German official website Buffalo Soldiers http://www.army-go-home.de/trailer.asp
Miramax Official Site English http://www.miramax.com/buffalo_soldiers/
Different trailer formats here http://www.hollywood.com/multimedia/popup_Main.asp?media=1709261
Apple Trailer http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/buffalo_soldiers.html
Gorrila Entertainment http://www.gorillaentertainment.com/
Trailer, production notes and some poster artwork http://www.greenroom-digital.com/press/clients/Path%e9/buffalo_soldiers/
FILM TITLE:
Buffalo Soldiers
Programme: Special Presentation
Director: Gregor Jordan
Country: USA/United Kingdom
Year: 2001
Time: 94 minutes
Film Types: Colour/35mm
Production Company: Gorilla Entertainment/Odeon Pictures
Executive Producer: Paul Webster, Reinhard Klooss, James Schamus
Producer: Rainer Grupe, Ariane Moody
Screenplay: Gregor Jordan, Eric Axel Weiss, Nora MacCoby, based on the novel by
Robert O'Connor
Cinematography: Oliver Stapleton
Editor: Lee Smith
Production Designer: Steven Jones-Evans
Sound: Martin Müller
Music: David Holmes
Principal Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Anna Paquin, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Elizabeth
McGovern
Few antecedents to Gregor Jordan’s film about American soldiers based in
Germany in 1989 are to be found. Traces of Apocalypse Now and perhaps even Dr.
Strangelove are evident, but Buffalo Soldiers is a true original, a devastating
drama about a group of soldiers who find themselves in a situation where history
is about to make their role redundant even as they play out their selfish acts.
The film places Special Fourth Class soldier Elwood at the centre of the
narrative. Cocky, brash and darkly handsome, he is more black marketeer than
soldier. Behind his camouflage fatigues, this savvy young man runs an efficient
little business that rips off the military system and steers the profits into
his pocket. He leads a gang of fellow soldiers who distill drugs which they sell
to other GIs, steal army supplies which are then dealt to German middlemen, and
generally operate below the radar of the authorities as they conduct their
illegal activities. One day they accidentally stumble across a real find: two
truckloads of highly sophisticated weaponry worth millions. Payday! All they
have to do is unload the stuff as quietly and efficiently as possible. The only
fly in the ointment comes with the arrival of a new Top Sergeant, the
square-jawed, mean-looking Robert K. Lee. Lee takes one look at the expensive
Rolex sported by one of Elwood’s men and begins to kick butt. Elwood takes one
look at Lee’s foxy daughter and fights back.
Moving with ease between high drama and scarcely-veiled farce, Buffalo Soldiers
paints a disturbing picture of American soldiery, ostensibly on the front lines
defending the free world from the Soviet threat. It is a brilliant piece of
subversion, undermining any illusions we might have about the military. As
Elwood’s commanding officer plots his promotion, unaware of the corrosive
activities taking place under his eyes, other battles are fought, battles we
identify more with Harlem than Mannheim. Helped by a cast – Joaquin Phoenix,
Ed Harris, Scott Glenn and Anna Paquin – who are never less than superb,
Jordan takes us on a roller-coaster ride that feels as hallucinatory as
Willard’s trip up the Congo to find Kurtz.
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