it, briefly and poignantly, back to life again.

70
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
The film fittingly embraces the elements of camp and kitsch that played such a major role in defining the Nomi persona.

70
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
Andrew Horn, writer of “East Side Story,” directs, stylishly.

70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
Without coming out and saying it, The Nomi Song creates the sense that its subject might simply have been a few hundred years ahead of his time.

70
LA Weekly
Ernest Hardy
Dazzles with rare performance footage.

70
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
An affectionate portrait, not only of Nomi, but also of the long-gone days when downtown Manhattan was an affordable enclave for creative misfits.

67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bill White
A cross between David Bowie and Maria Callas, the German singer took androgyny to an unearthly level.

63
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Occasionally exhilarating documentary.

63
New York Post
Debra Birnbaum
Horn bookends his documentary with clips from "It Came From Outer Space."

60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
And if you never learn much about the man behind the mask, well, that's as Nomi would have wanted it.

50
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
There remains a maddening emptiness where the film's ostensible subject should be.


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